Educating a Different Kind of Lawyer
Each year several third-year students on the NDLS Moot Court Board write briefs and conduct oral arguments in appointed cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Read More
Veronica Root will join NDLS as an associate professor of law, Dean Nell Jessup Newton announced today. Professor Root came to NDLS in 2012 with a two-year appointment as a visiting assistant professor from the Washington, D.C., office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she practiced in the firm’s Litigation Department. She will assume her new tenure-track position at NDLS on July 1. Read More
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
Alexandra Levy will discuss her current scholarship concerning the intersection of victimhood and criminality around human trafficking.
John Nagle
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Robert Miller, Iowa Law School
Poster exhibit on the War on Poverty for the last 50 years. Sponsored by Notre Dame Clinical Law Center…
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
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London Summer Program Last Class Day…
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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
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.