NDLS Communicator: Week of 04.21.25

Authors

Notre Dame Law School

Document Type

Newsletter

Publication Date

4-21-2025

Abstract

Rosary for Pope Francis, April 22

The Latest News

• Notre Dame Law School's Exoneration Justice Clinic exonerates Kara Beaty
• Statement from the Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic and Innocence Project on the Passage of Indiana's amended Senate Bill 141

Faculty Briefs

• Marcus Cole was quoted in a Good Friday reflection by Catholic Charities USA.
• Carter Snead appeared on LiveNOW from Fox where he talked about the passing of Pope Francis on Easter Monday.
• Nicole Garnett appeared on "Conversation with Cardinal Dolan," where she discussed SCOTUS's upcoming consideration of the St. Isidore case.
• Lloyd Mayer contributed several pieces to the Nonprofit Law Prof Blog about corporate philanthropy from a tax perspective, The Independent Report for donor-advised funds, and increases in automatic revokations [sic] due to COVID-19.
• Jennifer Mason McAward was featured on WNDU where she provided legal insights into the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
• A.J. Bellia will publish "The Federalism Canons as Ordinary Interpretation" (with Brad Clark) in the Northwestern University Law Review in 2025.
• Work presented at the Notre Dame Constitutional Structure and Oxford Public Law workshop by A.J. Bellia, Randy Kozel, Jeff Pojanowski, and Oxford's Richard Ekins was cited in the UK Supreme Court's opinion For Women (Scotland) v. The Scottish Ministers.
• Derek Muller's 2024 study was mentioned in a The Daily Caller article.

Events

Tuesday, April 22

• Faculty Colloquium: Daniel Epps, Washington University in St. Louis, Justifying the Fourth Amendment, 12:30 p.m., Faculty Meeting Room
• Talk with Judge Chad Readler, 12:30 p.m., 1130 Eck Hall
• Champions for Justice Public Interest Recognition Ceremony, 5:30 p.m., McKenna Hall

Wednesday April 23

• Democracy Talk Guest Lunch with Faculty, 12:30 p.m., Faculty Meeting Room. Faculty are invited to join JP Cooney & Molly Gaston, former DOJ Career Prosecutors, for a brief introduction and question-and-answer session before their talk Wednesday evening.
• Democracy Talk: Prosecuting Power, 5:00 p.m., McCartan Courtroom

Friday, April 25

• Private Law Workshop, 12:30 p.m., 3108 Eck Hall. Kevin Davis, Beller Family Professor of Business Law, New York University School of Law: Legal Heterodoxy in the Global South: Priority of Workers versus Secured Creditors in Insolvency (with Mariana Pargendler & Maria Eduarda Lessa). Lunch will be provided. There will be a pause at 1:30 p.m. to allow for those who need to leave early.
• JICL Symposium: Modern Migration Law, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. Discussions will explore critical topics such as asylum law, the rights of minors in immigration proceedings, due process concerns, and the experiences of international students.

Upcoming Events

• Talk with Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater, April 28
• Virtual Symposium on Human Rights, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development Sponsored by the Global Human Rights Clinic, April 30

Around the Watercooler

Video reel for graduating students

• Faculty and Staff: Our marketing team is creating a video reel for social media to celebrate Commencement and our 3L students. Over the next few weeks, Jonathan or someone from our team may stop by your office or catch you in the Commons to see if you’d like to share a brief message of congratulations or a piece of advice for our graduating class. Thank you in advance.

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Notre Dame Law School, "NDLS Communicator: Week of 04.21.25" (2025). NDLS Communicator. 323.
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_communicator/323