Adjunct Professor John Gallo to lead Chicago’s largest legal aid organization
John N. Gallo, an adjunct professor at Notre Dame Law School and a partner at Sidley Austin LLP, has been appointed executive director of LAF, which is the Chicago area’s...
Corey Hemmerich, 2L: mother, law student, and extreme commuter
When Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke at the University of Notre Dame in September 2016, one of the many points she touched upon was how she balanced being...
Mark A. Klaassen, ’98 J.D., nominated for U.S. attorney for Wyoming
Klaassen is currently an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Wyoming, where he has served since 2009.
Associate Dean Randy Kozel develops a theory of precedent in new book
In the American legal system, it’s a generally accepted view that judges should not disrupt the decisions of their predecessors unless they have a compelling reason to do so. The...
Kevin J. Murphy, '14 J.D., part of big pro bono victory
An Illinois man who asserted his innocence for more than two decades while serving a life sentence for a murder conviction was able to walk out of prison this spring....
Dean Newton Announces New Endowment to Honor Attorney Gerard Durr
Nell Jessup Newton, the Joseph A. Matson Dean of Notre Dame Law School, is pleased to announce a new endowment established by Kerry Durr Roscoe to honor the memory of...
Two ND Law Students Selected as Bank of America Fellows
Rasheed Gilmer and Carlos Cisneros Vilchis, two members of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2017, are this year’s Bank of America Foundation Fellows. The fellowship covers the cost of...
Two ND Law Students Named 2017 Shaffer Public Interest Fellows
Lauren Rafter and Kathleen Wood – two members of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2017 – have been named this year’s Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest Fellows. The Shaffer...
ND Law Students Honored at 2017 Commencement Activities
Notre Dame Law School honored graduating students from the Class of 2017 this past weekend during Commencement activities.Three women from the Class of 2017 earned the Law School’s most-prestigious awards,...
Alyssa Phillips Wins Prestigious Public-Interest Law Fellowship
Alyssa Phillips, a member of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2017, pursued a law degree with her sights set on a career providing legal aid to low-income people. As...
Jay Tidmarsh Named Clynes Professor of Law
Jay Tidmarsh, a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, has been named the Judge James J. Clynes, Jr., Professor of Law.“It’s humbling, and I’m deeply grateful to the...
Experience as Buddhist Monk Inspires ND Law Student
Notre Dame Law School prides itself on educating a different kind of lawyer, and 2L Ron Ruangtragool took a different path to law school. After earning a bachelor’s degree in...
ND Law Professor Bruce Huber Earns Tenure
Bruce Huber has been granted tenure as a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. “This is a moment I’ve been looking forward to for 12 years – since...
Michael K. Addo selected as director of London Law Program
Notre Dame Law School has selected Michael K. Addo to be director of the London Global Gateway Law Program. He will start July 1. Addo comes to Notre Dame from...
Robert L. Jones Selected for ND Faculty Social Justice Award
Robert L. Jones, a clinical professor of law and associate dean for experiential programs at Notre Dame Law School, has been selected to receive this year’s Rev. William A. Toohey, C.S.C.,...
Douglass Cassel to Receive ND Faculty Award for Peace and Human Rights
Douglass Cassel, a professor of law and Notre Dame Presidential Fellow at Notre Dame Law School, has been selected to receive the 2017 Grenville Clark Award. The University of Notre...
ND Law School Remembers Judge John T. Noonan, Jr.
On Monday evening, Notre Dame Law School memorialized John T. Noonan, Jr., with a Mass in his memory at St. Thomas More Chapel.Noonan, who passed away last month at the...
Program on Law and Market Behavior Holds Corporate Governance Symposium
The event – named “Long vs. Short-term Investors in Corporate Governance” – gathered legal and business scholars to talk about the debate over whether short-term shareholders are a threat to...
London Professor Discusses ‘Brexit’ and English Law
The United Kingdom’s scheduled exit from the European Union – nicknamed “Brexit” – has caused some uncertainty in global politics and the economy, but one certainty is that the English...
Law Symposium Examines Psychology and Mental Health
The Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy hosted a symposium on Friday that examined how mental-health issues are treated in the legal system.
IP and Technology Law Program Hosts Visiting Scholar
Notre Dame Law School is hosting Shyamkrishna Balganesh, a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, as a distinguished visiting scholar this week in the Program of...
ND Alum Talks to Law Students about Bioethics
With any technology, there are limits to what’s possible and limits to what’s moral. Nikolas T. Nikas, the co-founder, president, and general counsel of the Bioethics Defense Fund, told students...
Alums Talk to LGBT Forum about Diversity in the Legal Profession
Two NDLS alums, Jim Basile and Karen DeSantis, recounted the history, progress, and current issues for diverse lawyers, including racially and culturally diverse lawyers, women, and lawyers with diverse identities, while speaking Wednesday to students from...
Veronica Root Selected as ‘New Voices’ Scholar
Veronica Root, an associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, has been selected to participate in the New Voices in Civil Justice Scholarship Workshop on May 10 at...
Falsely Convicted Man Describes Long Road to Exoneration
The series of events that swept Keith Cooper into the criminal-justice system – and sent him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit – is so nightmarish that it...
ND Law School Workshop Prepares Future Professors
Notre Dame Law School hosted 10 aspiring legal scholars last week for a two-day workshop about the competitive path to becoming a law professor.
National Library Week: Get to Know Your Library Staff
It's "National Library Week":http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek, and Notre Dame Law School is highlighting the wonderful people who support the Law School's scholarship with their work in the Kresge Law Library. Get to...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Comes to ND Law School
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces came to Notre Dame Law School on Tuesday afternoon to hear arguments in _United States v. Edward Mitchell_ – a case...
Does a Free Society Need Anti-Discrimination Laws?
Are anti-discrimination laws essential to freedom, or hostile to freedom? That’s the question two legal experts explored and debated Friday during a luncheon presented by the Potenziani Program in Constitutional...
Notre Dame Alum Talks about Defending the Unpopular
Last year, a headline in The Wall Street Journal called Thomas Durkin, ’68 A.B., “a terror suspect’s best hope in court.”Durkin, a Chicago-based criminal defense attorney, spoke Monday at Notre...