Educating a Different Kind of Lawyer
NDLS Professor A.J. Bellia Jr. has been honored by the Virginia Law Review for co-authoring (with George Washington University Law Professor Bradford R. Clark) one of the most influential articles published by the Virginia Law Review in the past 100 years. Read More
The Hispanic Law Student Association presented this year’s Graciela Olivarez Award to Luz Herrera. Read More
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was at Notre Dame Law School April 10 as the Judge James J. Clynes Visiting Chair. Read More
Dean Nell Jessup Newton has announced that the Peter Lardy Memorial Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year has been awarded to 2L Christopher Stewart. Stewart’s name will now be added to the Lardy Fellowship plaque’s list of recipients, which includes 2013-2014 Fellow Armando Cordoves and extends back to the first recipient, John F. Ready, in 1976. Read More
Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, delivered the keynote address for this year’s annual conference of the Leverhulme Trust on March 27 in Notre Dame Law School’s Patrick F. McCartan Courtroom. Read More
Professor G. Robert Blakey delivered the keynote address at the 2014 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy symposium March 20. Read More
The 2014 Notre Dame Black Law Students Association alumni weekend will open Friday, March 21, with a reception at the South Bend home of the Hon. Roland Chamblee Jr. and conclude on Sunday with a prayer service in memory of the Hon. Judge Willie Lipscomb, J.D. ’75. Read More
The NDLS faculty’s Shaffer Fellows Committee has concluded its deliberations and selected three 2014 Shaffer Fellows, Dean Nell Jessup Newton announced March 19. Read More
Shortly after taking the phone call from Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., Megan Dillhoff became the second NDLS graduate to accept a Supreme Court judicial clerkship for the October 2014 Supreme Court term. Earlier this term, G. Ryan Snyder accepted his clerkship offer from Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. Read More
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court visited Notre Dame Law School the week of February 3, 2014, serving as the James J. Clynes Visiting Chair in Judicial Ethics. Over the course of the week, Justice Thomas co-taught with Professor Richard W. Garnett an intensive seminar on “Religious Freedom and the Establishment Clause.” Read More
Kasey Buckles (Notre Dame Department of Economics)
Professor Shackleford will address how business can promote cyber peace, specifically focusing on how businesses can promote human rights in the cybersecurity context. Sponsor : International Law Society…
The ACLU will hold elections for the 2014-2015 academic year.
WLF Elections…
STMS will hold annual elections for all officers for the 2014–15 academic year.
Alexandra Levy will discuss her current scholarship concerning the intersection of victimhood and criminality around human trafficking.
John Nagle
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University of Notre Dame Law School and Business & Human Rights Resource Centre cordially invite you to their first annual London human rights speaker series event.
Currently the question of a binding instrument on business and human rights is the topic of intense international debate. A proposal at the UN for a Treaty has received the support of over 70 governments and over one hundred regional and international NGOs. At the same time, it has received a high degree of scepticism by many experts, developed country governments, and international business associations.
Join us to discuss this issue with a high-level panel of experts!
Main speakers:
Introduction of Topic: Professor Doug Cassel, Notre Dame Law School
Proponent: Professor Chip Pitts, Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School; Advisor to the UN Global Compact
Commentator: Professor Sheldon Leader, Essex University
Sceptic: Chris Esdaile, Leigh Day
Commentator: Dr. Nadia Bernaz, Middlesex University
Reflections: Michael Addo, UN Working Group on business and human rights
There will be 30 minutes for questions & answers, and a post-event reception for all who wish to attend
Please RSVP to Sam Whannel: whannel@business-humanrights.org by 1 May 2014
This summer at Notre Dame in London the Research Program on Law and Market Behavior will be convening the inaugural conference in a new BLEND series of events. These workshop format conferences on Behavioral Law and Economics—New Directions (“BLEND”). This first conference in the series will focus on Individual Differences in Judgment and Decision Behavior and their implications for legal policy. The BLEND endeavor truly is unique in its substance, format, and composition of participants, reflecting the special vision of LAMB. Read more about BLEND
University of Notre Dame Law School and Business & Human Rights Resource Centre cordially invite you to their first annual London human rights speaker series event.
Currently the question of a binding instrument on business and human rights is the topic of intense international debate. A proposal at the UN for a Treaty has received the support of over 70 governments and over one hundred regional and international NGOs. At the same time, it has received a high degree of scepticism by many experts, developed country governments, and international business associations.
Join us to discuss this issue with a high-level panel of experts!
Main speakers:
Introduction of Topic: Professor Doug Cassel, Notre Dame Law School
Proponent: Professor Chip Pitts, Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School; Advisor to the UN Global Compact
Commentator: Professor Sheldon Leader, Essex University
Sceptic: Chris Esdaile, Leigh Day
Commentator: Dr. Nadia Bernaz, Middlesex University
Reflections: Michael Addo, UN Working Group on business and human rights
There will be 30 minutes for questions & answers, and a post-event reception for all who wish to attend
Please RSVP to Sam Whannel: whannel@business-humanrights.org by 1 May 2014
The 40th Annual Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute will take place on November 13th and 14th, 2014, in South Bend at the Century Center.
The 40th Annual Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute will take place on November 13th and 14th, 2014, in South Bend at the Century Center.