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Supreme Court cites treatise edited by Professor Nell Newton
Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (Nell Jessup Newton, ed.) (2012) was cited numerous times in the Supreme Court’s July 9 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma. Both the majority and...
Professor Rick Garnett: Supreme Court religious schools ruling makes important correction
With its ruling, the Supreme Court re-affirmed an important implication of our separation between church and state, according to Notre Dame Law School Professor Richard Garnett, director of the Notre Dame Program on Church, State & Society.
Statement written by Professor Doug Cassel urges president to lift International Criminal Court sanctions
Notre Dame Law Professor Emeritus Douglass Cassel recently wrote a statement asking President Donald Trump to rescind his June 11 executive order, which imposes sanctions on International Criminal Court investigators who...
Professor Mark McKenna named founding director of ND Technology Ethics Center
Since the Center was established in September 2019, McKenna has been serving as the acting director.
Justice Thomas cites Professor Samuel Bray in securities case
Justice Clarence Thomas cited Notre Dame Law School Professor Samuel L. Bray four times in his dissent to the Supreme Court’s June 22 decision in Liu v. SEC, No. 18-1501....
Avishalom Tor awarded fellowship from the Israel Institute of Advanced Studies
Avishalom Tor, professor and director of the Research Program on Law and Market Behavior at Notre Dame Law School, has been selected as one of two winners of an individual...
Notre Dame Law School establishes Religious Liberty Clinic
With the receipt of a transformational gift from Matt and Lindsay Moroun and family, Notre Dame Law School will put its rich tradition of religious liberty scholarship into practice by...
Program on Ethics, Compliance & Inclusion announces initiatives for 2020-2021 academic year
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” ― James Baldwin I am not sure I...
ND Law Review ranked 8th on Washington & Lee’s list of top legal publications
The Notre Dame Law Review jumped from 22nd to 8th on Washington & Lee University School of Law’s most recent ranking of top legal publications. The annual W&L Law Journal...
Dean G. Marcus Cole: 'I am George Floyd. Except, I can breathe. And I can do something.'
Over the past several days, I have received numerous messages of care and support from friends, neighbors, and acquaintances, each of whom simply wanted to express their concern for how...
Indiana man released from prison after 16 years, thanks to help from Exoneration Project and ND Law
Third-year law student Lenora Popken knew she had found her calling even before the evening of April 2 when Andy Royer met her on the steps of the Kosciusko County Jail...
Professor Jimmy Gurulé appointed to international counter-terrorism project
Notre Dame Law Professor Jimmy Gurulé was recently appointed to the peer review board for Project CRAAFT, which stands for Collaboration, Research and Analysis Against the Financing of Terrorism. The...
From Notre Dame Magazine: Having coffee with G. Marcus Cole
Notre Dame Law School's new dean talks about family, freedom of speech, religious liberty, his lifelong love for Notre Dame, and his vision for the Law School.
Amid coronavirus challenges, ND Law's Tax Clinic safely serves community
Because all tax clinic files are stored in a cloud-based practice management system and the team utilizes cloud-based tax preparation software, only in-person exchanges have required adjustment, and the intake...
ND Law's IP moot court team named national champions
After defeating some 80 intellectual property law moot court teams fielded by law schools from around the country, Notre Dame 3L classmates Mark Relation, Talea Stashin, and Katie Cronin have...
Women Lead 2020: Veronica Root Martinez
Professor Veronica Root Martinez, the Robert & Marion Short Scholar at Notre Dame Law School, was profiled in the University of Notre Dame's annual Women Lead feature in celebration of...
Journal of International & Comparative Law holds 10th anniversary symposium
The Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law marked its 10th anniversary on February 21 with its annual symposium. The symposium featured two panels and a debate, all incorporating...
ND grant will fund research to confront Church’s sex abuse crisis
Richard Garnett, the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School and faculty director of the Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society, has...
International scholars discuss constitutional law at London roundtable
A group of leading constitutional legal scholars from the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland gathered at the Notre Dame London Global Gateway on February 21, 2020 for a roundtable...
ND Law students launch Journal on Emerging Technologies
Concluding that the pressing societal questions posed by emerging technologies would be best studied from an interdisciplinary perspective, third-year law student Rolando Rengifo conceived of an innovative academic journal that...
St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics pays tribute to Thomas L. Shaffer
A journal published by St. Mary's School of Law recently paid tribute to the late Notre Dame Law Professor Thomas L. Shaffer. Issue 10:1 of the St. Mary’s Journal on Legal...
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology honors Professor Paolo Carozza
Professor Paolo Carozza was awarded an honorary doctorate and inducted into the College of Fellows of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology on Saturday at DSPT’s annual convocation in Berkeley,...
ND Law volunteers return to border to assist asylum seekers
For the second year in a row, Rudy Monterrosa ’01 J.D., an immigration attorney and adjunct professor at Notre Dame Law School, traveled to Texas for four days during winter break...
London Law Program students visit NATO headquarters in Brussels
The Law School’s spring 2020 International Criminal Law course is being taught, appropriately enough, at Notre Dame’s London Global Gateway, near Trafalgar Square. With NATO headquarters in Brussels within a short train...
Professor Samuel Bray cited by Justice Gorsuch in recent opinion
Professor Samuel Bray was cited again by the Supreme Court this term, this time by Justice Neil Gorsuch in an opinion concerning an application for stay in Department of Homeland...
From Notre Dame Magazine: Sisters in Law
A panel discussion titled "How Women Have Shaped the Judiciary" on January 24 was part of Notre Dame Law School's commemoration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which granted...
University of Chicago Law Review publishes papers from Professor Veronica Root Martinez’s symposium
The papers from a symposium hosted by Notre Dame Law Professor Veronica Root Martinez have been published by the University of Chicago Law Review. The symposium, titled “Investigating Intersections of...
Panel discusses Professor Jeffrey Pojanowski’s paper at AALS Annual Meeting
Notre Dame Law Professor Jeffrey Pojanowski’s latest paper, “Neoclassical Administrative Law,” was the subject of a panel discussion earlier this month at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Association...
Professor Samuel Bray cited in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissent in Rotkiske v. Klemm
A brief filed by Notre Dame Professor of Law Samuel Bray, along with Professors David Marcus and Stephen Yeazell of UCLA, was cited by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg...
Professor Julian Velasco elected to American Law Institute
Professor Julian Velasco was recently elected a member of the American Law Institute. The institute’s members have the opportunity to influence the development of the law in both existing and emerging areas,...