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11 posts tagged "Law"

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Doing the right thing: Lessons from Phil White

Krista Lourdes Akiki | Friday, February 21, 2020

I have come to notice that our society increasingly values charisma over personality. We are constantly trying to prove to the world we are bold, assertive, capable. Yet, as Susan Cane so gracefully says, “The best talker is often times not the best leader.” This distortion that drives our group dynamics and collaboration has sidetracked

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We can do better

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, January 25, 2018

Every January, hundreds of thousands of people march through the streets of our nation’s capital as part of the March for Life. The march ends at the Supreme Court and takes place on the anniversary of that body’s decision in Roe v. Wade. Unsurprisingly, virtually everyone’s opinion on that legal decision coincides with their opinion

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Law students address issue of wrongful convictions

Selena Ponio | Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Second year Notre Dame law student Erika Gustin is more involved in what happens after a trial than during. “Before I started law school I started looking into wrongful conviction statistics and information on my own, which is absolutely horrifying,” Gustin said. “It came out off an interest in process improvement. Everything is a process

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Law student organization aims to assist immigrant youths in legal processes

Charlotte Edmonds | Friday, October 27, 2017

Immigrant youths may be better informed of their legal rights in the near future thanks to the work of a group of Notre Dame Law students. Impowerus — which was founded in September of 2016 by Katelyn Ringrose, a second-year law student — is an organization that connects immigrant youth to pro bono legal aid

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Pizza, Pop and Politics addresses voting rights

Marie Fazio | Wednesday, March 29, 2017

ND Votes hosted this semester’s third installment of Pizza, Pop and Politics, which explored voting rights in the U.S., on Tuesday. The discussion was led by professor Jennifer Mason McAward, an associate professor of law and director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at Notre Dame, and professor Jason Pierce, an American studies professor

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Fumbling the ball in complying with the law

Letter to the Editor | Friday, February 24, 2017

In his well-argued letter in the Feb. 21 edition of The Observer that exhorted President John Jenkins to resist injustice and follow through on the words of solidarity he has expressed for Notre Dame’s undocumented students, James Corcoran reminds us of our mission to pursue the common good and, hence, just laws. Corcoran is sympathetic

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Why 21?

Katherine Smart | Monday, February 22, 2016

During the summer of 2014, I had the incredible opportunity to spend a week with each of the different branches of the Navy. From driving a 16,000-ton warship to climbing around the engine room on a submarine, I had some awesome life experiences. During one such excursion, I was allowed to go on the shooting

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Forgiveness and friendship

Christopher Damian | Thursday, February 4, 2016

Last year, I worked as a student attorney defending the underprivileged in my community. A few had committed heinous crimes. People ask me how I could defend someone convicted of sex trafficking, drug trafficking or murder. Somehow, after overcoming the initial shock, I never hesitated in my representation. I think part of it came out

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Chinese civil rights advocate interprets contemporary injustice in home country

J.P. Gschwind | Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Prominent Chinese civil rights advocate and political dissident Chen Guangcheng delivered the University of Notre Dame 2015 Human Dignity Lecture, entitled “Interpreting Reform: Human Dignity and Human Rights in Contemporary China,” Tuesday evening in McKenna Hall. With the aid of a translator, the “barefoot lawyer” discussed his personal experiences as a legal counsel for poor

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Law professor wins Fulbright research grant

Selena Ponio | Monday, February 16, 2015

Notre Dame law professor Douglass Cassel, an international human rights law scholar, won a Fulbright Fellowship to do research in the spring semester of 2016 on Mexican courts’ enforcement of Inter-American human rights law. Among his credentials, Cassel served as Legal Advisor to the United Nations Commission on the Truth for El Salvador, was an award-winning commentator

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