Professor Carter Snead is in Paris this week serving in his new role as a member of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Culture Organization’s (UNESCO) International Committee on Bioethics (IBC). Read More

O. Carter Snead, associate professor of law in the Notre Dame Law School, will speak at the inaugural meeting of the Neuroethics Society on Nov. 13 and 14 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science headquarters in Washington, D.C. p. The meeting will include a debate on Read More

Jimmy Gurulé, an internationally known expert in the field of international criminal law—specifically terrorism, terrorist financing, and anti-money laundering—met with top government officials, prosecutors, bank representatives, and police officers in Albania’s capital city, Tirana, to discuss financial investigations and the fight against money laundering. Read More

University of Notre Dame Professor of Law Rick Garnett was interviewed for a segment of the ABC News program “Faith Matters Now”, which aired on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008. Read More

Jimmy Gurulé, an internationally known expert in the field of international criminal law—specifically terrorism, terrorist financing, and anti-money laundering—will meet with top government officials, prosecutors, bank representatives, and police officers in Albania’s capital city, Tirana, to discuss financial investigations and the fight against money laundering. He is in the Southeastern European country for three days, from Oct. 15-17, at the request of the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) of the Department of Justice. Read More

The Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) was recently enhanced, thanks largely to a growing LRAP endowment. Now, the LRAP can provide substantially increased benefits to program participants.

THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 1. Please click on the link below for program details and to apply.

http://law.nd.edu/admissions-and-financial-aid/financing-your-legal-education/loan-repayment-assistance-program-lrap Read More

Notre Dame Law School Professor G. Robert Blakey, author of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), is prominently featured in a “Fortune” magazine article for his role in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit filed by the Russian Customs Service against the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. Blakey has been retained as an expert for Russia on civil RICO. The case is being tried in a Moscow commercial court. Read More

Notre Dame Law School Professor Carter Snead spoke to an audience of federal and state judges at Rice University on Monday, Oct. 6, about how cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging evidence have entered the courtroom and impacted verdicts and sentencing. Read More

Notre Dame Professor of Law Mary Ellen O’Connell will discuss her new book, THE POWER AND PURPOSE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (Oxford University Press, August 2008), on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. in the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore. Read More

The public is invited to attend a lecture by Professor Kent Greenawalt of Columbia University Law School on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 4 p.m. in the Eck Visitors’ Center Auditorium. Greenawalt, a preeminent constitutional law scholar, will discuss his new book, “Religion and the Constitution: Establishment and Fairness.” The lecture will focus on the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the federal Constitution, which reads “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…” Read More