Notre Dame Community Mourns the Loss of 3L Mosupatsela Karabo Vika Moleah
Notre Dame law students, faculty, and staff joined the family of Karabo Moleah last week to mark the life of the third-year law student who died suddenly on April 1...
Former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs Talks Conservation Efforts with Students
Former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs, ’66 B.A., recently sat down with a group of environmental law students at Notre Dame to discuss growing tensions between preserving Colorado’s natural...
Claudia Tran, 2L, Ramps Up Alumni and Student Networking
When the Notre Dame Law School Alumni Relations Office wanted to put a greater focus on connecting alumni with current students, Claudia Tran, 2L, stepped up to make it happen....
Former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Greg Hobbs, ’66, to Speak to NLDS Students
Greg Hobbs, Jr., B.A. ’66, former justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, will speak to Notre Dame Law Students on “Water and the West: A View from the Bench” at...
NDLS Prepares for the Annual Father Mike Variety Show
Notre Dame students, faculty and administrators are gearing up for a night of fun to honor the memory of Rev. Michael Dillon McCafferty at the annual Father Mike Variety Show.Father...
NDLS Hispanic Law Student Association Presents JoAnn Chávez with Graciela Olivarez Award
Notre Dame Law School’s Hispanic Law Student Association recently announced JoAnn Chávez, ’86 B.A., ’90 J.D., as this year’s recipient of the Graciela Olivarez Award. HLSA presented Chávez with the...
Amazing Experiences While Building Lifelong Friendships
By Laura Zell, ’15 J.D.Congratulations on your acceptance to Notre Dame Law School! My name is Laura Zell and I graduated last May. When applying to law school I had...
Ena Kaur, 2L, Receives Peggy Browning Fellowship
The Peggy Browning Fund recently awarded second-year law student, Ena Kaur, a 10-week summer fellowship to support Kaur’s summer work with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Washington, D.C.
Jim Aviles, ’82, and Milena de Goes Establish LL.M. Fellowship for Brasilian Students with $1 Million Gift to Notre Dame Law School
On Friday, March 11, Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., proudly announced a $1 million gift from 1982 alumnus Jim Aviles and Milena de Goes. The gift will...
A Judicial Perspective: Q&A with Randall T. Shepard, Former Indiana Supreme Court Justice
Randall T. Shepard, Indiana’s longest-serving Supreme Court Chief Justice, recently visited Notre Dame’s London Law Center to teach a course on judicial process. Shepard was invited to lead the half-semester,...
NDLS Student Groups Host Panel on Immigration Law
Three immigration attorneys visited Notre Dame Law School recently for a panel discussion on various immigration issues and challenges. The panel included Aimee Heitz, Directing Attorney at Indiana Legal Services,...
ND Law Students Help Asylum Seekers Find Refuge
Esli, a 16-year-old from El Salvador, and his mother Emely, won the right to asylum in the United States, with the help of two Notre Dame Law Students.Stephanie Torres and...
Visiting Scholar Graeme Dinwoodie Connects with Students During NDLS Visit
Graeme Dinwoodie, professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at the University of Oxford, recently spent the week at Notre Dame Law School as a visiting scholar. While on...
Notre Dame Faculty Discuss the Right to Vote: Shaping an American Electorate
Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights recently hosted a faculty panel discussion focused on engaging America’s political process through voting. The event, co-hosted by a cross-section of student...
Carter Snead, Director of Center for Ethics and Culture, Named to Pontifical Academy for Life
Carter Snead, William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture and professor of law, has been appointed to the Pontifical...
Meet 2016 Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest Fellow Ashlyn Anderson-Keelin, 3L
Originally from Owensboro, Ky., Anderson-Keelin earned her bachelor of arts in English literature and political science from Georgetown College in 2012. Anderson-Keelin was recently selected as one of the "2016...
Notre Dame Alumni Reconnect at San Diego Sports and Business Panel
The Notre Dame Lawyers Club of San Diego hosted a sports and business panel discussion at PETCO Park earlier this month that proved to be a great success.“It was fitting...
Environmental Law Society Members Help in Flint
A group of Notre Dame Law School ELS members drove to Flint, Mich., Feb. 13 to lend a hand in the water crisis there. The group worked at the Volunteer...
Law School Names 2016 Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest Fellows
Dean Nell Jessup Newton has named Neysa Nankervis and Ashlyn Anderson-Keelin the 2016 Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest Fellows. The third-year law students each developed winning proposals for post-graduate public...
Law Students Trade Punches for Good Cause
Two NDLS students will be in the 86th Annual Bengal Bouts semifinals tonight at 7 p.m. in the Joyce Center Field House. Wesley Chamblee, 1L, and Courtney Laidlaw, 3L, will...
Notre Dame Law School Gears Up for 66th Annual Moot Court Showcase Argument
The six law students participating in the 66th Annual Moot Court Competition at Notre Dame Law School have been hard at work finalizing their briefs and preparing for oral arguments....
Sean B. Seymore, ’01 Ph.D., ’06 J.D., Joins Notre Dame Law School as Visiting Scholar
Notre Dame Law School will welcome Sean B. Seymore, ’01 Ph.D., ’06 J.D., and FedEx Research Professor of Law and Chancellor Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University, back to Eck Hall...
Peace Wager: ND Law Expert Assists with Negotiations in Colombia
Peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the country’s principal leftist guerrillas had come to a standstill yet again. One of the longest and bloodiest civil wars in modern history...
The Loyal Alumni Network
By Claudia Tran, 2LYou always hear about the generosity and kindness of Notre Dame alumni, but you never really know it for yourself until it changes your life. As a...
Faculty Mourn the Loss of a Great U.S. Supreme Court Justice
“It would be difficult to overstate Justice Scalia’s impact on the law. His jurisprudence touched nearly every area of the Constitution, and he has profoundly influenced the way that lawyers...
Notre Dame Law Students Compete in the “Major Leagues”
Notre Dame Law students James Schwabe, Michael Xavier and Adam Roundy, all 2Ls, were quarter-finalists in the National Baseball Arbitration Competition, hosted by the Tulane Sports Law Society at Tulane...
Law Professor Attends White House Colombia Meeting Today, Applauds Continued U.S. Aid
President Barack Obama is hosting Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos at the White House Thursday (Feb. 4) to discuss U.S. aid in Colombia’s historic peace deal. Notre Dame Law Professor...
Building Community by Making Community
Randy Kozel enjoyed the fast-paced world of corporate America, in which he acted as special counsel to the general counsel for General Electric.
Notre Dame Lawyers Club of San Diego to Host Sports and Business Panel
The Notre Dame Lawyers Club of San Diego will host a sports and business panel discussion at PETCO Park, Thursday, Feb. 4. The talk, moderated by Tracy A. Warren, ’99...
Dean Newton Announces New $1.5 Million Vieth Family Law Fellowship
Dean Nell Jessup Newton is pleased to announce a new $1.5 million fellowship established by Sheila and Perry Vieth of Hingham, Mass. The fellowship, to be known as the Vieth...