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Villanova and Notre Dame’s Roman Holiday Shows Why the College Athlete Experience Is Worth Saving

“I think of it as a celebration of what we share in common with Villanova,” says Notre Dame president Rev. Robert A. Dowd, “but also just a celebration of all that college sports is and can be.” 

Trump's Supreme Court winning streak in election cases screeches to a halt

Notre Dame Law School professor Derek Muller said that the Voting Rights Act and campaign finance cases involved long-contested legal issues and significant constitutional theories, while the recent cases were filed close to an election and were "half-baked or under-theorized. To me, then, there's a big difference between the ​kinds of signature litigation that conservative causes have been developing for decades — which ​are likely to win before the court — and the fly-by-night litigation that seems ⁠to be a regular loser before the court," Muller added.

Meta’s $25B fine left out accountability for harm from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal

Emma L. Briant is a visiting associate professor at the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society at the University of Notre Dame

People Use Crowdfunding to Show Compassion

Academy of Management Scholar Dean Shepherd of the University of Notre Dame said that crowdfunding has given the world a new way to help people whose lives have been upended by disasters and tragedies. "Another part of crowdfunding in addition to raising money was more like a social movement focused on how we prevent these things from happening again in the future," Shepherd said. "So in some ways, the platform provides a basis for which communities can come together and display compassion, by which we mean trying to alleviate the suffering of other people, but perhaps also create these social movements to try and change the legislation, trying to change laws to try and improve life for people," he said.

What We Know About the Alaska Election Controversy

... Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor. 

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