NDLS Communicator

Editor

Denise Wager

Document Type

Newsletter

Publication Date

8-31-2026

Abstract

The Latest News

  • Notre Dame Law School Welcomes Visiting Faculty for the 2026–27 Academic Year
  • ND Law Professor Nicole Garnett Participates in United Nations Consultation on Educational Pluralism
  • Notre Dame J.S.D. Candidates Present at the World Congress of Constitutional Law and ICONS

Faculty Briefs

  • Sadie Blanchard
  • Randy Kozel & Tricia Bellia
  • Derek Muller
  • Jennifer Mason McAward
  • Rick Garnett
  • Dennis Wieboldt '26 J.D.
  • Announcing Global Visitors
  • Dr. Clara Martins-Pereira
  • Prof. Paul Yowell
  • Prof. Dr. Stephan Wernicke
  • Dr. Róisín Costello

Events

  • Faculty Colloquium: Mary Ellen O'Connell, Enduring Law for a New Era: Overcoming Political Realism and the Pursuit of Wealth
  • Supreme Court Recap with Professors Emily Bremer, Rick Garnett, and Derek Muller
  • From Many, One? Catholic Perspectives at America’s 250th
  • First Gen Professor Panel

Looking Ahead

  • Law & Economics Workshop - Janka Deli, UC Berkeley: Breaking Rules, Building Trade? Rule of Law Decline and Export Resilience in the European Union
  • Faculty Colloquium - Clara Martins Pereira, ND London Law
  • IGP: Lunch & Learn: Frederick Mostert

Around the Watercooler

Welcome New Staff

  • Marta Bustos, Assistant Director, Finance
  • Connor Kirol, Legal Fellow, Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic
  • Mary Klemczewski, Legal Assistant, Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic
  • JP Kolnik, Legal Fellow, Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic
  • Rachael Kutsenda, Legal Assistant, Clinical Law Center
  • Emma Vandehey (Garrett), Assistant Director of Admissions
  • Izabella Vasquez, Legal Assistant, Exoneration Justice Clinic

Congratulations to Heater Clark-Grabarek on 10 years of service

Staff Spot Awards

  • Nominations open

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