Catherine Yackira ’24 photographed at the Dinand Library at the College of the Holy Cross on July 27, 2022 in Worcester, Massachusetts. (Photo by Michael Ivins/Holy Cross)
Catherine Yackira ’24 completed her sophomore year at the College of the Holy Cross and planned to use this summer to research U.S. Supreme Court decisions from more than a century ago. The cases, ranging from 1897 to 1937, focus on rights founded through substantive due process, a key legal ingredient in American life, but one that primarily exists in ambiguity to the public.