ND in the News: May 2021
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The Hill
Postal Service sees chance to turn the page after tumultuous year
May 23, 2021
James O’Rourke, professor of management at the University of Notre Dame, said the Postal Service still faces myriad problems even as Biden seeks to reshape it through the board of governors and as Congress aims to alleviate some of its financial burden.
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Mendoza College of Business
The Irish Times
Bob Dylan at 80, by Declan Kiberd: He was so much older then, he’s younger than that now
May 22, 2021
Declan Kiberd was born on May 24th, 1951, and teaches at the University of Notre Dame in Dublin.
The New York Times
Kathleen Andrews Dies at 84; Helped Give Ziggy and Others Their Start
May 22, 2021
The Rev. John I. Jenkins, the university’s president, said in an email: “As one of the first women to take a leadership role on Notre Dame’s board of trustees, Kathleen combined strength with her characteristic kindness. While others might raise their voices, I remember Kathleen telling me, with her warm smile, that one of my decisions was plain wrong.”
The Washington Post
International relations scholar Nuno Monteiro asked and answered the big questions about real-world politics
May 21, 2021
Sebastian Rosato is an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, and author of “Intentions in Great Power Politics: Uncertainty and the Roots of Conflict” (Yale University Press, 2021).
The Atlantic
The Abortion Fight Has Never Been About Just Roe v. Wade
May 20, 2021
That will never be enough for anti-abortion-rights activists, though. In the conservative magazine First Things, John Finnis, a professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, recently made an argument that could provide the framework an anti-abortion-rights Supreme Court could use to outlaw abortion across the country: that the legislators who wrote the Fourteenth Amendment viewed unborn children as persons.
South China Morning Post
An ancient Chinese history lesson for today’s Hong Kong
May 20, 2021
I came across this historical comparison recently while reading War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe, which was originally the PhD thesis of Hong Kong native and University of Notre Dame political scientist Victoria Hui Tin-bor.
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Political Science
Our Sunday Visitor
The Supreme Court has an opportunity to correct the mistake of ‘Roe v. Wade’
May 20, 2021
Richard W. Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.
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Notre Dame Law School
Newsweek
A Time for Courage on the Supreme Court | Opinion
May 20, 2021
O. Carter Snead, professor of law and director of the De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame.
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Notre Dame Law School
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The Hill
Pandemic baby bust: Millennials' bad luck leads to fewer kids
May 19, 2021
Kasey Buckles is an associate professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at the IZA Institute for Labor Economics.
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Economics and Econometrics
Crux
Seminaries commit to benchmarks on sexual misconduct policies
May 19, 2021
The five benchmarks were announced by the University of Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life in November.