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Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative brought together the world’s foremost thought leaders on religious freedom June 28-29 for the inaugural Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit. Established in 2020,...

Notre Dame Law Professor Samuel Bray testified before the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States earlier this week. The commission was created in April by an...

Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Ethics, Compliance & Inclusion has announced the winners of the 2021 Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition. Eric Singerman, a rising third-year student at the...

Notre Dame Law Professor Emeritus J. Eric Smithburn — a leading scholar in family law and a compassionate advocate for disadvantaged children and families — passed away June 18. He...

Notre Dame Law School is proud to announce this year’s winners of the Law School’s Program on Intellectual Property & Technology Law Annual Writing Competition. Created to reward the excellent...

On June 17, three ND Law faculty members were cited in the decision in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, and another faculty member was cited in Nestle v. Doe.

Juan Pablo Albán Alencastro, doctoral candidate at Notre Dame Law School and student affiliate of the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, has been elected to be a member of the...

Desierto, an expert in human rights and international law, is the new faculty director for the Law School’s LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law.

Notre Dame Law School is pleased to announce the Class of 2021 awards.  Highest Academic Honors The Law School proudly recognizes three students in the 2021 graduating class with the...

Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic has hired its first staff attorney, Notre Dame Law School alumnus and former Jenner & Block litigator Kevin Murphy ’14 J.D. The Exoneration...

The award presentation will be the capstone of the inaugural Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit, to be held at the University of Notre Dame, June 28-29.

Kind. Generous. Faithful. Positive. Friendly. Compassionate. Humble. These are the words used repeatedly to describe Andrew “Ross” D’Entremont, a rising third-year student at Notre Dame Law School who has been...

On June 3, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb named Cristal Brisco ’06 J.D. as his appointment for St. Joseph County Superior Court judge. Brisco has served as a magistrate judge in...

Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative will bring together some of the world’s foremost thought leaders on religious freedom at the end of June for the inaugural Notre Dame...

Bernardo Pulido Márquez, a J.S.D. student at Notre Dame Law School whose work addresses eligibility restrictions designed to keep political candidates off the ballot in Latin American countries, is the recipient...

For the second time this year, a final order by the Securities and Exchange Commission cited Notre Dame Law Professor Patrick Corrigan’s article “The Seller’s Curse and the Underwriter’s Pricing...

A Notre Dame Law School graduate is the new head of the Delaware Court of Chancery — a court that is recognized throughout the United States as the leading forum for...

The Notre Dame Law School Program on Ethics, Compliance & Inclusion has created a new summer fellowship program to support students working in the areas of ethics, compliance, or inclusion...

Natalie Fulk and Gabrielle Juers, members of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2021, have been named this year’s Bank of America Foundation Fellows.   The Bank of America public...

Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman have contributed articles to the spring issue of Notre Dame Law School’s Journal of Legislation.  Third-year...

Nereida Lopez and Emily Mollinedo, members of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2021, have been awarded Thomas L. Shaffer Fellowships. The fellowship, named in honor of professor emeritus and...

As part of the Global Lawyering Initiative, Notre Dame Law students increasingly have a number of opportunities to pursue work experiences abroad during their legal education. These opportunities include a...

Nikolai Stieglitz, a member of the Class of 2021, will investigate and litigate wrongful conviction cases for the Exoneration Justice Clinic during his two-year fellowship that starts this summer.

Two teams of Notre Dame Law School students competed for the first time in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s National Patent Application Drafting Competition earlier this spring. One team,...

The Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society is launching the Rice-Hasson Distinguished Lecture Series to serve as the program’s flagship annual event.

“For more than 50 years, the justices have struggled to define the free-speech rights of public school students,” said Richard W. Garnett, the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law...

Scheduled to start in fall 2021, the program will include faculty and student exchanges with Tel Aviv University’s Buchmann Faculty of Law, which is Israel’s oldest and most prestigious law school.

While Congress currently requires tax-exempt charities to provide this information to the IRS, only a few states require charities to also provide this information to state officials who regulate charities,...

A group of students assisted an overwhelmed prosecutor’s office during winter break by completing expungement petitions on behalf of South Bend-area residents with criminal records.

An order overturning a wrongful murder conviction and granting a new trial, pursued for several years by students and faculty in Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic, was affirmed...