University of Notre Dame Law School

Notre Dame Law School’s completely renovated Biolchini Hall of Law was dedicated earlier this month.

Education conclave focuses on diversity, economy

October 13, 2010

When the Indiana State Bar Association gets law students, attorneys, professors, judges, court administrators, deans, and representatives of Indiana’s Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program, Disciplinary Commission, Board of Law Examiners, and the Indiana Bar Foundation are all in the same place for a few hours, some interesting dialogues are bound to take place.

Legal News

Center, interns address migrant workers' legal rights

June 9, 2010

Indiana Legal Services Migrant Farm Workers Center, led by Melody Goldberg, helps migrant workers understand their legal rights.

Law School Briefs

Indiana law schools mark graduations

June 9, 2010

All four Indiana law schools had commencement ceremonies in May recognizing more than 800 graduates around the state.

Lawyer, exonoree to speak at law school

April 21, 2010

An attorney and the wrongly accused man he helped to free from prison will speak at Notre Dame Law School Thursday.

U.S. News & World Report ranks law schools

April 15, 2010

Michael Hoskins

An annual report ranking the nation's law schools put Indiana's programs much in the same position as they were last year in terms of tuition and enrollment.

Event focuses on international law issues

April 5, 2010

An event at Notre Dame University Law School will explore the scope and importance of international law and its relationship with national sovereignty.

Methodology affects law-school rankings

April 23, 2009

An annual report ranking graduate schools puts two law schools in Indiana at a tie for 23rd, while one dropped nearly 20 spots to 87 and was ranked at 21 in the first-ever ranking of part-time programs. A fourth was ranked as a Tier 4 school, where schools are listed alphabetically.

Chief justice to get ND honorary law degree

April 21, 2009

Indiana Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard will be one of eight people awarded honorary degrees from the University of Notre Dame during its commencement ceremony next month.

Annual 7th Circuit meeting in Indy

April 21, 2009

United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and Rev. David Link, Dean Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame School of Law, are just two of the speakers at this year's Judicial Conference of the 7th Circuit and the annual meeting of the 7th Circuit Bar Association in Indianapolis.

ND symposium focuses on fiduciary duty

March 25, 2009

The University of Notre Dame Law School's Spring Symposium, "The Future of Fiduciary Duties in Corporate Law," will discuss the accountability of corporate directors and the role and relevance of fiduciary duties in corporate law.

Attorneys to discuss jobs, bar associations

March 18, 2009

The Indiana State Bar Association is holding a panel discussion and lunch Thursday at University of Notre Dame Law School to discuss the anxiety students face in looking for jobs.

ND Law School moves to new building

January 9, 2009

When students at the University of Notre Dame Law School come back for classes Jan. 12, they will do so in the new Eck Hall of Law.

Chilean judge, ambassador visit ND law school

November 13, 2008

The first judge to prosecute former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and an ambassador and special envoy to Sudan will speak at the Notre Dame Law School Friday.

Lecture to cover religion, Constitution

October 7, 2008

Columbia University Law School professor Kent Greenawalt will speak about church and state at a public lecture Thursday that precedes an academic conference of law and religion scholars at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Event to focus on election, U.S. Supreme Court

September 23, 2008

University of Notre Dame Law School professor Richard Garnett is the featured speaker at an event discussing the upcoming presidential election and its impact on the nation's highest court.

U.S. Chief Justice visits Notre Dame

September 12, 2008

Jennifer Nelson

The chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court visited students at the Notre Dame Law School this morning for a one-day appointment to the James J. Clynes Visiting Chair at the school.

Indy attorney named Notre Dame AD

July 17, 2008

Michael Hoskins

A longtime partner at Baker & Daniels' Indianapolis office is leaving the law firm after 28 years to become the new athletic director at his alma mater, the University of Notre Dame.