Notre Dame Lawyers Gather in Chicago
More than 200 Notre Dame Lawyers welcomed Jack Swarbrick, Jr., '76, vice president and James E. Rohr Director of Athletics at Notre Dame, to Chicago Aug. 11. The group included...
Intensive Trial Advocacy Program Kicks Off New School Year
Sixty-three Notre Dame Law students have successfully completed a grueling week of advocacy training as in the Law School’s the Intensive Trial Advocacy class, a unique program taught by distinguished...
Professor McKenna Files Amicus Brief in Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands
"Mark P. McKenna":http://law.nd.edu/directory/mark-mckenna/, professor of law and associate dean for faculty development at Notre Dame Law School, recently filed a "friend-of-the court brief":http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Star-Athletica.pdf in the U.S. Supreme Court in Star...
Orientation Service Projects
By Athena Aherrera, 2LI still remember the first time I saw Admissions Director Jake Baska’s email regarding the orientation schedule and information on the service projects. My heart palpitated at...
Welcome New Students to Law School Orientation
More than 200 new students – J.D., Transfer, LL.M., and J.S.D – will attend Notre Dame Law School‘s orientation program next week. The program will include a number of activities...
Paolo Carozza, Director of Kellogg Institute, Appointed to Vatican Academy by Pope Francis
"Paolo G. Carozza":http://law.nd.edu/directory/paolo-carozza/, professor of law, concurrent professor of political science and director of the "Kellogg Institute for International Studies":http://kellogg.nd.edu/ at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed to...
Summer Mock Interview Program
We know our students go to law school to ultimately have a career in the law. Our alumni and the Career Development office help jumpstart student’s careers with the dynamic...
Gurulé Testifies Before House Committee on Bill to Allow 9/11 Victims’ Families to Sue Saudi Arabia
University of Notre Dame law professor Jimmy Gurulé, a terrorist financing expert, testified Thursday (July 14) before the House Judiciary Committee’s Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee at a hearing on...
Notre Dame Lawyers Gather in NYC
More than 200 ND alumni, students, and guests gathered for the 6th Annual Notre Dame Lawyers of New York City Reception at the Union League Club. The guests included more...
Professor Bruce Huber Named Robert and Marion Short Scholar
Bruce Huber, associate professor of law, has been appointed the Robert and Marion Short Scholar, a three-year rotating appointment for pre-tenure faculty members.
Brian Murray, ’11 J.D., Named Quattrone Center Research Fellow
When Brian Murray, ’11 J.D., worked as a staff attorney in the employment unit at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, he saw first hand the long-term challenges low-income citizens face...
Ministers of Justice
What Mbuyiseli Madlanga ’90LL.M. most remembers about growing up under apartheid in South Africa wasn’t so much the daily indignities of a system based on racial subjugation. His childhood in...
Notre Dame Law School Faculty Research Among Top Cited
Notre Dame Law Professors "Nicole Garnett":http://law.nd.edu/directory/nicole-garnett/ and "Mark McKenna":http://law.nd.edu/directory/mark-mckenna/ were recently recognized as top-cited scholars in their respective research areas of property and intellectual property law.
McAward Appointed Director of Center for Civil and Human Rights
"Jennifer Mason McAward":http://law.nd.edu/directory/jennifer-mason-mcaward/, associate professor of law at the University of Notre Dame "Law School":http://law.nd.edu/, has been appointed director of the University’s "Center for Civil and Human Rights":http://humanrights.nd.edu/ by R....
Gurulé testifies before Congressional Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing
Notre Dame Law School Professor "Jimmy Gurulé":http://news.nd.edu/for-the-media/nd-experts/faculty/jimmy-gurule/, a terrorist financing expert, testified today (June 23) before the Congressional Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing -- part of the U.S. House...
Professor Judith L. Fox Appointed to Coalition for Court Access
The Indiana Supreme Court recently appointed Notre Dame Law School Clinical Professor Judith Fox to the Coalition for Court Access. According to Chief Justice Loretta H. Rush, the 17-member coalition...
Law Professor Nicole Garnett Receives Social Justice Award
Nicole Stelle Garnett, John P. Murphy Foundation professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, was recently awarded the Reinhold Niebuhr Award by the University of Notre Dame.
Law Students Honored at Prize Day Ceremony
Notre Dame Law School honored graduating students today at the Morris Inn Ballroom during the second annual “Prize Day.” Students won awards for academic performance and service to the Notre...
Professor Amy Coney Barrett to Deliver Notre Dame Law School Commencement Address
Notre Dame Law Students have selected Amy Coney Barrett, Diane and M.O. Miller, II Research Chair in Law, for the 2016 Law School Distinguished Teaching Award. Barrett will address the...
Professor Randy Kozel Earns Tenure
Randy Kozel has been granted tenure as a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. Kozel joined the law school faculty in 2011 and teaches and researches in the...
Saint Mary’s College President Mooney Accepts McCafferty Award
The Notre Dame Law Association recently recognized Saint Mary’s College President Carol Mooney, ’77 J.D., with The Rev. Michael D. McCafferty Award. Dean Nell Newton and NDLA board member, Philip...
Law Students Thrive in Business Plan Competition
A group of Notre Dame law students put their lawyering skills to practice last week in the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship’s 16th Annual McCloskey Business Plan Competition. Master of Science...
Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Challenges Focus of Symposium
Notre Dame Law School in conjunction with the University of Leeds School of Law, University of Sussex School of Law and U.K. Arts & Humanities Research Council will host a...
Public Interest Students Awarded Summer Scholarships
Notre Dame’s Women’s Legal Forum and Public Interest Law Forum recently awarded 10 rising 2L and 3L students with summer scholarships to support their work in public interest law.“We’re proud...
Notre Dame LL.M. Grads Lead in South Africa
Twenty years since the birth of South Africa’s democracy, graduates of Notre Dame’s LL.M program in International Human Rights Law with the Center for Civil and Human Rights returned to...
Cordell Carter, ’07 J.D., Awarded BLSA’s Alvin McKenna Alumni Award
"Cordell Carter II, ’07 J.D.,":http://law.nd.edu/news/63961-ndls-alumnus-cordell-carter-to-be-honored-at-white-house-as-champion-of-change/ was awarded the Alvin McKenna Alumni Award at the recent Notre Dame Law School’s Black Law Students Association Alumni Banquet. Following were his thoughts at...
Saint Mary’s College President Mooney to Receive McCafferty Award
The Notre Dame Law Association will present Saint Mary’s College President Carol Ann Mooney, ’77 J.D., with the Fr. Michael McCafferty Award at 6 p.m. Friday, April 22, at a...
Carlos Cisneros Vilchis Awarded Peter Lardy Fellowship
Dean Nell Jessup Newton announced that 2L Carlos Cisneros Vilchis will receive the Peter Lardy Memorial Fellowship for the 2016-2017 academic year.
NDLS Students Compete in Law and Religion Moot Court Competition in Venice, Italy
Four Notre Dame Law School students recently won an international law and religion moot court competition in Venice, Italy.
South Africa Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga Joins Notre Dame Law School as a Visiting Scholar
Mbuyiseli Madlanga, LL.M. ’90, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa will teach and participate in several events in April as the Judge James J. Clynes, Jr., Visiting Chair....