Notre Dame Law School Welcomes Visiting Faculty for the 2026–27 Academic Year | News | The Law School

Four visiting faculty members join the Notre Dame Law School community for the 2026–27 academic year, including two new and two returning faculty members. Andrew Torrance and Dennis J. Wieboldt III join the Law School as visiting faculty this year, while Frederick Mostert and Daniel Slate return to the Law School for the 2026–27 academic year. Mostert previously served as a visiting professor of law in fall 2025 and also serves as an adjunct professor for the Notre Dame London Law Programme. Slate joined the Law School as a visiting assistant professor during the 2024–25 academic year. Together, they bring expertise spanning intellectual property, technology and artificial intelligence, constitutional law and legal history, and law and religion.

Visiting Faculty

Smiling man with graying hair and beard in a blue cravat and dark jacket, against a cityscape of old buildings. — *Frederick Mostert*

Frederick Mostert joins the Law School as a visiting professor of law for Fall 2026 and previously served as a visiting professor in Fall 2025. He is a professor of practice for the Notre Dame London Law Programme. He is also a professor of practice at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, and a research fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre.

Mostert has advised global organizations, including the World Intellectual Property Organization and the European Union Intellectual Property Office. Frederick was inducted into the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame in 2015, which honors those who have helped to establish intellectual property as one of the key business assets of the 21st century. His pro bono work has included assisting President Nelson Mandela, the Shaolin Monks, and First Nations communities in Canada. He earned a LL.M. from Columbia Law School and a LL.D. from the University of Johannesburg.

A smiling man with dark hair, a beard, and light eyes wears a black suit, white shirt, and blue patterned tie. — *Daniel Slate*

Daniel Slate, visiting assistant professor of law, researches and writes on law and technology, emergency powers, and constitutional history. His technology law scholarship is informed by previous experience in the software industry, where he worked in product management, business development, and privacy and civil liberties roles. In the past year, his article Infringed has been cited in federal judicial opinions and at oral argument before the United States Supreme Court in Wolford v. Lopez.

Slate is a faculty affiliate of the AI Trust and Reliability Lab and the Human-Centered Responsible AI Lab at Notre Dame’s Data, AI, and Computing Initiative. He earned his B.A. in philosophy, with honors and distinction, J.D., and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and also studied in yeshivot in Israel.

A man with light brown hair and a friendly smile, wearing a white shirt, red tie with a white squirrel, and grey blazer. — *Andrew Torrance*

Andrew Torrance joins Notre Dame Law School as a visiting professor of law. He is the Paul E. Wilson Distinguished Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Graduate and International Law at the University of Kansas School of Law, as well as a visiting scholar in Behavioral and Policy Sciences at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Torrance teaches and writes in patent law, intellectual property, innovation, food and drug regulation, biotechnology and biodiversity law, and the empirical, experimental, and big-data study of legal systems. His recent scholarship increasingly focuses on the law and governance of artificial intelligence, including the legal treatment of training data, regulation of autonomous systems, and the role advanced AI could play within legal and social systems.

Torrance founded the Biolaw conference and co-founded PatCon, an annual patent scholarship conference. From 2019 to 2021, he led intellectual property at the Eli and Edythe Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and he has delivered approximately 400 scholarly presentations and guest lectures in more than a dozen countries. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2022 and previously served as a policy advisor on the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Committee of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008. Torrance earned his B.S. from Queen’s University in Canada, his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University.

Smiling young man with brown hair and eyes in a navy suit jacket and white shirt, against a wooden background. — *Dennis J. Wieboldt III*

Dennis J. Wieboldt III joins Notre Dame Law School as a visiting assistant professor of law and serves as the Robert E. Rodes, Jr. Fellow in Law and Religion, a fellowship supported by the Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society. He is also completing his Ph.D. in history at the University of Notre Dame. Wieboldt writes in the areas of constitutional law and legal history, with a particular focus on the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses, and has authored more than 30 academic articles, book reviews, and other essays.

Wieboldt came to Notre Dame in 2023 as the first student to concurrently pursue a J.D./Ph.D. in history. He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Notre Dame Law School in 2026, receiving the Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Program of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, as well as the A. Harold Weber Writing Award and the Patricia O’Hara Scholarship and Leadership Award. He previously earned his B.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and his M.A. in history from Boston College. Wieboldt also serves as the Leep Family Rector of Graham Family Hall at Notre Dame and is a non-resident research fellow of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.