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ND Law team wins Touro Law Center’s National Moot Court Competition in Law & Religion
Third-year law students Andrew Ross D’Entremont, Reid Edwards, and Vincent Gangemi won first place in the Touro Law Center’s National Moot Court Competition in Law & Religion. The competition was...
ND Law’s 2022 Bank of America Fellows to focus on exoneration and wrongful conviction work
Notre Dame Law School students Anna McGinn and Jessa Webber have been named the Class of 2022’s Bank of America Foundation Fellows. Both of their fellowships will focus on exoneration...
ND Law’s 2022 Shaffer Fellows to address mental illness in Illinois prisons, mortgage foreclosures in Chicago
Madison Kemker and Annika Nielsen-Kim, both third-year law students, have been awarded Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest Fellowships. The fellowship, named in honor of former dean and professor Thomas L....
Winner, semifinalists announced in ND Law’s first International and Comparative Law Writing Competition
Notre Dame Law School’s Office of International & Graduate Programs recently held its first International and Comparative Law Writing Competition. First prize went to third-year law student Thomas Hellenbrand for...
ND Law students learn at home and abroad during 2022 spring break
Earlier this month, Notre Dame Law students spent their 2022 mid-semester break contributing to a number of meaningful projects.
In addition to service trips — notably, the twice-yearly trip…
ND Law hosts second annual Financial Wellness Week with free financial coaching, education, and resources for students
Notre Dame Law School hosted its second annual Financial Wellness Week from March 14 to 18 on important financial education topics most relevant to law students. The programming, hosted in...
Program on Church, State and Society names 2022 summer fellows
The Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State & Society has awarded four summer fellowships to John Hale, Anthony Imburgia, Rev. Matt Kuczora, C.S.C., and Martin Wolk. The fellowships...
Notre Dame Law Exoneration Justice Clinic welcomes law and undergraduate students to intern
Each semester, students from Notre Dame Law School and undergraduates join the Exoneration Justice Clinic to assist with the important work of freeing wrongfully convicted clients. “The students enrolled in...
U.S. Department of Justice awards grant to ND Law’s Exoneration Justice Clinic
Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic has received a $300,000 federal grant that will increase the clinic’s capacity to investigate, litigate, and overturn wrongful convictions. The U.S. Department of...
ND Law student wins scholarship from National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys Foundation
Kathryn Pflug, a third-year student at Notre Dame Law School, has been awarded a scholarship from the National Association of Former United States Attorneys Foundation. The program awards $5,000 scholarships to...
ND Law’s IP students to compete in national finals of Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition
Once again, Notre Dame Law School’s Intellectual Property Moot Court team has advanced to the national championship round of the Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition. This is the fourth time in...
ND Law student elected president of National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association
Second-year law student Dillon Yang has been elected president of the National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (NAPALSA). He is the first Notre Dame Law student to hold the...
ND London Law Program hosting largest group of students in program’s history
Notre Dame Law students are studying abroad with the London Law Program at the highest numbers in the program’s 53-year history. This semester, 44 second- and third-year law students are studying...
ND Law holds first Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
The University of Notre Dame announced last fall that, for the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. Day would be a holiday for students, faculty, and staff. With no classes...
Zachary Pohlman ’21 J.D. wins Judge John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation legal writing award
Zachary Pohlman, a 2021 Notre Dame Law School graduate, has won first place in the Judge John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation’s 2021 Award for Excellence in Legal Writing — one...
ND Law’s IP & Entrepreneurship Clinic settles in at Innovation Park
When the Law School expanded its Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship Clinic into a new office space at Innovation Park last summer, the idea behind the move was that law students...
Religious Liberty Initiative Student Spotlight: Tom Hellenbrand
As a member of the Religious Liberty Initiative’s 2021-2022 cohort, third-year law student Tom Hellenbrand has had several opportunities to work with Notre Dame Law School faculty on research and writing...
Religious Liberty Initiative files amicus brief in Supreme Court case Shurtleff v. Boston
Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative filed an amicus brief this week in Shurtleff v. Boston, a case that asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that government officials...
Two Notre Dame Law students help mother and daughter win asylum
A mother and daughter have been granted asylum in the U.S. after fleeing gender violence in Latin America, thanks in part to Notre Dame Law School students Jacquelyn Aguirre and...
ND Law student to speak at National Association of Muslim Lawyers conference
Zahraa Nasser, a third-year student at Notre Dame Law School and member of this year’s Religious Liberty Initiative student cohort, will speak Saturday at the National Association of Muslim Lawyers...
ND Law student Gregory Jenn receives Public Interest Advocate Scholarship
Gregory Jenn, a third-year student at Notre Dame Law School, has received a Public Interest Advocate Scholarship from the Diversity Scholarship Foundation in Chicago. The Public Interest Advocate Scholarship is...
Veterans Day 2021: Honoring our ND Law student veterans
About 20 current students have served in the U.S. military. Some are retired from service; others remain active in reserve units. Some will serve in the JAG Corps after graduation.
Houston Chronicle publishes ND Law Religious Liberty Initiative editorial on Ramirez v. Collier
On November 9, the Houston Chronicle published an editorial written by John Meiser, supervising attorney of Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic, and Thomas Hellenbrand, a third-year law student and...
From Nigeria to Ireland to Notre Dame: Meet LL.M. student Grace Oladipo
Grace Oladipo’s motivations for pursuing human rights law may have begun in her childhood home in Nigeria, but they grew in her adolescence and college years in Ireland. “Human rights...
Meet the editors-in-chief of ND Law’s student-run journals
Notre Dame Law School students have the opportunity to serve on one of the Law School’s five student-edited journals. Students who are interested in being considered for membership on a journal...
First-generation ND Law students gain experience, mentorship from DTE Energy internships
Every year, two or three Notre Dame Law School students spend their summers working as legal interns at DTE Energy in Detroit. The internship program was designed by Notre Dame...
Notre Dame Law students receive prestigious scholarships for women in real estate
Hope Swantko, a second-year law student, and Jenna Wilson, a third-year law student, are two of 28 graduate and professional students to receive merit-based scholarships for the 2021-2022 academic year.
1L Julia Ware navigates law school while playing soccer for Fighting Irish
Like other first-year students at Notre Dame Law School, Julia Ware is experiencing the rigorous demands and adjustments that all new law students face. However, she is doing so while...
Program on Church, State & Society’s 2021 fellows share summer experiences
Three Notre Dame Law students gained valuable exposure this summer in the area of religious-institutions practice. Sponsored by the Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society, each summer fellow assisted...
Notre Dame Law student helps win asylum for Salvadoran mother and child
A young mother and child from El Salvador were granted asylum in the United States, thanks to the legal advocacy of Notre Dame Law School student Sophia Aguilar.