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Brian Murray, ’11 J.D., Named Quattrone Center Research Fellow

NDLA News New Blog, Becoming a Different Kind of Professional

Faculty in the News

• Professor Mark McKenna and Nicole Garnett Top-Cited Scholars
• Notre Dame Mourns the Loss of Professor Emeritus Conrad Kellenberg
• Professor McAward Appointed Director of Center for Civil and Human Rights
• Professor Jimmy Gurulé Testifies Before Congressional Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing
• Professor Nicole Garnett Receives Social Justice Award

Students

• Claudia Tran, Rising 3L, Ramps Up Alumni and Student Networking
• Law Students Honored at Prize Day Ceremony

Alumni

• Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard Achieves $1 Billion in Verdicts and …

Outlining The Case For A Common Law Duty Of Care Of Business To Exercise Human Rights Due Diligence, Douglass Cassell

Journal Articles

This article outlines the case for a business duty of care to exercise human rights due diligence, judicially enforceable in common law countries by tort suits for negligence brought by persons whose potential injuries were reasonably foreseeable. A parent company’s duty of care would extend to the human rights impacts of all entities in the enterprise, including subsidiaries. A company would not be liable for breach of the duty of care if it proves that it reasonably exercised due diligence as set forth in the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. On the other hand, a company’s failure to …

Three Regulatory Models For Stem Cell Research, O. Carter Snead

Faculty Lectures and Presentations

On Monday, May 30, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Director and Professor of Law Carter Snead will deliver the inaugural University of Florence “Law and Justice Lecture” in Florence, Italy. Snead’s inaugural lecture, entitled “Three Regulatory Models for Stem Cell Research,” will analyze and contrast the US Government’s federal funding policies under Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama as a means of exploring the complexities of American governance of science, medicine, and biotechnology in the name of ethical goods. Read the news release.

Brief Of Amici Curiae Intellectual Property Law Professors, Mark Mckenna

Court Briefs

No. 15-14889
Edward Lewis Tobinick v. Steven Novella

Appeal from the United States Distric Court for the Southern District of Florida, Case No.: 9:14-cv-80781-RLR (Hon. Robin L. Rosenber)
[Including the] Motion for Leave to File Brief of Amici Curiae Intellectual Property Law Professors, Nov. 30, 2015.

From the Summary of Argument

The District Court correctly determined that the challenged speech of Dr. Steven Novella was not commercial speech for purposes of applying the Lanham Act. Appellant’s argument to the contrary conflates “seeking profit” with “commercial speech.”

171st Commencement Mass Program, University Of Notre Dame

Commencement Programs

171^st Baccalaureate Mass, Saturday, May 14, 2016

Presiding Celebrant and Homilist: His Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, D.C.

Professor Amy Coney Barrett, Diploma Ceremony Address, Amy Coney Barrett

Commencement Programs

Law Professor, Amy Coney Barrett, Diane and M.O. Miller, II Research Chair in Law, and the Law School Distinguished Teacher, delivered the diploma ceremony address to the Class of 2016 on May 14, 2016.

On Higher Ground?: Baseball’S Antitrust Exemption, Edmund P. Edmonds

Faculty Lectures and Presentations

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION

Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, Spring Meeting, The Otesaga Cooperstown, NY May 13 - 15, 2016

Presentation: On Higher Ground?: Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption

The panel will consider the history, expansion, and endurance of the antitrust exemption for baseball, including discussing decisions calling the exemption into question in light of the doctrinal expansion of Congressional authority under the Constitutional Commerce Clause and the increasingly business-like nature of baseball; recent decisions relating to the baseball exemption; the Supreme Court’s deference to Congress on whether the antitrust exemption should still be applied; efforts in Congress itself to consider …

Notre Dame Law School Diploma And Hooding Ceremony Program, Notre Dame Law School

Commencement Programs

Notre Dame Law School Diploma and Hooding Ceremony

Notre Dame Law School Graduation Prayer Service Program 2016, Notre Dame Law School

Commencement Programs

University of Notre Dame Law School Graduation Prayer Service

Basilica of the Sacred Heart

University of Notre Dame du Lac

9:30 AM, May 14, 2016

171st University Of Notre Dame Commencement Program, University Of Notre Dame

Commencement Programs

The Commencement Program includes

• Schedule of Events
• Graduate School Ceremony
• Law School Ceremony
• Mendoza College of Business Graduate School Ceremony
• University Commencement Exercises
• University Commencement Ceremony
• Undergraduate Commencement Diploma Ceremonies
• Honorary Doctoral Degrees
• Laetare Medal Recipient Speaker
• Valedictorian Candidates
• Honor Societies
• Student and Faculty Awards and Prizes
• Degree Candidate Names

Ndls Update 05/02/2016, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

NDLS Update is a weekly email newsletter of news, events, and opportunities for Law School faculty and staff.

Ndls Update 04/25/2016, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

NDLS Update is a weekly email newsletter of news, events, and opportunities for Law School faculty and staff.

Mmu: 04/25/16–05/01/16, Student Bar Association

Monday Morning Update

3L Week Ticket Sales End Today!

SBA Office Hours

This Week @ NDLS

Aly Hughes' Tweet of the Week

Baseball’S Interesting Relationship With The U.S. Supreme Court, Edmund P. Edmonds

Faculty Lectures and Presentations

Road Scholars

Florida State University’s series of talks by distinguished scholars from other institutions in the Atlantic Coast Conference

Mmu: 04/18/16–04/24/16, Student Bar Association

Monday Morning Update

From the President

SBA Meeting

Healty Law Society Elections

WLF Elections

Environmental Law Society (ELS) Officer Elections

Riddle of the Week

Cute Puppy

Ndls Update 04/18/2016, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

NDLS Update is a weekly email newsletter of news, events, and opportunities for Law School faculty and staff.

Mmu: 04/11/16–04/17/16, Student Bar Association

Monday Morning Update

SBA President Runoff

SBA Elections Continued

Monday

• CDO Presents: Success as a Summer Associate–A Student Panel
• FPAC Officer Elections
• It's the Culture, Stupid! Federal Micromanagement of Colleges

Wednesday

• CDO Presents: Effective Job Searching: What You Need to do This Summer
• ALSA General Meeting & Elections
• Professional Head Shots!
• Christian LEgal Society Meeting & Elections
• The China Policy and Beyond

Thursday

• Panel: Engaging South African Constitutional Justice
• Clynes Lecture: "Judging According to Personal Attributes: Tension with the Oath of Office?"
• John Witte Lecture--Religious Freedom at Homand and Abroad: Finding a Better Way
• IPLS Board Elections

Friday JICL Symposium: South Afrian Justice: …

Ndls Update 04/04/2016, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

NDLS Update is a weekly email newsletter of news, events, and opportunities for Law School faculty and staff.

Mmu: 04/03/16–04/09/16, Student Bar Association

Monday Morning Update

MMU: Rest in Peace Karabo

• Course Registration Process
• Sky Zone Event
• 3Ls Voting THIS WEEK ONLY for 2016 Faculty/Staff/Student Commencement Awards
• Food

Monday

• Redacted Lives: Secrecy and Mohamedou Olud Slahi's "Guantanamo Diary"
• SBA Meeting
• Heal Law Society presents Mr. Steven Benz, Assistant General Counsel-Eli Lilly and Company

Tuesday Moot Court & Trial Team Informational Meeting

Wednesday Planning Your 2L Year and Tips for Summer Internships

Thursday Class Planning Session at 12:30 in the Courtroom

Ndls Update 03/28/2016, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

NDLS Update is a weekly email newsletter of news, events, and opportunities for Law School faculty and staff.

Mmu: 03/21/16–03/27/16, Student Bar Association

Monday Morning Update

MMU 25: The Bear(sic) Bones

• Barrister Ball Ticket Sales and Song Requests
• Father Mike is Wednesday at Legens at 7:30
• ABA Mental Health Awareness Week is Next Week

3/21 Food Menu

3/22

• Food Menu
• President Brown of the ABA
• ABA Accreditation Site Team Presentation

3/23

• Food Menu
• FPAC: Defense vs. Prosecution
• SBA 2016-2017 Elections Informational Meeting

3/24 Food Menu

3/25 closed

Ndls Update 03/21/2016, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

NDLS Update is a weekly email newsletter of news, events, and opportunities for Law School faculty and staff.

Ndls Update 03/14/2016, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

NDLS Update is a weekly email newsletter of news, events and opportunities for Law School faculty and staff.

Mmu: 03/14/16–03/20/16, Student Bar Association

Monday Morning Update

The Monday Morning Update, or MMU as it is referred to by students, is a weekly email newsletter of news, events, and opportunities of special interest to Notre Dame Law School students.

Brief Of The Catholic University Of America School Of Canon Law, The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, The Queens Federation Of Churches, And The Serbian Orthodox Church In North And South America, As Amici Curiae In Support Of Petitioners, Richard W. Garnett, David H. Hyams

Court Briefs

No. 15.1005
Chabad-Lubavitch of Michigan v. Dr. Dov Schuchman

On Petition for a Writ of Ceriorari to the Supreme Court of Michigan

This brief addresses the importance of the principle of church autonomy and the protections provided by the First and Fourteenth Amendments and this Court's precedents regarding religious denominations' internal mandatory dispute-resolution procedures.

Justice Brandeis And Substantive Due Process, Barry Cushman

Journal Articles

This brief essay, prepared for the Touro Law Center and Jewish Law Institute conference, “Louis D. Brandeis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective,” examines the substantive due process jurisprudence of Justice Brandeis.

Ndls Update 02/29/2016, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

NDLS Update is a weekly email newsletter of news, events and opportunities for Law School faculty and staff.

Mmu: 02/28/16–03/05/16, Student Bar Association

Monday Morning Update

The Monday Morning Update, or MMU as it is referred to by students, is a weekly email newsletter of news, events, and opportunities of special interest to Notre Dame Law School students.

2016 Exchanged Figures Chart, Edmund P. Edmonds

Annual Exchanged Figures Charts

No abstract provided.

Ndls Update 02/22/2016, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

NDLS Update is a weekly email newsletter of news, events, and opportunities for Law School faculty and staff.