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Jimmy Gurulé
Professor of Law
Office Number: 212 Law School
Telephone: 574.631.5917
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: Jimmy.Gurule.1@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Andy Mason
Jimmy Gurulé, an internationally known expert in the field of international criminal law, specifically, terrorism, terrorist financing, and anti-money laundering, joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty in 1989, and in 1996 became a full professor. He served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1998-1999. He earned his B.A. from the University of Utah in 1974, and his J.D. from the University of Utah College of Law in 1980. A member of the Utah State Bar since 1980, Professor Gurulé has worked in a variety of high-profile public law enforcement positions including as Under Secretary for Enforcement, U.S. Department of the Treasury (2001-2003), where he had oversight responsibilities for the U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Customs Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice (1990-1992), and Assistant U.S. Attorney, where he served as Deputy Chief of the Major Narcotics Section of the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s Office (1985-1989). Among his many successes in law enforcement, Professor Gurulé was instrumental in developing and implementing the U.S. Treasury Department’s global strategy to combat terrorist financing, and engineered the conviction of those responsible for torturing and brutally murdering a Drug Enforcement Administration special agent in Mexico.
Professor Gurulé concentrates his teaching and scholarship in the areas of criminal law, teaching courses in international criminal law, the law of terroris, white collar crime and criminal law. Most recently with S. Guerra-Thompson and M. O’Hear, he published the definitive treatise on The Law of Asset Forfeiture, and with R.J. Goodwin, the casebook on Criminal and Scientific Evidence: Cases, Material and Problems and the related Teacher’s Manual.
An internationally recognized expert in the field of terrorist financing and anti-money laundering, he has delivered lectures on these subjects at the British Institute of International & Comparative Law, London, England (2003), Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CFSI), London, England (2003), World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland (2003), American Chamber of Commerce, Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2002), Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, England (2000), and University of Mendoza School of Law, Mendoza, Argentina (1999).
Professor Gurulé is a member of the Advisory Board on Anti-Money Laundering, Booz Allen Hamilton (since 2007); Advisory Board GlobeFunders (since 2007), American Law Institute (since 2003), on the Board of Directors of the Hispanic Alliance for Progress (since 2003), President’s Commission on White House Fellowships (2001), and Advisory Board of National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition (since 1992).
He has received many honors for his work including the prestigious Treasury Medal (2003), the Attorney’s General Distinguished Service Award (1990), and the Drug Enforcement Administration’s highest award, the Administrator’s Award (1990). The U.S. Attorney General honored him in 1991 with the Edmund J. Randolph Award, and again in 1992, with the Award for Excellence in Management.
Professor Gurulé is a prominent member of the Hispanic legal community, having served as President of the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) in 1989 and received the Graciela Olivarez Award in 2006. He also serves as the faculty advisor to the Hispanic Law Student Association, and on the Board of Directors of the Hispanic Alliance for Progress. He was selected as one of the 100 most influential hispanics by Hispanic Business in 2002, 1990, 1989, and 1987.
LAW60302, Criminal Law
LAW70316, Complex Criminal Litigation
LAW70363, White Collar Crime
LAW70403, International Criminal Law
LAW70434, Law of Terrorism
London: International Criminal Law
Faculty Expertise Areas
- Criminal law and procedure
- International criminal law
- Law of Terrorism
- White collar crime
Books
International Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, with Paust, Bassiouni, Scharf, Sadat & Zagaris(Carolina Academic Press, 3d ed. 2007).
Human Rights Module: On Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide, Other Crimes Against Human Rights, and War Crimes (Carolina Academic Press 2006).
International Criminal Law Documents Supplement, with Paust, Bassiouni, Scharf, Sadat & Zagaris (Carolina Academic Press 2006)
The Law of Asset Forfeiture, with S. Guerra-Thompson and M. O’Hear (LexisNexis, 2d ed. 2004).
Criminal and Scientific Evidence: Cases, Materials and Problems, with R.J. Goodwin, and Teacher’s Manual, 2nd Edition (LexisNexis 2002).
Complex Criminal Litigation: Prosecuting Drug Enterprises and Organized Crime (Michie 1996) and 1997 Supplement.
Book Segments
Evaluating Progress in the Global War on Terrorist Financing in How to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, (Richard Pratt ed., 2005).
Articles
Professor Gurulé has published numerous articles pertaining to criminal law, including:
How to Block Terrorist Funds, with Peter Reure, Edwin Truman & John Moscow, 10:2 The Financial Regulator (2005).
U.S. Opposition to the 1998 Rome Statute Creating an International Criminal Court: Is the Court’s Jurisdiction Truly Complementary to National Criminal Jurisdictions?, 35 Cornell Int’l Law Journal 1 (2002)
The 1988 U.N. Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances – A Ten year Perspective: Is International Cooperation Merely Illusory?, 22 Fordham Int’l Law Journal 74 (1998)
The Ancient Roots of Modern Forfeiture Law, 21 Notre Dame Journal of Legislation 155 (1995).
The Money Laundering Control Act of 1986: Creating a New Federal Offense or Merely Affording Federal Prosecutors an Alternative Means of Punishing Specified Unlawful Activity? 32 American Criminal Law Review 823 (1995).
Terrorism, Territorial Sovereignty, and the Forcible Apprehension of International Criminals Abroad, 17 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 457 (1994).
