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Professor Marah Stith McLeod holds criminal law workshop at Notre Dame’s Kylemore Abbey
A group of premier scholars in the field of criminal law gathered for a workshop May 4-7 at the University of Notre Dame’s Kylemore Abbey Global Centre in western Ireland.
Becket Fund for Religious Liberty presents ND Law Dean G. Marcus Cole with 2023 Legal Service Award
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty presented its 2023 Legal Service Award to Notre Dame Law School Dean G. Marcus Cole on Thursday, May 25, at Becket’s annual gala in...
ND Law to hold third annual Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit in London
The Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative will host the third annual Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit from July 11-13 in London. The summit is an annual gathering of...
G. Marcus Cole reappointed as dean of Notre Dame Law School
Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law G. Marcus Cole has been reappointed to lead Notre Dame Law School for another five-year term. John McGreevy, the Charles and Jill...
Conference in Chile explores religious liberty and educational pluralism in Latin America and the Caribbean
On May 9 and 10, the Faculty of Law of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Notre Dame Law School, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies held a conference on...
Commencement 2023: Dean G. Marcus Cole’s charge to the graduating class
Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law G. Marcus Cole delivered the following charge to Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2023 during the Law School’s Hooding Ceremony on...
Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Clinic Highlights Student Fellows’ Work Defending Religious Freedom Around the World
This academic year, the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Clinic student fellows have been actively defending religious liberty around the world in a variety of cases. Here are a...
Justice Leona Theron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa visits Notre Dame Law School
Notre Dame Law School hosted Justice Leona Theron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa on April 13-14.
ND Law’s Religious Liberty Clinic represents Sikh, Jewish, and Muslim groups defending a Muslim inmate’s religious rights
A Muslim man’s right to practice his religion was suppressed by state officials while being held in a New York correctional facility. His case highlights the importance of interpreting religious...
ND London Law students learn constitutional law from two Supreme Court justices
Two justices of the U.S. Supreme Court taught seminars to students in the Notre Dame London Law Programme during the spring semester.
London book launch with Lord David Alton explores need for international response to genocide
The Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative hosted a book launch and discussion in London last month for Lord David Alton’s and Ewelina Ochab's recently published book, State Responses...
ND Law’s Religious Liberty Clinic defends Apache sacred site from mining plan as Ninth Circuit reviews case
Apache Stronghold v. United States was one of the first cases that the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Clinic supported when the clinic was newly established in the 2020-21...
ND Law’s Religious Liberty Clinic files amicus brief in the Colombian Constitutional Court
The Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Clinic filed an amicus brief in the Constitutional Court of Colombia earlier this month to defend university students’ rights to establish and participate...
Harvard University Press releases Spanish translation of Professor Carter Snead’s book, ‘What It Means to be Human’
Harvard University Press, working with the University of Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid, Spain, has released a Spanish translation of Professor O. Carter Snead’s book, What It Means to be Human: The...
Panelists share insights on Carson v. Makin and the legal landscape for school choice
On March 30, the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative hosted a panel discussion that explored the dynamic and complex intersection of education and religious liberty. The event featured...
Spring break course designed by Professor Patrick Corrigan brings students to London to learn about international capital markets
A group of Notre Dame Law School students spent a week during spring break visiting banks, legal and financial firms, and academic institutions in London to see the practice and...
Professor Paolo Carozza testifies before Inter-American Court of Human Rights in case of Beatriz v. El Salvador
Notre Dame Law Professor Paolo Carozza testified last week in a landmark human rights case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica. The plaintiffs in the high-profile...
Law students from Ukrainian Catholic University learning at Notre Dame this spring
This semester, Notre Dame Law School is hosting three law students from UCU — Adriana Hrytsyna, Solomiia Humen, and Vitaliia Mahas. They are part of a group of 18 UCU...
ND LAMB co-sponsors 10th University of Lucerne Law and Economics Conference
From left: Patrick Corrigan, Christoph Engel, Sadie Blanchard, Hans-Bernd Schäfer, G. Marcus Cole, and Avishalom Tor The 10th University of Lucerne Law and Economics Conference was held March 17-18 in...
ND Law’s Religious Liberty Clinic defends Apache sacred site in oral argument before U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
A group of Western Apaches and a diverse coalition of legal and religious experts today urged the government in federal court to protect Native American sacred sites on the same...
Professor Diane Desierto serves as co-counsel in landmark UN ruling for Filipina ‘comfort women’
Diane Desierto, law professor and faculty director for the Law School’s LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law, began her career in 2004 seeking reparations and justice for Filipina women who...
Margarette Macaulay of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Afghan alumni discuss protecting women’s rights
The continued discrimination and oppression of women’s rights around the world and a call for actual change were the themes of a talk on Thursday, March 2, co-sponsored by Notre...
Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative supports criminal complaint against Chinese government for Uyghur genocide
The Religious Liberty Initiative’s amicus brief represents renowned U.S. & U.K. human rights advocates Notre Dame, IN — In what appears to be the largest incarceration of an ethnoreligious group...
Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative explores religious liberty challenges facing Catholic schools at symposium hosted with Kellogg Institute, the Australian Catholic University
From December 11 to 14, the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies joined the Australian Catholic University in convening a group of...
Notre Dame Clinical Law Center publishes report on shortcomings in Indiana eviction laws
Notre Dame Law School’s Eviction Clinic has published a report to examine how well Indiana’s eviction laws measure up to guidelines recently established by the American Bar Association. The ABA’s...
Federal judges — including a Supreme Court justice — visit ND Law to hear 73rd annual Moot Court Showcase Argument
Four students had the opportunity to argue a case in front of Justice Amy Coney Barrett of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Britt Grant of the U.S. Court of Appeals...
Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Clinic supports Catholic dioceses’ efforts to operate the first faith-based charter school in the U.S.
Two Catholic dioceses have submitted an application to address educational gaps in Oklahoma by opening the first religious charter school in the nation.
Justice Dumisa Ntsebeza of South Africa visits Notre Dame Law School
Justice Dumisa Ntsebeza—a renowned South African lawyer, former acting judge, and current Justice of the African Court of Human Rights—visited Notre Dame Law School as the Distinguished Global Jurist in...
Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell to speak at international AI summit at The Hague
Mary Ellen O’Connell, the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, will be one of the distinguished speakers at the first international summit on Responsible...
Kresge Law Library serves as a Preservation Steward for U.S. Government Publishing Office
Notre Dame Law School’s Kresge Law Library has renewed its partnership with the U.S. Government Publishing Office as a Preservation Steward. Preservation Stewards support continued public access to U.S. government...