Notre Dame Law School Welcomes Global Visiting Faculty for Fall 2026

As we usher in the new academic year at Notre Dame Law School, International and Graduate Programs (IGP) is pleased to announce the new cohort of Global Visitors for the Fall 2026 semester. Every year, we host scholars and jurists from around the world, including faculty from our esteemed Notre Dame London Law Programme, academics from partner schools, as well as special guests and colleagues of our own Notre Dame Law faculty.

Under Dean G. Marcus Cole’s leadership, the Law School has cultivated a dynamic global partnership program. At the time of publication, we have 13 partnerships with institutions across three continents, including 12 law schools and one high court. This Fall, we will welcome six scholars from five of our partner schools located in Brazil, Germany, Ireland, and Kenya. We are lucky to enjoy ever-deepening ties with our long-term partners, just as we continue to strengthen new relationships.

Our honored guests this Fall include a distinguished international arbitrator, an expert in family studies and ethics, a consultant for top global organizations like the World Bank, and several other accomplished scholars across a diverse array of disciplines including privacy law, constitutional studies, financial regulation, and digital platform governance.

We at IGP are so excited to welcome this cohort to our community and to help foster new connections and experiences through our Fall slate of global programming opportunities. A few of these incoming scholars will deliver courses on their areas of expertise, allowing students to enrich their schedules with studies in African Human Rights Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, and International Commercial Arbitration. In addition, this cohort will deliver workshop presentations, chair panel discussions, and provide mentorship to our doctoral students.

As current events so frequently remind us, we live in an era defined by border-spanning crises and conflicts, and often the best solutions to these problems emerge from strong and active global partnerships. Whether reckoning with the legal implications of and responses to AI, exploring the foundations of law and governance amidst democratic backsliding, or examining the relationship between Catholicism and human rights on the African continent, the Law School is committed to advancing global perspectives through the Notre Dame Global Lawyering Initiative—not only to better prepare the lawyers of tomorrow, but also to help address today's calls for peace, justice, and stability.

Global Distinguished Visiting Professors of Law

• Stefan Kröll (Professor for International Dispute Resolution, Bucerius Law School): Professor Dr. Kröll will teach a 1-credit course on International Commercial Arbitration, drawing on his years of expertise in the field as both a scholar and as an arbitrator for cases involving various global institutions including the International Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, and the Vienna International Arbitral Centre, among others. October 5 – October 28, 2026.

• Jane Wathuta (Dean of Law School and Director of the Institute for Family Studies & Ethics, Strathmore University): Dr. Wathuta’s current research project is "The African Woman in Her Strength: The Evolution of Women in the Legal Profession and Policymaking in Kenya." The project combines doctrinal legal research, historical analysis, and policy review in order to trace the increasing number of women practicing the legal profession in Kenya and seeks to explain the forces and patterns driving that increase. October 26 – November 5, 2026.

Global Visiting Professor of Law

• Stephan Wernicke (Professor of Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Professor Dr. Wernicke will present on his research project, “EU Inc. — A New European Corporate Legal Form,” as a guest in Notre Dame Law School’s Law and Economics Seminar. During his visit, he will also conduct research for a monograph on “European Law and European Normative Thinking.” September 14 – September 24, 2026.

Global Visiting Associate Professors of Law

• Paul Yowell (Associate Professor of Law, Oriel College at Oxford): Professor Yowell will teach a 1-credit course on “Comparative Constitutional Law.” In addition to his professorship at Oxford, he is also a Global Associate Professor of Law with the Notre Dame London Law Programme. September 7 – 23, 2026.

• Clara Martins Pereira (Associate Professor of Financial Law, Durham University): Professor Martins Pereira will present her article, “Artificial Intelligence and the future of financial stability: regulatory and supervisory gaps in the UK framework,” at Notre Dame Law School's Faculty Colloquium. She is also a Global Associate Professor of Law with the Notre Dame London Law Programme. September 7 – September 18, 2026.

• Róisín Costello (Deputy Director of the Trinity Centre for Constitutional Law and Assistant Professor of EU and International Law, Trinity College Dublin): Dr. Costello will present research from her monograph project, “Transatlantic dialogues: the development of privacy in the common law world 1600 - 1850,” as part of the IGP Forum series of workshops. In addition, she will participate in a panel discussion for the American Conference for Irish Studies - Midwest and South Regional Conference; as well as deliver a talk on Indigenous language rights and policy issues, co-sponsored by the Irish Language Initiatives. September 21 – October 1, 2026.

• Ivar Hartmann (Associate Professor of Law, Insper São Paulo): Professor Hartmann will deliver a research presentation as part of the IGP Forum series. Drawing from his expertise in the field of digital platform governance, Professor Hartmann’s research provides novel quantitative data about the Meta Oversight Board and interrogates the merits of the popular analogy that Meta is the “Supreme Court for online speech.” October 5 – October 12, 2026.

• Enrico Andreoli (Associate Professor, University of Verona): Professor Andreoli will develop his ongoing monograph project which investigates the role of unwritten constitutional law across five jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. November 9 – November 19, 2026.

Global Visiting Fellow in Law

• Allan Mukuki (Doctoral Fellow and Director of Global Partnerships, Strathmore Law School): While at Notre Dame Law School, Professor Mukuki will teach a 1-credit course on “African Human Rights Law.” In addition, he will present a research paper as part of the IGP Forum series. His paper, “Protection-Sensitive Mobility and Responsibility-Sharing in the East African Community: Towards a Regional Model for Refugee Management,” examines the legal and institutional possibilities for developing common refugee management mechanisms within the East African Community. November 3 – 19, 2026.