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Judge Amul Thapar of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky spoke to a packed audience of students and faculty at Notre Dame Law School on September 16, in...

Parade magazine reported in its September 9th issue that 10 percent of college grads polled thought Judge Judy was on the U.S. Supreme Court. Notion denied; the TV reality show...

On Thursday, Sept. 22, Notre Dame Law School, in conjunction with the Keough School of Global Affairs, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Center for Civil and Human Rights, and...

Alan Page, B.A. ’67, former justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, Fighting Irish All-American and Pro Football Hall of Fame member, will speak to Notre Dame Law Students at 12:30...

U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar will speak at Notre Dame Law School on Sept. 16, in celebration of Constitution Day.Sponsored by the NDLS Program on Constitutional Structure and the Potenziani...

Cameasha Turner walked into South Bend’s Center for the Homeless earlier this month a little bit apprehensive, but mostly excited to volunteer in the community she would be calling home...

Three Notre Dame Law School alumni were recently named fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the top legal associations in America. Maureen Reidy Witt, ’80 J.D.,...

Dear students,Here is a brief overview of the new people, programs, and opportunities you will be encountering in the coming year.Judicial VisitorsI am pleased that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will hold a conversation with Notre Dame law students Tuesday, September 13, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Patrick F. McCartan Courtroom....

More than 200 Notre Dame Lawyers welcomed Jack Swarbrick, Jr., '76, vice president and James E. Rohr Director of Athletics at Notre Dame, to Chicago Aug. 11. The group included...

Sixty-three Notre Dame Law students have successfully completed a grueling week of advocacy training as in the Law School’s the Intensive Trial Advocacy class, a unique program taught by distinguished...

"Mark P. McKenna":http://law.nd.edu/directory/mark-mckenna/, professor of law and associate dean for faculty development at Notre Dame Law School, recently filed a "friend-of-the court brief":http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Star-Athletica.pdf in the U.S. Supreme Court in Star...

By Athena Aherrera, 2LI still remember the first time I saw Admissions Director Jake Baska’s email regarding the orientation schedule and information on the service projects. My heart palpitated at...

More than 200 new students – J.D., Transfer, LL.M., and J.S.D – will attend Notre Dame Law School‘s orientation program next week. The program will include a number of activities...

With the country focused on selecting its next president and on who will replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Notre Dame Law School "Professor Randy Kozel’s":http://law.nd.edu/directory/randy-kozel/ research considers how...

"Paolo G. Carozza":http://law.nd.edu/directory/paolo-carozza/, professor of law, concurrent professor of political science and director of the "Kellogg Institute for International Studies":http://kellogg.nd.edu/ at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed to...

Johanna Fröhlich, LL.M. ’15, was pursuing her Ph.D. in comparative constitutional law at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary, where she also obtained her law degree, when she felt a...

We know our students go to law school to ultimately have a career in the law. Our alumni and the Career Development office help jumpstart student’s careers with the dynamic...

Marah Stith McLeod has joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty as an associate professor. Her research explores legal and ethical problems in criminal law and criminal procedure. Her work...

University of Notre Dame law professor Jimmy Gurulé, a terrorist financing expert, testified Thursday (July 14) before the House Judiciary Committee’s Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee at a hearing on...

More than 200 ND alumni, students, and guests gathered for the 6th Annual Notre Dame Lawyers of New York City Reception at the Union League Club. The guests included more...

Bruce Huber, associate professor of law, has been appointed the Robert and Marion Short Scholar, a three-year rotating appointment for pre-tenure faculty members.

When Brian Murray, ’11 J.D., worked as a staff attorney in the employment unit at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, he saw first hand the long-term challenges low-income citizens face...

The Chicago firm of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard PC recently achieved more than $1 billion in verdicts and settlements on behalf of injured clients they have represented. The law firm...

What Mbuyiseli Madlanga ’90LL.M. most remembers about growing up under apartheid in South Africa wasn’t so much the daily indignities of a system based on racial subjugation. His childhood in...

Notre Dame Law Professors "Nicole Garnett":http://law.nd.edu/directory/nicole-garnett/ and "Mark McKenna":http://law.nd.edu/directory/mark-mckenna/ were recently recognized as top-cited scholars in their respective research areas of property and intellectual property law.

"Jennifer Mason McAward":http://law.nd.edu/directory/jennifer-mason-mcaward/, associate professor of law at the University of Notre Dame "Law School":http://law.nd.edu/, has been appointed director of the University’s "Center for Civil and Human Rights":http://humanrights.nd.edu/ by R....

Notre Dame Law School Professor "Jimmy Gurulé":http://news.nd.edu/for-the-media/nd-experts/faculty/jimmy-gurule/, a terrorist financing expert, testified today (June 23) before the Congressional Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing -- part of the U.S. House...

The Indiana Supreme Court recently appointed Notre Dame Law School Clinical Professor Judith Fox to the Coalition for Court Access. According to Chief Justice Loretta H. Rush, the 17-member coalition...

Nicole Stelle Garnett, John P. Murphy Foundation professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, was recently awarded the Reinhold Niebuhr Award by the University of Notre Dame.