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A Different Kind of Lawyer: Paul Cuccinelli, Class of 2025
For Paulie Cuccinelli, law school has been more than just earning a degree. It’s been about becoming the kind of person his brother could look up to. His younger brother,...
A Different Kind of Lawyer: Matthew Gruszka, Class of 2025
For Matthew Gruszka, Notre Dame Law School was never just about earning a degree—it was about answering a lifelong calling. Raised in Worcester County, Massachusetts, he was drawn early on...
A Different Kind of Lawyer: Tshegofatso Mothapo, Class of 2025
Tšhegofatšo Mothapo sat in a room with people of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds for the first time as an undergraduate student at the University of the Western Cape. Having...
A Different Kind of Lawyer: Kaitlyn Bowe, Class of 2025
Every Friday of her final semester of law school, Kaitlyn Bowe crossed the gates of Westville Correctional Facility, trading the traditional classroom for a circle of chairs where Notre Dame...
A Different Kind of Lawyer: Ayanna Murphy, Class of 2025
Ayanna Murphy’s commitment to helping others led her to a career path that not many graduating law students take—family law. With a deep commitment to advocating for victims and survivors...
A Different Kind of Lawyer: Michael Albright, Class of 2025
Michael Albright grew up in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Raised in a hardworking agricultural family, his parents transformed their small-town farming life into a thriving local business, eventually owning and operating the...
A Different Kind of Lawyer: Adam Miller, Class of 2025
Adam Miller is obsessed with hope, he says, viewing his vocation as a public-interest lawyer as an “agent of hope.” As a Christian who previously attended seminary, Adam claims to...
A Different Kind of Lawyer: Alicia Armstrong, Class of 2025
Before Alicia Armstrong enrolled at Notre Dame Law School, she was not on a path to become a lawyer—in fact, it was quite the opposite. “I really never considered being...
Different Kind of Lawyers: Stories of the Class of 2025
On May 17, 2025, we will celebrate Commencement with the Notre Dame Law School Class of 2025—marking the…
A Different Kind of Lawyer: Adem Osmani, Class of 2025
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Adem Osmani worked at an ice cream production facility staffed largely by temporary laborers—an experience that cemented his decision to pursue law school. He witnessed firsthand...
A Different Kind of Lawyer: Shideya Parrilla, Class of 2025
When Shideya Parrilla was in elementary school, she dressed up as a lawyer for her Kindergarten graduation. “My parents used to say I had a lawyer’s spirit. But really, I...
A Different Kind of Lawyer: McKenzie Brummond, Class of 2025
When McKenzie arrived at Notre Dame Law School, she was returning to a place that had already shaped much of her life—but her journey there was anything but conventional. Raised...
A Different Kind of Lawyer: Jorge Hagedorn, Class of 2025
At just six years old, Jorge Hagedorn understood danger in a way most children never do. Living in Israel while his father—a Chilean marine—patrolled the Lebanon-Israel border, Jorge remembers bomb...
Third-year ND Law School students honored for public interest work at Champions for Justice Ceremony
ND Law Dean Marcus Cole presents an award to 3L Noah Austin, recipient of the 2025…
Notre Dame Law School Hosts Private Law Workshop Featuring Leading Legal Scholars
Professor Gabriel Rauterberg offers historical insights into corporate law. This spring,…
Notre Dame Law School students help prepare religious charter school case for US Supreme Court
Law students Jessica Smith, left, and Hadiah Mabry at the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame) Notre Dame Law School students...
Program on Law and Economics holds End of the Academic Year breakfast
Law and Economics student…
Notre Dame Military and Veterans Law Society hosts Symposium: “What Do We Owe Our Veterans?”
From Father William Corby’s service as a Union Army chaplain to the dedication of on-campus housing for…
American Constitution Society selects ND Law’s Varun Cidambi as a 2025 Next Generation Leader
Second-year Notre Dame Law student Varun Cidambi has been named one of the American Constitution Society’s 2025 Next…
Yusef Salaam Shares Message of Justice, Faith, and Legacy at Notre Dame Law School
As part of Notre Dame Law School’s inaugural Death…
Notre Dame Law School hosts inaugural Affinity Alumni Reunion Weekend
Notre Dame Law School hosted its first-ever Affinity Alumni…
Notre Dame Law School’s Exoneration Justice Clinic Exonerates Kara Beaty
On April 15, 2025, Judge Jeffrey Sanford of St. Joseph County Superior Court No. 3 in Indiana granted Exoneration Justice Clinic (EJC) client Kara Beaty’s petition for post-conviction relief and...
Statement from Professor Jimmy Gurulé, Director of the Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic, and Winnie Ye, State Policy Advocate for the Innocence Project, on the Passage of Indiana’s Amended Senate Bill 141
Today, the Indiana legislature recognized the importance of preventing wrongful convictions by passing Senate Bill 141 which will implement three nationally recognized practices for conducting eyewitness identifications and…
Two Notre Dame Law Students Recognized in Prestigious Judicial Opinion Writing Competition
Will Vickery and Chris Chambers, both students at Notre Dame Law School, earned top recognition at the Fourth Annual CSL Prize in Judicial Clerkship Opinion…
Notre Dame Law School holds fourth annual interfaith dinner in observance of Easter, Ramadan, Passover, and Ridván
Attendees of the interfaith dinner share a meal of halal food from the…
ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium Returns for 2025-2026, Now Accepting Presenter Applications
The ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium will again convene a series of graduate works-in-progress colloquia during the 2025-2026 academic year. With the financial support of the American Society for...
Notre Dame Law School Students Compete in International Moot Court on Law and Religion in Rome
Notre Dame Law School students recently participated in the International Moot Court Competition in Law and Religion, held from March 12-14, 2025, in Rome, Italy. The competition, hosted at Notre...