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Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic Client Iris Seabolt Exonerated
Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic (EJC) client Iris Seabolt has been fully exonerated more than two decades after she was wrongfully convicted of felony murder in Elkhart, Indiana.
Notre Dame J.S.D. Candidates Present at the World Congress of Constitutional Law and ICONS
This summer, Notre Dame Law J.S.D. candidates Felipe Lyon Errazuriz, Ángel Muñoz-Carpintero, and Valentina Salazar presented their work at the 2026 World Congress of Constitutional Law (WCCL) hosted by Externado...
2026 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit: Day 2 Recap
On Tuesday morning, Dean G. Marcus Cole delivered the opening remarks at the 2026 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit. “The theme of this year’s summit is “We Hold These Truths…”...
ND Law’s Program on Church, State & Society Announces 2026 Writing Competition Winners
Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society has announced the winners of its annual writing competition. The competition encourages scholarship exploring the intersections of church, state, and...
Joseph Reilly receives Lardy Scholarship Award for 2026-27
Joseph Reilly, a rising third-year student at Notre Dame Law School, has been selected to receive the Peter A.R. Lardy Scholarship Award for the 2026-27 academic year.
Notre Dame Law School Announces Top Academic Awards for the Class of 2026
Notre Dame Law School is proud to announce the top three academic awards for the Class of 2026: The Colonel William J. Hoynes Award, the Dean Joseph O'Meara Award, and...
Notre Dame J.S.D. Candidates Present at the 2026 J.S.D. Roundtable hosted by the American University Washington College of Law
Eight Notre Dame J.S.D. candidates—Nicolás Buitrago-Rey, Portia Chigbu, Gvantsa Dolbaia, Juan Carlos Gazmuri, Felipe Lyon Errazuriz, Vitaliy Kosovych, Angel Muñoz-Carpintero, and Valentina Salazar—had the opportunity to present at the 2026...
Celebrating the Commencement of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2026
Notre Dame Law School honored the Class of 2026 on Saturday, May 16, at the Law School’s 156th Diploma and Hooding Ceremony. The Law School conferred 1 J.S.D., 11 LL.M.,...
Notre Dame Law School announces awards for 2026 graduating class
On Friday, May 15, Notre Dame Law School recognized its graduating students at the annual Awards Ceremony. Awards were presented for academic achievement, including Honor Roll, Dean’s Circle, Faculty Excellence,...
Notre Dame Law Graduate Kyung Mo Kang ’26 J.S.D. Examines Accountability for Human Rights Violations in North Korea
For Kyung Mo Kang, the pursuit of justice in North Korea has become the defining focus of his time at Notre Dame Law School. Now a graduate of the Doctor...
Notre Dame Law Graduate Tyson Weeks '26 J.D. Receives 2026 Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest Award
Recent graduate Tyson Weeks ’26 J.D. has been selected for the 2026 Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest Award for the Midwest region. Awarded annually by Equal Justice Works’ National...
Class of 2026 Commencement Feature: Amanda and Eddie Soto
Amanda and Eddie Soto pictured outside of Biolchini Hall of Law…
Class of 2026 Commencement Feature: Nora Ibrahim
Nora Ibrahim once saw the world in black and white. As an undergraduate biology major specializing in endocrinology, she was drawn to the clarity of science, where answers are measurable...
Notre Dame Law student Garrett Hofmann selected for FASPE Ethics Fellowship
Notre Dame Law student Garrett Hofmann was selected as one of 14 fellows for the 2026 Law Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE)....
Class of 2026 Commencement Feature: Jennifer Osita
Jennifer Osita’s path to Notre Dame Law School began in hospital rooms, not courtrooms. After graduating from college, Jennifer was a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurse, where she learned...
Class of 2026 Commencement Feature: Emmett Gillen
For Emmett Gillen, the path to law school was already familiar. But even though his father and two older brothers are lawyers, for Emmett, choosing the law was never about...
Class of 2026 Commencement Feature: Dennis Wieboldt III
When Dennis Wieboldt applied to Notre Dame Law School, he set out to pursue a J.D. and a Ph.D. in history simultaneously. To the best of any administrator’s knowledge, this...
Class of 2026 Commencement Feature: Diana Vallejo Ramirez
Diana Vallejo Ramirez was five years old when she immigrated from Mexico to the United States. Growing up in California as one of six children raised by a single mother,...
Class of 2026 Commencement Feature: Carlos Chinchilla
Carlos Chinchilla did not originally plan to attend law school. Instead, he aspired to be a pilot. But after becoming more familiar with the public affairs of Honduras, his home...
Notre Dame Law 3L Simon Brake Wins First Place in Religious Liberty Student Writing Competition
Simon Brake, a third-year student at Notre Dame Law School, has…
Class of 2026 Commencement Feature: Kathleen Casey
For Kathleen Casey, the path to law school began long before she ever stepped into a courtroom. Growing up on the East Coast, she was first introduced to the law...
LL.M. student Anipha Abass Mwingira attends the 70th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York
Anipha Abass Mwingira, an LL.M. student in the International Human Rights Law program at Notre Dame Law School, is from Tanzania and brings more than two decades of experience in...
ND Law student Joshua Robe receives University of Chicago Federalist Society Eaton Award
Notre Dame Law third-year student Joshua Robe has received the 2026 Eaton Award, presented by the Federalist Society at the University of Chicago.
Class of 2026 Commencement Feature: Thomas MacPhee
For Thomas MacPhee, a steadfast commitment to faith and service has long guided his path to law school and a legal career. Tom was born and raised in Conifer, Colorado,...
Notre Dame Law School’s Private Law Workshop Engages Students with Cutting-Edge Legal Scholarship
This spring, Notre Dame Law School hosted the Private Law Workshop, led by Professor Sadie Blanchard. The seminar introduced students to emerging scholarship at the forefront of private law through...
Class of 2026 Commencement Feature: Nate and Gloria Wertjes
Nate and Gloria Wertjes arrived at Notre Dame Law School not just as classmates, but as a team. The couple met through the John Jay Institute in Philadelphia in a...
Class of 2026 Commencement Feature: Morgan Hall
From the time she was in third grade, Morgan Hall knew she wanted to be a lawyer. While looking through an old notebook years later, Morgan found she had written...
2026 Shaffer Public Interest Fellow to Serve Domestic Violence Survivors in North Carolina
Nikki Rafferty, a third-year…
Class of 2026 Commencement Feature: Nicholas Smith
Nicholas Smith’s journey began in a small farming community in Top Alston, Clarendon, Jamaica—a community where dreams are often measured against tradition. There, young people are often encouraged to pursue...
Notre Dame Law Barristers Mock Trial Team Wins Regional Title, Places 11th Nationally
For the first time since 2013, the Notre Dame Law School Barristers Mock Trial Team advanced beyond regionals at the American Association for Justice (AAJ) Student Trial Advocacy Competition—marking a...