William Rooney

School

  • Columbus School of Law
  • William H. Rooney is the Lumen Legis Fellow of the Center for Law and the Human Person and a Lecturer at the CUA Columbus School of Law. Mr. Rooney is also a partner of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, is co-head of Willkie’s Antitrust Practice Group, and has practiced antitrust law for over 30 years. Mr. Rooney has handled many domestic and European cross- border litigations, merger reviews, and investigations and has published on antitrust in law reviews. He also has received the Lifland Award from the New York State Bar Association for his contributions to the antitrust bar.

    Mr. Rooney is a Trustee of the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project and has published on the websites of First Things and The University Bookman. In addition, he has served as a seminar leader in Collegium’s Legal Humanities program and spoken at the Portsmouth Institute’s Summer Conferences.

    Mr. Rooney has been a lifelong student of the Catholic intellectual tradition and its intersection with law and economics. He has a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame (majors in Great Books and in economics; summa cum laude), a J.D. from Yale Law School (a senior editor on the Yale Law Journal), a Diploma in Law from the University of Oxford (research and thesis on constitutional interpretation), and an M.A. in Philosophy from Holy Apostles College and Seminary (concentration in Systematics within the Thomistic tradition and thesis on the role of the Catholic intellectual tradition and Magisterial teaching in defining a Catholic university; summa cum laude). 

    Mr. Rooney and his wife, Mary, live in Darien, CT, and have three sons. Mr. Rooney aspires to contribute to the Center in collaboration with students, scholars, and practitioners and through his experience in philosophy, law, and economics. He is especially interested in studying the human person as the imago Dei who receives the light of all law from God, the Eternal Light, Creator, and Lawgiver.