Chad Squitieri joined the Catholic Law faculty in 2022 after having practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as a member of the Appellate and Constitutional Law and Administrative Law and Regulatory practice groups. He previously served as a Special Assistant to former United States Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia, and as a law clerk to then-Chief Judge D. Brooks Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Professor Squitieri’s scholarship addresses administrative law and constitutional law topics. He serves as Faculty Advisor to the Catholic University Law Review, a Managing Director of the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT), and Director of the Separation of Powers Institute (SPI). In 2024, he was honored with the teaching award of “Outstanding Professor for Evening Classes." In 2025, he was appointed to serve on the Administrative Conference of the United States (“ACUS”).

Professor Squitieri graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2016, and Florida State University in 2013

Professional Research and Writing

Law Review Publications

Qui Tam Relators as Article IV Officials, 104 N.C. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming) (SSRN)

Deemphasizing the D.C. Circuit, 53 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming)

Finding the Major Questions Doctrine, 2025 Pepp. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming)

The President's Authority to Impose Tariffs, 12 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y Per Curiam 1 (SSRN)

Bringing the Antiquities Act into the Modern Age, 32 Geo. Mason L. Rev. F. 27 (2025) (SSRN)

Treating the Administrative as Law: Responding to the “Judicial Aggrandizement” Critique, 110 Cornell L. Rev. Online 1 (2024) (SSRN)

Administrative Virtues, 76 Admin. L. Rev. 599 (2024) (SSRN)

"Appropriate" Appropriations Challenges after Community Financial, Cato. S. Ct. Rev. (2024) (SSRN)

Placing Legal Context in Context, 19 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y Per Curiam 1 (2024) (SSRN)

Against Algorithmic Auer Deference, 112 Ky. L.J. 291 (2024) (SSRN)

“Recommend … Measures”: A Textualist Reformulation of the Major Questions Doctrine, 85 Baylor L. Rev. 706 (2023) (SSRN)

The Appropriate Appropriations Inquiry, 74 Fla. L. Rev. F. 1 (2023) (SSRN)

Towards Nondelegation Doctrines, 86 Mo. L. Rev. 1239 (2022) (SSRN)

Who Determines Majorness?, 44 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 463 (2021) (SSRN)

Federalism in the Algorithmic Age, 19 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 139 (2021) (SSRN)

Data Privacy and Inmate Recidivism, 102 Va. L. Rev. Online 101 (2016) (SSRN)

The Limits of the Freedom Act’s Amicus Curiae, 11 Wash. J.L. Tech. & Arts 197 (2015) (Digital Commons)

Note, Confronting Big Data: Applying the Confrontation Clause to Government Data Collection, 101 Va. L. Rev. 2011 (2015) (SSRN).

Other Publications

Letter to the Editor, President Trump’s Tariffs are on Solid Ground, Wall St. J. (Aug. 8, 2025)

Nondelegation Doctrine in Limbo, Law & Liberty (July 9, 2025)

Tariffs as a Means of Regulating Commerce, Yale J. Reg. Notice & Comment Blog (June 32, 2023)

Overdue for an Overruling, Commonplace (Feb. 26, 2025)

Letter to the Editor, Galston Misreads the Removal-Power Record, Wall St. J. (Feb. 23, 2025)

The Court and the Separation of Powers, Law & Liberty (Feb. 20, 2025)

Auer after Loper Bright, Yale J. Reg. Notice & Comment (Oct. 15, 2024)

A Loper Bright Future for Statutory Interpretation, Law & Liberty (July 3, 2024)

What the Court Did Not Decide in Community Financial, and How That Might Prove Dispositive for Future Challenges to the CFPB’s Funding Statute, Yale J. Reg. Notice & Comment (May 28, 2024)

Presidents are Parents Too: Proposing a Reformulated MQD, Yale J. Reg. Notice & Comment Blog (Oct. 23, 2023)

Which Appropriations Power?: Getting Back to Basics in the Supreme Court’s Upcoming CFPB Funding Case, Yale J. Reg. Notice & Comment (July 5, 2023)

Is the Administrative State a "Faithful Development"?, Law & Liberty (Jan. 9, 2023)

Major Problems with Major Questions, Law & Liberty (Sept. 6, 2022)

Can Major-Questions Doctrine Actually Get Congress to Legislate Again?, Nat’l Rev. (July 5, 2022)

 

Amicus Briefs and Congressional Hearings 
FTC v. Walmart Inc., No. 24-3174 (7th Cir.), Amicus Brief of Professor Chad Squitieri (link)

FCC et al. v. Consumer Research, et al., No. 24-354 (U.S.), Amicus Brief of Professor Chad Squitieri (link)

Restoring Congressional Power over VA after Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, House Comm. on Vet. Aff. (Dec. 18, 2024) (video) (written)

The Future is Loper Bright: Congress’s Role in the Regulatory Landscape, Senate Subcomm. on Border Mgmt., Fed. Workplace & Reg. Aff. (July 30, 2025) (video) (written)