Intellectual Property Law Symposium on Emerging Issues in IP
p(image-right). !/assets/62811/emerging_issues_in_intellectual_property_symposium_web.jpg(emerging_issues_in_intellectual_property_symposium_web)! The Notre Dame Intellectual Property Law Society presented a symposium on March 2. The program featured opening remarks by "Dean Nell Jessup Newton":http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/nell-newton/ and presentations on “Clean Tech...
Professor James Kelly Joins South Bend Mayor to Tackle Vacant & Abandoned Properties
p(image-right). !/assets/42752/kellyj_news.jpg(James J)! Professor James Kelly and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg will co-chair a task force that will create more options to combat the problem of vacant and abandoned...
Moot Court Showcase Argument
62nd Annual Moot Court Showcase Argument Andrea Tuckerman, Petitioners v. Betterly…
NDLS Mock Trial Team Wins Regional Championship at National Black Law Student Association Annual Convention
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NDLS excels at moot court competition
3Ls Ryan Raybould and Caitlin Sheffer made it to the finals and placed fifth out of 22 teams nationally at the Fifth Annual UC Davis Asylum and Refugee Law…
3Ls Excel at National Immigration Law Moot Court Competition
p(image-right). !/assets/59234/raybould_shetter_news.jpg(raybould_shetter_news)! 3Ls Ryan Raybould and Caitlin Shetter recently competed in the Fifth Annual UC Davis Asylum and Refugee Law National Moot Court Competition. Ms. Shetter and Mr. Raybould made...
Prof. Alford wins award for Kluwer Arbitration Blog
Prof. Roger Alford accepted the CPR Award for Best Electronic Media About Alternative Dispute Resolution in New…
Professor Rick Garnett Analyzes the Supreme Court’s Decision in Church-State Case
p(image-right). !/assets/18270/garnettr_8_08_port.jpg(Rick Garnett ND Expert)! Professor Richard W. Garnett’s "USA Today column":http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-01-11/hosanna-tabor-church-state-case/52500140/1 analyzing the Supreme Court’s landmark church-state decision in "_Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC_":http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-553.pdf was picked...
From Time to Time: STANLEY KRESGE: A BRIEF REFLECTION
On the day of the Law Library dedication, he toured the facility. Faculty members awaited his arrival to give a brief explanation on the usage of the room. Word was...
Professor Patricia Bellia wins Honorary Monogram at Notre Dame Football Awards Show
p(image-right). !/assets/55675/bellia_monogram_story.jpg(Tricia Bellia monogram story)! Since joining NDLS in 2000, Bellia has become well known to students for teaching popular courses in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and Cyberlaw, and to...
"Realizing the DREAM Act" Hosted by NDLS Program on Law and Human Development
p(image-right). !/assets/50900/cardinal_mahony_news.jpg(cardinal_mahony_news)! NDLS alum "Jessica Brock":http://law.nd.edu/features/student-spotlights/student-spotlight-jessica-brock-10/ (B.A. ’05, J.D. ’10, LLM ’11), "Professor Paolo Carozza":http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/paolo-g-carozza/, and "His Eminence Cardinal Roger Mahony":http://www.archdiocese.la/archbishop/profile.html, Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, will speak on the...
Prof. Moyn presents President Carter’s 1977 Notre Dame Commencement Address in the History of Human Rights
!/assets/48412/moynposter.jpg(Samuel Moyn)!*President Carter's 1977 Notre Dame Commencement Address in the History of Human Rights* *September 27, 2011* On May 22, 1977, President Jimmy Carter delivered a "commencement address":http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7552#axzz1XkJgCgHM at Notre...
President Carter's 1977 Notre Dame Commencement Address in the History of Human Rights
p(image-right). !/assets/48473/carter_1977_commencement_moyn.jpg(carter_1977_commencement_moyn)! On September 27th at 4:30 p.m. in the Geddes Hall Auditorium, the CCHR is co-sponsoring the event *“President Carter’s 1977 Notre Dame Commencement Address in the History of...
From Time to Time: United States Supreme Court Clock Donated by Professor Roger F. Jacobs
It’s always nine-o’clock at the north end of the Main Reading Room just outside Associate Dean, Ed Edmonds’ office. Hanging there on the wall is an old clock from the...
Former President of Ecuador to Address Constitutional Developments
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Osvaldo Hurtado, former President of Ecuador, will speak at NDLS September 8 on “Independence of the Judiciary, Freedom of the Press and other Constitutional Developments in Ecuador.”
Lecture by Irwin Cotler, Member, Parliament of Canada and former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
In particular Cotler, who is a member of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Human Rights that drafted the report – and appeared as well as an expert witness before the...
Lecture by Osvaldo Hurtado, former President of Ecuador
Osvaldo Hurtado has been one of the most influential politicians in the last 30 years of Ecuadorian history. He earned both his BA in Political and Social Sciences (‘63) and...
Notre Dame Law School Hosts 2011 Indiana Conference on Legal Education Opportunities
p(image-right). !/assets/44837/icleo2011_news.jpg(ICLEO 2011 logo news)! The Indiana Conference on Legal Education Opportunities (ICLEO) is designed to assist Indiana minority, low-income or educationally disadvantaged college graduates in pursuing a law degree....
Business Roundtable Names Cordell Carter, J.D. ’07, Director of Public Policy
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Cordell Carter, J.D. ’07, has joined the Business Roundtable as Director of Public Policy leading the association’s Education, Innovation and Workforce initiative.
Notre Dame seminar explores alternatives to embryonic research
“We think that it is crucial that ethical alternatives to embryonic stem cell research be pursued,” Notre Dame law professor O. Carter Snead told CNA June…
Biolchini Hall Dedication
Biolchini Hall Dedication: A Special Edition of the Law Library Newsletter. Through the generosity of the Biolchini family and many other great benefactors to this building project of such great...
Workshop on Adult and Non-embryonic Stem Cell Research
p(image-right). !/assets/43645/stem_cell_workshop_news.jpg(Stem Cell Workshop news)! Some of the world’s leading experts across a variety of relevant disciplines are coming to the Notre Dame Law School for a weeklong “Workshop on...
New Notre Dame Fellows Win Awards
p(image-right). !/assets/43351/alumni_fellows_program_news.jpg(Notre Dame Fellows news)! The Law School’s first Notre Dame Fellows, Jessica L. Howton of Friendswood, Texas, and Brian M. Murray of Annapolis, Maryland, accepted their awards April 25.
Recent graduate Jacqueline Pimentel-Gannon awarded Sister Jean Lenz, O.S.F., Leadership Award
p(image-right). !/assets/42954/student_jacqueline_pimentel_gannon_news.jpg(student_jacqueline_pimentel_gannon_news)! The Sister Jean Lenz, O.S.F., Leadership Award, given to a post-baccalaureate student who displays leadership in promoting a more diverse and inclusive campus community, was awarded to Jacqueline...
CCHR Supports J.D. Internships in Bolivia, Pakistan and China
For the third year, the Center for Civil and Human Rights (CCHR) has awarded internship funding to three J.D. students, thanks to the generosity of the CCHR Advisory Committee. The...
Prof. Snead cited in DC Circuit opinion
Prof. Carter Snead was cited by Judge Ginsburg in the D.C. Circuit opinion in the landmark judicial decision of Sherley, et al., v. Sebelius of his interpretation of the “Dickey...
CCHR Attorneys Participate in Strategic Convening on Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment
As part of the CCHR’s continuing efforts to promote human rights locally, two CCHR attorneys participated in a strategic convening on ending cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by U.S. officials....
Library Profile: Lora Lashbrook and Marie Lawrence; Notre Dame’s First Female Law Library Directors
The first professional library school in the United States was founded by Melvil Dewey at Columbia University in 1887. For many years thereafter, it was difficult for women to hold...
CCHR attorneys fight to protect judicial independence and freedom of press in Ecuador
Center for Civil and Human Rights Research Associate Pier Paolo Pigozzi (NDLS LL.M. ’10) has initiated a campaign to ask the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to address a serious...
Dwight King's woodworking art exhibit
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An exhibit featuring woodworking pieces created by Head Research Librarian Dwight King will be featured at the South Bend Museum of Art.