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On Friday, *September 30th at 12:30* in Room 1130, two of the most influential judges on the federal bench today - *Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain* from the 9th Circuit and *Judge...

"!/assets/49701/symposium_flyer.jpg(ILS)!":http://law.nd.edu/assets/49788/ilssymposiumposter.jpg(ilssymposiumposter) The 3rd Annual International Law Society Symposium on *September 30* will explore emerging issues in national security law and the connections between international law and the diverse domestic laws...

!/assets/48412/moynposter.jpg(Samuel Moyn)!*President Carter's 1977 Notre Dame Commencement Address in the History of Human Rights* *September 27, 2011* On May 22, 1977, President Jimmy Carter delivered a "commencement address":http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7552#axzz1XkJgCgHM at Notre...

p(image-right). !/assets/48473/carter_1977_commencement_moyn.jpg(carter_1977_commencement_moyn)! On September 27th at 4:30 p.m. in the Geddes Hall Auditorium, the CCHR is co-sponsoring the event *“President Carter’s 1977 Notre Dame Commencement Address in the History of...

p(image-right). !/assets/2202/fox_news.jpg(fox news)! "Professor Judith Fox":http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/clinical/judith-fox/ presented Indiana judges with an update on mortgage foreclosure law at the "Annual Meeting of the Judicial Conference of Indiana":http://www.in.gov/judiciary/center/education/docs/2011-jc-agenda.pdf in French Lick, Indiana,...

p(image-right). !/assets/2824/snead_news.jpg(carter snead news)! "Prof. Carter Snead":http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/o-c-snead/ was a featured speaker at a conference on the public policy questions concerning experimental research on human embryos that was held this September...

p(image-right). !/assets/48894/regis_philbin_news.jpg(regis_philbin_news)! Loyal ND alum Regis Philbin, ‘ 53, singled out the NDLS facilities and the Patrick F. McCartan Courtroom for special praise September 19. Recounting how it felt to...

It’s always nine-o’clock at the north end of the Main Reading Room just outside Associate Dean, Ed Edmonds’ office. Hanging there on the wall is an old clock from the...

"!/assets/48269/durkin_poster_web.jpg(durkin_poster_web)!":http://www.nd.edu/~ndlaw/cchr/events/DurkinPoster.pdf "A View From Guantanamo to the Homeland: Counterterrorism War Rhetoric and the Conflation of the War on Drugs With the War on Terror" Lecture by Thomas A. Durkin, ’68...

"!/assets/48270/nuremberg_poster_11x17_revised_web.jpg(nuremberg_poster_web)!":http://www.nd.edu/~ndlaw/cchr/events/NurembergPoster.pdf The 1948 documentary film “NUREMBERG: Its Lesson for Today” (The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration) will be screened at 7:30 p.m. in the Browning Cinema at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center September...

p(image-right). !/assets/47896/robert_george.jpg(robert_george)! *Robert George*, the McCormick Chair of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, will speak at *5 p.m. September 8* in 1130 Eck Hall of Law.

p(image-right). !/assets/47854/osvaldo_hurtado_news.jpg(osvaldo_hurtado_news)! Osvaldo Hurtado, former President of Ecuador, will speak at NDLS September 8 on “Independence of the Judiciary, Freedom of the Press and other Constitutional Developments in Ecuador.”

p(image-right). !/assets/4251/finnis_news.jpg(John Finnis news)! Last spring, Oxford University Press published a "five-volume collection of essays":http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/?view=usa&ci=9780199580040 by Biolchini Family Professor of Law "John M. Finnis":http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/john-finnis/ and a second edition of Finnis's...

The Justice Department is suing to prevent AT&T from acquiring T-Mobile USA and displacing Verizon as the nation’s largest wireless carrier, and antitrust expert Joseph Bauer, professor of law at...

In particular Cotler, who is a member of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Human Rights that drafted the report – and appeared as well as an expert witness before the...

Osvaldo Hurtado has been one of the most influential politicians in the last 30 years of Ecuadorian history. He earned both his BA in Political and Social Sciences (‘63) and...