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Notre Dame Law School’s Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic, Bellwether International, and the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice released the second annual Religious…

Yesterday, Notre Dame Law School’s Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic filed an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court. The application requests that the Court stay a New…

Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic (EJC) client Iris Seabolt has been fully exonerated more than two decades after she was wrongfully convicted of felony murder in Elkhart, Indiana.

University President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C. has appointed Randy Kozel, the Fritz Duda Family Law Professor, to succeed Tricia Bellia (live link), the William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Professor of Law, as chair of the University of Notre Dame’s Faculty Board on Athletics and its NCAA faculty athletics representative. Kozel’s appointment is effective Feb. 1, 2027.

Notre Dame Law School Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett traveled to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland to participate in the first Open Consultation on proposed Guiding Principles on Educational Pluralism,…

This summer, Notre Dame Law J.S.D. candidates Felipe Lyon Errazuriz, Ángel Muñoz-Carpintero, and Valentina Salazar presented their work at the 2026 World Congress of Constitutional Law (WCCL) hosted by Externado University in Bogotá, Colombia. J.S.D. candidates Juan Carlos Gazmuri and Felipe Lyon Errázuriz also participated in the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) annual conference in …

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 …

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.