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Notre Dame Law School has approved a new Program of Study in Environmental Law, Dean Nell Jessup Newton announced July 11.

In an important recent decision, U.S. v. Cannon (2014 WL 1633160), the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit relied heavily upon the work of Notre Dame Law...

The Business on the Frontlines course began in 2008, and in 2010 was named one of _Forbes Magazine’s_ ten most innovative business classes. Each class is comprised of students from...

Brian Murray '11 J.D. and Jessica Howton '11 J.D were the first two Public Interest Fellows at Notre Dame. Since 2011, nine Notre Dame Law graduates have served as Shaffer...

An international interdisciplinary law and finance workshop co-sponsored by NDLS and spearheaded by NDLS Professor Colleen Baker will bring together legal academics, financial economists, policymakers, and legal practitioners at the...

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/134259/200x/bruce_huber_300.jpg(Bruce Huber)! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday (June 2) released its Clean Power Plan, a long-awaited proposal that seeks to cut carbon emissions from existing power plants...

*Richard A. Nussbaum II ’74, ’77 J.D.* received the Rev. Edward Frederick Sorin, C.S.C., Award from the Notre Dame Alumni Association at Reunion. The award is presented annually to a...

Kate E. Maternowski, ’12 J.D., was named Pro Bono Attorney of the Year for 2013 by Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.C. in Milwaukee.

The Notre Dame Law School "Research Program on Law and Market Behavior (LAMB)":http://law.nd.edu/program-on-law-and-market-behavior/ announced the addition of "Stephen Yelderman,":http://law.nd.edu/directory/stephen-yelderman Associate Professor of Law, as one of the Program’s Faculty Fellows....

Washington state Governor Jay Inslee appointed Judge Mary Yu to the Washington state Supreme Court.

Each year several third-year students on the NDLS Moot Court Board write briefs and conduct oral arguments in appointed cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh...

Veronica Root will join NDLS as an associate professor of law, Dean Nell Jessup Newton announced today. Professor Root came to NDLS in 2012 with a two-year appointment as a...

NDLS Professor A.J. Bellia Jr. has been honored by the Virginia Law Review for co-authoring (with George Washington University Law Professor Bradford R. Clark) one of the most influential articles...

The Hispanic Law Student Association presented this year's Graciela Olivarez Award to Luz Herrera.

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was at Notre Dame Law School April 10 as the Judge James J. Clynes Visiting Chair.

Dean Nell Jessup Newton has announced that the Peter Lardy Memorial Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year has been awarded to 2L Christopher Stewart. Stewart’s name will now be added...

The Center for Civil and Human Rights, with the generous support of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, gathered a distinguished panel of human rights lawyers, scholars, diplomats, and judges...

Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, delivered the keynote address for this year’s annual conference of the Leverhulme Trust on March...

Professor G. Robert Blakey delivered the keynote address at the 2014 _Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy_ symposium March 20.

The 2014 Notre Dame Black Law Students Association alumni weekend will open Friday, March 21, with a reception at the South Bend home of the Hon. Roland Chamblee Jr. and...

The NDLS faculty’s Shaffer Fellows Committee has concluded its deliberations and selected three 2014 Shaffer Fellows, Dean Nell Jessup Newton announced March 19.

Shortly after taking the phone call from Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., Megan Dillhoff became the second NDLS graduate to accept a Supreme Court judicial clerkship for the October...

p(image-left). !/assets/125905/100x73/group_judges_dean_web.jpg(group_judges_dean_web)! Ron Fraper, Governor of the State of Old York _Petitioners_ v. Association of Beverage Producers and Retailers _Respondents_

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court visited Notre Dame Law School the week of February 3, 2014, serving as the James J. Clynes Visiting Chair in...

Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell will deliver the 2014 Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture at the University of Cambridge’s Lauterpacht Centre for International Law in Cambridge, England.

Members of the NDLS community and the U.S. Attorney’s Office joined family and friends to support 3L Jason O'Brien at his U.S. Navy ensign commissioning ceremony in the Patrick F....