The National Law Journal – March 31, 2011
Boston College Law School on March 31 named University of Notre Dame Law School professor Vincent Rougeau as its new dean. Read More

Cleveland.com – March 30, 2011
“The bill was not designed for the Mafia alone,” said Robert Blakey, a University of Notre Dame law professor who helped draft the Organized Crime Control Act as legal counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Read More

RenewAmerica – March 30, 2011
Constitutional scholar and Notre Dame Law School professor emeritus, Charles Rice, takes no position on the venue of Barack Obama’s birthplace in his recent piece on the eligibility question. Read More

Professor Joseph P. Bauer taught a mini-course in American Antitrust Law to a Competition Law class at Hong Kong University March 7 – March 17. The students were a mixture of practitioners, government officials, and LL.B. and LL.M. students. Read More

A roundtable conference at the law school March 25 considered the latest leading scholarship in the field of Separation of Powers. Conference papers addressed separation of powers theory, executive power, and administrative law. The daylong program was hosted by Professor Anthony J. Bellia Jr. and sponsored by the Notre Dame Program in Constitutional Structure and Design. Read More

The Notre Dame Law School Spring 2011 Symposium, “Corporate Governance and Business Ethics in a Post-Crisis World” will be held on Friday April 1 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Notre Dame’s Eck Hall of Law. Read More

Notre Dame Law School co-sponsored a public lecture on “Trafficking, Prostitution & Inequality.” Read More

Professor Michael Jenuwine hosted the Indiana Adult Guardianship State Task Force retreat at the Law School March 19. Read More

U.S. Department of Justice attorney Conor Dugan, ’03 J.D., recently represented the United States when it participated in oral arguments as amicus curiae in the Ninth Circuit case, Khatib v. County of Orange. The court, sitting en banc to review an earlier Ninth Circuit panel decision, ruled 11-0 in favor of a Muslim woman’s right to bring a lawsuit accusing her Southern California jailers of violating her religious freedom by ordering her to take off her head scarf in a courthouse holding cell. Read More

Jeff Larson used RNC piggy bank to pay friends; Did use of charitable donations violate federal election law? (Quotes: Lloyd Mayer) – City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) – March 16, 2011 Read More

Forbes Magazine notes that while starting pay is important for lawyers, “more important is mid-career compensation.” Read More

The Notre Dame Law Association (NDLA) Board of Directors will hold its Spring 2011 meeting on Friday, April 8th. The board represents more than 8,000 Notre Dame Lawyers throughout the world and includes 16 regional and one at-large representative covering 18 regions of the country. Membership includes a president, president-elect, and three Alumni Association affinity group representatives, serving on behalf of Asian-Pacific alumni, Black alumni, and Hispanic alumni. Past-presidents serve as executive advisory board members. Read More

After three years as associate general counsel for the National Hockey League Players Association, Matt Nussbaum, J.D. 2004, has been named assistant general counsel to the Major League Baseball Players Association. Read More

Professor John Copeland Nagle delivered the keynote address at a Vermont Law School environmental law symposium March 2. Read More