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God. Country. Notre Dame.
Perhaps no man in recent memory has better embodied the motto inscribed over the door to the Sacred Heart Basilica than Professor Charles E. Rice. A devout Catholic, a Marine, a professor, and a coach, Professor Rice did it all, and always with an abounding sense of humor and purpose. It is therefore with a heavy heart that the Law School announces his passing on February 25, 2015.
NDLS grad Sean Seymore has been named a Chancellor Faculty Fellow by Vanderbilt University.
The appointment extends over two fiscal years and includes additional funding designed to support Professor Seymore’s innovative research into how patent law should evolve in response to scientific advances and how the intersection of law and science should influence the formulation of public policy.
International human rights law scholar Professor Douglass Cassel has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to do research in Mexico on the enforcement of Inter-American human rights law by Mexican courts. The project will begin in the spring semester of 2016.
After four rounds of competition, NDLS students Sarah Gallo and Patrick Duffey (with Jae Kim on the brief) were declared the winners of the National Religious Freedom Moot Court Competition February 7.
Professor Dan Kelly has been elected as one of the 26 new members to The American Law Institute. The American Law Institute is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law. The ALI…
Richard Garnett, NDLS Professor and Director of the Program on Church, State & Society, has been appointed by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights as one of 18 Indiana citizens to its Indiana Advisory Committee.
The Certificate in Patent Prosecution is a 12-credit curriculum that prepares students to help inventors get patents. Certificate students learn the basics of patent law and the important skills that a patent agent will need to have: how to write a patent application, how to negotiate with the U.S. Patent Office on behalf of an inventor, how to determine whether an invention is patentable, and the ethical obligations of a patent agent.
Andrea Pin (PhD, University of Turin, Italy) was a fall 2014 Notre Dame Kellogg Institute for International Studies visiting fellow. He is senior lecturer at the University of Padua, where he teaches constitutional law, comparative public law, and Islamic law. His interests include constitutionalism in Middle East as well as on comparative perspectives on religious liberty, constitutional interpretation, and federalism. While at Notre Dame, he was also a visiting professor of European Union law at the Notre Dame Law School.
Professor A.J. Bellia joined Justice Antonin Scalia on a panel discussing the role of history in the field of Federal Courts at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools (“AALS”).
The panel, sponsored by the Federal Courts Section of the AALS, considered the extent to which courts should rely on history in deciding questions of federal judicial power.
Professor Paul Brand, FBA (Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford) discusses Jews and Law in England 1190-1290 at the London Global Gateway.
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A speaker from the USPTO will address the IPLS.
Professor will deliver prepared remarks, followed by Q&A.
Mid-Semester Break…
Mid-Semester Break…
Kick off your St. Patrick’s Day celebration with our Attorney Network Happy Hour! Stop by on March 10th for some informal networking at Emerald Loop, 216 N. Wabash to see friends and meet new people.
The Attorney Network includes any attorney with a degree from Notre Dame (undergrad, grad or law school and current law students).
There is no cover charge so feel free to stop in for 10 minutes or stay the whole time.
Be sure to contact ND attorneys you know and invite them just in case they miss this announcement.
This event will include a cash bar and complimentary appetizers!
Register at www.events.org/attorneyhappyhour15
Note: Though this event is free, all guests are asked to register so we can provide an accurate headcount to the Emerald Loop.
Mid-Semester Break…
Mid-Semester Break…
You are cordially invited to the Kickoff Event of
The Notre Dame Lawyers Committee of Northern California
Join us along with
Dean Nell Jessup Newton
Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law
• Meet fellow Notre Dame Lawyers
• Celebrate our shared Notre Dame experience
• Learn about the Northern California Lawyers Committee
• Hear from Dean Newton about Notre Dame Law School
Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres
Thursday, March 12th, 2015
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
405 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Sponsored by:
Walter Brown, ’85 JD – Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
Please RSVP by March 2nd to awills@orrick.com
Inaugural Steering Committee
Walter Brown, ’85 JD
Paul Jones, ’90 JD
William Webb, ’88 BA, ’91 JD
Lauren Whalen, ’10 BA, ’13 JD
Raymond Tittmann, ’97 JD
Jennifer Yu, ’13 JD
This event is the reception following the annual JLEPP Symposium.…
Find out more about the conference and schedule.