The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law is pleased to announce that Jennifer Mascott has joined the law school as an Associate Professor of Law. Professor Mascott will also direct the school’s newly established Separation of Powers Institute.

Mascott brings a wealth of experience from her time at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where she was an Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director of The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State. She is an influential scholar in administrative and constitutional law and a Supreme Court contributor for NBC News. Professor Mascott also serves as an appointed Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, a federal agency that provides recommendations for best practices in administrative operations within the Executive Branch, and as a Council member for the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law Section.

Professor Mascott’s scholarship has been cited extensively by the Supreme Court and federal circuit and district courts and has been published or is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Supreme Court Review by the University of Chicago Press, the George Washington Law Review, the BYU Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the George Mason Law Review, among other journals. She is also a co-editor of the Cass, Diver, Beerman, Mascott textbook Administrative Law: Cases and Materials (Aspen, 9th ed. 2024).

From 2019 through 2021, Professor Mascott served in the U.S. Department of Justice as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel and then as an Associate Deputy Attorney General. Professor Mascott is a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and to then-Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Building on her executive branch experience advising on constitutional and statutory interpretation issues and her co-directorship of the Gray Center at the Scalia Law School, Professor Mascott has founded the Separation of Powers Institute at Catholic Law. The institute’s initial programs will include quarterly academic conferences, the establishment of a Separation of Powers litigation clinic for students at the law school, and the continuation of an Article I briefing series for congressional staff members.

“Professor Mascott is a high-level scholar with practical impact in Washington, D.C. and beyond,” Catholic Law’s Dean Stephen C. Payne said. “She will be a great asset to our school, and her Separation of Powers Institute will bring substantial benefits to our students.” Professor Mascott added, “I am thrilled to join the thriving academic community at Catholic Law. The professors at this institution are producing cutting-edge research with national impact published in some of the country’s top law reviews, and the law school students and alumni have a tremendous record of success in positively impacting the national legal community with integrity and a deep understanding of justice and service.”

Professor Mascott joined Catholic Law on June 1, 2024.