Haley Proctor
Associate Professor of Law
Office: 3120 Eck Hall of Law
Phone: 574-631-9435
Email: haley.proctor@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Beth Smith
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Haley Proctor joined Notre Dame Law School in 2024 as an Associate Professor of Law. She teaches and writes on procedure, evidence, constitutional law, and federal courts. Her scholarship explores the connections between judicial and administrative procedures and the powers legislators, administrators, and courts exercise. Before coming to ND Law, she was a faculty fellow at the University of Missouri School of Law and the Kinder Institute for Constitutional Democracy and practiced law at the law firm of Cooper & Kirk PLLC. She also served as a clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Thomas Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Proctor earned her B.A., magna cum laude, in political science and international studies from Yale College, and her J.D. from Yale Law School.
Courses Taught
- Evidence
- Civil Procedure
Scholarship
Rethinking Legislative Facts, 99 Notre Dame L. Rev. 955 (2024).
“Just the Facts, Ma’am”? A Response to Professors Blocher & Garrett, 73 Duke L. J. Online 199 (2024) (solicited).
“Will the Meaning of the Second Amendment Change . . . ?” Party Presentation and Stare Decisis in Text-and-History Cases, 98 N.Y.U. L. Rev. Online 543 (2023) (solicited).
Deference, Delegation, and Divination: Justice Breyer and the Future of the Major Questions Doctrine, 132 Yale L. J. Forum 693 (2022) (with Thomas B. Griffith) (solicited).
The Words That Made Us Listen to One Another, 37 Const. Commentary 41 (2022) (solicited book review).
The Treaty Power: Its History, Scope, and Limits, 98 Cornell L. Rev. 239 (2013) (with Oona A. Hathaway, Spencer Amdur, Celia Choy, Samir Deger-Sen, John Paredes, Sally Pei).
The Law of Cyber-Attack, 100 Cal. L. Rev. 817 (2012) (with Oona A. Hathaway, Rebecca Crootof, Philip Levitz, Aileen Nowlan, William Perdue, Julia Spiegel) (as Haley Nix).
Which Law Governs During Armed Conflict? The Relationship Between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict, 96 Minn. L. Rev. 1883 (2012) (with Oona A. Hathaway, Rebecca Crootof, Philip Levitz, William Perdue, Chelsea Purvis, Julia Spiegel) (as Haley Nix).