IRS To Take On Karl Rove? Tax Laws Could Take A Bite Out Of Secret Political Spending – The Huffington Post (Quotes: Lloyd Mayer) – May 25, 2011 Read More

Rajaratnam appeal may be long shot
International Business Times
The 2nd Circuit is unlikely to accept Rajaratnam’s argument that the tapes should be inadmissible because Congress did not authorize the government to seek wiretaps for insider trading, said G. Robert Blakey, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School who helped draft Title III. Read More

Rajaratnam Appeal May Be Long Shot
The 2nd Circuit is unlikely to accept Rajaratnam’s argument that the tapes should be inadmissible because Congress did not authorize the government to seek wiretaps for insider trading, said G. Robert Blakey, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School who helped draft Title III.

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The bin Laden aftermath: Abbottabad and international law (by: Mary Ellen O’Connell
Foreign Policy
I was in Germany when Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. military operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2. Mary Ellen O’Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution at the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame, as well as the Vice President of the American Society of International Law. Read More

Meghan E. Sweeney, J.D. Candidate ’11, has been named a “2011 Distinguished Legal Writing Award” winner by the Board of Directors of the Burton Awards for Legal Achievement. Read More

Hijacking Human Rights in Latin America
Biopolitical Times
Morgan points to the way in which Paolo Carozza, a professor and Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs at the University of Notre Dame Law School, has put forward a rights-based argument regarding Latin America in concert with self-described “pro-life feminist” Mary Ann Glendon, the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School. Read More

Prof. Carter Snead was cited by Judge Ginsburg in the D.C. Circuit opinion in the landmark judicial decision of Sherley, et al., v. Sebelius of his interpretation of the “Dickey Amendment.” The opinion can be found here: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/Appeals%20decision.pdf Read More

NDLS players made their presence known in The Bookstore Basketball Tournament, which wrapped up Sunday May 1. Read More

Was killing bin Laden legal?
POLITICO
Terrorism – even that perpetrated by Osama bin Laden — is a criminal action and doesn’t necessarily require military force, according to Mary Ellen O’Connell Read More