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Supreme Court Could Improve on its Selection of Cases, Law Scholars Argue
p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/180652/100x/us_supreme_court_300x.jpg(U.S. Supreme Court)! In the early 1980s, the Supreme Court decided some 150 cases a year, nearly twice the number it annually decides these days. Legal scholars and practitioners...
Notre Dame Law School Hosts Meeting of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
p(image-right). !/assets/71338/100x/barretta.jpg(barretta)! This week, Notre Dame Law will host the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure at its Chicago facilities. Professor Amy Coney Barrett, Diane and M.O....
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to Visit Notre Dame Law School
p(image-right). !/assets/180362/100x/010_alito.jpg(U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr.)! U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr., will visit Notre Dame Law School on Nov. 19. One highlight...
Professor Snead and Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture Hosted Discussions for the Synod on the Family
p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/180239/100x/synod_300.jpg(David Bender, chairman of the CEC advisory board, left, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Carter Snead at the Synod on the Family)! The three-week-long Synod on the Family, which...
Professor Richard Garnett Recognized at Notre Dame Football Game
Richard Garnett, Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Church, State & Society, was recently honored by the University as a 2015 Featured...
Edging Out a Patent with Notre Dame Law Students
When Jeff Ballard, president of Design Align Landscape Edging in South Bend, knew he had developed a product for the commercial landscaping industry, he wanted to see what legal recourses...
Nancy Gargula, '81 JD Receives the 2015 Woman for All Seasons Award from the St. Thomas More Society of Indianapolis
Gargula, U.S. Trustee for Region 10, has been the cantor as well as the planning chair for the the annual Red Mass for 34 years. |!/assets/178519/300x/nancy_gargula.jpg(nancy_gargula)!Nancy Gargula, '81 JD |...
Notre Dame Alumna JoAnn Chávez Establishes Chávez Family Law Fellowship with Generous Donation
Notre Dame Law School is pleased to announce the generous donation from alumna JoAnn Chávez, ’86, ’90, J.D., to establish the Chávez Family Law Fellowship to benefit Hispanic students at...
American justice: A U.S. lawyer in Colombia’s peace process
p(image-right). !/assets/81292/100x/cassel_220.jpg(cassel_220)! The article "American justice: A U.S. lawyer in Colombia’s peace process":/assets/178074/miami_herald_10.2.15.docx in the Miami Herald, Oct. 2, 2015 on the Doug Cassel's involvement in the Colombia's peace process....
Notre Dame Black Law Students Association Hosts Regional Academic Retreat
The Notre Dame Black Law Students Association (BLSA) will host a one-day academic retreat Saturday with the Midwest Regional BLSA. The day will focus on mock trial preparation, stress management...