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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to visit Notre Dame in late September

Observer Staff Report | Friday, September 8, 2023

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is coming to Notre Dame on Sept. 22. The office of University President John Jenkins announced the visit in a campus-wide email Friday morning. Kagan will join Notre Dame Law School dean G. Marcus Cole for a “conversation” in the Leighton Concert Hall of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

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Notre Dame Law’s Religious Liberty Clinic helps found first religious charter school in Oklahoma

Liam Kelly | Thursday, September 7, 2023

In Oklahoma, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School is hard at work to welcome its first 500 students by fall of 2024 as it aims to become the first religious charter school in the nation, said Brett Farley, Executive Director of the Catholic Conference of Oklahoma. As the school faces legal challenges, St. Isidore

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One step enough for me

Devin Humphreys | Monday, April 24, 2023

In this space, I have, in the past, invoked St. John Henry Newman’s hymn “Lead, Kindly Light.” But “remember not my past, but lead me still,” as Newman would say, since as my time at Notre Dame Law School draws to a close, the words “I do not ask to see the distant scene; one

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What JLEPP is about

Devin Humphreys | Wednesday, March 22, 2023

All the way back in July of 2020, before our time at Notre Dame Law School had truly begun, those in our class who had professor Richard W. Garnett for Criminal Law received his classic piece on the four layers of the law, each layer getting closer to the core of what this thing we

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An open letter on academic freedom

Letter to the Editor | Monday, March 6, 2023

Universities across the country wrestle with what it means to maintain academic freedom and free speech under the weight of an increasingly polarized culture. Law schools have not been immune to the influences of cancel culture, with prestigious institutions making headlines such as “US Judge Won’t Hire Yale Law Clerks Citing ‘Cancel Culture’” and “Georgetown’s

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ND Law School presents a panel on ‘Protecting All Women’s Rights in the Developing World’

Emma Vales | Thursday, March 2, 2023

Notre Dame Law School presented a panel discussion Thursday morning titled “Protecting All Women’s Rights in the Developing World” in the Eck Hall of Law, co-sponsored by the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, ND Law’s International Human Rights Society, Women’s Legal Forum, Black Law Students Association, Hispanic Law Student Association and Middle Eastern

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Students petition for Dwayne Jones’ murder

Caroline Collins | Monday, February 27, 2023

Editor’s note: This article contains discussions of violence against transgender individuals.  Dwayne Jones was a transgender teenager who was murdered by a mob in Jamaica in 2013. They were beaten, stabbed, shot and run over by a car when they showed up to a community dance party wearing a dress.  Now, 10 years later, Notre

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Footnote nine Chevron: when SCOTUS comes to South Bend

Devin Humphreys | Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Well, I was the Doof. Last October, I wrote a piece in which I laid out my thoughts on how recent cases that had come before the Supreme Court had changed how we should understand the impact of the Chevron doctrine. To remind everyone: the Chevron doctrine sees justices follow a two-step program for figuring

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Brett Kavanaugh speaks on jurisprudence, colleague friendships in Notre Dame Law School Q&A

Liam Price | Sunday, January 29, 2023

Last Monday in the McCartan Courtroom, dean of Notre Dame Law School Marcus Cole spoke with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who responded to questions from students and faculty members in the audience. In the Q&A, Kavanaugh discussed his relationship with his colleagues, how he personally developed his specific philosophy of law, including from both

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Staff, law student comment on law school admissions change

Emma Duffy | Friday, September 16, 2022

On Aug. 31, Notre Dame Law School announced that they will be terminating their early decision program. This means that all prospective students will now have the ability to apply to the non-binding regular decision application. One’s interest in attending the law school will now no longer be shown through the time they apply, but

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This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bou This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bouts will begin its preliminary rounds. A men’s boxing tournament that benefits the Holy Cross Mission in Bangladesh, Bengal Bouts seems to perfectly combine two integral aspects of Notre Dame’s identity: a passion for sports and a commitment to social impact.

This week, From the Archives takes a long overdue look at the history of Bengal Bouts. While this tournament predates the Observer by nearly four decades, we uncovered a selection of stories that capture at least a part of the rich history of this Notre Dame tradition.

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At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Ch At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Chappell, director of gender relations and LGBTQ+ advocacy, highlighted plans to edit the Moreau First Year Experience curriculum to promote values of diversity, equity and inclusion in her report on LGBTQ+ advocacy at Notre Dame this year.

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We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department and you responded with the request: “Northwestern @ Notre Dame 2014 Football Breakdown”. That game was a heartbreaking loss for a Notre Dame team that had started 6-0 before stumbling down the stretch to a 7-5 record. A bowl game win over LSU salvaged some optimism for the program’s future, but that loss to Northwestern was a shocking result that contributed to one of the more appalling stretches of Irish football in the Brian Kelly era.

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Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore s Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore students campaigning to be Notre Dame’s next student body president and vice president, respectively, plan to “get sh*t done.”

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Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are seeking to build stronger connections between the student body and student government if elected student body president and vice president, respectively. 

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Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung an Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung and Aidan Rezner from the student government Instagram page, but the two sophomores are ready to take the next big step to represent the student body.

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