Notre Dame Law Review

The 2024–2025 school year marks our centennial anniversary. We celebrated 100 years by inviting students, faculty, and alumni for a weekend of celebration including an editors-in-chief panel discussion and reception. Special thanks to our alumni panelists Judge Thomas D. Schroeder ’84 J.D., Anthony J. Bellia Jr. ‘94 J.D., and Leon F. DeJulius Jr. ’02, as well as to Professor Derek Muller ‘07 J.D. for delivering opening remarks. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gY3YFZGM

The Notre Dame Law Review is thrilled to partner with the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University to host its fall symposium marking 100 years since the landmark Supreme Court opinion Pierce v. Society of Sisters. The symposium will feature discussions from some of the country's preeminent scholars on parental rights, with topics ranging from state education mandates and Blaine amendments to child gender transitions and the state of parental rights in light of Dobbs. You are welcome to join us in the Courtroom in Eck Hall of Law on October 4th for this exciting event!

Issue Four of the Notre Dame Law Review is now online! We hope you enjoy reading these articles, essays, and notes, including pieces from our History, Tradition & Analogical Reasoning Symposium.

Volume 100 of the Notre Dame Law Review is now accepting articles for our fall submissions cycle! Learn more at https://lnkd.in/ghrMg3gZ.

Notre Dame Day is now upon us and we are excited to unveil our centennial logos! Please check them out on our?page. If you haven't given yet, any amount is greatly appreciated and is both tax deductible and counts to your eligibility for the 2025 football ticket lottery. https://lnkd.in/gd_5beJb

ND?Day?starts tonight at 6:48 PM EDT: In “The Fixation Thesis,” @lsolum defended the idea that constitutional meanings are fixed when framed?and?ratified, writing that it is an obvious truth?and?living-constitutionalist objections target issues unrelated to fixation.?The article has been cited regularly in later constitutional law papers?and?judicial decisions. https://lnkd.in/gkFTBSFa

2 Days to ND Day: In "Religion, Equality, and the Constitution," Michael Stokes Paulsen argued for a "new model for establishment clause adjudication: The equal protection of the free exercise of religion."?The Supreme Court cited Paulsen's article in the 2022 case of?Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. Michael Stokes Paulsen,?Religion, Equality, and the Constitution: An Equal Protection Approach to Establishment Clause Adjudication, 61 Notre Dame L. Rev. 311 (1986). https://lnkd.in/g5P4RJHD

3 Days to ND Day: In this article, Professor Carol M. Rose critiqued the idea that strong property rights protections allow people to live isolated from one another,?arguing instead that property protections reward the?character traits that enable self-government, such as cooperation and self-restraint.?The article led to a number of response papers in other journals. https://lnkd.in/gxzxJH8M

4 Days to ND Day:?In “The Civil RICO Civil Fraud Action in Context,” G. Robert Blakey examined RICO’s caselaw and history, arguing that efforts to add new requirements to civil RICO actions should be denied.??The article has been cited by over 40 courts and was written by a RICO draftsman and litigator. G. Robert Blakey,?The RICO Civil Fraud Action in Context: Reflections on?Bennett v. Berg, 58 Notre Dame L. Rev. 237 (1982). https://lnkd.in/gZ77zCBJ

Notre Dame Law Review?will celebrate its centennial volume in 2024–25. In order to highlight some of our best scholarship,?please join us in counting down to?Notre Dame?Day?on April 23rd?with?five of our most impactful articles from the past one hundred years. https://lnkd.in/gd_5beJb