NDLS Communicator

Editor

Denise Wager

Document Type

Newsletter

Publication Date

4-27-2026

Abstract

The Latest News

  • 3L Nikki Rafferty has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest Fellowship
  • 3L Erin Hiestand has been named one of the American Constitution Society’s 2026 Next Generation Leaders
  • Notre Dame Law School’s Barristers Mock Trial Team (the Law School’s Trial Advocacy Team) won the regional championship and advanced to nationals at the American Association for Justice (AAJ) Student Trial Advocacy Competition.
  • The Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic (EJC) will welcome three law students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to its summer internship program.

Student News

  • Roselis Díaz De Freitas, LL.M.
  • Pavithra Rajendran, J.S.D.
  • 2L Summer Abedlbarry

Alumni News

  • John F. Crowley, '92 J.D.

Faculty Briefs

  • Carter Snead
  • Roger Alford
  • Paolo Carozza
  • Lloyd Mayer
  • Mary Ellen O'Connell
  • Rick Garnett
  • Derek Muller
  • Paul Miller
  • Fr. John Paul Kimes
  • Emilia Justyna Powell
  • Vincent Phillip Muñoz
  • David McIlroy

ND Law in the News

  • Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic

Events

  • Finals begin
  • Faculty Meeting
  • Retirement Party for Professor Jim Seckinger

Around the Watercooler

  • Join us to celebrate Prof. Jim Secinger's Retirement
  • Professor Jimmy Gurulé, EJC legal staff assistant Anne Peterson, and ND Law students Madeline Ward and Haley Palumbo attended an event at DePaul University celebrating the 15th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in Illinois.
  • Staff Spot Awards: accepting nominations

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