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Spring 2008

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Complete Spring 2008 Issue – includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.


Fall 2007

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Law School Breaks Ground for New Facility and Construction Update

Neuroimaging and the ‘Complexity’ of Capital Punishment, by O. Carter Snead

Salvation and the Sopranos: Redemption in New Jersey, by M. Cathleen Kaveny

Law School Celebrates Father Mike McCafferty’s Life and Legacy

Loan Repayment Assistance Takes a Big Step Forward, by Robert L Jones, Jr.

Complete Fall 2007 Issue – includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.


Spring 2007

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Pursuing Justice in South America, by Ed Fillenwarth, ’63 J.D.

Report from Guantánamo, by Bob Weaver, ’75 J.D.

To Save the Children, by John Crowley, ’92 J.D.

Remembering Nel, Ray Marvar, ’79 J.D.

Complete Spring 2007 Issue – includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.


Fall 2006

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Building for the New Millennium: A Progress Report

National Parks, Ghanian Style
Prof. John Nagle reports on environmental efforts undertaken in Ghana.

‘Amazing Grace’
When the Hispanic Law Students Association awarded Prof. Jimmy Gurulé its Graciela Olivarez Award, he chose to honor the award’s namesake in his acceptance speech.

Complete Fall 2006 Issue- includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.


Spring 2006

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Learning What It Means To Be a Different Kind of Lawyer, by Robert Jones, Director, Legal Aid Clinic

Tennis and Top Bottons Remembering William H. Rehnquist, by Richard W. Garnett, Lilly Endowment Associate Professor of Law

The Law Library: A Twenty-Year Odyssey, by Roger Jacobs, Professor of Law

People, Books, Quiet Action: The Emblems of a Friend, by Walter F. Pratt, Professor of Law

Center for Civil and Human Rights: Continuing a Tradition, by Sean O’Brien, Assistant Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights

Complete Spring 2006 Issue – includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.


Fall 2005

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$21 Million Dollar Gift from Alumnus Frank Eck

Voir Dire: A Conversation with Professor G. Robert Blakey

Corporate Inversions and the Definition of an ‘American’ Corporation, by Professor Michael Kirsch excerpts his Virginia Tax Review article.

Complete Fall 2005 Issue – includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.


Spring 2005

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The Notre Dame London Law Centre: A Reexamined Profession

Chilé: From Oppression to Freedom, by Jeff Hall, ‘06 J.D.

Reflections on Making a Difference, by Ana Perez-Arrieta, ‘05 J.D.

Reminiscence Bob Rodes reflects on the past forty-nine years at the law school

The Notre Dame Law Review Celebrates its 80th Anniversary

Complete Spring 2005 Issue – includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.


Fall 2004

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Reinstating the Rule of Law This past May, Notre Dame Professor of Law Jimmy Gurulé was a member of a group of international jurists and legal scholars invited to The Hague to provide advice and guidance to members of the Iraqi Special Tribunal, the governing body charged with bringing Saddam Hussein to justice.

Supporting the Cause of Justice As preparations were made to undertake the arduous and complex task of prosecuting war criminals after Sierra Leone’s savage 10-year civil war, Notre Dame Law Professor Jim Seckinger and a team of trial advocacy experts were on hand to conduct training that would, he hoped, further the cause of justice in this war-torn nation.

Bridge to the Past: Kenneth Konop ‘29, ‘31 J.D.

Retired Law School Professor Charles F. Crutchfield Dies

Complete Fall 2004 Issue – includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.


Spring 2004

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Bangladesh Journal by Teresa Godwin Phelps, Professor of Law

Catholic and American Using Catholic Social Teaching for a Critical Look at American Law and Culture by Vincent D. Rougeau, Associate Professor of Law

The History of Pollution by John Copeland Nagle, Professor of Law

Hope on Howard Street by Rebecca Houghton, Supervising Attorney, Legal Aid Clinic and Clinic Fellow

Is Marriage the Government’s Business? The Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy sponsored “Symposium on Marriage.”

Lord Goff – This Year’s Clynes Visiting Chair

Tribute to Barbara Link

Complete Spring 2004 Issue – includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.


Fall 2003

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Shattered Voices by Teresa Godwin Phelps, Professor of Law

The Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Spirit of Canon Law by Reverend John J. Coughlin, O.F.M., Professor of Law

Notre Dame Law School Faculty Focus Tex Dutile by Mary Hendriksen


Spring 2003

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Reaching Beyond Borders Encounter with Migrants Reinforces Importance of Justice by Barbara Szweda., Associate Professional Specialist Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic

Subsidiarity as a Structural Principle of International Human Rights Law by G. Carozza, Associate Professor of Law

Agent Orange Heads to the Supreme Court by Jay Tidmarsh, Professor of Law

A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis Reviewed for American magazine by Donald P. Kommers, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science and a concurrent professor of law. He is also a fellow in the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.

Clynes Endowment Brings Chief Justice Rehnquist to Campus

Alumni Funded Fellowships


Summer 2002

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Enron, Accounting and Lawyers by Matthew J. Barrett ‘82, ‘85 J.D., Professor of Law


Fall/Winter 2001 – After September 11: Challenges, Choices

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Combating Terrorism through Law Enforcement: Crime-Fighting Adapts to the New War on Terrorism by Cathy Pieronek ‘84, ‘95 J.D., Director of Law School Relations

The War and Human Rights by Juan E. Méndez, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights

Civil Remedies for Victims of Terrorist Attacts by William P. Hoye ‘01 LL.M., Associate Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law

Practicing Immigration Law on September 11 by Barbara Szweda, Associate Professional Specialist, Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic

Justice Antonin Scalia, 2001 Clynes Visiting Professor in Judicial Ethics

Student Service Projects

Alumni-funded Summer Service – An Opportunity to Serve, An Opportunity to Learn


Summer 2001 Edition – Bridging Our Past and Our Future

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Bridging Our Past and Our Future by Dean Patricia A. O’Hara ‘74J.D.

The Search for Space by Associate Dean Roger F. Jacobs

The New Law School Building