Notre Dame Law School’s Journal of Legislation presents “Tilted Scales: Pursuing Justice Amidst Unjust Legislation” on Thursday, April 17 from 1:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Law School Courtroom. The symposium features: Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., former president of Notre Dame and charter member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Thulani Mabaso, former prisoner in apartheid South Africa; Bridgette Carr, associate clinical professor of law at Notre Dame; and Paolo Carozza, associate professor of law at Notre Dame and chairman of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Read More

The J.L. Weigand, Jr. Notre Dame Legal Education Trust awarded three full scholarships to students attending Notre Dame Law School during the 2008-09 academic year. In addition to covering 100 percent of tuition, fees and books, students receive a generous room and board allowance. The scholarship is available to students who have lived in Kansas for at least ten years. The Trust also assists scholarship recipients with career placement in Kansas during and after their graduation from law school. Read More

Jimmy Gurulé, an internationally known expert in the field of international criminal law—specifically terrorism, terrorist financing, and anti-money laundering—will speak at the World Conference on Combating Terrorist Financing sponsored by Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Read More

Notre Dame Law School professor Carter Snead joins five other law faculty from Harvard, UCLA and Wisconsin at the University of Alabama for an April 11 symposium titled “Legal Doubt, Scientific Certainty: What Scientific Knowledge Does For and To the Law.” Snead’s talk is called “Law, Science, and Incommensurability.” Read More

This summer, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Joseph Thomas, Head of Technical Services, will receive the Renee Chapman Award. Presented by the Technical Services Special Interest Section, the Renee Chapman Award is one of the most prestigious awards given out by any unit within the American Association of Law Libraries Read More

Ambassador, Richard S. Williamson, appointed in January 2008 as special envoy to Sudan by President George W. Bush., will deliver remarks related to his present work as well as his career in both private practice and public service. Read More

Michael Kirsch, associate professor of law, will present a talk based on his NYU Law Review article, “Taxing Citizens in a Global Economy,” at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas this week. Read More

Notre Dame Law School professor Rick Garnett is one of two keynote speakers at an upcoming event called “Conversions and Conflict: An Interreligious Discussion of Evangelization.” The discussion will be held at the Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public Policy at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minn. Read More

Dr. David Dalin, an ordained rabbi and widely published scholar of American Jewish history and Christian-Jewish relations, will speak at Notre Dame on Thursday, April 3. The talk, which is co-sponsored through the Natural Law Institute at Notre Dame Law School, is entitled “John Paul II and the Jews,” and begins at 7:30 p.m. in room 138 of DeBartolo Hall. Read More

In June of next year, I will complete my tenth year as dean. When I was a relatively new dean, a wonderful alumnus and generous supporter offered me what I have come to appreciate as the best analogy for the responsibilities of a dean in leading an academic institution – this is, the role of a fiduciary. It is with a great sense of pride in what our Law School has achieved over many, many years that I today shared with the Law School community my plans to complete my tenure as dean in June 2009. Read More

Survivors from the war-torn nations of Rwanda and Darfur, a Holocaust survivor, journalists, and others will converge at Notre Dame on Sunday and Monday, April 6-7 for the conference “Witnessing Genocide: Truth, Reconciliation, and the Media.” The event is co-sponsored by Notre Dame Law School’s Center for Civil and Human Rights, and will be held in McKenna Hall on campus. Read More

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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) voted unanimously to elect University of Notre Dame Associate Professor of Law Paolo Carozza as its chairman for 2008-2009. The election was held on March 3 at the start of the Commission’s 131st regular period of sessions. Carozza—who served as first vice-chairman of Read More

Two Notre Dame Law School alums will tell their stories at a campus event on Wednesday called “Making a Living, Making a Difference: Careers for Social Change.” It takes place from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium. All Notre Dame students are invited to attend. Keynote speaker Read More

The Center for Civil and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School will screen the Oscar Award-winning documentary “Taxi to the Dark Side” on Thursday, March 27 at 6:30 p.m. in the Annenberg Auditorium of the Snite Museum of Art. A panel discussion follows the screening. Beginning with the case Read More

Immediately following 9-11, the United Nations developed an international legal framework to deprive Al Qaeda of funding. “Unfortunately, that sense of urgency has been diluted… it no longer exists,” Notre Dame Law Professor Jimmy Gurule told the BBC in an interview on Friday, March 7. Read More

“Is the source of law and justice purely a human matter, or does our adherence to law and our concern with justice require some relationship to the divine?” This question is the foundation for a talk at Notre Dame Law School by Leon R. Kass, M.D., Ph.D. Kass is the Read More

Notre Dame Associate Professor of Law Richard Garnett will speak at the University of Michigan Law School on March 7-8 as part of the Federalist Society’s 2008 Student Symposium. Read More

Notre Dame Law School Associate Dean William Kelley says that Senate support and judicial excellence are key factors for any president to consider in making appointments to the Supreme Court. His comments came as part of a panel discussion at the University of California, Berkeley, entitled “The Next President and the Courts.” Read More

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Notre Dame Law School presents its 58th annual Moot Court Showcase Argument on Thursday, Feb. 21 in the Judge Norman C. Barry Courtroom of the Law School. All four advocates on the case are third-year law students. The case involves the contention of legislation intended to reform existing handgun and Read More

Notre Dame Law School recently hosted the American Bar Association (ABA) Law Student Division’s Client Counseling Competition for region seven on Saturday, February 9. Seth Carmack and Emily Chang earned Notre Dame the hosting right with their regional win last year at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. The competition Read More

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Professor Richard Garnett discusses the issue of tax exemption and politicking in churches on Nevada Public Radio. Read More

By: Melanie McDonald December 15, 2007 The German Marshall Fund of the United States awarded a 2008 Marshall Memorial Fellowship to University of Notre Dame Associate Clinical Professor of Law Bridgette Carr. Carr advocates for non-citizens, particularly those who are victims of forced migration. Migration and immigration are among the Read More

As one of just seven elected members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Notre Dame Professor of Law Paolo Carozza takes both a bird’s eye view of and boots-on-the-ground approach to international human rights law. Carozza is midway through his four-year Read More

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Just-published research on the generation of cells that function identically to embryonic stem cellshas solved one of the most vexed issues at the intersection of science, ethics and public policy,according to Carter Snead, associate professor of law at the University of Notre Dame Law School and former general counsel Read More

For Richard W. Garnett, John Cardinal OHara, C.S.C., Associate Professor of Law in the Notre Dame Law School, the Supreme Courts last-minute stay of execution for Mississippi death row inmate Earl Wesley Barry indicates a heartening self-restraint. p. Executions in the United States are coming to a halt,Garnett said.Last Read More

Richard W. Garnett, John Cardinal OHara, C.S.C., Associate Professor of Law in the Notre Dame Law School, suggests that the upcoming Supreme Court term will challenge conventional wisdom. p. Much of the commentary about the Supreme Courts last term has included the claim that the justices have made a Read More