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Visiting Associate Professor Andrea M. Matwyshyn is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Matwyshyn is a leading authority...

Margaret M. (“Peggy”) J.D. ’79, has been given a warm tribute by the quarterly journal Directors & Boards. The special feature article called Foran, the chief governance officer and corporate...

Visiting Associate Professor David Schwartz is Assistant Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he teaches patent law, patent litigation and intellectual property strategies classes. He joined the...

For the fourth year, the Center for Civil and Human Rights (CCHR) will provide internship funding for up to three J.D. students who seek unpaid international internships in the field...

Since joining NDLS in 2000, Bellia has become well known to students for teaching popular courses in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and Cyberlaw, and to colleagues for being among the...

The insanity defense: Defendants in two high-profile local cases to make an argument lawyers say rarely wins (Quoting Jimmy Gurulé) South Bend Tribune, December 10, 2011

Visiting Professor Barry Cushman is James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Professor Cushman returned to Virginia in 1998 from the faculty...

Debi McGuigan Jones and Beth Given sat down for a quick “interview” with one of the newest members of the NDLS family, Leslie Berg, to learn more about what brought...

Sofía Galván Puente, a 2009 graduate of Notre Dame Law School’s LL.M. degree program in international human rights law, will receive the National Youth Award of 2011 for Human Rights....

Why contraception mandate should be scrapped — (Opinion: by Richard Garnett) USA Today, November 27, 2011

Thomas, Kagan asked to sit out health care case — (quotes: Richard Garnett) AP, November 26, 2011

The NBA Players Could Win – But it isn’t Likely Forbes Also, notes antitrust expert Joseph Bauer, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, part of the players’...

NBA lockout: Law professor predicts players’ union to file more … Los Angeles Times Below are excepts of an interview with Notre Dame law professor Joseph Bauer on the NBA...

Supreme Court Takes On Obamacare Challenge – Forbes Source: forbes.com The Supreme Court takes on the case of whether Obamacare is constitutional, with all of its political ramifications.

Patrick A. Salvi, J.D. ’78, has been presented with the 2011 Career Achievement Award by Cook County’s Jury Verdict Reporter and the Law Bulletin Publishing Company. The Award is presented...

Professor Richard W. Garnett has been appointed as a consultant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty. The Committee is updating the bishops...

The Notre Dame Legal Clinics are expanding their transactional services to the local business community in January with a new Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic headed by intellectual property lawyer...

The Power and Purpose of International Law (OUP 2008).

What Will Be the Outcome of Catholic Answers vs. IRS? National Catholic Register (also published at Catholic News Agnecy) However, the lawsuit’s success is “highly unlikely,” said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer,...

Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell is speaking on "Peace as a Global Public Good" at a global public goods symposium in San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy. The October 24 symposium, “Public...

O. Carter Snead, professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed the W.P. and H.B. White Director of the University’s Center for Ethics and Culture (CEC)...

Professor Barry Cushman will lecture on “Carolene Products and Constitutional Structure” at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, October 27, in Eck Hall of Law Room 3140. The author of Rethinking the New...

Prof. Lloyd Mayer was quoted in the NY Times on October 12, 2011 in the article As Anti-Climate Group’s Activities Rise, So Do Questions About Its Secret Finances

Cardinal Roger Mahony, archbishop emeritus of Los Angeles, is urgently concerned with the reform of the nation’s immigration policy, and he wants Catholic college and university students to be as...

Obama’s lawyers bid to regulate religious hiring Yahoo! News The department “is going against what almost every court has decided … it has taken an outlier position,” said Richard Garnett,...

An airstrike carried out by the CIA and U.S. Joint Special Operations Command that killed radical Islamist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki today in Yemen was illegal, according to University of Notre...

As the U.S. Supreme Court opens its October 2011 term, there is intense focus on several high-profile cases and questions the justices are likely to tackle later, including those involving...

Mary Cowsert was awarded a certificate of completion for the Frontline Supervision sessions offered by the Human Resources Department at Notre Dame. The Frontline Supervision course is a series of...

Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell’s legal and policy analysis of the recent use of drones to kill Americans Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan in Yemen has been reported by numerous news...

NDLS alum Jessica Brock (B.A. ’05, J.D. ’10, LLM ’11), Professor Paolo Carozza, and His Eminence Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, will speak on the DREAM Act...