Catholic University of America School of Canon Law

The School of Canon Law is the only faculty of Catholic canon law in the United States. it is one of the twelve schools at The Catholic University of America, located in Washington, D.C. and one of the three ecclesiastical schools at the university, together with the School of Theology and Religious Studies and the School of Philosophy. The school is factor of the leading campus in the Brookland neighborhood in Northeast D.C. and is housed in Caldwell Hall. It allows the Licentiate of Canon Law and the Doctor of Canon Law ecclesiastical degrees, as alive as civil and joint ecclesiastical-civil degree programs.

History

Catholic University was empowered to grant ecclesiastical degrees in canon law by the apostolic letter of Leo XIII Magni nobis gaudii of 7 March 1889. The School of Theology issued canon law degrees until 1923, when a separate faculty of canon law was establishment by the Holy See. Catholic University is the only U.S. university with an ecclesiastical faculty of canon law.