Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell spoke on “Good Law Against War” at The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study’s “Dimensions of Goodness” conference April 5. Read More

Supreme Court upholds tax break for Arizona religious schools
Chicago Tribune
“This has quietly become the option of choice” for those favoring state aid for religious schools, said University of Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett, counsel for the American Center for School Choice. Read More

The Honorable Willie G. Lipscomb, J.D. ‘75, of Michigan’s 36th District Court, has been named the Alvin McKenna Alumnus of the Year by the Notre Dame Chapter of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA). Judge Lipscomb will receive the award at the 38th Annual BLSA Alumni Weekend celebration dinner, which will be held at the Notre Dame Stadium Press Box on Saturday, April 9 at 6:00 pm. Read More

John M. Dunn has been invited to join the American Board of Trial Advocates after a vote by the current San Joaquin Valley Chapter members and approval by the national organization. The Modesto, Calif., attorney is a partner with the law firm McCormick Barstow. He was the only person to be invited into the San Joaquin Valley Chapter in 2010, and he becomes the 74th member in the Valley. Read More

Oliver O’Donovan, professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University of Edinburgh, will be at Notre Dame Law School April 11 to deliver the 2011 Natural Law Lecture. Read More

The Indiana Lawyer.com
Sean O’Brien, professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, is in Tunis, Tunisia this week to participate in the training of North African human rights lawyers. Read More

The Seattle Times
By contrast, tax credits have been seen as more acceptable. “This has quietly become the option of choice” for those who favor state aid for religious schools, said Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett, counsel for the American Center for School Choice. Read More

Professor Sean O’Brien is participating in the training of North African human rights lawyers this week in Tunis, Tunisia. Read More

Notre Dame Law School faculty, staff, and students have been congratulating Professor Vincent Rougeau this week on being appointed the next dean of Boston College Law School. The highly regarded professor of contracts, real estate transactions, and Catholic social thought will be assuming his new post this summer. Read More

Second-year student Harrison St. Germain has been awarded the Peter Lardy Memorial Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year. Read More

For more than 40 years, the Notre Dame Law School has offered second-year law students in good standing an opportunity to study in London. Now beginning in 2011-2011, 2L students may choose between a one-semester or full-year option and 3L students will be able to enroll in the London Program in the fall semester. The Notre Dame London Law Center, centrally located in Trafalgar Square, also offers a five week summer program from late May to early August prior to the 2L school year. Read More

Boston Business Journal
Boston College has named Vincent D. Rougeau, a Notre Dame Law School professor, as dean of Boston College Law School, starting July 1. Read More

Boston Globe
Notre Dame law professor Vincent Rougeau, a specialist on the role of moral and religious values in lawmaking and public policy, will be the next dean of Boston College Law School and its first African-American leader, the university announced yesterday. Read More

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

Edmonds’ luncheon talk, “A Look at Baseball’s Handling of ‘A Fistful of Dollars’ – MLB’s System of Salary Arbitration,” focused on the recently completed 2010-2011 cycle that involved 119 players who filed for arbitration. Read More

The Notre Dame Law Association (NDLA) Board of Directors is seeking nominations for alumni representatives to fill upcoming vacancies in the regions 7, 10, and 13/14. Read More

Professor Douglass Cassel, a consultant to the legal team that filed the Red Shirt Petition before the International Criminal Court, along with counsel for the Red Shirts, Robert Amsterdam, recently published an opinion piece on Brazil’s responsibility to denounce Thailand for its gross violations of human rights. Read More