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Law students serve entrepreneurs overseas through Business on the Frontlines
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...
Klau Center selects three ND Law students for summer fellowships
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...
Indiana man released from prison after 16 years, thanks to help from Exoneration Project and ND Law
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...
Professor Jimmy Gurulé appointed to international counter-terrorism project
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...
From Notre Dame Magazine: Having coffee with G. Marcus Cole
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.
2L Allison Lantero named Next Generation Leader by American Constitution Society
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...
Amid coronavirus challenges, ND Law's Tax Clinic safely serves community
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...
ND Law's IP moot court team named national champions
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...
Women Lead 2020: Veronica Root Martinez
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...
ND grant will fund research to confront Church’s sex abuse crisis
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...
ND Law students launch Journal on Emerging Technologies
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...
ND Law wins Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Regional Competition in Chicago
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...
St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics pays tribute to Thomas L. Shaffer
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
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Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology honors Professor Paolo Carozza
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,...
London Law Program students visit NATO headquarters in Brussels
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...
From Notre Dame Magazine: Sisters in Law
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...
University of Chicago Law Review publishes papers from Professor Veronica Root Martinez’s symposium
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...
Panel discusses Professor Jeffrey Pojanowski’s paper at AALS Annual Meeting
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...
Women’s judiciary panel and 19th Amendment exhibit to be held at ND Law School
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...
ND Law’s IP Clinic helps epilepsy assistance nonprofit secure trademark
An Indiana nonprofit helping families affected by epilepsy got some much-needed help from Notre Dame Law School’s Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship Clinic to protect its brand. …
ND Law students assist with both prominent and intimate cases through Appalachia Externship
Steeped in the last of the vibrant fall colors, the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains surround both sides of the road. Billboards scattered across the mountainside advertise attorneys for black...
Leading design scholars gather for ND Law roundtable in Chicago
Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Intellectual Property & Technology Law hosted the inaugural Design Law Scholars Roundtable at the Notre Dame Law Chicago space on November 15 and 16.…
ND Law School starting Dublin summer internship program
The internships will provide rising second-year law students with invaluable experience as they are exposed to transnational legal issues and the laws of Ireland and the European Union.
Notre Dame students participate in United Nations drafting session
Three Notre Dame students recently had the extraordinary opportunity to participate in the drafting of a United Nations convention focused on the right to development. The students, affiliates of the...
Project helps survivors of domestic violence navigate expungement process
Chris Kozelichki, a former deputy prosecutor and now assistant director for career development at the Law School, hosted an expungement clinic with 45 law students at the YWCA in South Bend.
Panelists discuss ‘perplexing issues’ around Brexit at ND London Law forum
The discussion was led by Michael Addo, director of the London Law Program, with remarks from Law School Dean Marcus Cole. Journalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The...
Former President of the Republic of China, Ma Ying-jeou, visits ND's London Global Gateway
The honorable Ma Ying-jeou, who served as President of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016, spent last Wednesday, October 30, at the University of Notre Dame London Global...
ND Law student wins Seventh Circuit appeal
Alyssa McClure ’19 J.D. won an appeal in a habeas corpus case that she argued through Notre Dame Law School’s Seventh Circuit Practice Externship.
How Kevin Warren '90 J.D. went from ND Law to Big Ten commissioner
Family led Kevin Warren ’90 J.D. to Notre Dame Law School, but the world-class legal education kept him there. Warren was wrapping up his MBA at Arizona State University, where...
Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell publishes ‘The Art of Law in the International Community’
O'Connell writes that the secret to the renewal of international law lies in revitalizing the moral foundation of natural law through drawing on aesthetic philosophy and the arts.