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ND Law honors Professor Jimmy Gurulé and alumna Alyssa Phillips at 2023 Rev. David T. Link Public Interest Banquet
Dean Marcus Cole, Professor Jimmy Gurule, Alyssa Phillips and David Link (the son of former Dean David T. Link) Notre Dame Law School held the second Rev. David T. Link...
Notre Dame Law School establishes new Global Human Rights Clinic
Notre Dame Law School announces the establishment of a new Global Human Rights Clinic. Launching in the spring of 2024, the new clinic will be the experiential learning unit of...
Notre Dame Law School delegation to visit South Africa, will celebrate 50 years of human rights advocacy
Dean G. Marcus Cole A delegation from Notre Dame Law School will embark on a ten-day visit to South Africa starting on Monday, November 6. The delegation is led by...
Justice Dumisa Ntsebeza's shares his personal story from the apartheid era in South Africa
Justice Dumisa Ntsebeza of South Africa spoke to the Notre Dame Law School community on October 11 in a lecture titled, "How I survived being framed in an Apartheid-era massacre:...
University appoints O. Carter Snead as Charles E. Rice Professor of Law
Notre Dame Law Professor O. Carter Snead has been appointed to be the Charles E. Rice Professor of Law, a new University Named Chair honoring the legacy of Charles E....
Notre Dame Law School launches new Special Education Law Clinic to serve parents of children with disabilities
Notre Dame Law School is launching a new Special Education Law Clinic to serve parents of children with disabilities in the wider South Bend, Indiana area as they advocate for...
Notre Dame Law School's Exoneration Justice Clinic earns second DOJ grant in two years
Notre Dame Law School's Exoneration Justice Clinic (EJC) has secured a substantial new grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). This is the...
ND Law hosts Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx spoke with ND Law students about criminal justice reform and what it means to be a progressive prosecutor on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Cook...
Notre Dame Law School celebrates Professor Christian Burset’s new book
The Notre Dame Law School community celebrated Professor Christian Burset's new book, “An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy,” at a reception on Wednesday, Oct. 4 in...
Notre Dame Law School's Exoneration Justice Clinic receives $3 million grant to defend Mexican nationals in U.S. criminal cases
Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic has been awarded a $3 million grant to administer a program for the defense of Mexican nationals in criminal matters in the United...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Visits Notre Dame
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan speaking with ND Law Dean G. Marcus Cole U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan visited the University of Notre Dame last Friday, Sept. 22....
ND Law names four first-year law students as 2023-24 Murphy Fellows
Breck Giltner, Blake Perry, Jessica Smith, and Dennis Wieboldt, all first-year Notre Dame Law School students, have been named 2023-24 Murphy Fellows. Notre Dame Law School established the fellowship last...
Notre Dame Law School holds moot court program for junior high students
This summer, Notre Dame Law School hosted a moot court tournament for over 30 seventh and eighth graders in the South Bend community participating in Notre Dame’s TRIO Talent Search...
Notre Dame Law School welcomes new faculty for 2023-24 academic year
Nine new faculty members are joining Notre Dame Law School for the 2023-24 academic year. “I am thrilled to welcome this group of brilliant scholars and teachers to Notre Dame...
ND Law’s Religious Liberty Initiative presents 2023 Notre Dame Prize for Religious Liberty to Lord David Alton
The third annual Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit, hosted by Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative, culminated on Thursday, July 13, with a black-tie gala at the Merchant Taylors’...
ND Law’s Exoneration Justice Clinic hosts two interns from Strathmore Law School in Kenya
Two students from Strathmore Law School in Nairobi, Kenya, gained new insight and valuable experience last month through internships with Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic.
2023 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit: Dean G. Marcus Cole’s welcome remarks
The 2023 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit, hosted by ND Law’s Religious Liberty Initiative, was held in London from July 11-13.
ND Law and Nanovic Institute host inaugural conference for Consortium of Catholic Law Schools in Poland
Notre Dame Law School and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies sponsored the inaugural conference of the Consortium of Catholic Law Schools at John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin,...
Statement from Notre Dame on Supreme Court’s decision on race-conscious admissions policies
Statement from Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame, regarding the Supreme Court’s decision today on race-conscious admissions policies in higher education
Notre Dame Law School grants tenure to four professors
Four members of the Notre Dame Law School faculty — Michael Addo, Stephanie Barclay, Emily Bremer, and Christian Burset — have been granted tenure and promoted to full professor of...
Professor Paolo Carozza delivers keynote lecture at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Notre Dame Law Professor Paolo Carozza was a guest of honor and keynote speaker last month at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile’s opening ceremony of the new academic year.
Notre Dame Law School announces Class of 2023 awards
Notre Dame Law School is pleased to announce awards for the recent graduates of the Class of 2023. Highest Academic Honors The Law School proudly recognizes three students in the...
‘Off the Court’: ND Law hosts event in New York City with Muffet McGraw and Coquese Washington ’97 J.D.
Notre Dame Law School hosted a special alumni event on June 6 in New York City with two legends from the Fighting Irish women’s basketball program. Muffet McGraw, who served...
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...
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...
The Commencement of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2023
Notre Dame Law School celebrated the Class of 2023 on Saturday, May 20. This year’s class consisted of 182 graduates: 166 J.D., 15 LL.M., and one J.S.D.
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...
Class of 2023: Meet six ND Law graduates who have become a ‘different kind of lawyer’
Notre Dame Law School’s mission is to educate a “different kind of lawyer.” Our graduates learn to view the practice of law not only as a profession but also as...
ND Law’s revamped Loan Repayment Assistance Program a boost for Class of 2023 graduates starting public interest careers
Emma Hildebrand came to Notre Dame Law School with the goal of pursuing a career in government. She took advantage of opportunities like the Notre Dame Law in D.C. program,...
ND Law’s 2023 Shaffer Fellows to address housing issues, provide expungement relief in Chicago and rural Kentucky
Thomas Haracz and Jeanna James, both members of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2023, have been awarded Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest Fellowships.