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

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

Professor John Copeland Nagle on NPR Read More

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

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

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

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

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. Read More

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

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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

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." Read More

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). Read More

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

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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.” Read More

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. Read More

On October 28, Prof. Judith Fox is presenting on multiple panels at the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Foundation’s program, “MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE: Where Do We Go From Here?” Read More

Prof. Rick Garnett will speak at a conference being held at Princeton University on October 16 entitled “Open Hearts, Open Minds and Fair Minded Words: A Conference on Life and Choice in the Abortion Debate.” Read More

Professor Paolo Carozza was featured in a two-minute ad that was produced and aired by NBC as part of the “What Would You Fight For?”ad series. Read More

Steve Brogan NDLS ’77, who is the managing partner of Jones Day, returned to the Law School Wednesday October 6 to talk to interested students about the future of law practice. Read More

Judge Kathleen A. Kearney, NDLS ’80, will appear on a panel discussion on “The Professions and the Common Good” from 7 p.m . to 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 6, 2010, at the University of Notre Dame’s Washington Hall. Read More

Professor Margaret Brinig, Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Fritz Duda Family Chair in Law, will deliver the keynote address at the Canadian Law and Economics Association (CLEA) Annual Meeting, which is being held October 1-2 at the University of Toronto. Read More

Chief Justice John G. Roberts has nominated Professor Amy Coney Barrett to the Advisory Committee on Rules of Appellate Procedure. Read More

The Notre Dame Law Association has named Thomas R. Curtin the 2010 recipient of The Rev. Michael D. McCafferty, C.S.C., Award. The McCafferty award is presented by the association to Notre Dame lawyers — or members of the Notre Dame Law School faculty or administration — who have rendered distinguished service to the University. Read More