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The Theodore Tannenwald Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and The International Fiscal Association (IFA) both recently announced Sienna White, ’15 J.D., as the first-prize winner of their national...

Notre Dame Law School, in conjunction with the Bank of America Foundation, has named two 2015 NDLS graduates as the inaugural recipients of a newly announced public service fellowship. The...

As many students make their way home for winter break – to binge-watch Netflix, small-talk with relatives and catch up on sleep – more than 150 of this year’s 200-strong...

Notre Dame Law School will launch a new clinic – the Notre Dame Tax Clinic – to help law students gain legal experience and to serve the community. The clinic...

Originally from Snellville, Ga., Lyew received her bachelor’s degree in political science from Auburn University. She is the online editor for the Journal of Legislation, secretary of the Federalist Society,...

Not everyone is fortunate enough to have a warm meal for the holidays, but thanks to the Student Bar Association at Notre Dame Law School, 50 families from the YMCA...

p(image-right). !/assets/183577/75x/olohan_thomas_award.png(olohan_thomas_award)! FBI Supervisory Special Agent, Thomas Olohan, received the FBI’s highest honor of the Director’s Award for Excellence in 2015 due to his work in a sensitive human source...

p(image-right). !/assets/183682/75x/donald_ward.jpg(donald_ward)! Donald Ward, partner at Ward & Ward in Indianapolis was named the 2015 Legendary Lawyer by the Indiana Bar Foundation. The annual Legendary Lawyer Award recognizes an attorney...

Thomas Ahearne, a graduate of Notre Dame and University of Chicago Law School, had risen at a powerful Seattle firm by working for business clients who took on insurance companies,...

Notre Dame and Boston College law students made final arguments in a reimagining of the Boston Massacre Trial 245 years ago, celebrating the importance of the trial with the early...

Notre Dame Law School continues to expand opportunities for students to garner hands-on learning experience with the creation of a new corporate counsel externship program.

Former Notre Dame Law Association Board President James Gillece Jr. ’69 J.D., died on Sept. 26, 2015. He was 71 years old.

Notre Dame Law Association board member, Anne Marie Finch, ’86 B.A., ’89 J.D., died in a tragic accident on Aug. 28, 2015. She was 51 years old.

The Notre Dame Law Review will host its annual Symposium on Nov. 5-6, 2015 in the Patrick F. McCartan Courtroom at Notre Dame Law School. This year’s Symposium is titled...

Chief Justice John G. Roberts has appointed William Kelley, associate professor of law, to the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure (the "Standing Committee"). The Standing Committee coordinates the...

p(image-right). !/assets/180960/gotsch_isba_award.jpg(gotsch_isba_award)! Judge Michael G. Gotsch Sr. (right) Judge Michael G. Gotsch Sr., who has served on the bench in the St. Joseph Circuit Court since 2004, was recently honored...

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/180652/100x/us_supreme_court_300x.jpg(U.S. Supreme Court)! In the early 1980s, the Supreme Court decided some 150 cases a year, nearly twice the number it annually decides these days. Legal scholars and practitioners...

p(image-right). !/assets/71338/100x/barretta.jpg(barretta)! This week, Notre Dame Law will host the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure at its Chicago facilities. Professor Amy Coney Barrett, Diane and M.O....

p(image-right). !/assets/180362/100x/010_alito.jpg(U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr.)! U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr., will visit Notre Dame Law School on Nov. 19. One highlight...

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/180239/100x/synod_300.jpg(David Bender, chairman of the CEC advisory board, left, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Carter Snead at the Synod on the Family)! The three-week-long Synod on the Family, which...

Richard Garnett, Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Church, State & Society, was recently honored by the University as a 2015 Featured...

When Jeff Ballard, president of Design Align Landscape Edging in South Bend, knew he had developed a product for the commercial landscaping industry, he wanted to see what legal recourses...

Gargula, U.S. Trustee for Region 10, has been the cantor as well as the planning chair for the the annual Red Mass for 34 years. |!/assets/178519/300x/nancy_gargula.jpg(nancy_gargula)!Nancy Gargula, '81 JD |...

When most people frame the debate about regulating marijuana for recreational or medical use, they only consider two options: legalize the drug or ban it. But Robert Mikos, professor of...

Notre Dame Law School is pleased to announce the generous donation from alumna JoAnn Chávez, ’86, ’90, J.D., to establish the Chávez Family Law Fellowship to benefit Hispanic students at...

p(image-right). !/assets/81292/100x/cassel_220.jpg(cassel_220)! The article "American justice: A U.S. lawyer in Colombia’s peace process":/assets/178074/miami_herald_10.2.15.docx in the Miami Herald, Oct. 2, 2015 on the Doug Cassel's involvement in the Colombia's peace process....

The Notre Dame Black Law Students Association (BLSA) will host a one-day academic retreat Saturday with the Midwest Regional BLSA. The day will focus on mock trial preparation, stress management...

p(image-right). !/assets/177388/100x/drassinower_book_roundtable_10_2_2015poster_24x34_template4.jpg(What's Wrong with Copying?)! Some of the world’s leading copyright experts will meet on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015 to discuss Abraham Drassinower’s provocative new book, "_What’s Wrong with Copying?_":http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674743977...

p(image-right). !/assets/177266/100x/salvi_family_web.jpg(Salvi Family)! Trial lawyer Patrick Salvi Sr., ’78 J.D., has scored many 8-figure outcomes over the course of his 37-year career, but a $17.9-million Cook County jury verdict in...

p(image-right). !/assets/176984/100x/crookslg.jpg(crookslg)! Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice N. Patrick Crooks, ’63 J.D., passed away on Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. He was 77 years old. Justice Crooks served in the Wisconsin judiciary...