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Teresa Ann Tincher Welty, known as Terri Welty or “TW,” is the Administrative Assistant to Professor of Law Ed Edmonds, Associate Dean for Library and Information Technology at the Kresge Law Library.

Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell testified December 9 at a congressional hearing on “Civil Liberties and National Security."

Notre Dame Law School is working with Harris Connect to publish a new Law Association Directory.

Professor John Copeland Nagle on NPR

Documents within Presidential libraries, museums, and archives reveal not only stories of the past, but also share the rich history of American President’s personal, political, and public lives. In the United States today there are currently thirteen Presidential Libraries. Presidential Libraries and Museums preserve and provide public access to Presidential papers and records, as well as gifts of the President. Presidential Libraries and Museums are unique institutions administered by the National Archive and Records Administration (NARA…

Associate Dean Carozza announces new study abroad program in Milan, Italy.

Professor Julian Velasco spoke on “Shareholder Ownership and Primacy” at Queen’s University Faculty of Law in Kingston, Ontario, November 29.

David Suetholz ’03, is profiled in the November 28 AFL-CIO Now Blog.

Professor John Copeland Nagle is quoted throughout a November 15 CQ Weekly article entitled "A Consequential Lame Duck.”

As exams near, it’s time to start thinking about finding study aids and making outlines for your classes. Even though most professors will not allow you to consult study aids during exams, reviewing and creating outlines are good ways to prepare for finals. Some people prefer to use existing commercial outlines or to borrow a friend’s outline. Other people make their own outlines. Some people do both. This article presents some useful resources for each approach.…

Associate Professor Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer is speaking at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) annual conference in Alexandria, Virginia, November 18 and 20.

As the midpoint of the semester has come and gone, many are beginning to feel the pressure from the approach of finals. Those who have not been using commercial outlines, briefs, and overviews all semester begin wondering if they should include these into their routine, and if so, which ones. Westlaw is offering a new option to students interested in having access to multiple different types of study aids right from their laptop. Through the Westlaw Study Aids Subscription…

Professors Stephen Smith and Judith Fox will be speaking at the Indiana Attorney General’s Justice Summits November 15 – 16.

Donald P. Kommers, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science emeritus and professor of law emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Monday (Nov. 8) at a ceremony in the office of the German Consulate in Chicago.

A two-decade tradition at Notre Dame Law School continues this academic year as Judge Saori Yamade of Japan’s Nagoya District Court and Mr. Eisaku Yokoyama, a public prosecutor from Japan’s Osaka District Prosecutor’s Office, settle into their research here as the newest participants in the law school’s visiting scholar program.

The Electronic Bluebook (EBB) is a secure test-taking program that allows students to submit exams electronically through the use of their own personal laptops (or ones checked out from the library) instead of handwriting their responses in the traditional “bluebook” notebook. Most professors much prefer receiving typed responses instead of often hard to read handwriting. To date at Notre Dame Law School, more than 10,000 exams have been submitted using exam software. Be sure to check the exam schedule posted on various bulletin boards around the building and available at http://www.nd.edu/~ndlaw/student_services/finalexamschedule.pdf…

If you have recently begun a quest for useful exam materials we hope you will consider utilizing those which faculty have made available to assist you in preparing for your final examinations. Past exams are currently available through the Kresge Law Library.

On Saturday, November 6, 2010, Professor Margaret Brinig and Professor Nicole Garnett presented their working paper “Catholic Schools and Broken Windows” at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) at Yale Law School.

CCHR Assistant Director Sean O’Brien has been named a founding member of the National Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights (NLCHR).

The life of Notre Dame alum Alan Page, B.A. ’67, is told in the recently published "All Rise: The Remarkable Journey of Alan Page."

This article includes simple suggestions that will assist you in becoming more efficient and effective in your legal research at Notre Dame and beyond.

The first of two new books by Rev. John J. Coughlin is now available from Oxford University Press.

Professor Jimmy Gurulé was recently elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). The Academy has been awarded a grant by the World Bank Group to evaluate the effectiveness of the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) initiative. Professor Gurulé was selected to serve on the panel of experts that will conduct the evaluation and submit a report to the World Bank Group and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC).

Professor O’Connell delivered several lectures and participated in a panel debate on drone warfare.

While in London on October 21, Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell delivered two lectures concerning the United States’ use of unmanned aerial vehicles as weapons of war.

On October 19, Professor Emeritus Donald P. Kommers delivered a Hesburgh Lecture in Pittsburgh entitled “The Obsolescence of the U.S. Constitution.” The lecture was co-sponsored by Pittsburgh’s Notre Dame Alumni Club and the Duquesne University Law School.

Professor Rick Garnett is giving a talk, “Render Unto Caesar: The Role of Faith in the Public Square,” at Wabash College on Monday October 25. On Thursday October 21 Prof. Garnett was the guest for the hour-long Wisconsin Public Radio program “At Issue with Ben Merens” where the topic was the First Amendment and the constitutional arguments over the separation of church and state.

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act on October 20, Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights and the UK’s Human Rights Lawyers Association are holding a day-long event at Notre Dame’s London Law Centre to compare the approaches of the United Kingdom and the United States to protecting fundamental human rights.

Professors John Finnis, Rick Garnett, and M. Cathleen Kaveny were among the speakers at the two-day Princeton University conference “Open Hearts, Open Minds and Fair Minded Words: A Conference on Life and Choice in the Abortion Debate.”…

Notre Dame Law School’s completely renovated Biolchini Hall of Law was dedicated on Friday October 8. Fr. John Jenkins blessed the building after a mass of celebration in the Basilica.