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Notre Dame Law School is pleased to welcome six new faculty members and one visiting professor for the 2026–27 academic year. Collectively, they bring extensive scholarly, teaching, and practical experience across a wide range of legal fields.

Notre Dame Law Professor Jimmy Gurulé, founder and director of the Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic (EJC), conducted two four-hour training sessions on August 13-14 at Mexico's Directorate-General for Consular Protection and Strategic Planning, a division of the country's Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Katie Takeuchi, legal fellow at the EJC, joined Gurulé…

Good morning, and welcome to the sixth annual Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit. I am Marcus Cole, Dean of Notre Dame Law School, and I want to welcome you to Chicago for what I hope will be a fruitful series of discussions. The theme of this year’s summit is “We Hold These Truths...” As…

Notre Dame Law School is proud to announce the top three academic awards for the Class of 2026: The Colonel William J. Hoynes Award, the Dean Joseph O'Meara Award, and the Farabaugh Prize. These awards celebrate the exceptional academic achievements of three distinguished members of this year’s graduating class.

Wednesday morning of the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Summit began with a keynote address from Rabbi Meir Soloveichik of Yeshiva University. Rabbi Soloveichik serves as the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States, and as the director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University.

Notre Dame Law School will host the sixth annual Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit from July 5-8 in Chicago. The summit is an annual gathering of the world’s leading defenders of religious freedom. The theme this year is “We…

Notre Dame Law Professor Paul B. Miller's scholarship was cited by Justice Clarence Thomas in his concurring opinion in Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission, issued on June 4.

On Monday morning, participants of the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit visited the Field Museum, a natural history museum located in downtown Chicago.

Notre Dame Law School's Program on Ethics, Compliance & Inclusion has announced the winner of the annual Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition. Recent Notre Dame Law graduate Veronica Maska ’26 J.D. was selected as the 2026 winner for her paper, “Catholic Clerks in Capital Cases.”

On Tuesday morning, Dean G. Marcus Cole delivered the opening remarks at the 2026 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit. “The theme of this year’s summit is “We Hold These Truths…” As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of our nation – the first nation in the history of the world to be founded upon the core principle of religious freedom – it is appropriate that we do so here in Chicago…

Each semester, Notre Dame Law School welcomes a number of visiting faculty from institutions around the world. These international visitors make impactful contributions to the Notre Dame Law School community as they enrich the classroom with their diverse legal perspectives. The visiting faculty each semester are a core part of Notre Dame Law School’s Global Lawyering Initiative. These visits fos…

Eight Notre Dame J.S.D. candidates—Nicolás Buitrago-Rey, Portia Chigbu, Gvantsa Dolbaia, Juan Carlos Gazmuri, Felipe Lyon Errazuriz, Vitaliy Kosovych, Angel Muñoz-Carpintero, and Valentina Salazar—had the opportunity to present at the 2026 J.S.D. roundtable hosted by the American University Washington College of Law in Washington D.C., this spring. The National Roundtable brings together S.J.D. a…

Joseph Reilly, a rising third-year student at Notre Dame Law School, has been selected to receive the Peter A.R. Lardy Scholarship Award for the 2026-27 academic year.

Each year, Notre Dame Law School hosts the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit, bringing together scholars, advocates, and faith leaders for discussions on complex religious liberty issues and the future of religious freedom in the United States and around the world.

The Notre Dame Legal History Colloquium will again convene a series of workshops during the 2026-2027 academic year for emerging legal historians. Now in its third consecutive year of meetings, the initiative is financially supported by Notre Dame Law School and The…

Two members of the Notre Dame Law School faculty, Susan Azyndar and Msgr. John Paul Kimes, have been promoted effective July 1, 2026. “Susan Azyndar and Msgr. John Paul Kimes both embody Notre Dame Law School’s commitment to excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service,” said G.…

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 …

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court concluded its 2025–26 term with landmark decisions addressing birthright citizenship, mail-in voting, religious liberty, and presidential authority. Professors Richard Garnett, Derek Muller, Ashley Sanchez, and Haley Proctor shared their legal expertise with several national…

On Friday, May 8, Notre Dame Law School Dean G. Marcus Cole delivered an address to the Notre Dame Alumni of Asia in Seoul, South Korea. In his remarks, Dean Cole reflected on his time teaching at Korea University in Anam, in the summers from 2009 until 2018. "I might even go so far as to say that…

Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society has announced the winners of its annual writing competition. The competition encourages scholarship exploring the intersections of church, state, and society, particularly how the law structures…