Notre Dame Law School's Exoneration Justice Clinic receives $3 million grant to defend Mexican nationals in U.S. criminal cases
Left to right: Elvia Yolanda Martínez Cosío, Vanessa Calva Ruiz, Jimmy Gurulé, Roberto Velasco Álvarez, and Ambassador Reyna Torres Mendivil after the signing of the letter of intent. Notre Dame...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Visits Notre Dame
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan speaking with ND Law Dean G. Marcus Cole U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan visited the University of Notre Dame last Friday, Sept. 22....
ND Law names four first-year law students as 2023-24 Murphy Fellows
Breck Giltner, Blake Perry, Jessica Smith, and Dennis Wieboldt, all first-year Notre Dame Law School students, have been named 2023-24 Murphy Fellows. Notre Dame Law School established the fellowship last...
ND LAMB serves as co-sponsor for annual International Behavioral Public Policy Conference
The Notre Dame Program on Law and Market Behavior (LAMB) co-sponsored the Second International Behavioral Public Policy Conference, which was held on September 6-8, 2023 at the University of North...
US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to visit Notre Dame
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan will visit the University of Notre Dame on Sept. 22 (Friday).
ND Law’s Exoneration Justice Clinic welcomes law students and undergraduates as 2023 summer interns
Eight students from Notre Dame and beyond worked as interns this summer at Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic.
Pavithra Rajendran ’23 LL.M. wins Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs’ Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize
Pavithra Rajendran, a 2023 graduate of Notre Dame Law School’s LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law and an incoming J.S.D. student, has won the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs’...
ND Law’s Religious Liberty Initiative presents 2023 Notre Dame Prize for Religious Liberty to Lord David Alton
The third annual Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit, hosted by Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative, culminated on Thursday, July 13, with a black-tie gala at the Merchant Taylors’...
Notre Dame Law School grants tenure to four professors
Four members of the Notre Dame Law School faculty — Michael Addo, Stephanie Barclay, Emily Bremer, and Christian Burset — have been granted tenure and promoted to full professor of...
Barrett Cole receives Lardy Scholarship Award for 2023-24
Barrett Cole was selected as the Lardy Award winner for the 2023-24 academic year. She embodies all of the qualities of the Lardy Award, and then some.
ND Law’s Program on Church, State & Society names winners of 2023 writing competition
Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society has announced the winners of its annual writing competition. The goal of the competition is to encourage scholarship related to...
Dean Marcus Cole and Professor Avishalom Tor visit Israel as part of ND LAMB’s international programming
Notre Dame Law School Dean Marcus Cole visited Israel last month with Professor of Law Avishalom Tor. Professor Tor, director of the Research Program on Law and Market Behavior (ND LAMB), arranged...
The Commencement of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2023
Notre Dame Law School celebrated the Class of 2023 on Saturday, May 20. This year’s class consisted of 182 graduates: 166 J.D., 15 LL.M., and one J.S.D.
Program on Church, State & Society names 2023 summer fellows
The Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State & Society has awarded summer fellowships to four rising second-year students. This year’s fellows are Alesondra Cruz, Maria Lake, Adem Osmani, and...
Class of 2023: Meet six ND Law graduates who have become a ‘different kind of lawyer’
Notre Dame Law School’s mission is to educate a “different kind of lawyer.” Our graduates learn to view the practice of law not only as a profession but also as...
ND Law’s revamped Loan Repayment Assistance Program a boost for Class of 2023 graduates starting public interest careers
Emma Hildebrand came to Notre Dame Law School with the goal of pursuing a career in government. She took advantage of opportunities like the Notre Dame Law in D.C. program,...
Justice Leona Theron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa visits Notre Dame Law School
Notre Dame Law School hosted Justice Leona Theron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa on April 13-14.
ND Law’s 2023 Shaffer Fellows to address housing issues, provide expungement relief in Chicago and rural Kentucky
Thomas Haracz and Jeanna James, both members of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2023, have been awarded Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest Fellowships.
ND London Law students learn constitutional law from two Supreme Court justices
Two justices of the U.S. Supreme Court taught seminars to students in the Notre Dame London Law Programme during the spring semester.
John Garvey, president emeritus of Catholic University of America, gives 2023 Rice-Hasson Distinguished Lecture
John Garvey, president emeritus of Catholic University of America, gave the 2023 Rice-Hasson Distinguished Lecture at Notre Dame Law School on Friday, April 14.
ND Law students compete in Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Austria
Notre Dame Law School’s student-run Vis Moot team competed in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria, from March 30 to April 7.
Spring break course designed by Professor Patrick Corrigan brings students to London to learn about international capital markets
A group of Notre Dame Law School students spent a week during spring break visiting banks, legal and financial firms, and academic institutions in London to see the practice and...
Professor Paolo Carozza testifies before Inter-American Court of Human Rights in case of Beatriz v. El Salvador
Notre Dame Law Professor Paolo Carozza testified last week in a landmark human rights case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica. The plaintiffs in the high-profile...
Law students from Ukrainian Catholic University learning at Notre Dame this spring
This semester, Notre Dame Law School is hosting three law students from UCU — Adriana Hrytsyna, Solomiia Humen, and Vitaliia Mahas. They are part of a group of 18 UCU...
ND LAMB co-sponsors 10th University of Lucerne Law and Economics Conference
From left: Patrick Corrigan, Christoph Engel, Sadie Blanchard, Hans-Bernd Schäfer, G. Marcus Cole, and Avishalom Tor The 10th University of Lucerne Law and Economics Conference was held March 17-18 in...
Professor Diane Desierto serves as co-counsel in landmark UN ruling for Filipina ‘comfort women’
Diane Desierto, law professor and faculty director for the Law School’s LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law, began her career in 2004 seeking reparations and justice for Filipina women who...
Margarette Macaulay of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Afghan alumni discuss protecting women’s rights
The continued discrimination and oppression of women’s rights around the world and a call for actual change were the themes of a talk on Thursday, March 2, co-sponsored by Notre...
Notre Dame Clinical Law Center publishes report on shortcomings in Indiana eviction laws
Notre Dame Law School’s Eviction Clinic has published a report to examine how well Indiana’s eviction laws measure up to guidelines recently established by the American Bar Association. The ABA’s...
Justice Dumisa Ntsebeza of South Africa visits Notre Dame Law School
Justice Dumisa Ntsebeza—a renowned South African lawyer, former acting judge, and current Justice of the African Court of Human Rights—visited Notre Dame Law School as the Distinguished Global Jurist in...
Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell to speak at international AI summit at The Hague
Mary Ellen O’Connell, the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, will be one of the distinguished speakers at the first international summit on Responsible...