Professor Richard Garnett will be delivering a public lecture at the University of Virginia February 4 on the topic of separation of church and state. Read More

Elena R. Baca, NDLS ’92, has been named to The American Lawyer’s 2011 list of “Top 45 Women Under 45.” Read More

An Associated Press story on the ongoing federal grand jury investigation into former presidential candidate John Edwards sought Professor Lloyd Mayer’s views on whether any violations of the campaign finance laws had been uncovered. Read More

Professor Jimmy Gurulè recently returned from a 10-day trip to the developing country of Belize, which borders Guatemala and Mexico off the coast of the Caribbean Sea. Read More

Professor Judith Fox has been named a 2011 Bellow Scholar by the American Association of Law Schools for her project, “Debt Collection; A Survey of Indiana Courts. Read More

Three more Notre Dame Law School graduates have ascended to the bench in Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan. Read More

Professor Jimmy Gurule’s new book, Gurule and Corn’s Principles of Counter-Terrorism Law, is now available from West. Read More

Margaret M. Foran has been elected to the Occidental Petroleum Corporation’s Board of Directors. Read More

Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell testified December 9 at a congressional hearing on “Civil Liberties and National Security." Read More

Notre Dame Law School is working with Harris Connect to publish a new Law Association Directory. Read More

Professor John Copeland Nagle on NPR Read More

Associate Dean Carozza announces new study abroad program in Milan, Italy. Read More

Professor Julian Velasco spoke on “Shareholder Ownership and Primacy” at Queen’s University Faculty of Law in Kingston, Ontario, November 29. Read More

David Suetholz ’03, is profiled in the November 28 AFL-CIO Now Blog. Read More

Professor John Copeland Nagle is quoted throughout a November 15 CQ Weekly article entitled "A Consequential Lame Duck.” Read More

Associate Professor Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer is speaking at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) annual conference in Alexandria, Virginia, November 18 and 20. Read More

Professors Stephen Smith and Judith Fox will be speaking at the Indiana Attorney General’s Justice Summits November 15 – 16. Read More

Donald P. Kommers, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science emeritus and professor of law emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Monday (Nov. 8) at a ceremony in the office of the German Consulate in Chicago. Read More

A two-decade tradition at Notre Dame Law School continues this academic year as Judge Saori Yamade of Japan’s Nagoya District Court and Mr. Eisaku Yokoyama, a public prosecutor from Japan’s Osaka District Prosecutor’s Office, settle into their research here as the newest participants in the law school’s visiting scholar program. Read More

On Saturday, November 6, 2010, Professor Margaret Brinig and Professor Nicole Garnett presented their working paper “Catholic Schools and Broken Windows” at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) at Yale Law School. Read More

CCHR Assistant Director Sean O’Brien has been named a founding member of the National Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights (NLCHR). Read More

The life of Notre Dame alum Alan Page, B.A. ’67, is told in the recently published "All Rise: The Remarkable Journey of Alan Page." Read More

Professor Jimmy Gurulé was recently elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). The Academy has been awarded a grant by the World Bank Group to evaluate the effectiveness of the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) initiative. Professor Gurulé was selected to serve on the panel of experts that will conduct the evaluation and submit a report to the World Bank Group and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC). Read More

Professor O’Connell delivered several lectures and participated in a panel debate on drone warfare. Read More

While in London on October 21, Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell delivered two lectures concerning the United States’ use of unmanned aerial vehicles as weapons of war. Read More

On October 19, Professor Emeritus Donald P. Kommers delivered a Hesburgh Lecture in Pittsburgh entitled “The Obsolescence of the U.S. Constitution.” The lecture was co-sponsored by Pittsburgh’s Notre Dame Alumni Club and the Duquesne University Law School. Read More

Professor Rick Garnett is giving a talk, “Render Unto Caesar: The Role of Faith in the Public Square,” at Wabash College on Monday October 25. On Thursday October 21 Prof. Garnett was the guest for the hour-long Wisconsin Public Radio program “At Issue with Ben Merens” where the topic was the First Amendment and the constitutional arguments over the separation of church and state. Read More

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act on October 20, Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights and the UK’s Human Rights Lawyers Association are holding a day-long event at Notre Dame’s London Law Centre to compare the approaches of the United Kingdom and the United States to protecting fundamental human rights. Read More

Professors John Finnis, Rick Garnett, and M. Cathleen Kaveny were among the speakers at the two-day Princeton University conference “Open Hearts, Open Minds and Fair Minded Words: A Conference on Life and Choice in the Abortion Debate.” Read More

Notre Dame Law School’s completely renovated Biolchini Hall of Law was dedicated on Friday October 8. Fr. John Jenkins blessed the building after a mass of celebration in the Basilica. Read More