Does Libya intervention violate War Powers Resolution?
St. Petersburg Times
“The U.S. has deployed manned and unmanned aircraft to fire missiles and drop bombs — the type of weapons only permissible for use in armed conflict hostilities,” said Mary Ellen O’Connell Read More

NPR
Notre Dame international law professor Mary Ellen O’Connell said the White House is playing word games. “I have no doubt that if we are using drones in Libya, armed drones, we are engaged in hostilities,” O’Connell said. > Read Article Read More

(CNN) — Harold Koh, legal adviser to the U.S. State Department, attempted to convince Congress on June 15 that the “limited nature” of U.S. military operations in Libya are not “hostilities” as envisioned in the War Powers Resolution, and, therefore, required no Congressional authorization. Read More

The Sister Jean Lenz, O.S.F., Leadership Award, given to a post-baccalaureate student who displays leadership in promoting a more diverse and inclusive campus community, was awarded to Jacqueline Pimentel-Gannon of Indianapolis. Read More

National Archives and Nixon Foundation to Host Program on Combating Organized Crime
News Blaze
A noted team of Nixon era Justice Department officials, Congressional counselors, and White House advisers will discuss how the Nixon administration combated organized crime and brought substantial, lasting changes to the American criminal justice system…. Panelists will include: G. Robert Blakey…before assuming his present teaching position at Notre Dame Law School in 1980. Read More

Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Tocqueville Associate Professor of Religion & Public Life in the Department of Political Science and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law, has been named a co-recipient of the Hubert Morken Award for his book, God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson (Cambridge University Press 2009). Read More

Associate Dean Ed Edmonds was quoted in the LA Times by Douglas Farmer in the article A compendium of corruption: Some of the notorious (and some alleged) scandals in sports history. Read More

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

Alpha Fall, LL.M., ‘02, died April 21, 2011 in Brussels. Mr. Fall was a gentle soul, a generous friend, and a true giant in the protection of human rights in Africa. He founded the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) – a first of its kind regional human rights organization focusing on advocacy before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Read More

Derek Muller, Sean Seymour, Joseph A. Tomain, and Eric Jensen accept teaching posts. Read More

Hosanna-Tabor case to test our church-state divide
USA Today (Opinion)
Richard Garnett is a professor of law and associate dean at the University of Notre Dame and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law & Religion at Emory University Read More

Drone warfare won’t win in Libya
CNN.com (Opinion)
Mary Ellen O’Connell holds the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law and is research professor of international dispute resolution at the Kroc Institute for Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Read More

Royal treatment
Worldmag.com
The Supreme Court has consented to hear a case that Notre Dame law professor Rick Garnett calls “the most important religious-freedom case in 20 years.” Read More

Professor James H. Seckinger was in São Paulo, Brazil, March 23-25 as part of the first Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy Mini-Course ever to be offered in South America. Read More

New York Woman Claims Copyright To Yankees Top Hat Logo
Post Chronicle
Ed Edmonds, a sports law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said the Yankees logo may be the most valuable in the world after that of the Manchester United soccer team in Britain. Read More

New York Woman Claims Copyright To Yankees Top Hat Logo
New York Times
Ed Edmonds, a sports law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said the Yankees logo may be the most valuable in the world after that of the Manchester United soccer team in Britain. Read More

The Notre Dame Law School invites applications for the position of Director of its new Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic. The position will begin for the 2011-2012 academic year.

When it is fully implemented, the Clinic will provide students opportunities to work as lawyers to meet the intellectual property and entrepreneurship-related needs of the Clinic’s clients. The Clinic will have a transactional focus and particularly will assist clients with, among other matters, entity formation, licensing and/or freedom to operate agreements, trademark counseling and prosecution, and patent preparation and prosecution. Specific client matters will be determined by the Clinic Director, although decisions about the overall direction of the Clinic’s work will be made in consultation with the Dean and other law school faculty members. Read More

Michael Jenuwine, a faculty member in the Notre Dame Law School, has received the 2011 Rodney F. Ganey, Ph.D. Faculty Community-Based Research Award for research into Indiana’s guardianship laws. The award, given annually by Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, honors a Notre Dame faculty member whose research has positively impacted the lives of those in the local community. Read More

Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett is moderating a panel discussion on K-12 education in the Leighton Concert Hall of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center April 13. Read More

Professor Michael Jenuwine received the 2011 Rodney F. Ganey, Ph.D., Faculty Community-Based Research Award April 11. Read More

Professor Colleen Baker led students who are interested in business law on a tour of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on April 8. The group also visited the nearby headquarters of the National Futures Association and stopped for lunch at the historic Berghoff restaurant in the Loop. Read More

Professor and associate dean Richard W. Garnett was counsel of record for amicus curiae the American Center for School Choice in the Supreme Court’s recently decided taxpayer standing and Establishment Clause case,_ Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn_. Read More