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Two ND Law Students Selected as Bank of America Fellows
Rasheed Gilmer and Carlos Cisneros Vilchis, two members of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2017, are this year’s Bank of America Foundation Fellows. The fellowship covers the cost of...
Two ND Law Students Named 2017 Shaffer Public Interest Fellows
Lauren Rafter and Kathleen Wood – two members of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2017 – have been named this year’s Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest Fellows. The Shaffer...
ND Law Students Honored at 2017 Commencement Activities
Notre Dame Law School honored graduating students from the Class of 2017 this past weekend during Commencement activities. Three women from the Class of 2017 earned…
Alyssa Phillips Wins Prestigious Public-Interest Law Fellowship
Alyssa Phillips, a member of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2017, pursued a law degree with her sights set on a career providing legal aid to low-income people. As...
Jay Tidmarsh Named Clynes Professor of Law
Jay Tidmarsh, a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, has been named the Judge James J. Clynes, Jr., Professor of Law. “It’s humbling, and I’m deeply grateful to...
Experience as Buddhist Monk Inspires ND Law Student
Notre Dame Law School prides itself on educating a different kind of lawyer, and 2L Ron Ruangtragool took a different path to law school. After earning a bachelor’s degree in...
ND Law Professor Bruce Huber Earns Tenure
Bruce Huber has been granted tenure as a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. “This is a moment I’ve been looking forward to for 12 years – since...
Michael K. Addo selected as director of London Law Program
Notre Dame Law School has selected Michael K. Addo to be director of the London Global Gateway Law Program. He will start July 1. Addo comes to Notre Dame from...
Robert L. Jones Selected for ND Faculty Social Justice Award
Robert L. Jones, a clinical professor of law and associate dean for experiential programs at Notre Dame Law School, has been selected to receive this year’s Rev. William A. Toohey, C.S.C.,...
Douglass Cassel to Receive ND Faculty Award for Peace and Human Rights
Douglass Cassel, a professor of law and Notre Dame Presidential Fellow at Notre Dame Law School, has been selected to receive the 2017 Grenville Clark Award. The University of Notre...
Professor Amy Barrett Nominated to Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
Amy Coney Barrett, Diane and M.O. Miller, II Research Chair in Law and Professor of Law, was nominated today to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit by...
Recipient of first CCHR Summer Fellowship announced
The Center for Civil and Human Rights has awarded its first Summer Fellowship to Arianna Cook-Thajudeen, a second-year student at Notre Dame Law School.
ND Law School Remembers Judge John T. Noonan, Jr.
On Monday evening, Notre Dame Law School memorialized John T. Noonan, Jr., with a Mass in his memory at St. Thomas More Chapel. Noonan, who passed away…
Program on Law and Market Behavior Holds Corporate Governance Symposium
The event – named “Long vs. Short-term Investors in Corporate Governance” – gathered legal and business scholars to talk about the debate over whether short-term shareholders are a threat to...
London Professor Discusses ‘Brexit’ and English Law
The United Kingdom’s scheduled exit from the European Union – nicknamed “Brexit” – has caused some uncertainty in global politics and the economy, but one certainty is that the English...
Law Symposium Examines Psychology and Mental Health
The Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy hosted a symposium on Friday that examined how mental-health issues are treated in the legal system.