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Mary Mancusi wins 2022 Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition
Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Ethics, Compliance & Inclusion has announced that rising third-year student Marilyn “Mary” Mancusi is the winner of the 2022 Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition. Mancusi’s...
ND Law’s Religious Liberty Clinic files amicus brief supporting school choice in Kentucky
Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic submitted an amicus brief on behalf of EdChoice Kentucky, which represents a broad coalition supporting parental choice, in the Kentucky Supreme Court today. ...
Professor Richard Garnett co-authors book analyzing Supreme Court cases on religious freedom
Richard Garnett, the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law and director of Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society, has joined John Witte Jr. and...
Research Program on Law and Market Behavior and University of Lucerne to host Graduate Academy for Law and Economics
Notre Dame Law School’s Research Program on Law and Market Behavior (ND LAMB) is collaborating with the University of Lucerne to host the Lucerne Graduate Academy for Law and Economics…
ND Law’s Religious Liberty Clinic files amicus brief with Religious Freedom Institute to protect the rights of prisoners
Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court this week to assert that all people — including those who are incarcerated —...
Marilyn Mancusi receives Lardy Scholarship Award for 2022-23
Marilyn “Mary” Mancusi, a rising third-year student at Notre Dame Law School, has been selected to receive the Peter A.R. Lardy Scholarship Award for the 2022-23 academic year. Only one recipient...
Program on Church, State & Society names winners of 2022 writing competition
Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society has announced the winners of its annual writing competition. First place went to Michael Bradley, a member of the Law...
Religious Liberty Clinic files brief in Ohio to defend religious schools from discrimination
The Religious Liberty Clinic at Notre Dame Law School recently filed an amicus brief in Ohio to defend the state’s school-choice program and ensure that the state is not required...
ND Law’s Religious Liberty Clinic files amicus brief to protect rights of religious health care workers and hospitals
Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic filed an amicus brief with the Colorado Court of Appeals this week to protect the fundamental right of health care workers and religiously...
ND Law Professor Paolo Carozza named to Meta Oversight Board
Paolo G. Carozza, professor of law and concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, has been added as a member of the Oversight Board for Meta,...
ND Law creates new exchange program with Strathmore Law School in Kenya
Notre Dame Law School has added another exchange program opportunity for students and faculty — its first in Africa — with a recent agreement with Strathmore Law School in Nairobi,...
Notre Dame officials call for release of Cardinal Zen, SDB, Catholic bishop emeritus of Hong Kong
“We are deeply saddened to learn that Cardinal Joseph Zen, SDB, the Catholic bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, has been arrested by Chinese national security authorities for allegedly violating Hong...
NY Times recognizes Professor Carter Snead’s ‘What It Means to Be Human’ as one of 10 books to understand U.S. abortion debate
A new article in the New York Times has recommended Notre Dame Law Professor O. Carter Snead’s book What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in...
Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights awards summer fellowships to five ND Law students
The Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights has announced its 2022 Summer Fellows — Notre Dame Law School students working in public interest organizations that promote civil or human rights,...
ND Law hosts interfaith dinner in observance of Ramadan, Passover, and Easter
Notre Dame Law School students and members of the wider South Bend community came together on the evening of Friday, April 22, for an interfaith dinner in Eck Commons. About...
Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett and student Elizabeth Totzke write op-ed on Supreme Court religious liberty cases for City Journal
On April 25, City Journal — a publication of the Manhattan Institute — published an op-ed written by John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law Nicole Stelle Garnett and third-year...
International faculty visit Notre Dame Law School for 2022 spring semester
Notre Dame Law School is hosting three international law professors this semester. Visiting Professors Luigi Crema and Francisco J. Urbina, as well as Fulbright Visiting Professor Tamás Ádány, are teaching courses...
ND Law's First Generation Professionals group creates alumni mentor program
The Notre Dame Law School student group, First Generation Professionals, was formed in 2020 to address some of the unique issues faced by first-generation students in law school. After only...
Visiting Professor Francisco Urbina talks about teaching at ND Law, visiting fellowship at Kellogg Institute
Francisco Urbina had long known about the visiting fellowship program at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. “Kellogg’s reputation as a forum for discussions of human rights and democracy is well...
ND London Law Professor Philippa Webb awarded top prize in international law publishing
Philippa Webb, visiting professor and distinguished fellow with the Notre Dame London Law Program, was recently awarded the top prize in international law publishing for her 2021 book on the...
ND Law team wins Touro Law Center’s National Moot Court Competition in Law & Religion
Third-year law students Andrew Ross D’Entremont, Reid Edwards, and Vincent Gangemi won first place in the Touro Law Center’s National Moot Court Competition in Law & Religion. The competition was...
ND Law’s 2022 Bank of America Fellows to focus on exoneration and wrongful conviction work
Notre Dame Law School students Anna McGinn and Jessa Webber have been named the Class of 2022’s Bank of America Foundation Fellows. Both of their fellowships will focus on exoneration...
ND Law’s 2022 Shaffer Fellows to address mental illness in Illinois prisons, mortgage foreclosures in Chicago
Madison Kemker and Annika Nielsen-Kim, both third-year law students, have been awarded Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest Fellowships. The fellowship, named in honor of former dean and professor Thomas L....
Winner, semifinalists announced in ND Law’s first International and Comparative Law Writing Competition
Notre Dame Law School’s Office of International & Graduate Programs recently held its first International and Comparative Law Writing Competition. First prize went to third-year law student Thomas Hellenbrand for...
ND Law students learn at home and abroad during 2022 spring break
Earlier this month, Notre Dame Law students spent their 2022 mid-semester break contributing to a number of meaningful projects.
In addition to service trips — notably, the twice-yearly trip…
ND Law’s Exoneration Justice Clinic hires new investigator
The Notre Dame Law School Exoneration Justice Clinic has hired a new clinic investigator to assist in freeing wrongfully convicted clients. Christian Sheckler joined the clinic in March 2022. Sheckler’s role...
ND Law’s Exoneration Justice Clinic joins Innocence Network
Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic is now part of the Innocence Network, a coalition that brings together lawyers and organizations working to end wrongful convictions in the United...
ND Law hosts second annual Financial Wellness Week with free financial coaching, education, and resources for students
Notre Dame Law School hosted its second annual Financial Wellness Week from March 14 to 18 on important financial education topics most relevant to law students. The programming, hosted in...
Program on Church, State and Society names 2022 summer fellows
The Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State & Society has awarded four summer fellowships to John Hale, Anthony Imburgia, Rev. Matt Kuczora, C.S.C., and Martin Wolk. The fellowships...
Religious Liberty Clinic files amicus brief in Supreme Court religious expression case
Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic filed an amicus brief on March 2 urging the Supreme Court of the United States to reaffirm the importance of protecting private religious...