p(image-right). !/assets/62811/emerging_issues_in_intellectual_property_symposium_web.jpg(emerging_issues_in_intellectual_property_symposium_web)! The Notre Dame Intellectual Property Law Society presented a symposium on March 2. The program featured opening remarks by "Dean Nell Jessup Newton":http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/nell-newton/ and presentations on “Clean Tech...

p(image-right). !/assets/42752/kellyj_news.jpg(James J)! Professor James Kelly and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg will co-chair a task force that will create more options to combat the problem of vacant and abandoned...

62nd Annual Moot Court Showcase Argument Andrea Tuckerman, Petitioners v. Betterly…

p(image-right). !/assets/61123/blsa_mock_trial_team_web.jpg(blsa_mock_trial_team_web)! Notre Dame’s BLSA Mock Trial Team were crowned regional champions February 18 and now will be advancing to the nationals in Washington, D.C. Representing NDLS at the 2012...

3Ls Ryan Raybould and Caitlin Sheffer made it to the finals and placed fifth out of 22 teams nationally at the Fifth Annual UC Davis Asylum and Refugee Law…

p(image-right). !/assets/59234/raybould_shetter_news.jpg(raybould_shetter_news)! 3Ls Ryan Raybould and Caitlin Shetter recently competed in the Fifth Annual UC Davis Asylum and Refugee Law National Moot Court Competition. Ms. Shetter and Mr. Raybould made...

Prof. Roger Alford accepted the CPR Award for Best Electronic Media About Alternative Dispute Resolution in New…

p(image-right). !/assets/18270/garnettr_8_08_port.jpg(Rick Garnett ND Expert)! Professor Richard W. Garnett’s "USA Today column":http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-01-11/hosanna-tabor-church-state-case/52500140/1 analyzing the Supreme Court’s landmark church-state decision in "_Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC_":http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-553.pdf was picked...

On the day of the Law Library dedication, he toured the facility. Faculty members awaited his arrival to give a brief explanation on the usage of the room. Word was...

p(image-right). !/assets/55675/bellia_monogram_story.jpg(Tricia Bellia monogram story)! Since joining NDLS in 2000, Bellia has become well known to students for teaching popular courses in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and Cyberlaw, and to...

p(image-right). !/assets/50900/cardinal_mahony_news.jpg(cardinal_mahony_news)! NDLS alum "Jessica Brock":http://law.nd.edu/features/student-spotlights/student-spotlight-jessica-brock-10/ (B.A. ’05, J.D. ’10, LLM ’11), "Professor Paolo Carozza":http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/paolo-g-carozza/, and "His Eminence Cardinal Roger Mahony":http://www.archdiocese.la/archbishop/profile.html, Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, will speak on the...

!/assets/48412/moynposter.jpg(Samuel Moyn)!*President Carter's 1977 Notre Dame Commencement Address in the History of Human Rights* *September 27, 2011* On May 22, 1977, President Jimmy Carter delivered a "commencement address":http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7552#axzz1XkJgCgHM at Notre...

p(image-right). !/assets/48473/carter_1977_commencement_moyn.jpg(carter_1977_commencement_moyn)! On September 27th at 4:30 p.m. in the Geddes Hall Auditorium, the CCHR is co-sponsoring the event *“President Carter’s 1977 Notre Dame Commencement Address in the History of...

It’s always nine-o’clock at the north end of the Main Reading Room just outside Associate Dean, Ed Edmonds’ office. Hanging there on the wall is an old clock from the...

p(image-right). !/assets/47854/osvaldo_hurtado_news.jpg(osvaldo_hurtado_news)! Osvaldo Hurtado, former President of Ecuador, will speak at NDLS September 8 on “Independence of the Judiciary, Freedom of the Press and other Constitutional Developments in Ecuador.”

In particular Cotler, who is a member of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Human Rights that drafted the report – and appeared as well as an expert witness before the...

Osvaldo Hurtado has been one of the most influential politicians in the last 30 years of Ecuadorian history. He earned both his BA in Political and Social Sciences (‘63) and...

p(image-right). !/assets/44837/icleo2011_news.jpg(ICLEO 2011 logo news)! The Indiana Conference on Legal Education Opportunities (ICLEO) is designed to assist Indiana minority, low-income or educationally disadvantaged college graduates in pursuing a law degree....

p(image-right). !/assets/15058/alumni_cordell_carter_profile.jpg(Cordell Carter profile)! Cordell Carter, J.D. ’07, has joined the Business Roundtable as Director of Public Policy leading the association’s Education, Innovation and Workforce initiative.

“We think that it is crucial that ethical alternatives to embryonic stem cell research be pursued,” Notre Dame law professor O. Carter Snead told CNA June…

Biolchini Hall Dedication: A Special Edition of the Law Library Newsletter. Through the generosity of the Biolchini family and many other great benefactors to this building project of such great...

p(image-right). !/assets/43645/stem_cell_workshop_news.jpg(Stem Cell Workshop news)! Some of the world’s leading experts across a variety of relevant disciplines are coming to the Notre Dame Law School for a weeklong “Workshop on...

p(image-right). !/assets/43351/alumni_fellows_program_news.jpg(Notre Dame Fellows news)! The Law School’s first Notre Dame Fellows, Jessica L. Howton of Friendswood, Texas, and Brian M. Murray of Annapolis, Maryland, accepted their awards April 25.

p(image-right). !/assets/42954/student_jacqueline_pimentel_gannon_news.jpg(student_jacqueline_pimentel_gannon_news)! The Sister Jean Lenz, O.S.F., Leadership Award, given to a post-baccalaureate student who displays leadership in promoting a more diverse and inclusive campus community, was awarded to Jacqueline...

For the third year, the Center for Civil and Human Rights (CCHR) has awarded internship funding to three J.D. students, thanks to the generosity of the CCHR Advisory Committee. The...

Prof. Carter Snead was cited by Judge Ginsburg in the D.C. Circuit opinion in the landmark judicial decision of Sherley, et al., v. Sebelius of his interpretation of the “Dickey...

As part of the CCHR’s continuing efforts to promote human rights locally, two CCHR attorneys participated in a strategic convening on ending cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by U.S. officials....

The first professional library school in the United States was founded by Melvil Dewey at Columbia University in 1887. For many years thereafter, it was difficult for women to hold...

Center for Civil and Human Rights Research Associate Pier Paolo Pigozzi (NDLS LL.M. ’10) has initiated a campaign to ask the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to address a serious...

p(image-right). !/assets/12821/king11_08_news.jpg(king news)! An exhibit featuring woodworking pieces created by Head Research Librarian Dwight King will be featured at the South Bend Museum of Art.