Marc O. DeGirolami is the inaugural St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and the Human Person at The Catholic University of America. His publications include The Constitution of Practice: On Law and Tradition (Cambridge University Press) and The Tragedy of Religious Freedom (Harvard University Press), as well as articles in the Yale Law Journal Forum, Notre Dame Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, Legal Theory, and the Boston College Law Review, among others. He has written in the popular press for The New York Times, The New Republic, First Things, Commonweal, and Law and Liberty.
Before joining the Columbus School of Law in 2024, he was the Cary Fields Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Mattone Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s Law School. He has also been a Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s Department of Politics, as well as a Visiting Professor at Notre Dame Law School and Catholic University, Columbus School of Law.
He has taught Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Criminal Law, Freedom of Speech & Freedom of Inquiry, Jurisprudence, Law and Religion, Professional Responsibility, and Torts.