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Notre Dame Defends Religious Freedom in Oak Flat Oral Argument
NOTRE DAME DEFENDS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN OAK FLAT ORAL ARGUMENT Government Must Justify Its Actions, Correct Double Standard that Disenfranchises Native Americans at Sacred Sites Notre Dame Law School Religious...
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...
The DEI Podcast with Max Gaston Episode 4: Advocating for the Innocent: Exoneration Justice
“Innocent people should not be in prison.” (Anna McGinn, Notre Dame Law School ‘22). Exoneration justice is the tireless effort to free innocent people imprisoned after being wrongfully convicted of...
ND Law’s Program on Church, State & Society helps Christian attorneys through the Legal Vocation Fellowship
The Legal Vocation Fellowship (LVF), a new initiative co-sponsored by Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society and the Carver Project, aims to support early-career attorneys seeking...
Professor Emeritus John Finnis made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire
When King Charles III issued the first New Year Honours of his reign last week, a longtime Notre Dame Law School faculty member was among those on the list. Biolchini...
Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick ’04 J.D. of the Delaware Court of Chancery delivers inaugural Patricia O’Hara Distinguished Lecture in Law & Business
Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick ’04 J.D. of the Delaware Court of Chancery speaks in the McCartan Courtroom on November 4. Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery recently spent...
Professor Emily Bremer wins Emerging Scholar Award from AALS
Notre Dame Law Professor Emily Bremer is the winner of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Administrative Law’s Emerging Scholar Award for 2023. Bremer won the recognition for her article...
Notre Dame Law Review hosts symposium on 'Liberalism, Christianity, and Constitutionalism'
The Notre Dame Law Review hosted its second symposium of the academic year on November 11 in Biolchini Hall of Law. The Law Review’s Issue 4 symposium, co-sponsored by the...
Judge Theodor Meron delivers ND Law’s 2022 Peace Through Law Lecture in London
Judge Theodor Meron has been responsible for overseeing the prosecution of some of the most notorious war crimes of the past 30 years, including the genocidal actions perpetrated in Bosnia...
The DEI Podcast with Max Gaston Episode 3: Understanding Imposter Feelings
Have you ever felt like an imposter? Unqualified for the job, less intelligent than your classmates, or undeserving of your accomplishments, and that somehow you managed to convince others you...
Dean G. Marcus Cole to be inducted into American College of Bankruptcy
G. Marcus Cole, the Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, will be inducted into the American College of Bankruptcy in recognition of his...
ND Law honors Professor Judy Fox and alumna Tia Paulette at inaugural Rev. David T. Link Public Interest Banquet
Two members of the Notre Dame Law School community were recognized at the inaugural Rev. David T. Link Public Interest Banquet last month for their commitment to public interest work....
Notre Dame Law Review hosts symposium on ‘Unconstitutional Conditions and Religious Liberty’
The Notre Dame Law Review, in collaboration with the Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative, hosted its first symposium of the academic year on October 24 in the McCartan Courtroom. Centered...
ND Law’s Exoneration Justice Clinic hosts Innocence Network Midwest Regional Summit
Attorneys and investigators from wrongful-conviction clinics across the Midwest gathered at Notre Dame Law School on October 18-19 for the Innocence Network Midwest Regional Summit, hosted by the Law School’s...
Notre Dame Religious Liberty Clinic represents Bruderhof, Sikh, and Muslim groups defending a Rastafarian inmate’s right to wear dreadlocks
Notre Dame, IN — A Rastafarian man’s right to practice his religion was suppressed by state officials while he was being held in an Illinois correctional facility. His case underscores...
Commissioner Nury Turkel shares insights on the Uyghur genocide
Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative hosted “The Uyghur Genocide & Threats to Religious Liberty: A Conversation with Commissioner Nury Turkel” on October 10. The event was co-sponsored by...
Notre Dame Law School awards endowed professorships to Randy Kozel and Samuel Bray
Notre Dame Law Professors Randy Kozel and Samuel Bray were appointed to endowed professorships at the beginning of the fall 2022 semester. In making the announcement, Joseph A. Matson Dean...
Professor Avishalom Tor hosted Consulate General of Switzerland in Chicago to discuss collaborative efforts
Avishalom Tor, professor of law and director of the Notre Dame Law School’s Research Program on Law and Market Behavior (ND LAMB), hosted Bruno Ryff, consul general at Consulate General...
Charity law scholars from around the world will gather in London for Notre Dame workshop
Notre Dame Law School will host the Charity Law Workshop on September 23-24 at the University of Notre Dame’s London Global Gateway. Charity law determines what entities qualify as “charities,”...
Program on Church, State & Society announces Stefan McDaniel to serve as first Rodes Fellow
Stefan McDaniel will serve as Notre Dame Law School’s inaugural Rodes Fellow for the 2022-23 academic year, the Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society announced. A generous benefaction...
ND London Law Professor Matthew Dyson publishes new book, ‘Explaining Tort and Crime’
Matthew Dyson, visiting professor and senior fellow of the Notre Dame London Law Programme, has authored a new book, “Explaining Tort and Crime — Legal Development Across Laws and Legal...