New Chicago Program for NDLS Students
A new Chicago externship program will debut in August 2012, Dean Nell Jessup Newton has announced.
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Adds NDLS Clinic to Agency’s Certification Pilot Programs
By any measure, the Law School’s Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic’s debut last spring was a resounding success. Among other things, all four of the Clinic’s first graduates went on to find good jobs practicing IP law.
Prof. Richard Garnett quoted in NPR on Court Gives States Ammunition In Health Care Battle
Court Gives States Ammunition In Health Care Battle
NPR
“We’ve had very little guidance about the point at which a condition becomes coercive,” says Richard Garnett, associate dean of Notre Dame Law School. “I’m not sure we really have any more guidance now.”
Prof. Richard Garnett published opinion on Constitutional basics after the ruling
Constitutional basics after the ruling – (Opinion) Chicago Tribune – July 1, 2012
Professor Judith Fox Gives Presentation On Predatory Lending
Professor Judith Fox delivered a presentation on “Predatory lending: A Civil Rights Threat” to the 39th Annual Indiana Consortium of State and Local Human Rights Agencies June 21.
ND Expert: Supreme Court decision won’t assuage religious liberty concerns
Whatever else its consequences, today’s Supreme Court’s decision upholding the Affordable Care Act won’t affect the issues raised in the lawsuit recently filed by several religious institutions against the federal government, according to O. Carter Snead, professor of law and William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture.
ND Expert: SCOTUS upholds healthcare, ignores partisan intimidation
The U.S. Supreme Court today largely upheld the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature health care law, as predicted by University of Notre Dame Associate Dean and Law Professor Richard W. Garnett, a past clerk to former Chief Justice William Rehnquist and an expert on constitutional-law and religious-freedom matters.
The court decided that the “individual mandate,” which requires Americans to either purchase health insurance or pay a fine, effectively functions as a tax and is therefore constitutionally permissible.
“While the individual mandate survived its constitutional challenges, the sweeping assertions of regulatory power made by many of the act’s supporters did not,” Garnett says. “As the chief justice wrote, ‘the framers created a federal government of limited powers and assigned to this court the duty of enforcing those limits. The court does so today.’
Prof. Richard Garnett quoted in several sources on Supreme Court health-care ruling
Following Supreme Court health-care ruling, House GOP will again try to repeal the law – The Washington Post – June 28, 2012
Roberts delivers for president who had opposed him – AP – June 28, 2012
Legal Scholars React: ‘Many People Were Stunned’ – NPR – June 28, 2012
Beyond the mandate: Court’s ruling on another ACA provision could have sweeping implications – MSNBC – June 28, 2012
Conservatives Misguided Criticism of Roberts (Opinion: by Richard Garnett) National Review – June 28, 2012
Professor Judith Fox Gives Presentation On Predatory Lending
Professor Judith Fox delivered a presentation on “Predatory lending: A Civil Rights Threat” to the 39th Annual Indiana Consortium of State and Local Human Rights Agencies June 21.
Jane Simon listed in Top 50 Law Professors on Twitter
Legal Writing Professor Jane Simon made the list at number 29 of Top 50 Law Professors on Twitter by WorldWideLearn web site. The top law professors dominate the Twitter-verse, either through the wit, volume or audience. Criteria for selection for this list include the quality of the tweets, the number of followers and the most active users.
29. Jane Simon, @LawWriter, Notre Dame University. This legal writing prof and frequent Tweeter posts interesting tidbits on legal topics and much more. Extracurricular interests run to sports and new media. > Read More
Prof. Bradley and R. Garnett quoted in Catholic San Francisco on religious liberty heros
Heroes of religious liberty span centuries
Catholic San Francisco
Religious liberty heroes are many and not limited to the 1700s, according to scholars at the University of Notre Dame (Gerard Bradley, professor of law, and Richard W. Garnett, associate dean of Notre Dame Law School).
New Notre Dame Fellows Work to Aid Immigrants and Low-Income Residents
Kelly Jentzen Thompson, J.D. ’12, of Arlington, Virginia, and Rachel Odio, J.D. ’12, of Costa Rica will be spending the next two years serving as the Law School’s 2012 Notre Dame Fellows in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, California.
Highly competitive, the Notre Dame Fellowship award requires applicants to develop and propose a two-year public interest program to be implemented with a host agency and a willing supervising attorney. Funded entirely by the law school’s benefactors, the Fellowship pays the Fellows’ salaries and employer-provided health and other benefits for two years.
Judge Ann Claire Williams, J.D. '75, Receives 2012 Sorin Award
The 2012 Rev. Edward Frederick Sorin, C.S.C. Award was recently presented to Judge Ann Claire Williams. She is the first judge of color appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the third woman of color to serve on any U.S. court of appeals. Before that appointment, Williams served on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. At 35, she was the youngest woman of color ever appointed to the federal bench.
Professor Cassel Elected to Inter-American Justice Body
Professor Doug Cassel has been elected by the Organization of American States (OAS) to serve on the Board of Directors of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas.
3L Michael Gillman Awarded Peggy Browning Fellowship
The Peggy Browning Fund has awarded a 10-week summer fellowship to Michael Gillman, a rising 3L at NDLS. Gillman is spending the fellowship working at the Laborers’ International Union of North America in Washington, D.C.
NDLS Barristers Trial Teams Continue Tradition of Excellence In National Trial Competitions
Along with the second-year trial teams that compete in the American Association of Justice trial competition each year, Notre Dame’s third-year trial teams, The Barristers Trial Teams, are making NDLS a force to be reckoned with on the national trial competition stage.
Professor Gurulé Addresses Conference on International Criminal Law in Siracusa, Italy
Professor Jimmy Gurulé delivered two panel presentations at a major international conference held in Siracusa, Italy, May 20-24, 2012.
Liberals' threats to Supreme Court over ObamaCare are a bad (and dumb) idea (Opinion by Richard W. Garnett)
Liberals’ threats to Supreme Court over ObamaCare are a bad (and dumb) idea
Fox News.com
By Richard W. Garnett Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the University of Notre Dame School of Law.
Professor Carozza Named Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Vice President and Associate Provost J. Nicholas Entrikin has appointed Professor Paolo Carozza to be the Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
A specialist in comparative law, international law, and human rights, and with expertise in both Latin America and Europe, Carozza has wide experience with the complex interdisciplinary issues that Kellogg Institute scholars engage in their work. As a member and then President of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights from 2006 to 2010, Carozza has also been extensively involved in the practical work of addressing the abuses of past political regimes and fostering the conditions for democratic governance throughout the hemisphere. At Notre Dame Law School, he is the founding director of the innovative, interdisciplinary Program on Law and Human Development and directs the Doctorate of Juridical Science (J.S.D.) program. Recently he was appointed Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights (CCHR), which was founded by Fr. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. in 1973.
NDLS Professors Discuss Religious Liberty Lawsuit
Major television news outlets have interviewed Professor Richard W. Garnett and Professor Carter Snead about the University of Notre Dame’s lawsuit challenging an HHS mandate on religious liberty grounds.
Professor Snead appeared on CNN. Professor Garnett appeared on MSNBC, where he was interviewed by Thomas Roberts, on the Fox News Channel’s “On the Record with Greta Van Sustern,” and on the Geraldo Rivera Show on Talk Radio 790 KABC.