NDLS Communicator: Week of 04.07.25

Authors

Notre Dame Law School

Document Type

Newsletter

Publication Date

4-7-2025

Abstract

The Latest News

• Law school groups help launch website to shine light on religious discrimination across the United States
• Notre Dame Law School students compete in International Moot Court on Law and Religion in Rome
• ND Law Global Human Rights Clinic research collaboration with International Justice Mission on forced labor and human trafficking in the Philippines
• ND Law's Black Law Students Association leads workshop and shadow day for ND TRIO program

Faculty Briefs

• Jared DeFelice and Robert Stone Curl, students in the Notre Dame Law School Eviction Clinic, traveled to Indianapolis with David Pruitt (Clinical Director) to testify in support of Senate Bill 142.
• Nicole Garnett coauthored an article in City Journal about the recent launch of a website exposing religious discrimination in state government funding.
• On April 11, Mary Ellen O'Connell will give the keynote address for an event at Saint Louis University School of Law.
• Michael Addo coauthored the 6th edition of the book, International Human Rights in a Nutshell.
• On April 2, Sam Bray testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary about legislative solutions to universal injunctions.
• Diane Desierto wrote for EJIL:Talk!: "International law cannot ensure without human rights."
• Emily Bremer will give a talk,"Is Administrative Law Just a Species of Constitutional Law?," this Thursday at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center as part of their Constitutional Conversations series.
• Last week, Rick Garnett spoke as part of the MacTaggart Catholic Intellectual Tradition Lecture series at Saint Mary's University.
• Derek Muller was quoted by many news outlets regarding President Trump's recent remarks about seeking a third time.
• Jennifer Mason McAward's Brady violations study was featured in an article in The Observer.

Student and Alumni News Stories

• This week, Dennis Wieboldt will present "No wall between God and the child: Catholic litigators confront American constitutional modernity" at the 50th Anniversary Conference for the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.

Events

Tuesday, April 8

• Birthright Citizenship, 12:30 p.m., 1310 Biolchini Hall of Law. Former Dean Kevin R. Johnson of the UC Davis School of Law will discuss Trump's recent executive order on birthright citizenship.
• Case Overview: St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond (S. Ct.), 12:30 p.m., 1140 Eck Hall of Law. Learn more about the Religious Liberty Clinic's work representing St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School and the upcoming argument before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Thursday, April 10

• How Distorting Asylum Law Affects Health and Safety at the Border, 12:30 p.m., 3140 Eck Hall of Law. Professor Katherine Drabiak (University of Southern Florida) will discuss her forthcoming paper, How Distorting Asylum Law Affects Health and Safety at the Border.

Friday, April 11

• JLEPP Symposium: Memento Mori: the Legal, Moral, Theological, and Metaphysical Meaning of Death, 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., McCartan Courtroom Eck Hall of Law
• Program on Private Law Workshop with Kimberly Krawiec, University of Virginia School of Law: "WHO Says Countries Should Be Self-Sufficient In (Unremunerated) Organs And Blood," 12:30 p.m., 3108 Eck Hall

Save the Date: Democracy Talk: Prosecuting Power Wednesday, April 23, 5 p.m., McCartan Courtroom.

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Notre Dame Law School, "NDLS Communicator: Week of 04.07.25" (2025). NDLS Communicator. 322.
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_communicator/322