Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Clinic Highlights Student Fellows’ Work Defending Religious Freedom Around the World
This academic year, the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Clinic student fellows have been actively defending religious liberty around the world in a variety of cases. Here are a...
ND Law’s Religious Liberty Clinic defends Apache sacred site in oral argument before U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
A group of Western Apaches and a diverse coalition of legal and religious experts today urged the government in federal court to protect Native American sacred sites on the same...
Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative supports criminal complaint against Chinese government for Uyghur genocide
The Religious Liberty Initiative’s amicus brief represents renowned U.S. & U.K. human rights advocates Notre Dame, IN — In what appears to be the largest incarceration of an ethnoreligious group...
Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative explores religious liberty challenges facing Catholic schools at symposium hosted with Kellogg Institute, the Australian Catholic University
From December 11 to 14, the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies joined the Australian Catholic University in convening a group of...
Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Clinic supports Catholic dioceses’ efforts to operate the first faith-based charter school in the U.S.
Two Catholic dioceses have submitted an application to address educational gaps in Oklahoma by opening the first religious charter school in the nation.
Notre Dame Religious Liberty Clinic represents Sikhs, Muslims, Bruderhof, and Jewish groups defending a Rastafarian inmate forcibly shaved bald
Notre Dame, IN — A Rastafarian man was forcibly restrained and shaved completely bald in violation of his religious beliefs while being held in a Louisiana correctional facility. His case...
Notre Dame Religious Liberty Clinic defends Muslim man forced to pray next to jail cell toilet
Notre Dame, IN — A Muslim man’s request to pray in accordance with the dictates of his Islamic faith was repeatedly denied by correctional officers in the Dodge County Detention...
Notre Dame Religious Liberty Clinic represents Bruderhof, Sikh, and Muslim groups defending a Rastafarian inmate’s right to wear dreadlocks
Notre Dame, IN — A Rastafarian man’s right to practice his religion was suppressed by state officials while he was being held in an Illinois correctional facility. His case underscores...
Notre Dame Religious Liberty Clinic contests expansive interpretation of state-action doctrine that threatens religious organizations
Notre Dame, IN — Religious social service organizations in many states—from adoption agencies to food pantries—may be faced with the choice of secularizing or giving up their funding and closing...
ND Law’s Religious Liberty Clinic supports Buddhist association in Alabama land use case
Notre Dame, IN — Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit today in support of a...
ND Law’s Religious Liberty Clinic files amicus brief supporting en banc review in Apache Stronghold v. United States
Notre Dame, IN — Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today asking the court to protect Oak Flat,...