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p(image-right). !/assets/151840/75x/bill_farrell_jr1.jpg(bill_farrell_jr1)! Over the course of his 20 years in commercial litigation, William P. Farrell, Jr. repeatedly heard the same questions from his corporate clients. How much would it cost...

p(image-right). !/assets/151844/75x/o_reilly_art1.jpg(o_reilly_art1)! If you were to ask Arthur O’Reilly what his favorite piece of art is in the Detroit Institute of Arts, he would tell you that Diego Rivera’s murals...

December saw two Notre Dame Law School grads confirmed to the federal bench. Double Domer Jack Blakey, ’88 B.A., ’92 J.D., was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the...

This spring Ron Dolin, one of the First 100 at Google and the co-founder of Stanford University’s Program for Legal Technology & Design, teamed up with Jason Boehmig, a 2012...

Dear Alumni and Friends of Notre Dame Law School, The Notre Dame Law School has had an exciting year, welcoming new students,…

p(image-right). !/assets/150835/100x/judge_janis_sammartino_2.jpg(judge_janis_sammartino_2)! Judge Sammartino is establishing a learning center for the Southern District of California which will include self-guided tours of the Edward J. Schwarz U.S. Courthouse, a new court...

p(image-right). !/assets/150789/100x/dwight_kmiec_book.jpg(dwight_kmiec_book)! Prof. Kmiec donated a copy of his book, "Lift Up Your Hearts" to the Kresge Law Library. Doug Kmiec was a member of the NDLS faculty from 1980-99.

It is with a heavy heart that the Law School announces the death of Professor Emeritus Robert E. Rodes Jr., who passed away Tuesday morning, November 25, 2014.

p(image-right). !/assets/150098/75x/ripple_mccafferty_award_2014.jpeg(ripple_mccafferty_award_2014)! On Friday, November 14, 2014, the NDLA presented the Fr. Michael McCafferty Award to the Honorable Kenneth Ripple for his thirty-seven years of distinguished service to the University...

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/148479/200x/garnett_smith_300.jpg(Richard Garnett, left, and Stephen Smith)! University of Notre Dame law professors "Stephen Smith":http://law.nd.edu/directory/stephen-smith/ and "Richard Garnett":http://law.nd.edu/directory/richard-garnett/ are encouraged that Supreme Court justices seem to endorse arguments they have...

p(image-right). !/assets/146666/100x/otoole_professorship_group_lobby_tom_elaine_and_aj.jpg(otoole_professorship_group_lobby_tom_elaine_and_aj)! The University of Notre Dame has appointed NDLS Professor A.J. Bellia to serve as the inaugural O'Toole Professor of Constitutional Law. This Endowed Chair is funded by a...

p(image-right). "!/assets/145610/100x/tidmarshfootballprogramad.jpg(tidmarshfootballprogramad)!":/assets/145611/tidmarsh_football_program_ad.pdf The University honored NDLS Professor Jay Tidmarsh as a 2014 Featured Faculty during the third quarter of the North Carolina football game October 11. He was recognized during...

The Program on Constitutional Structure will host a conference, “The Common Law in an Age of Regulation” on February 6, 2015 at the Notre Dame London Law Centre…

Amy Coney Barrett has been named the Diane and M.O. Miller II Research Professor for a three-year term ending June 30, 2017.

Brigadier General James Smith passed away on September 29, 2014 from cancer complications at the age of 54. Jim was married to Jennifer O’Leary Smith, ’89 J.D. Upon his retirement...

p(image-right). !/assets/109923/laybold.jpg(laybold)! Janet Laybold Assistant Dean for Graduate and Strategic Initiatives The Law School is launching a Notre Dame Law in D.C. externship program for Spring 2015 and Spring 2016,...

Notre Dame Law School’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) has now disbursed $1 million to NDLS graduates, according to Dean Nell Jessup Newton.

p(image-right). !/assets/142716/100x/skaret_gurule.jpg(skaret_gurule)! Brian Skaret, ’02 J.D., has been awarded the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award for the successful investigation and prosecution of the Barrio Azteca criminal organization earlier this year....

Notre Dame Law School and the Center for Civil and Human Rights are pleased to welcome Judge Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor, Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,…

p(image-right). !/assets/140891/100x/web.jpg(web)! Dean Nell Jessup Newton is pleased to announce that Timothy L. Dondanville will become Dean of the University of Notre Dame Law School on September 9, 2014, and...

Dear students, On behalf of all faculty and staff: Welcome back to NDLS! As we start a new academic year, here is an update on new people, programs, and activities...

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/139432/100x/jimmy_gurule_300.jpg(Jimmy Gurulé)! Islamic State (ISIS) militants who beheaded American journalist James Foley in Syria this week reportedly had demanded $132.5 million in ransom for his release. Collecting ransom payments...

p(image-right). !/assets/112551/charles_weiss_news.jpg(charles_weiss_news)! Working pro bono, Charlie Weiss,’68 JD, and fellow Bryan Cave attorney Thor Mathison have won the freedom of Alonzo Martin, who had been jailed in 2007 and later...

Dallas attorney, Daniel P. Novakov, '72 BA, '76 J.D., a Greenberg Traurig shareholder, is named chairman of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association in the first season of the new college...

p(image-right). !/assets/137335/75x/peter_skiko.jpg(peter_skiko)! The publicly reported settlement ranks as one of the largest reported settlements involving trade secret misappropriation in the nation. The lawsuit alleged the misappropriation of confidential information and...

p(image-right). !/assets/137332/75x/beth_schneider_naylor.jpg(beth_schneider_naylor)! Naylor, a senior partner in Frost Brown Todd LLC’s product liability practice group and former president of the Notre Dame Law Alumni Board, offers insight into the challenges...

p(image-right). !/assets/137333/75x/kym_worthy.jpg(kym_worthy)! A recent _Time Magazine_ (Time, July 28, 2014 No More Cold Cases, p. 28-31) article reports on the daunting task that Worthy is spearheading as both the first...

p(image-right). !/assets/137210/100x/brian_murray.jpg(brian_murray)! Brian M. Murray ’11 J.D. has accepted an Abraham L. Freedman Teaching Fellowship at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law.

p(image-right). !/assets/137163/100x/shepro.jpg(shepro)! Mary Shepro, who will be a 3L this fall, has been named a 2014 Distinguished Bankruptcy Law Student by the 2014 Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar.

p(image-right). !/assets/136616/100x/vinodh_2.jpg(vinodh_2)! Vinodh Jaichand '88 LL.M.,'96 J.S.D. began to study law because the South African thought it could be a tool for dismantling the system of apartheid. But after he...