Talk Justice: Episode Eleven

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Court Innovations During COVID-19

In this episode of Talk Justice, LSC Board Vice Chair Father Pius Pietrzyk discusses court innovations with Rita H. Blandino, director of the D.C. Court’s Domestic Violence Division, and Paul Tuttle, assistant clerk for the Massachusetts Court of Appeals. The speakers describe the many challenges COVID-19 poses to the justice system and to low-income Americans with legal problems. They share details on how their courts have leveraged technology and partnerships to meet these challenges head on.

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Father Pius Pietrzyk
Father Pius Pietrzyk, LSC Board Vice Chair

Father Pius Pietrzyk is a priest of the Order of Preachers (the “Dominicans”)​. He ​currently serves as the Chairman of the Department of Pastoral Studies and as Assistant Professor of Canon Law at St. Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park, CA. He previously served as editor of the Angelicum journal, the scholarly journal of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.

 

He was ordained to the priesthood on May 23, 2008, after having entered the novitiate for the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2002.​ Fr. Pius has ​​a License in Theology (STL) from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception​ ​(Washington, DC) ​a​nd a Doctoral Degree in Canon Law (JCD) from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Rome).

Prior to entering the Dominican Order, he worked for three years in the Corporate and Securities practice of Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago.​ ​He ​obtained his​ ​​law degree​ ​(JD) from the University of Chicago.