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Notre Dame Law School Celebrates 35 Years of Father Mike Show and Raises Funds for Women’s Legal Forum
Professor Rev. Michael D. McCafferty The Notre Dame Law School community gathered in Dahnke Ballroom on March 21…
Notre Dame Law School holds third annual Interfaith Dinner in observance of Passover, Easter, Ridván, and Ramadan
On March 26, students and faculty from across the University of Notre Dame community gathered at Notre Dame Law School to share a meal in observance of the Muslim holy...
The History and Tradition of the Red Mass
The annual Red Mass will be held today, October 5, at 5:15 p.m. in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame. The Red Mass is...
Black Church & Religious Freedom Conference celebrates the profound influence of the Black Church on advocating for religious freedom and racial justice
The Black Church has served as a safe haven for the Black community, and continues to uplift and provide a place of refuge. Since its inception, the Black Church has...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito delivers keynote address at 2022 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit in Rome
The Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative hosted the 2022 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit in Rome last week to highlight that freedom of religion or belief is a global issue....
ND Law’s Exoneration Justice Clinic joins Innocence Network
Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic is now part of the Innocence Network, a coalition that brings together lawyers and organizations working to end wrongful convictions in the United...
Dean G. Marcus Cole speaks at Walk the Walk Week prayer service
Amid the glow of hundreds of candles in the rotunda of Notre Dame’s Main Building, Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law G. Marcus Cole spoke at the University’s...
Judge dismisses murder charge against Exoneration Justice Clinic client Andy Royer
Andrew Royer is free — finally exonerated nearly two decades after he was charged with a crime he did not commit. For years, Royer said that police had exploited his...
Notre Dame Prize for Religious Liberty recipient Nury Turkel writes op-ed for USA Today
This past weekend, USA Today published a powerful op-ed written by Nury Turkel of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom regarding the atrocities that China’s government has perpetrated on...
Notre Dame Law School announces the Class of 2021 awards
Notre Dame Law School is pleased to announce the Class of 2021 awards. Highest Academic Honors The Law School proudly recognizes three students in the 2021 graduating class with the...
Law School event focuses on unprecedented presidential transition
A recent presentation by presidential scholars Kathryn Dunn Tenpas and Chris Lu gave Notre Dame Law students a rare glimpse behind the scenes of the handoff from one presidential administration...
Dean G. Marcus Cole to join trailblazing jurist and NFL Hall of Famer Alan Page for MLK Day event
Retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page, a 1967 University of Notre Dame graduate and the first African American justice to serve on Minnesota’s highest court, will join G. Marcus...
Dean G. Marcus Cole's statement on the U.S. Capitol attack
Dear Members of the Notre Dame Law School Community, Yesterday, I watched in horror as a mob made a terrorist assault on the United States Capitol. As the images unfolded,...
Amid coronavirus, ND Tax Clinic and other University partners provide remote assistance for low-income taxpayers
The Center for Civic Innovation (CCI) coordinated assistance for 53 taxpayers via the videoconferencing app Zoom and referred another 100 taxpayers to Goodwill for assistance, representing those without access to...
Sean O’Brien completes 15 years advancing Hesburgh’s human rights vision
“Making a Notre Dame education accessible to human rights lawyers from around the world has been the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Sean O’Brien '95, '01 J.D., '02 LL.M., the...
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...
ND Law recognized for donations to March Against Hunger
Katelyn Doering, a rising 2L at Notre Dame Law School, is passionate about the issue of food security. So, when she donated to the 2020 March Against Hunger during the...
Dean G. Marcus Cole: 'I am George Floyd. Except, I can breathe. And I can do something.'
"While my education and position do not grant me immunity from racial violence, they do place me in a position to do something about it."
Peter Lardy's second life: Class of 1975's scholarship continues to make ND Law a kinder place
Notre Dame Law School recognizes its students’ outstanding academic achievements with an array of prestigious awards. In classic Notre Dame fashion, however, one of its most beloved and unique annual...
Women’s judiciary panel and 19th Amendment exhibit to be held at ND Law School
Notre Dame Law School will host a panel discussion, How Women Have Shaped the Judiciary, to commemorate the 19th Amendment centennial of women’s right to vote on Friday, January 24...
ND Law’s IP Clinic helps epilepsy assistance nonprofit secure trademark
An Indiana nonprofit helping families affected by epilepsy got some much-needed help from Notre Dame Law School’s Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship Clinic to protect its brand. …
ND Law hosts annual moot court tournament on religious freedom
The Notre Dame Law School Moot Court Board hosted the fourth annual National Appellate Advocacy Tournament for Religious Freedom on Nov. 8-9 in the Patrick F. McCartan Courtroom. Thirteen moot...
Jennifer Thompson: The Concentric Circles of Harm
On Thursday, November 7, the Klau Center and the Exoneration Project welcomed Jennifer Thompson to Notre Dame Law School. Thompson, founder and director of the Healing Justice Project, recalled her...
Marlysha Myrthil Liddell ’07 J.D. is BLSA's alumnus of the year
Notre Dame Law School’s chapter of the Black Law Students Association recently honored Marlysha Myrthil Liddell ’07 J.D. with the Alvin McKenna Alumnus of the Year Award at their alumni reception....
Notre Dame Law School marks 150 years with celebration weekend
A weekend-long celebration served as the culmination of a year's worth of celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of Notre Dame Law School. Sesquicentennial Reception The Sesquicentennial Reception, held in Dahnke Ballroom...
Former professor donates Maltese collection to Kresge Law Library
A special collection focused on the Republic of Malta is being added to the Kresge Law Library at Notre Dame Law School. The collection was donated by Douglas Kmiec, a...
Professor Woodrow Hartzog to give major technology ethics lecture at Notre Dame Law School
With growing concerns over data breaches and privacy, some argue that control over one’s data is necessary, but that might not be the most practical solution, argues Professor Woodrow Hartzog....
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...
ND Law clinics help South Bend man discover more than $10,000
Vincent, a South Bend restaurant worker, came to the Notre Dame Clinical Law Center last summer looking for help with back taxes he owed. The situation was complex, and the...
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...