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Margaret Foran, J.D. ’79, a Pioneer in Proactive Shareholder Engagement
p(image-right). !/assets/34794/alumni_margaret_foran_news.jpg(Margaret Foran news)! Margaret M. (“Peggy”) J.D. ’79, has been given a warm tribute by the quarterly journal Directors & Boards. The special feature article called Foran, the chief...
Professor Patricia Bellia wins Honorary Monogram at Notre Dame Football Awards Show
p(image-right). !/assets/55675/bellia_monogram_story.jpg(Tricia Bellia monogram story)! Since joining NDLS in 2000, Bellia has become well known to students for teaching popular courses in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and Cyberlaw, and to...
Sofía Galván Puente, LL.M. ’09, Awarded Mexico’s Highest Public Honor
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Summer Research Interns Discuss Their Work with the Program on Law and Human Development
Summer 2011 Research Interns with the Program on Law and Human Development (PLHD) described their experiences…
Professor Jodi Clifford leads new Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic
The Notre Dame Legal Clinics are expanding their transactional services to the local business community in January with a new Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic headed by intellectual property lawyer...
Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell Speaks on "Peace as a Global Good"
p(image-right). !/assets/4253/oconnell_news.jpg(Mary Ellen Oconnell news)! Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell is speaking on ""Peace as a Global Public Good"":/assets/52349/esil_asil_ejil_hiil_final_symposium_programme_2_.pdf at a global public goods symposium in San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy....
Carter Snead appointed director of Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture
p(image-right). !http://newsinfo.nd.edu/assets/10590/snead_rel.jpg(O. Carter Snead)! "O. Carter Snead":http://newsinfo.nd.edu/for-the-media/nd-experts/faculty/carter-snead/, professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed the W.P. and H.B. White Director of the University’s "Center for...
Cardinal Mahony and a new imagination of human dignity
p(image-right). !http://newsinfo.nd.edu/assets/14913/mahony_rel.jpg(Cardinal Roger Mahony)! Cardinal Roger Mahony, archbishop emeritus of Los Angeles, is urgently concerned with the reform of the nation’s immigration policy, and he wants Catholic college and university...
"Realizing the DREAM Act" Hosted by NDLS Program on Law and Human Development
p(image-right). !/assets/50900/cardinal_mahony_news.jpg(cardinal_mahony_news)! NDLS alum "Jessica Brock":http://law.nd.edu/features/student-spotlights/student-spotlight-jessica-brock-10/ (B.A. ’05, J.D. ’10, LLM ’11), "Professor Paolo Carozza":http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/paolo-g-carozza/, and "His Eminence Cardinal Roger Mahony":http://www.archdiocese.la/archbishop/profile.html, Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, will speak on the...
Prof. Moyn presents President Carter’s 1977 Notre Dame Commencement Address in the History of Human Rights
!/assets/48412/moynposter.jpg(Samuel Moyn)!*President Carter's 1977 Notre Dame Commencement Address in the History of Human Rights* *September 27, 2011* On May 22, 1977, President Jimmy Carter delivered a "commencement address":http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7552#axzz1XkJgCgHM at Notre...
President Carter's 1977 Notre Dame Commencement Address in the History of Human Rights
p(image-right). !/assets/48473/carter_1977_commencement_moyn.jpg(carter_1977_commencement_moyn)! On September 27th at 4:30 p.m. in the Geddes Hall Auditorium, the CCHR is co-sponsoring the event *“President Carter’s 1977 Notre Dame Commencement Address in the History of...
Professor Judith Fox Addresses Changes in Debt Collection, Mortgage Foreclosure Laws
p(image-right). !/assets/2202/fox_news.jpg(fox news)! "Professor Judith Fox":http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/clinical/judith-fox/ presented Indiana judges with an update on mortgage foreclosure law at the "Annual Meeting of the Judicial Conference of Indiana":http://www.in.gov/judiciary/center/education/docs/2011-jc-agenda.pdf in French Lick, Indiana,...
Prof. Snead addresses international conference on stem cell issues
p(image-right). !/assets/2824/snead_news.jpg(carter snead news)! "Prof. Carter Snead":http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/o-c-snead/ was a featured speaker at a conference on the public policy questions concerning experimental research on human embryos that was held this September...
Regis Philbin gives two thumbs up to NDLS
p(image-right). !/assets/48894/regis_philbin_news.jpg(regis_philbin_news)! Loyal ND alum Regis Philbin, ‘ 53, singled out the NDLS facilities and the Patrick F. McCartan Courtroom for special praise September 19. Recounting how it felt to...
From Time to Time: United States Supreme Court Clock Donated by Professor Roger F. Jacobs
It’s always nine-o’clock at the north end of the Main Reading Room just outside Associate Dean, Ed Edmonds’ office. Hanging there on the wall is an old clock from the...
Princeton’s Robert George to Speak On Natural Law
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*Robert George*, the McCormick Chair of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, will speak at *5 p.m. September 8* in 1130 Eck Hall of Law.
Former President of Ecuador to Address Constitutional Developments
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Osvaldo Hurtado, former President of Ecuador, will speak at NDLS September 8 on “Independence of the Judiciary, Freedom of the Press and other Constitutional Developments in Ecuador.”
Antitrust expert pleasantly surprised by AT&T, T-Mobile challenge
The Justice Department is suing to prevent AT&T from acquiring T-Mobile USA and displacing Verizon as the nation’s largest wireless carrier, and antitrust expert Joseph Bauer, professor of law at...
Lecture by Irwin Cotler, Member, Parliament of Canada and former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
In particular Cotler, who is a member of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Human Rights that drafted the report – and appeared as well as an expert witness before the...
Lecture by Osvaldo Hurtado, former President of Ecuador
Osvaldo Hurtado has been one of the most influential politicians in the last 30 years of Ecuadorian history. He earned both his BA in Political and Social Sciences (‘63) and...
Study researches effectiveness of mediation in custody disputes
p(image-right). !/assets/26780/brinig2010_bulletin.jpg(Brinig bulletin)! A joint project between the Notre Dame Law School’s "Legal Aid Clinic":http://law.nd.edu/legal-aid-clinic/ and the College of Arts and Letters’ "Center for Children and Families":http://ccf.nd.edu/ will examine the...
Professor Jimmy Gurulé Delivers Report on Belize Prosecutorial System
p(image-right). !/assets/4240/gurule9_08_news.jpg(Jimmy Gurule)! Professor Jimmy Gurulé presented his report on the prosecutorial system in Belize July 27 - 28 to senior-level Belize government officials, community leaders, and other foreign officials...
Marty Loesch, J.D. ’91, LL.M. '92, Named Chief of Staff to Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire
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Quadruple Domer Marty Loesch, J.D. '91 and LL.M. '92, has been promoted from General Counsel to Chief of Staff for Washington Governor Chris Gregoire.
Notre Dame Law School Hosts 2011 Indiana Conference on Legal Education Opportunities
p(image-right). !/assets/44837/icleo2011_news.jpg(ICLEO 2011 logo news)! The Indiana Conference on Legal Education Opportunities (ICLEO) is designed to assist Indiana minority, low-income or educationally disadvantaged college graduates in pursuing a law degree....
Business Roundtable Names Cordell Carter, J.D. ’07, Director of Public Policy
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Cordell Carter, J.D. ’07, has joined the Business Roundtable as Director of Public Policy leading the association’s Education, Innovation and Workforce initiative.
NDLS Co-sponsors London Seminar on Recent Human Rights Cases
Notre Dame Law School’s Center for Civil and Human Rights and the British Human Rights Lawyers Association are co-sponsoring a seminar from 6 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. July 20 at...
Notre Dame seminar explores alternatives to embryonic research
“We think that it is crucial that ethical alternatives to embryonic stem cell research be pursued,” Notre Dame law professor O. Carter Snead told CNA June…
Professor Richard Garnett Addresses Freedoms of Speech, Association, Religion
p(image-right). !/assets/5168/garnettr_8_08_news.jpg(Rick Garnett fall08 news)! Professor Richard Garnett was interviewed for NPR’s Morning Edition with Nina Totenberg June 28 regarding the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a California law...
Notre Dame conference on adult/non-embryonic stem cell research draws leading scholars
Some of the world’s leading scholars across a variety of relevant disciplines are visiting the University of Notre Dame for a week-long “Workshop on Adult and Non-embryonic Stem Cell Research,”...
Biolchini Hall Dedication
Biolchini Hall Dedication: A Special Edition of the Law Library Newsletter. Through the generosity of the Biolchini family and many other great benefactors to this building project of such great...