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Matthew Hauenstein is a postdoctoral research associate at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Madhav Joshi is an associate research professor and associate director of the Peace Accords Matrix at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

Previously, Amy Coney Barrett was a law professor at Notre Dame.

Amy Coney Barrett worked briefly as a lawyer in private practice in Washington, D.C., before returning to the University of Notre Dame Law School, her alma mater, to become a professor in 2002.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a federal appellate judge and Notre Dame law professor, is a proven conservative with a compelling personal story who has long been atop President Donald Trump's Supreme Court short list.

Richard Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, told NPR in 2010 that the real division in the country is not between Catholics and Protestants, but is “more the kind of religious versus secular divide.”

A graduate of Notre Dame Law School, Judge Barrett clerked from 1998 to 1999 for Justice Antonin Scalia, then practiced law at a Washington, D.C., law firm before returning in 2002 to Notre Dame as a professor of constitutional law and federal courts.

Among the favorites of many in the anti-abortion movement is Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Roman Catholic who taught law at the University of Notre Dame before taking a seat three years ago on a federal appeals court. 

Amy Coney Barrett, the 48-year-old University of Notre Dame law professor and staunch Catholic was a finalist for the seat Brett Kavanaugh ultimately filled.

Before joining the 7th Circuit, Amy Coney Barrett had made her mark in law primarily as an academic at the University of Notre Dame, where she received a law degree and later began teaching at age 30

But this doesn't really resolve any issues related to security, says Kirsten Martin, professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame.

Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.

Amy Coney Barrett has made her mark in law primarily as an academic at the University of Notre Dame, where she began teaching at age 30. 

The top two contenders appear to be Barrett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame tapped by Trump to fill an Indiana seat on the 7th Circuit, and Lagoa, a Miami native and Columbia Law School grad who worked as a pro bono lawyer for Elian Gonzalez’s family in the 2000 international custody battle over the then 5-year-old Cuban boy found floating off the Florida coast.

Rachel Palermo is a J.D. candidate at Notre Dame Law School.

Amy Coney Barrett graduated summa cum laude from Notre Dame Law School and joined the faculty in 2002, earning praise from colleagues as an astute scholar and jurist even if they did not always agree on her jurisprudential premises.

A Notre Dame Law School graduate, Judge Barrett was a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia and then spent three years in private practice before returning to Notre Dame to launch her academic career, where she still teaches.

Amy Coney Barrett served as a legal scholar at Notre Dame for around 15 years.

A graduate of Notre Dame Law School, Judge Barrett clerked from 1998 to 1999 for Justice Antonin Scalia, then practiced law at a Washington, D.C., law firm before returning in 2002 to Notre Dame as a professor of constitutional law and federal courts.

For his next Supreme Court vacancy, the president spoke with a number of lawyers, including Amy Coney Barrett, a former Notre Dame law professor who now sits on the federal appeals court for the Seventh Circuit. 

Amy Coney Barrett is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame’s law school, from which she graduated.