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IP and Technology Law Program Hosts Visiting Scholar
Notre Dame Law School is hosting Shyamkrishna Balganesh, a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, as a distinguished visiting scholar this week in the Program of...
ND Alum Talks to Law Students about Bioethics
With any technology, there are limits to what’s possible and limits to what’s moral. Nikolas T. Nikas, the co-founder, president, and general counsel of the Bioethics Defense Fund, told students...
NDLS Welcomes Dean for the Day Anthony M. Kroese
I am pleased to announce that Anthony M. Kroese, 3L, was sworn in as Dean of the University of Notre Dame Law School on April 24, 2017, and that he...
NDLS Program on Church, State & Society Awards Summer Fellowships
Clockwise from top left: Margo Borders, Lauren Andrini, Robert Sikorski, and Catherine Gawron are recipients of the 2017…
Alums Talk to LGBT Forum about Diversity in the Legal Profession
Two NDLS alums, Jim Basile and Karen DeSantis, recounted the history, progress, and current issues for diverse lawyers, including racially and culturally diverse lawyers, women, and lawyers with diverse identities, while speaking Wednesday to students from...
Veronica Root Selected as ‘New Voices’ Scholar
Veronica Root, an associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, has been selected to participate in the New Voices in Civil Justice Scholarship Workshop on May 10 at...
Prosecutor Describes Work for NDLS Students
Students received a first-hand look at prosecutorial duties on Tuesday from Joel Williams, Elkhart County chief deputy prosecuting attorney and Notre Dame Law School adjunct faculty member.
Falsely Convicted Man Describes Long Road to Exoneration
The series of events that swept Keith Cooper into the criminal-justice system – and sent him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit – is so nightmarish that it...
Alum Sean Seymore Honored with BLSA’s Alumni Award
Sean B. Seymore, ’01 Ph.D., ’06 J.D., was awarded the Alvin McKenna Alumnus of the Year Award by the Notre Dame Law School Black Law Students Association at its annual banquet....
ND Law School Workshop Prepares Future Professors
Notre Dame Law School hosted 10 aspiring legal scholars last week for a two-day workshop about the competitive path to becoming a law professor.
National Library Week: Get to Know Your Library Staff
It's "National Library Week":http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek, and Notre Dame Law School is highlighting the wonderful people who support the Law School's scholarship with their work in the Kresge Law Library. Get to...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Comes to ND Law School
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces came to Notre Dame Law School on Tuesday afternoon to hear arguments in _United States v. Edward Mitchell_ – a case...
Does a Free Society Need Anti-Discrimination Laws?
Are anti-discrimination laws essential to freedom, or hostile to freedom? That’s the question two legal experts explored and debated Friday during a luncheon presented by the Potenziani Program in Constitutional...
Notre Dame Alum Talks about Defending the Unpopular
Last year, a headline in The Wall Street Journal called Thomas Durkin, ’68 A.B., “a terror suspect’s best hope in court.” Durkin, a Chicago-based criminal defense attorney, spoke Monday at...
Paolo Carozza awarded honorary doctorate
Pázmány Péter Catholic University awarded an honorary doctorate to Paolo Carozza, director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies and law professor at Notre Dame Law School, on March…
Students to Share Tips on Landing Work in Target Markets
For the first time, the Notre Dame Law School Career Development Office will partner with the SBA CDO Committee to host a series of panels focusing on specific markets led...
ND Law student to present at international trademark conference
Notre Dame Law School student Veronica Canton, 2L, has been selected to present a paper at the International Trademark Association’s annual meeting May 20 to 24 in Barcelona, Spain.
Notre Dame Law Student to Present at the Sorbonne
Martha Astor’s passion for education guided her to law school. Astor, 1L, spent the first phase of her career teaching pedagogy at Northern Arizona University, where she earned her…