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ND Law School names 2019 Bank of America Foundation Fellows
Lauren Andrini, Jake Crammer, and Tashiana Stafford, three members of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2019, are this year’s Bank of America Foundation Fellows. This year, the fellowship covers...
Notre Dame Law School names 2019 Shaffer Fellow
Anne Gallerano, a member of Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2019, is this year’s Thomas L. Shaffer Fellow. The fellowship covers the cost of salary and benefits for up...
2019 Klau Center Summer Fellowships announced
The summer funding supports students working in public interest organizations that promote civil or human rights.
Program on Church, State & Society announces 2019 summer fellows
The Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State & Society has awarded four fellowships to students who will work in the area of religious institutions practice this summer.
ND Law students help Exoneration Project free Illinois man
Two Notre Dame Law students — Molly Campbell and Alyssa Slaimen — worked extensively with the Exoneration Project on the case of Donald Whalen, an Illinois man whose murder conviction...
Tanya Luo started in ND Law's LL.M. program and finished with a J.D.
For Tanya Luo, her journey at Notre Dame Law School started in 2016 in the LL.M. program and concluded in 2018 with earning a J.D., passing the New York bar,...
Black Law Students Association holds 2019 awards ceremony
Notre Dame Law School’s chapter of the Black Law Students Association honored faculty and students with awards at their annual banquet on March 30. Veronica Root Martinez, associate professor of...
Plaintiffs from Obergefell v. Hodges speak about marriage equality case
Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, spoke at Notre Dame Law School on Wednesday, March 27, as part of an event that...
International Trademark Association honors two ND Law students
Two Notre Dame Law School students, Doori Song and Caitlin Canahai, continued a recent streak of honors from the International Trademark Association. The INTA selected Song, a third-year law student...
3L Jessica Skocik organizes conference on legal issues of online sex trafficking
Jessica Skocik, a third-year student at Notre Dame Law School and a Douglass Fellow with the Human Trafficking Institute, recently organized a conference on the fight against online…
LL.M. Spotlight: Nina Oldehaver
For Nina Oldehaver, her LL.M. degree from Notre Dame Law School will give her a better understanding in her international workplace. During her mandatory two-year internship to become a lawyer...
Students in ND London Law Program discover Buckfast Abbey
At the beginning of the spring semester, 15 students in the Notre Dame London Law Program traveled south for the weekend, swapping the bright lights of London for the stark and...
ND Law students pay it forward in work with Clay High School mock trial team
With help from Notre Dame Law School students, expectations at Clay are high this year ahead of regionals later this month and the annual state competition in March.
LL.M. Spotlight: Fernanda Gianesella Bertolaccini
Fernanda Gianesella Bertolaccini wants her voice to be heard. An activist in her native Brazil, Bertolaccini focuses on how private companies…
ND Law students host legal aid event for local veterans
A group of Notre Dame Law School students recently hosted a legal aid night for veterans at the Miller Veterans Center in South Bend. They met with homeless vets on...
LL.M. Spotlight: Raphael Ng’etich
Raphael Ng’etich of Kenya has known that he wanted to study and teach law since he was in high school. As a law student at Strathmore University…
LL.M. Spotlight: Yue Yu
After working for three years as a senior associate in the merger and acquisition transaction services department for Deloitte Financial Advisory in China, Yue Yu decided it was time for...
Notre Dame Law School kicks off sesquicentennial
The first law class at Notre Dame was held on February 1, 1869, which makes this year Notre Dame Law School’s sesquicentennial. The Law School community kicked off the celebration...
Galilee program sends Notre Dame Law students around the country
One hundred and thirty-five students. Twenty-eight travel groups. Thirteen cities. A large contingent of first-year J.D. and LL.M. students from Notre…
ND Law student, professor speak at MLK Celebration Luncheon
Jennifer Mason McAward, director of the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights and associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, and Cameasha Turner, a third-year law student,...
2L Walter Jean-Jacques appointed to Equal Justice Works Board of Directors
Walter Jean-Jacques, a second-year student at Notre Dame Law School, has been selected as a student member of the Equal Justice Works Board of Directors. Equal Justice Works is a...
ND Law students attend Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearing
A group of five Notre Dame Law students had the opportunity to attend a hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights last month in Washington, D.C. The hearing on...
Expansion of ND Law’s intellectual property program is bearing fruit
The cover story in the new issue of Notre Dame Lawyer magazine focuses on the growth of intellectual property and technology law at Notre Dame Law School.
3L Katelyn Ringrose receives Public Interest Advocacy Scholarship
The Diversity Scholarship Foundation presented Katelyn Ringrose, a third-year student at Notre Dame Law School, with the Public Interest Advocate Scholarship Award on November 27 at the 2018 Unity Award Dinner...
ND Law professor and students to attend human rights hearing in D.C.
Professor Alejandra Gonza, a visiting scholar who is spending the fall semester at Notre Dame Law School, will speak to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights this week in Washington,...
Program on Church, State & Society to award summer fellowships
Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society will award several summer fellowships — in the amount of $8,000 to $10,000 each — to students working for a religious institution...
Speaker series connects human rights advocates with campus community
The Human Rights ND speaker series provides human rights advocates a public forum on campus.
ND Law hosts annual moot court tournament for religious freedom
The Notre Dame Law School Moot Court Board recently hosted the Third Annual National Appellate Advocacy Tournament for Religious Freedom. …
A different kind of lawyer: Veterans studying at ND Law School
Several Notre Dame Law students have served or are currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. In observance of Veterans Day, we are honored to share some of their stories.
LL.M. students present reports at international conferences
Klau Center Graduate Student Affiliates, Nataliia Voitseshyna and Iuliia Emtseva, recently delivered papers at international conferences.