Dean G. Marcus Cole issued the following statement about tomorrow's event at Notre Dame Law School in which U.S. Attorney General William Barr will speak to students about religious freedom.
Tonight the U.S. Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the first Notre Dame graduate and faculty member to serve on the nation’s highest court.
The Republic of Ecuador has nominated Notre Dame Law School alumnus Pier Pigozzi to serve on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Pigozzi is a graduate of our LL.M. in International Human Rights Law and J.S.D. programs.
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Congratulations to 3L Keith Ongeri, who was named Best Oralist at the Midwest Black Law Students Association's Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition on Saturday.
ND Law's presence at the U.S. Supreme Court continues to grow. Alexa Baltes ’17 J.D. will clerk for Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh during the 2021-22 term.
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The first law class at the University of Notre Dame met on February 1, 1869. That makes today Notre Dame Law School's 150th birthday!
Follow
#NDLaw150
as we celebrate this milestone throughout 2019.
Alumni, plan to join us for this year's Homecoming the weekend of September 28.
Last week, Justice Samuel Alito defended the Supreme Court’s use of the emergency docket, or “shadow docket,” in a speech at ND Law.
This week,
@steve_vladeck
of
@UTexasLaw
will offer his views on the subject.
Livestream starts at 12:30 pm EDT on Friday:
Professor Emeritus John Finnis was recently made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Finnis — renowned for his work in moral, political, and legal theory, and constitutional law — joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty in 1995.
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ND Law Professor
@cartersnead
, has been appointed as the Charles E. Rice Professor of Law, a new University Named Chair honoring the legacy of the late ND Law Professor Charles E. Rice.
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ND Law Professor
@sherifgirgis
writes for the
@washingtonpost
, “There is no middle ground in the Mississippi abortion case. The court must overrule ‘Roe.’”
The work of four ND Law professors was cited in Supreme Court decisions yesterday.
Professors Stephanie Barclay (
@shbarclay
), Gerard Bradley, and Vincent Phillip Muñoz (
@VPhillipMunoz
) were cited in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. Anthony J. Bellia was cited in Nestle v. Doe.
Third-year Notre Dame Law student Rachel Palermo will join the White House staff as an assistant press secretary to the vice president after President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are inaugurated on Jan. 20:
Residents of a South Bend neighborhood wanted to open a nonprofit coffee shop to create a greater sense of community. They turned to ND Law's Community Development Clinic for help, and the result was The Local Cup.
Four members of Notre Dame Law School’s faculty were recently granted tenure and promoted to full professor of law.
👏 Michael Addo
👏 Stephanie Barclay
👏 Christian Burset
👏 Emily Bremer
Read more about them in the 🧵 below and in this news story:
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Israel Supreme Court Justice Alex Stein will visit Notre Dame Law School on January 23. They will engage in a conversation on "Competing Approaches to Legal Interpretation–A Conversation Between Justices.”
Sister
@helenprejean
, the moral conscience at the heart of the anti-death-penalty movement in the U.S., will speak about wrongful convictions and the death penalty at an event sponsored by
@NDLawEJC
and
@NDHumRts
on Sept. 23.
Read more and register here:
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan will visit
@NotreDame
on Sept 22. Justice Kagan will be the first speaker for the 2023-24 Notre Dame Forum. She will participate in a conversation with Notre Dame Law School Dean G. Marcus Cole.
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ND Law School is creating a new award to honor our beloved registrar, Anne Hamilton, who died August 17. The award will be given annually to a graduating law student who has done the most to help his or her fellow students.
Notre Dame Law School’s Class of 2022 ranked 4th in the nation for the percentage of graduates who landed federal clerkships, according to ABA data.
More than 15% of our 2022 graduates entered a federal clerkship upon graduation.
Read more from
@Reuters
:
Our dean, G. Marcus Cole, has been reappointed to lead Notre Dame Law School for another five-year term.
Read more about Dean Cole and his accomplishments over the past four years:
Three members of the Notre Dame Law School faculty — A.J. Bellia, Samuel Bray, and Nell Jessup Newton — were cited in Supreme Court opinions issued yesterday.
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Audrey Beck ’17 J.D. will clerk for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during the 2019 term. Two others from the ND Law community — Laura Wolk '16 J.D. and Professor Stephen Yelderman (
@syelderman
) — will also serve the court as clerks during the term.
Get to know ND Law's Class of 2023.
They have the highest median LSAT and median undergraduate GPA of any incoming class in the Law School's history, but they are so much more than their academic stats.
The first Notre Dame Prize for Religious Liberty was given to
@nuryturkel
of the
@USCIRF
last night at the ND Religious Liberty Summit.
#ReligiousLiberty2021
The
@NDLawRLI
honored Turkel for his inspired advocacy on behalf of Muslim Uyghurs in China.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett will deliver the keynote address at the
@NotreDameLRev
’s 2022 Federal Courts Symposium on February 14.
Read more here:
Zachary Pohlman ’21 J.D. won the Judge John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation’s 2021 Award for Excellence in Legal Writing — one of the nation’s largest student writing contests.
Read more about his paper and award here:
“There is no greater injustice than for the state to deprive someone of his life or liberty for a crime that he did not commit.” – Jimmy Gurulé, director of Notre Dame Law’s Exoneration Justice Clinic (
@NDLawEJC
)
See the clinic’s story in this video:
The Installation Mass for Dean G. Marcus Cole was celebrated in the Kresge Law Library on Saturday, followed by a reception in Eck Commons. Thank you to everyone that attended!
When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited campus in 2016, more than 7,000 people packed into Purcell Pavilion for her conversation with ND Law alumna Ann Claire Williams '75 J.D., a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Watch it here:
Notre Dame Law Professor
@emilysbremer
is the winner of
@TheAALS
Section on Administrative Law’s Emerging Scholar Award for 2023.
Bremer won the award for her article “The Rediscovered Stages of Agency Adjudication,” published in the
@WashULRev
.
Notre Dame Law Professor Paolo Carozza has been selected to receive the
@NotreDame
Faculty Award for 2023 in recognition of his outstanding service to the University.
Read more here:
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett ’97 J.D. returned to Notre Dame’s campus at the beginning of the fall semester to teach an intensive course on statutory interpretation to third-year law students.
Read more about the students’ experience here:
(1/2) ND Law Prof. Carter Snead presented at last month's annual plenary assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life in Vatican City. Snead also presented Pope Francis with the Spanish translation of his book "What It Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics."
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Judge Britt Grant of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and Chief Judge Diane Sykes of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments last week at the 73rd
@NDMootCourt
Showcase Argument.
Read more:
Father Pat Reidy, who has served as chaplain for the Law School for the last two years, begins a new adventure as a law student this fall - at
@YaleLawSch
. Read about his calling to priesthood and a legal education in a Q&A here:
In the most recent issue of
@NotreDameLRev
Reflections, friends of late Notre Dame Law Professor John C. Nagle wrote touching remembrances of him as a Christian, a scholar, and a great lawyer.
Read the issue, which includes one of Nagle’s last pieces:
Three Notre Dame Law faculty members were cited at the Supreme Court Wednesday. Read more about the scholarship from Professors Barry Cushman,
@randyjkozel
, and Jeff
@pojanowski
here:
ND Law’s Randy Kozel and Samuel Bray were appointed to endowed professorships at the beginning of the fall semester.
Kozel is the new Fritz Duda Family Professor of Law.
Bray is the new John N. Matthews Professor of Law.
Read more here:
Congratulations to Notre Dame Law Professor and
@ND_EthicsCenter
Director
@cartersnead
, who won an
@ExpandedReason
Award in the research category for his book, "What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics."
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh visited campus earlier this week for the
@NotreDameLRev
Federal Courts Symposium.
Read more about his Q&A with Dean G. Marcus Cole and watch a video of the conversation here:
For the third time in a year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled in favor of an appeal argued by students in ND Law's Seventh Circuit Practice Externship.
Read about the case argued by Hanna Torline ’20 J.D. and Yara Rashad ’20 J.D.
Congratulations to 3L May Gunther, who received the top oralist award at the recent Brooklyn regional Moot Court competition. Two teams from Notre Dame Law competed at the competition, which was held virtually.
ND Law’s Program on Church, State & Society has received a generous gift to endow a new lecture and conference series, the Rice-Hasson Distinguished Lecture Series. The inaugural lecture will take place in spring 2020.
It's gameweek! As
@Marcus_Freeman1
starts his first year as
@NDFootball
head coach, check out this conversation he had this summer with ND Law Dean G. Marcus Cole.
#GoIrish
You can find the full conversation at .
“I die the King’s good servant, but God’s first.”
Today is the feast day of St. Thomas More — one of the role models for ND Law’s Catholic mission to educate a
#DifferentKindOfLawyer
.
This photo shows the statue of St. Thomas More that adorns Biolchini Hall of Law.
This past weekend, Notre Dame Prize for Religious Liberty recipient
@nuryturkel
mentioned in a
@USATODAY
op-ed that the award is among the accomplishments and honors that give hope to his fellow Uyghurs who face severe oppression in China.
Read the op-ed:
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., speaks with Chief Justice of the United States Warren E. Burger outside
@middletemple
in 1983. See more historical photos from the first 50 years of the ND London law Program.
Professor Judy Fox, who runs the Law School's Economic Justice, is a nationally recognized expert on foreclosure and predatory lending. Her work on housing issues was featured on NBC during Saturday's football game.
President Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees includes four Notre Dame Lawyers: Amy Coney Barrett '97 J.D., Thomas Hardiman '87 B.A., Federico Moreno '74 B.A., and Margaret Ryan '95 J.D.
Dean G. Marcus Cole and Professor
@cartersnead
are among the campus leaders who will speak this Friday at the Rally for Life at 12:30 p.m. on the Library Quad.
See more information about the “Notre Dame Day for Life” on the
@ND_EthicsCenter
website:
Congratulations to former Notre Dame Law Professor
@DeanRougeau
, who was named the next president of
@holy_cross
.
Rougeau, pictured here during his teaching days at ND, is the first lay person and first Black person to serve as president of the college.
The
@WSJ
called ND Law Professor
@cartersnead
's book, "What It Means to Be Human," one of the 10 best books of 2020 and an "important work of moral philosophy."
Read more:
ND Law graduate Patrick Salvi II '07 J.D. has been in the news frequently in recent days. Salvi, of
@SalviLaw
in Chicago, is the family attorney for
#JacobBlake
, who was shot by police Sunday in Kenosha, Wisconsin. See him on
@CNNSitRoom
here:
“Jacob had three of his most prized possessions in that car. His three boys. … So, the suggestion that he was going to his car in order to start some sort of a fight with police officers with their guns drawn … is absurd,” says Patrick Salvi Jr., Jacob Blake’s family attorney.
Notre Dame Law School ranks 7th on
@lawdotcom
's list for placing graduates in federal clerkships, according to American Bar Association data for the Class of 2019. ND Law ranked 15th on last year's list.
Congratulations to graduate Alyssa McClure '19 J.D., who recently won an appeal in a habeas corpus case that she argued as a 3L before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Read more about her work here:
Adjunct Professor Rudy Monterrosa '01 J.D. and a group of ND Law students are heading to the U.S.-Mexico border to provide representation for mothers and children who are being detained as asylum seekers.
ND Law Professors
@pbaronmiller
and
@pojanowski
have been appointed to endowed professorships. Miller will be the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law. Pojanowski has been named the new Biolchini Family Professor of Law.
Read more here:
Prof.
@RickGarnett
, director of
@NDLaw
's Program on Church, State & Society, has been appointed by Bishop Kevin Rhoades to serve as a lay consultant, for a three-year term, on
@USCCB
's Committee for Religious Liberty.
Read more here:
ND Law Professor Dan Kelly is the faculty director for the new Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate — an interdisciplinary institute where researchers will study all aspects of real estate, including how real estate can promote human flourishing and the common good.
Dean G. Marcus Cole was featured in a
@lawdotcom
story, '"Anger Can Be Righteous and Eloquent": Black Law Deans Send Intensely Personal Messages to Their Students.' Read the story here:
On Monday evening, the first Notre Dame Prize for Religious Liberty will be presented to Uyghur-American attorney and human rights advocate
@nuryturkel
of the
@USCIRF
.
Read about Commissioner Turkel and the ND Prize for Religious Liberty here:
A.J. Bellia, ND Law's O'Toole Professor of Constitutional Law, was cited in the unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in the DeVillier v. Texas case earlier this week.
ND Law Professor Paolo Carozza has been named to the
@Meta
Oversight Board — a group of diverse, global leaders who will work to address a variety of issues related to freedom of expression and human rights.
Read more here:
ND Law is proud to announce that Samuel Bray—one of the nation’s leading experts in remedies and equity—will join the faculty as a full-time professor.
Notre Dame Law School is making big changes to our Loan Repayment Assistance Program that will make the program more generous and cover many more J.D. graduates who pursue careers in public interest law and government.
Read more here:
Professor Stephen Yelderman will clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch for October Term 2019. Yelderman previously clerked for then-Judge Gorsuch in 2010-2011 on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver.
Raphael Ng'etich of Kenya is expanding his expertise in intellectual property and technology law by studying the U.S. legal system. He tailored his course of study to his own interests — something every
#LLM
student is able to do here. Read more at .
Graciela Olivarez '70 J.D. was the first woman to graduate from ND Law. Our Hispanic Law Students Association honors her legacy each year by presenting the Graciela Olivarez Award to a Hispanic Lawyer or judge. U.S. Rep.
@JoaquinCastrotx
accepted the 2019 award today.
#NDLaw150
The
@AP
profiled the incoming group of Supreme Court clerks. Three members of the ND Law family — Professor Stephen Yelderman, Laura Wolk '16 J.D., and Audrey Beck '17 J.D. — are clerking this term.
Yelderman and Wolk are also mentioned in the article: .
Danny Domingo '19 J.D., along with others at the Notre Dame Clinical Law Center, helped a local man discover more than $10,000 while helping him with tax issues. Read the story here:
Join us today at
@NDBasilica
for the annual Red Mass. Lawyers, judges, law students, and more will unite to pray for guidance in the pursuit of legal justice.
This tradition dates back to 1245, and was first celebrated at Notre Dame in 1955.
Learn more:
Meet the ND Law Class of 2026!
With 35% students of color, this year’s 1L class is the second most diverse in Notre Dame Law School history.
In addition, the Class of 2026 has the highest median undergraduate GPA and the highest median LSAT score in ND Law history.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg set aside time to meet with ND Law students during her 2016 visit to Notre Dame.
She spoke in the McCartan Courtroom in an event moderated by ND Law Professor and
@NDHumRts
Director Jennifer Mason McAward. Read a recap here:
“If there was ever a time that the world needed a ‘different kind of lawyer,’ it’s now. … The world should become a better place because of you.”
- Dean G. Marcus Cole
#NDLaw2023
#ND2023
Character, community, and joy — three essentials for passing life’s tests.
Professor Bruce Huber, selected by ND Law’s Class of 2023 as Distinguished Professor of the Year, delivered yesterday’s
#NDLaw2023
commencement speech.
Read the full text here: