The Christian Science Monitor
October 08, 2025
The primary legal question at play in Chiles v. Salazar is a “doctrinal question of free speech law,” says Rick Garnett, who heads the Program on Church, State, and Society at University of Notre Dame’s law school in Indiana. “Namely, ‘What’s the distinction between regulations of conduct and regulations of expression?’” The court, he says, has a deep well of case law to draw upon in making its ruling.
Forbes
October 07, 2025
The University of Notre Dame has received two recent gifts totaling $205 milliion. The first is a $150 million donation from alumnus Matthew Walsh and his wife, Joyce, for Notre Dames’s School of Architecture. The second is a $55 million donation from Francis and Kathleen Rooney to endow an institute for the preservation of American democracy.
USA Today
October 06, 2025
University of Notre Dame Law School professor Mary Ellen O'Connell, an expert on international law, described a Sept. 15 strike by the U.S. military on an alleged drug boat near Venezuela as "unlawful killing." "It only sends the message that compliance with law doesn’t matter to the U.S.," O'Connell said.
CNN
October 06, 2025
“The idea that Mormons were a persecuted group in the 1800s is deeply ingrained in the Mormon psyche,” said David Campbell, a University of Notre Dame professor and author of “Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics.”
Newsweek
October 06, 2025
"Giving a security guarantee to Qatar, or to anyone else, increases the risk of the United States being pulled into a future conflict, because it expands the list of things that the United States promises to fight for," Eugene Gholz, a former senior Pentagon adviser now serving as associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, told Newsweek.
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