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Midway through the spring semester, as the coronavirus pandemic began to halt travel plans and change the daily routines of people around the world, third-year law student Melanie Hess was...

Three Notre Dame Law students recently placed first in the business schools category of the Arthur W. Page Society's 2020 Case Study Competition. The team of Christina Beyer, 2L, Natasha...

The Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights has announced its 2020 Summer Fellowships for students working in public interest organizations that promote civil or human rights, and/or the enforcement...

Third-year law student Lenora Popken knew she had found her calling even before the evening of April 2 when Andy Royer met her on the steps of the Kosciusko County Jail...

Notre Dame Law Professor Jimmy Gurulé was recently appointed to the peer review board for Project CRAAFT, which stands for Collaboration, Research and Analysis Against the Financing of Terrorism. The...

Brandon Leinz and Kimberly Schreiber, members of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2020, have been awarded Thomas L. Shaffer Fellowships. The fellowship covers the cost of salary and benefits...

Walter Jean-Jacques and Regan Perrodin, members of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2020, have been named Bank of America Foundation Fellows.   The public interest fellowship covers the cost...

Even though this year’s Father Mike Show had to be canceled, the tradition was kept alive as faculty and staff contributed more than $12,000 to replace the money that would...

Notre Dame Law School's new dean talks about family, freedom of speech, religious liberty, his lifelong love for Notre Dame, and his vision for the Law School.

Allison Lantero, a second-year student at Notre Dame Law School, has been selected as a 2020 American Constitution Society Next Generation Leader. The Next Generation Leader program recognizes law students...

Because all tax clinic files are stored in a cloud-based practice management system and the team utilizes cloud-based tax preparation software, only in-person exchanges have required adjustment, and the intake...

After defeating some 80 intellectual property law moot court teams fielded by law schools from around the country, Notre Dame 3L classmates Mark Relation, Talea Stashin, and Katie Cronin have...

Professor Veronica Root Martinez, the Robert & Marion Short Scholar at Notre Dame Law School, was profiled in the University of Notre Dame's annual Women Lead feature in celebration of...

The Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law marked its 10th anniversary on February 21 with its annual symposium. The symposium featured two panels and a debate, all incorporating...

Richard Garnett, the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School and faculty director of the Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society, has...

A group of leading constitutional legal scholars from the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland gathered at the Notre Dame London Global Gateway on February 21, 2020 for a roundtable...

Concluding that the pressing societal questions posed by emerging technologies would be best studied from an interdisciplinary perspective, third-year law student Rolando Rengifo conceived of an innovative academic journal that...

Notre Dame Law School's team of 3Ls Mark Relation, Katie Cronin, and Talea Stashin won best brief and first place overall on Saturday, February 8, at the Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Regional...

 A journal published by St. Mary's School of Law recently paid tribute to the late Notre Dame Law Professor Thomas L. Shaffer. Issue 10:1 of the St. Mary’s Journal …

Professor Paolo Carozza was awarded an honorary doctorate and inducted into the College of Fellows of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology on Saturday at DSPT’s annual convocation in Berkeley,...

From left, Judge Michael S. Kanne, Judge Kenneth F. Ripple, and Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit speak to students on February...

For the second year in a row, Rudy Monterrosa ’01 J.D., an immigration attorney and adjunct professor at Notre Dame Law School, traveled to Texas for four days during winter break...

The Law School’s spring 2020 International Criminal Law course is being taught, appropriately enough, at Notre Dame’s London Global Gateway, near Trafalgar Square. With NATO headquarters in Brussels within a short train...

Professor Samuel Bray was cited again by the Supreme Court this term, this time by Justice Neil Gorsuch in an opinion concerning an application for stay in Department of Homeland...

A panel discussion titled "How Women Have Shaped the Judiciary" on January 24 was part of Notre Dame Law School's commemoration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which granted...

Jennie Christensen, a third-year student at Notre Dame Law School, was awarded the 2019 Visionary Scholarship from Christmas Injury Lawyers, a law firm based in South Carolina. Christensen’s scholarly interests...

The papers from a symposium hosted by Notre Dame Law Professor Veronica Root Martinez have been published by the University of Chicago Law Review. The symposium, titled “Investigating Intersections of...

Notre Dame Law Professor Jeffrey Pojanowski’s latest paper, “Neoclassical Administrative Law,” was the subject of a panel discussion earlier this month at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Association...

The Law School community was saddened to learn of the recent passing of longtime friend and Law School Advisory Council member Thomas H. Corson. Tom served on the Advisory Council...

Notre Dame Law School will host a panel discussion, How Women Have Shaped the Judiciary, to commemorate the 19th Amendment centennial of women’s right to vote on Friday, January 24...