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Turkey’s military aggression in Syria is as unlawful as Russia’s in Ukraine, expert says
Turkey continues its military operation in northeast Syria to control a major swath of Syrian territory, moving the Kurdish population far from its border, and Notre Dame Law School Professor...
Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim shares antitrust expertise
Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division shared his expertise with Notre Dame Law students on Friday, October 11. Professor Roger Alford, who served the Antitrust...
ND Program on Private Law launches new series on private law theory
The Notre Dame Program on Private Law and the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy co-hosted a workshop to launch Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory in August at the University...
New ND Technology Ethics Center to address ‘big questions’ of emerging technology
Notre Dame Law Professor Mark McKenna, interim director of ND-TEC, said, “We are living in an age of unbridled and increasingly fierce competition to pursue ever-more-capable and human-like technologies. The aim...
Professor Roger Alford returns to ND Law after serving DOJ’s Antitrust Division
Two years ago, Notre Dame Law Professor Roger Alford was called upon to serve in a leadership role in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. This fall,...
Notre Dame Program on Private Law hosts Legal Ethics and Fiduciaries Workshop in Ireland
Timely and thought-leading research on fiduciary principles and philosophical legal ethics were the central themes for a roundtable held in June at Notre Dame’s Kylemore Abbey Global Centre in Connemara,...
Notre Dame Law School welcomes three new professors
Notre Dame Law School will begin the 2019-2020 school year with three new faculty members, including experts in business law, commercial law, and economics. Professor Patrick Corrigan holds a B.A....
New Kroc Institute podcast features Professor Mary Ellen O'Connell on first episode
The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies has launched a new podcast to highlight the research and peacebuilding work of Institute faculty, alumni, students, and visiting scholars. Each episode of...
Intensive Trial Advocacy Program receives generous gift from Jim Basile ’86, ’89 J.D.
A generous gift from Kirkland & Ellis partner Jim Basile ’86, ’89 J.D., will enable Notre Dame Law School to bring more outstanding trial attorneys and judges from around the...
ND Law students consider virtual reality’s impact on legal profession
Notre Dame Law student Delaney Foreman participates in an exercise at the Department of Psychology's Virtual Reality Lab. On a Monday evening this past April, a class of Notre Dame...
Dean Marcus Cole is focused on 'excellence with purpose'
“It has been the great honor of my life to train lawyers, and I am humbled to have the opportunity to help do so at one of the most important...
IP & Entrepreneurship Clinic helps ND alumni patent medical device
Though Vampiro’s name might bring about images of vampires, the medical device’s purpose means less operating room time and fewer surgical site infections for patients. But, like vampires, Vampiro is...
New programs expand ND Law School’s interdisciplinary studies
Notre Dame Law School launched two new interdisciplinary research programs in July: the Program on Ethics, Compliance, & Inclusion and the Program on Intellectual Property & Technology Law.
Professor Paolo Carozza to serve on State Department commission
Carozza, who also serves as director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, is one of 10 experts appointed to the new Commission on Unalienable Rights.
Notre Dame alumni honor Nell Jessup Newton
Notre Dame Lawyers across the country honored Nell Jessup Newton this spring as she concluded her decade of service as the Law School’s dean. G. Marcus Cole, the Law School’s...
Justices Gorsuch and Alito cite ND Law faculty in Supreme Court opinions
Professors Barry Cushman, Randy Kozel, and Jeff Pojanowski were cited in two U.S. Supreme Court cases on June 26.
Professor Peg Brinig receives lifetime achievement award in family law
The Family Law & Policy Program at the University of Illinois College of Law recognized Brinig's interdisciplinary approach and tremendous scholarship.
Notre Dame’s Fitzgerald Institute promotes the common good through real estate
Notre Dame Law Professor Dan Kelly is the faculty director of the new Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate — an interdisciplinary institute where researchers will study all aspects of real estate, including...
Professor Jimmy Gurulé to host cybersecurity conference in London
Notre Dame Law Professor Jimmy Gurulé said rising concerns about cyber attacks sparked the idea for an interdisciplinary conference to discuss and analyze cybersecurity issues
Professor John Finnis appointed as Companion of the Order of Australia
In the Queen’s Birthday Honours announced on June 10, John M. Finnis, the Biolchini Family Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School and a Permanent Senior Distinguished Research Fellow...
Veronica Root Martinez earns tenure, promoted to full professor
Professor Veronica Root Martinez has been granted tenure and promoted to full professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. She joined the faculty in 2014 after serving as a...
Professor Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer offers roadmap for regulating nonprofits' political activity
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer's comprehensive approach yields surprising and controversial solutions, beginning with the creation of a simple and broad definition of political activity that charities will be prohibited from engaging...
In Memoriam: Professor John Copeland Nagle
It is with a heavy heart that I announce that John Copeland Nagle, Notre Dame Law School’s John N. Matthews Professor of Law, died on May 18, 2019, after a...
Program on Church, State & Society announces endowed lecture series
The Rice-Hasson Distinguished Lecture Series will serve as a flagship annual event and celebration of the Program on Church, State & Society.
Professor Paolo Carozza to help steer ND research aimed at preventing sexual abuse
Notre Dame Law Professor Paolo Carozza will help lead a University of Notre Dame initiative to study issues emerging from the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. Carozza, who is also...
Professor Thomas L. Shaffer remembered at Law School memorial reception
On April 8, dozens of friends, colleagues, and former students gathered at Notre Dame Law School to celebrate the life and work of Professor Emeritus and former Dean Thomas L....
ND Law School makes its mark on the study of fiduciary law
A cohort of Notre Dame Law School faculty have made important recent contributions to the study of fiduciary law — a field of growing interest that focuses on relationships in...
Professor Jimmy Gurulé: Congress should receive unredacted Mueller report
Notre Dame Law School Professor Jimmy Gurulé says that while the report may contain some materials for which public disclosure is inappropriate, it’s important that the American people get the fullest possible...
Professor Carter Snead to deliver Harvey Lecture at Georgetown
Notre Dame Law Professor O. Carter Snead, the William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, will present the 16th Annual John Collins...
Expert discusses changes to tax law as filing deadline approaches
As tax day —April 15 (Monday) — approaches, tax returns may look significantly different than in previous years, due to the law that overhauled the tax code last year.