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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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Al-Awlaki Killing In Yemen Raises Constitutional Questions Huffington Post That doesn’t excuse his killing, said Mary Ellen O’Connell, a Notre Dame scholar who studies targeted killings. “Derogation from the fundamental...

Obama Admin Anti-Conscience Mandate Threatens Health Care Life News A recent rule issued by the Obama administration threatens our nation’s healthcare by attacking the consciences of our nation’s healthcare providers….O....

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 at Notre Dame...

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 Human Rights.”...

Professor Kozel teaches and researches in areas including freedom of speech, legal change, contract law, and civil procedure. He previously worked as Special Counsel at General Electric Co., and as...

Professor Judith Fox presented Indiana judges with an update on mortgage foreclosure law at the Annual Meeting of the Judicial Conference of Indiana in French Lick, Indiana, September 21. On...

Fox News Partners With Google After Years Of Attacks Media Matters for America Christianity Today reported that “corporations often exclude faith-based groups from their philanthropic programs or restrict who can...

South Bend plans open bids for sale of Family Dollar WSBT “They want anything that comes in there to contribute to the city’s pre-existing vision of economic development,” said John...

Obama and the Catholic vote The Hill “This will likely drive many important Catholic social service providers to close up shop, inevitably harming the poor communities that they serve,” Notre...

Prof. Carter Snead was a featured speaker at a conference on the public policy questions concerning experimental research on human embryos that was held this September at Oxford University (Corpus...

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 return to...