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Notre Dame Law School faculty and programs filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Hall v. Fleming and Johnson v. Fleming in support of petitioners Bethany Hall...

First-year students Nicholas Bianco, Kathleen Farnan, Matthew Sawtelle, and Noel Vanderbilt have been named Notre Dame Law School’s 2026–27 Murphy Fellows. The Murphy Fellowship gives students opportunities to participate in...

This summer marked the second year of the Leadership and Scholarly Excellence (LSE) program, which Dean G. Marcus Cole launched in 2025 to equip first-year law students for academic and...

Notre Dame Law professors John Meiser and Dennis Wieboldt discussed recent litigation involving public religious displays and the Supreme Court’s shift toward a history and tradition approach to Establishment Clause...

Professor Stephen Tierney KC (Hon) FRSE, global distinguished professor of law at the Notre Dame London Law Programme, has been elected a fellow of the British Academy.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court ruling granting Jason Hubbell a new trial, a client of the Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic (EJC) who has spent...

Yesterday, Notre Dame Law School’s Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic filed an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court. The application requests that the Court stay a New…

Emily Meraia ‘18 J.D. has joined the Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Creditors’ Rights Practice Group at Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC, as one of seven new associates. More here.

Adila Hassim ‘06 J.S.D. was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the Western Cape in recognition of her nearly three-decade career advancing constitutional rights, healthcare access, and social...

Patrick A. Salvi II ‘07 J.D., managing equity partner at Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C., has been recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2027 “Lawyer of the Year” for Medical...

Maureen Wilkerson ‘76 J.D. has received an award from the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington, recognizing over ten years of pro bono work as a solo practitioner in...

Adam MacLeod ‘00 J.D. has been named Professor of Law at The Catholic University of America. He previously served as Professor of Law and Katherine A. Ryan Chair for Global...

Baird Allis ‘06 J.D., a former vice president and associate general counsel at Kemper Corporation, has rejoined Troutman Pepper Locke as a partner in the firm’s Insurance Transactional and Regulatory...

Courtney L. Tawresey ‘06 J.D. has joined Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. as a shareholder in its Tax Credit Financing & Syndication group. She represents developers, syndicators, investors, nonprofit organizations, and...

Lynn McGuire ‘97 J.D. has been named to Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s 2026 “Influential Women of Law”. She has devoted nearly 30 years to advising employers on employee benefits, executive compensation, and...

James McCament ‘20 J.D. has been named chief digital transformation officer in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, where he leads the agency’s enterprise-wide strategy to modernize mission systems, data...

Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic (EJC) client Iris Seabolt has been fully exonerated more than two decades after she was wrongfully convicted of felony murder in Elkhart, Indiana.

University President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C. has appointed Randy Kozel, the Fritz Duda Family Law Professor, to succeed Tricia Bellia (live link), the William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill...