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Yale Univ. Press Publishes Book by Prof. N. Garnett

2009-11-03T15:28:00-05:00

Find out more here http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300124941

Laptop Reservations for Exams

2009-11-02T02:30:00-05:00

Beginning Monday, November 23, the Circulation Desk will take reservations for laptops that are on Reserve. Reservations will be taken on a first come, first served basis. During the exam period- Friday, December 11 through Friday, December 18 laptops will be available only for Electronic Bluebook and there will be no overnight circulation of the laptops. Because of the limited number of loaner laptops available, we request that you do not reserve a laptop as back up for your personal laptop.

Controversial couple dominates U.S. medical tourism

2009-10-28T13:00:00-04:00

Reuters
Controversial couple dominates U.S. medical tourism

Reuters news service interviewed Notre Dame Professor of Law Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer about the legitimacy of a medical tourism nonprofit organization set up by a couple who also owns and runs a related for-profit company. Mayer’s areas of research interest and expertise include advocacy by nonprofit organizations and the role of nonprofits both domestically and internationally.

EXCERPT:
“It sounds like the non-profit is acting like the marketing arm of the for-profit companies,” says Lloyd Mayer, an expert in nonprofit tax law at Notre Dame [Law School]. “If that’s true, then it exists primarily to generate a profit for the companies and not primarily to promote the industry.”

Read the entire article at: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE59R23V20091028?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=11604

For more on Prof. Mayer, visit:
http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/lloyd-hitoshi-mayer

Prof. Cassel in Chicago Tribune: Return democracy to Honduras

2009-10-23T08:55:00-04:00

Return democracy to Honduras
(by: Doug Cassel)
Chicago Tribune, October 22, 2009

Prof. R. Garnett in NY Times, USA Today

2009-10-22T10:56:00-04:00

October 20, 2009
New York Times
Alito Troubled by Concerns Over Court’s Catholics

EXCERPT:
In a telephone interview, Notre Dame law professor Richard W. Garnett echoed Alito’s comment that the religion of qualified justices will not determine their views of pending cases, even if their experiences might shade it.

’’It’s not the calling of a Catholic judge to enforce the teachings of the faith. It’s the calling of a Catholic judge, as well as he or she can, to interpret and apply the laws of the political community,’’ Garnett said.

However, noting Sotomayor’s ‘’wise Latina woman’’ comment, he added: ‘’No one thinks the moral commitments of a judge are irrelevant. I don’t think anybody can completely put aside who they are.’’

Read the entire article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/20/us/AP-US-Alito-Catholic-Justices.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=garnett&st=cse

October 18, 2009
USA Today
Supreme Court’s Stevens Keeps Cards Close to Robe

EXCERPT:
Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett, a former law clerk to Rehnquist, says Stevens’ influence has not come from a consistent constitutional vision, as Scalia’s has, or by force of personality, as Brennan’s did.

“Stevens’ influence comes in a third way,” Garnett says, pointing to the justice’s long tenure and senior status — which includes the power to assign which justice writes the court’s opinion when Stevens is in the majority and the chief justice is on the other side.

Garnett says that on disputes over Guantanamo detainees, gay rights and the death penalty, Stevens has worked with “swing” justices to take “a lead role in shaping how these opinions are reasoned and written.” When the court is closely divided, justices who control the majority usually try to craft an opinion as narrowly as possible so that they do not lose the key swing vote.

Read the entire story at:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2009-10-18-stevens-supreme-court-justice_N.htm

Prof. Cassel participates in a briefing to the U.S. Congress

2009-10-21T11:08:00-04:00

Notre Dame Law Professor Doug Cassel, Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, continues to be a leading voice in the national and international debate over the recent coup d’etat in Honduras. This week he debates prominent Honduran American lawyer Miguel Estrada at Georgetown Law School on Wednesday, while on Thursday he participates in a briefing in the U.S. Congress, together with José Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch and former Honduran Foreign Minister Ernesto Paz Aguilar.

The specific details for each event are as follows:

The Crisis in Honduras: Constitutional Regime Change or Coup?, Panel discussion with Miguel Estrada, sponsored by the Center for Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, October 21, 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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Honduras: More than a Coup, a Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin America, Briefing for Members of Congress, Senior Congressional Staff, and the Press, with José Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch and former Honduran Foreign Minister Ernesto Paz Aguilar, co-sponsored by the Washington Office on Latin America, Center for Democracy in the America, and the Latin America Working Group Education Fund, 2103 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., Thursday, October 22, noon to 1:00 p.m.

Prof. O’Brien Delivers Hesburgh Lecture

2009-10-21T11:07:00-04:00

Notre Dame Law Professor Sean O’Brien will deliver the 2009 Hesburgh Lecture for the Notre Dame Club of Houston on October 27, 2009 at 7 p.m. The lecture is titled “Human Rights in the Americas” and is presented by the Notre Dame Club of Houston, the University of St. Thomas’ Center for International Studies and the William J. Young Social Justice Institute. The location for the event is at the University of St. Thomas, Crooker Center.

Since 1986, the Hesburgh Lecture Series has brought a taste of Notre Dame’s academic excellence to alumni and their local communities. The lectures, hosted by Notre Dame Clubs, have perpetuated the example of President Emeritus Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., as a lifelong learner.

Prof. O’Brien is Assistant Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights and Concurrent Assistant Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School. He joined the Center in 2005, bringing with him his experience in international and domestic human rights work. He holds three degrees from the University of Notre Dame, most recently graduating summa cum laude from the Center’s LL.M. program in 2002. His experience includes work with the Belfast law firm of Madden & Finucane before the Bloody Sunday Inquiry in Derry, Northern Ireland and litigation with the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) in the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights. Immediately prior to his return to Notre Dame, he served as Chief Counsel for Immigration and Human Rights at the Center for Multicultural Human Services (CMHS) in Falls Church, Va., directing a legal services program for survivors of torture and war trauma.

NDLS Alum Receives Humanitarian Award

2009-10-21T11:02:00-04:00

On Friday, October 16, the Notre Dame Law Association (NDLA) Board of Directors honored Notre Dame Law alum and longtime NDLA Board member Robert Michael Greene with the Father William Lewers, C.S.C. Award. The award recognized Greene for his contributions in the areas of civil and human rights, social justice, and international humanitarian service, including his efforts to help the people of Haiti. Father Lewers was a longtime and outstanding faculty member of Notre Dame Law School who also directed the Law School’s Center for Civil and Human Rights.

Greene is a 1969 graduate of Notre Dame Law School, and practices law as a partner in the firm of Phillips Lytle LLP, Buffalo, New York.

Greene began participating in medical missions to Haiti in 2001, and continues to visit the impoverished nation about twice each year. The medical missions typically last ten days and are sponsored by Philadelphia based Global Health Volunteers. He has assisted in the establishment of new clinics, traveling to Haiti to evaluate potential sites for Medicines for Humanity which operates out of Boston.

Greene has also worked to raise funds for Centre Notre Dame de Lourdes, an orphanage for girls and a neighborhood clinic in Port-au-Prince. Greene learned about the orphanage during one of his medical missions, and has been involved in fundraising for the Centre ever since. All told, he has raised tens-of-thousands of dollars to complete an OB/GYN clinic, purchase equipment for the clinic’s laboratory, and install a water purification system for the Centre.

Prof. O’Connell in Belgium for armed conflict conference

2009-10-19T09:14:00-04:00

Mary Ellen O’Connell, the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution—Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame, will speak at the 10th annual Bruges Colloquium in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday, Oct. 22. The Bruges Colloquium brings together academics, practitioners and experts to discuss current developments in International Humanitarian Law.

O’Connell, who also chairs the Committee on the Use of Force of the International Law Association, will deliver a presentation on international armed conflict, titled, “Saving Lives Through a Definition of International Armed Conflict.” For O’Connell defining international armed conflict requires discussing the term’s two components: “international” and “armed conflict”. Of these two, she finds the “armed conflict” component the more important because of the combatant’s privilege to kill without warning which applies in both international or non-international armed conflict but not outside of armed conflict. Outside of armed conflict, the use of lethal force by police or other authorities is only permitted in situations of necessity. She concludes: “When humanity reaches the point where all force is governed by necessity, we will not need a definition of armed conflict. But we are not there yet. There is still a need, if a diminishing one, to be able to distinguish armed conflict situations from peacetime ones.”

O’Connell is an expert on the international law governing the use of force. She is the author of the leading American law school casebook on the subject: International Law and the Use of Force, Cases and Materials (Foundation 2d ed. 2009). She is the lead author of the next edition of The International Legal System (Foundation 6th ed. 2010) as well as the author of The Power and Purpose of International Law (OUP 2008) and International Law and the “Global War on Terrorism” (Editions-Pedone 2007) among many other books and articles.

O’Connell teaches a number of courses in the international law area including international law, international law and the use of force, international art law, international dispute resolution, and international environmental law, as well as the law of contracts.

She is a member of the American Society of International Law, the International Law Association, the Germany Society of International Law, and the International Institute for Humanitarian Law.

For more on Professor O’Connell, visit her faculty profile web page.

2009 Summer Research Experience Survey Results

2009-10-16T15:21:00-04:00

One hundred sixty-four Notre Dame Law School (NDLS) 2Ls and 3Ls responded to the 2009 Summer Research Experience Survey conducted from September 28 through October 9 by the Research Department. The annual survey helps the legal research instructors assess whether our students have the research skills to successfully compete with other law students in summer jobs.

Legal research instructors, Ed Edmonds, Patti Ogden, Chris O’Byrne, Warren Rees, and Dwight King, are proud that, over the years, NDLS students have reported confidence in their research skills, with many rating them as being better than those of students from other schools.

Highlights from the 2009 Survey:

How much research did you do last summer?
Large amount: 53%
Small Amount: 9%

How do your research skills compare to those of your peers?
Much Better: 16%
Better: 42%
Same: 38%
Worse/Much Worse 3%

Did you use Lexis or Westlaw?
Westlaw: 45%
Lexis: 13%
Both: 40%
Discouraged from using them: 10%

What percentage of your research was done electronically?
Electronic (at least 70% of the time): 82%
Electronic exclusively: 21%

Did you use print sources?
State Statutes: 50%
Digests: 24%
Federal Statutes: 26%

Were you offered a permanent position by your summer employer?
Received an offer: 23% (37 respondents)

Were your research skills an important factor in getting the offer?
My research skills were an important factor: 35% (11 of the 37 respondents)

See all of the results and read additional student comments.

Two NDLS profs featured in Chicago Tribune

2009-10-14T14:25:00-04:00

October 14, 2009
Chicago Tribune

EXCERPT:
Free speech battle pits mom vs. Web
Since there have been relatively few cases like this in U.S. courts, University of Notre Dame law professor Patricia Bellia said there is a strong probability the court proceeding will become an important part of emerging case law.

“Recent court rulings have tended to side with anonymous posters and against those who want their identities revealed, Bellia said. And judges are more likely to set a higher threshold when ruling on identifying anonymous sources in newspaper stories, although in this case the newspaper was merely hosting an online forum, not providing the content, Bellia said.”

Read the entire article at:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-buffalo-grove-web-fightoct14,0,4615421.story

EXCERPT:
How to go after corporate fraud:
“Notre Dame Law School Prof. Lisa Casey has some advice for obtaining justice in the latest corporate crime wave: Don’t wait for the Supreme Court.

“The Obama administration has made prosecuting fraud a top priority in the aftermath of last year’s financial crisis, she says, though few cases have been brought so far.

“One way Congress could help, she writes in a new research paper, is by specifically criminalizing fraud on the board of directors. As it stands, top executives lying to the board of their public companies are not necessarily covered by securities fraud or other statutes.”

Read the entire post at:
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/burns-on-business/2009/10/how-to-fix-corporate-fraud.html

Prof. Gurule Elected to Prestigious National Academy

2009-10-12T15:34:00-04:00

University of Notre Dame Professor of Law Jimmy Gurulé will join the ranks of former Cabinet officials and other distinguished national leaders—including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, former Attorneys General Edwin Meese III and Dick Thornburgh, and former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neil—as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). Gurulé’s election to the Academy by its Board of Governors and other Fellows is a result of his work and accomplishments as a senior public administrator, especially as Assistant Attorney General and Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury.

Established in 1967 and chartered by Congress, the National Academy of Public Administration is a non-profit, independent coalition of top public management and organizational leaders who tackle the nation’s most critical and complex challenges.

Gurulé is an internationally known expert in the field of international criminal law, terrorism, terrorist financing, and anti-money laundering. He played a pivotal role in developing the U.S. government’s global strategy to combat terrorist financing after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

As Under Secretary for Enforcement in the U.S. Department of the Treasury (2001-2003), Gurulé had oversight responsibilities for the U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Customs Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). Gurulé also served as Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice (1990-1992), and as Assistant U.S. Attorney, where he served as Deputy Chief of the Major Narcotics Section of the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s Office (1985-1989).

For more on Gurulé, visit: http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/jimmy-gurule.

Gurulé will be inducted into the Academy on Thursday, Nov. 19, in Washington, D.C. For more on the Academy, visit: http://www.napawash.org/.

NYU’s Weiler Discusses Trial of Jesus at NDLS

2009-10-12T09:43:00-04:00

New York University Professor Joseph Weiler, one of the most distinguished scholars of European law worldwide, will present “Learning From the Teaching(s) of the Trial of Jesus” on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 5 p.m. in the Patrick F. McCartan Courtroom at Notre Dame Law School.

Weiler directs the Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization at New York University School of Law. He is the author, inter alia, of Un Europa Cristiana (Rizzoli 2003), translated into nine languages.

Weiler’s lecture explores the historical context, the factual matrix, and the legal issues concerning the trial(s) of Jesus by the Jewish and Roman authorities. Professor Gary Anderson, of the Theology Department at Notre Dame, will offer a commentary on the lecture. The event is sponsored by Notre Dame Law School and The Nanovic Institute for European Studies, with additional support from the Notre Dame Theology Department and Notre Dame Campus Ministry.

Irish-American Exchange on Human Rights at NDLS

2009-10-05T10:44:00-04:00

Notre Dame Law School will host the inaugural “Irish-American Exchange on Human Rights” on campus, October 9-10, 2009. The event will bring together faculty and students from two of the world’s leading institutions of human rights education—the Center for Civil and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School, and the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland-Galway—for a series of presentations and responses on human rights issues of the day. The event is open to the public and the agenda is available at http://law.nd.edu/about/conferences/irish-american-exchange-on-human-rights.

Bringing “the Center” and “the Centre” together is a natural fit, explains Assistant Director and Concurrent Assistant Professor of Law Sean O’Brien. “Both institutions are led by scholars at the top of their fields – Prof. Doug Cassel from Notre Dame and Prof. Bill Schabas from Galway. The teaching, research, and advocacy conducted by both institutions are well known around the world and have trained hundreds of top-notch human rights lawyers between them” says O’Brien. “We expect this exchange to become an annual and much-anticipated event.” Next year’s exchange will take place on the campus of the National University of Ireland-Galway.

Since its establishment in January 2000, the Irish Centre has developed a global reputation for excellence in the field of human rights teaching, research, and advocacy, which has enabled the institution to attract high quality students to its acclaimed masters programs and to build a thriving community of doctoral researchers. The deputy director of the Irish Centre is Dr. Vinodh Jaichand, a South African lawyer and a “double-domer.” Dr. Jaichand was among the initial graduates of Notre Dame’s Master of Laws (LL.M.) in international human rights in 1987. He completed his doctoral degree summa cum laude (J.S.D) in 1996, also from Notre Dame.

The exchange is co-sponsored by Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, an interdisciplinary project devoted to teaching and research in Irish culture in all its internal and external relations. Established in 1993 under the intellectual leadership of Professor Seamus Deane, the Keough-Naughton Institute’s faculty now includes leaders in Literature, History, Film, Television, and Theater and it is regularly supplemented by visiting professors, some of whom come to Notre Dame as Naughton Fellows in a reciprocal arrangement with Irish universities.

For more on Notre Dame Law School’s Center for Civil and Human Rights, visit http://law.nd.edu/center-for-civil-and-human-rights.

NDLS Hosts Law & Economics Conference

2009-10-01T13:13:00-04:00

Notre Dame Law School will host the Midwestern Law & Economics Association (MLEA) annual meeting on October 9-10, 2009 at Eck Hall of Law. The MLEA is a loose consortium of law school professors that began with Big Ten schools that works to promote research in law and economics, and to enhance understanding of how economics can be applied to solve legal problems. Topics to be covered at the conference include: torts and health care, criminal law and welfare economics, and intellectual property and competition law. The yearly conference has always sought to help scholars at the beginning stages of their projects.

Link to the conference Web page at http://law.nd.edu/about/conferences/midwestern-law-and-economics-conference.

Notre Dame Professor of Law Margaret Brinig and Assistant Professor of Law Daniel Kelly organized the conference this year.

Brinig is the Fritz Duda Family Chair in Law at the University of Notre Dame and the Associate Dean for Faculty Research. Her primary research and writing field is the law and economics of the family, and she is especially interested in empirical answers to questions addressed by law. Brinig has written more than 70 articles and book chapters, and has worked with coauthors in law, economics, sociology, medicine and public health from all over the United States and from Canada. She referees for numerous journals and presses in law and economics including the Journal of Legal Studies, the American Law and Economics Review and Yale University Press. For more on Professor Brinig, visit her faculty profile web page.

Kelly was a Terence M. Considine Research Fellow in Law and Economics and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School before joining Notre Dame Law School’s faculty this fall. Previously, he clerked for the Honorable Richard C. Wesley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, worked as a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, and was a John M. Olin Research Fellow at Yale Law School. Kelly’s research and teaching interests include property, land use, and natural resources law, as well as trusts and estates. His current projects explore the effectiveness of eminent domain, secret buying agents, and other mechanisms for overcoming holdouts and assembling land and the idea of “strategic spillovers,” the opportunistic use of property to harm others in order to extract payments in exchange for desisting. For more on Professor Kelly, visit his faculty profile web page.

Prof. O’Connell to discuss Iran and counter-proliferation at conference

2009-09-29T13:02:00-04:00

Mary Ellen O’Connell, the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution—Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame, will speak at Friday’s (Oct. 2) annual conference of the Security and Defence Forum centres. The conference, titled “International Security Challenges and the Law: Constraining or Enabling Effective Policy?” takes place in Ottawa, Canada.

O’Connell leads the Law and Counter-proliferation panel, for whom she will present remarks on “Legal Limits on the Use of Force in Counter-proliferation—the Case of Iran.”

According to O’Connell, “A preemptive strike on Iranian Nuclear Facilities, even if authorized by the Security Council, is not supported by either the international law of self-defense under Articles 2(4) and 51 of the UN Charter or the principles of necessity and proportionality. Under the current facts, a preemptive strike would not have the proper defensive purpose and, without overt Iranian action, the calculus of necessity and proportionality would be reckless, undermining the restraint on defensive force under current international principles.”

The Security and Defence Forum (SDF) centres are twelve independent Centres of Expertise in Canadian and international security and defense issues, supported through grants from the Security and Defence Forum program at the Department of National Defence. The centres include more than 700 faculty, researchers, students and staff from fourteen universities across Canada.

O’Connell is an expert on the international law governing the use of force. She chairs the International Law Association’s Committee on the Use of Force and is the author of the leading American law school casebook on the subject: International Law and the Use of Force, Cases and Materials (Foundation 2d ed. 2009). She is the lead author of the next edition of The International Legal System (Foundation 6th ed. 2010) as well as the author of The Power and Purpose of International Law (OUP 2008) and International Law and the “Global War on Terrorism” (Editions-Pedone 2007) among many other books and articles.

She teaches a number of courses in the international law area including international law, international law and the use of force, international art law, international dispute resolution, and international environmental law, as well as the law of contracts.

O’Connell is a member of the American Society of International Law, the International Law Association, the Germany Society of International Law, and the International Institute for Humanitarian Law.

For more on Professor O’Connell, visit her faculty profile web page.

Prof. Garnett to Discuss “The Constitution in 2020” at Yale

2009-09-29T11:28:00-04:00

This coming weekend, University of Notre Dame Professor of Law and Associate Dean Richard Garnett will participate in a conference at Yale Law School titled “The Constitution in 2020.” The conference is part of an ongoing project at Yale to formulate a progressive vision of the U.S. Constitution for the future in areas ranging from “foreign policy and national security to social welfare rights, individual freedom, federalism, democracy and voting rights, and theories of constitutional interpretation,” according to the project’s Web page.

Prior to the conference, invited participants have been contributing to a blog about the project. Garnett’s blog posts touch on “Religion and Division” (http://www.constitution2020.org/blog) and “Religious Institutions, Pluralism, and the Infrastructure of Religious Freedom” (http://www.constitution2020.org/node/94).

Garnett teaches courses on criminal law, criminal procedure, First Amendment law, and the death penalty. His areas of research interest and expertise include: school choice, Catholic social thought, Church / state relations, religion in the public square, free speech and expressive association, free exercise of religion, federalism and criminal law, and the death penalty.

Link to more about Garnett, including his CV and selected scholarship, on his faculty profile page.

Guest colloquia series features prominent scholars

2009-09-28T09:31:00-04:00

On most Fridays during the academic year, Notre Dame Law School hosts prominent legal scholars for its Guest Colloquia Series. Here is this fall’s lineup:

Michael Heise, Cornell Law School
Bradford Clark, George Washington University Law School
David Skeel, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Robert Hockett, Cornell Law School
Katie Porter, University of Iowa College of Law
Einer Elhauge, Harvard Law School
Christopher Drahozal, University of Kansas School of Law
Samuel Issacharoff, New York University School of Law
Mark Kende, Drake University Law School

MSN.com interviews Prof. Fox about new trend in foreclosures

2009-09-23T10:39:00-04:00

University of Notre Dame Associate Clinical Professor of Law Judy Fox was interviewed by MSN.com about “bank walkaways,” a new trend in the way banks are approaching home foreclosures. The online article describes it this way:

Across the country, banks are starting to foreclose on homeowners and then, often with no word or explanation, failing to take possession of the home… For homeowners, this can sound like great news: The bank goes away, you get your house back without a mortgage and life goes happily on, you might think. But of course nothing is that simple.

Fox told MSN.com, “I know several people who are thrilled by their situation, but I don’t think they should be that thrilled. I think they have inherited a legal nightmare.”

To read the entire article, including more quotes from Fox, visit: http://realestate.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=21782888

Fox runs the Economic Justice Project at the Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic. Her advocacy and research focus on issues of predatory lending, primarily in the housing market. She is on the Advisory Board of the Indiana Foreclosure Legal Assistance Program, the predatory lending committee of the Bridges out of Poverty Initiative and the National Association of Consumer Lawyers.

Earlier this year, Fox testified before the Indiana House Financial Institutions Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee on mortgage foreclosure issues.

For more on Fox, visit http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/clinical/judith-fox.

Prof. Garnett presents at Villanova on Catholic social thought and the law

2009-09-23T10:36:00-04:00

University of Notre Dame Professor of Law and Associate Dean Richard Garnett will present at the Joseph T. McCullen, Jr. Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and the Law at Villanova University School of Law on Saturday, Sept. 26. He will sit on a panel of legal scholars discussing “Courses on Catholic Social Thought and the Law.”

Garnett’s talk draws on his experience teaching a “Catholic Social Thought and the Law” class at both Notre Dame Law School and the University of Chicago as a visitor there. He says he enjoyed the seminar class immensely. “The goal was to approach this particular Tradition from the ‘outside,’ to identify its claims and proposals, and then to consider them and their implications, not so much as religious adherents but as lawyers, legislators, and citizens. The aim was not catechesis, but critical engagement and application.”

Link to more about Garnett, including his CV and selected scholarship, at http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/richard-w-garnett.