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p(image-right). !/assets/71117/students_nd_fellows_2012_news.jpg(students_nd_fellows_2012_news)! Kelly Jentzen Thompson, J.D. ’12, of Arlington, Virginia, and Rachel Odio, J.D. ’12, of Costa Rica will be spending the next two years serving as the Law School’s...

p(image-right). !/assets/70977/annclairewilliams.jpg(Anne Williams)! The 2012 Rev. Edward Frederick Sorin, C.S.C. Award was recently presented to Judge Ann Claire Williams. She is the first judge of color appointed to the U.S....

p(image-right). !/assets/70383/students_barristers_team_2012_news.jpg(students_barristers_team_2012_news)! Along with the second-year trial teams that compete in the American Association of Justice trial competition each year, Notre Dame’s third-year trial teams, The Barristers Trial Teams, are...

!/assets/2824/snead_news.jpg! !/assets/5168/garnettr_8_08_news.jpg(Rick Garnett fall08 news)! Major television news outlets have interviewed Professor "Richard W. Garnett":/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/richard-w-garnett and Professor "Carter Snead":/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/o-c-snead about the University of Notre Dame’s "lawsuit":http://newsinfo.nd.edu/news/30962-notre-dame-files-religious-liberty-lawsuit-related-to-hhs-mandate/ challenging an HHS mandate...

p(image-right). !/assets/68974/lardy2012_news.jpg(lardy2012_news)! Adrienne M. de la Rosa has been awarded the Peter Lardy Memorial Fellowship for the 2012-13 academic year. Dedicated by the Class of 1975 to the memory of...

Sunny Hostin, J.D. ’94, was named the Alvin McKenna Alumnus of the Year Award and asked to give the keynote address at the 2012 Black Law Students Association awards banquet...

p(image-right). !/assets/68356/student_brian_michel_story.jpg(student_brian_michel_story)! NDLS student Brian Michel recently argued a _Miranda_ violation case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Brian was selected for the honor after competing...

p(image-right). !/assets/67758/justifying_intellectual_property.jpg(justifying_intellectual_property)! Leading IP scholars from across the country gathered at NDLS on April 27 for a roundtable on Professor Robert P. Merges’s 2011 book "Justifying Intellectual Property":http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31133&content=book. The all-day...

In “the old days,” as one put it — that would be before 9/11 — deep-cover CIA operatives could use and discard false passports like hand wipes.Now the increasing deployment...

Efforts by foreign countries to penetrate universities have increased in the past five years. The FBI and academia are working together to combat the threat. Placing academics at U.S. research...

p(image-right). !/assets/65554/judge_thomas_hardiman.jpg(judge_thomas_hardiman)! The Notre Dame Federalist Society will host Judge Thomas Hardiman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on April 3 at 12:30 p.m. in Eck...

It was “a once in a lifetime experience,” Australian law student Chloe Donjerkovich recounts. Last summer, Chloe and 33 other law students from around the world embarked upon Notre Dame...

p(image-right). !/assets/4253/oconnell_news.jpg(Mary Ellen Oconnell news)! Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell is giving two talks next week on the legal and ethical issues raised by drone warfare. One will take place at...

April 2, 2012McCartan Court RoomEck Hall of Law3:30 p.m.There will be a Q & A with the judges after the arguments, then a reception in Eck Commons at approximately 5:00.Panel...

p(image-right). !/assets/64169/gurule_bahrain1.jpg(gurule_bahrain1)! Professor Jimmy Gurulé spent the NDLS Spring Break in Bahrain to assess the country’s pretrial detention policies and procedures. (Photo: Federal District Court Judge Nanette Laughrey, Jimmy Gurulé,...

John H.A. Whitman first stepped onto the campus of Notre Dame in 1918 when he was hired to teach American literature and Latin in the prep school. But, the Law...

p(image-right). !/assets/63663/ajj_team_story.jpg(ajj_team_story)! An NDLS American Association of Justice (AAJ) Trial Team was victorious at the AAJ Student Trial Advocacy Regional Competition held in Louisville, Ky., March 1-4. The team will...

Judith Fox has changed the advice she gives defaulting clients. “Three or four years ago, I would always tell clients, ‘You have three or four months to get yourself together,’...

p(image-right). !/assets/62811/emerging_issues_in_intellectual_property_symposium_web.jpg(emerging_issues_in_intellectual_property_symposium_web)! The Notre Dame Intellectual Property Law Society presented a symposium on March 2. The program featured opening remarks by "Dean Nell Jessup Newton":http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/nell-newton/ and presentations on “Clean Tech...

p(image-right). !/assets/42752/kellyj_news.jpg(James J)! Professor James Kelly and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg will co-chair a task force that will create more options to combat the problem of vacant and abandoned...

62nd Annual Moot Court Showcase ArgumentAndrea Tuckerman, Petitionersv.Betterly Hills County School District and Beatrice Bliss, RespondentsThe Patrick F. McCartan CourtroomMarch 1, 2012, 4:00 p.m.…

p(image-right). !/assets/61123/blsa_mock_trial_team_web.jpg(blsa_mock_trial_team_web)! Notre Dame’s BLSA Mock Trial Team were crowned regional champions February 18 and now will be advancing to the nationals in Washington, D.C. Representing NDLS at the 2012...

3Ls Ryan Raybould and Caitlin Sheffer made it to the finals and placed fifth out of 22 teams nationally at the Fifth Annual UC Davis Asylum and Refugee Law National...

p(image-right). !http://newsinfo.nd.edu/assets/10590/snead_rel.jpg(O. Carter Snead)! President Barack Obama’s proposed adjustments to the new Health and Human Services rule requiring Catholic institutions, including the University of Notre Dame, to provide health care...

p(image-right). !/assets/5157/mckennamarkfall08_news.jpg(Mark McKenna news)! Professor Mark P. McKenna argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit Feb. 2 in a landmark trademark infringement case. Professor McKenna...

p(image-right). !/assets/59234/raybould_shetter_news.jpg(raybould_shetter_news)! 3Ls Ryan Raybould and Caitlin Shetter recently competed in the Fifth Annual UC Davis Asylum and Refugee Law National Moot Court Competition. Ms. Shetter and Mr. Raybould made...

Prof. Roger Alford accepted the CPR Award for Best Electronic Media About Alternative Dispute Resolution in New York City on Jan. 11 in a ceremony held at the New York...

p(image-right). !/assets/57272/cribari_news.jpg(cribari_news)! Dean Nell Jessup Newton has announced the appointment of "Professor Stephen J. Cribari":http://www.law.umn.edu/facultyprofiles/cribaris.html as co-director (with "Professor Geoffrey Bennett":/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/geoffrey-bennett/) of the NDLS "London Summer Program":/academic-programs/jd-study-in-london/summer-in-london/. Cribari teaches at...

p(image-right). !/assets/18270/garnettr_8_08_port.jpg(Rick Garnett ND Expert)! Professor Richard W. Garnett’s "USA Today column":http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-01-11/hosanna-tabor-church-state-case/52500140/1 analyzing the Supreme Court’s landmark church-state decision in "_Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC_":http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-553.pdf was picked...

p(image-right). !/assets/4240/gurule9_08_news.jpg(Jimmy Gurule)! A Mississippi judge has temporarily blocked 21 of more than 200 executive pardons given this week by outgoing Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.) during his final days in...