ND in the News: 2021

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  1. States Must Stop Discriminating Against Religious Schools | Opinion

    Richard W. Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. Olivia Rodgers is a 2L Law student at the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Initiative.

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    Rick Garnett

    Richard Garnett

    Notre Dame Law School

  2. Gay Men Earn Degrees at Highest Rate, Study Finds

    “Across data sets and across the different educational outcomes that I looked at, gay men outpaced straight men by substantial margins,” said Joel Mittleman, the study’s author and an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. 

  3. Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land for nearly 50 years. Will that matter?

    But O. Carter Snead, a Notre Dame Law School professor, believes the court would be repairing its institutional legitimacy by overruling Roe.

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    Carter Snead Portrait

    Carter Snead

    Notre Dame Law School

  4. Supreme Court prepares to hear biggest abortion fight in decades

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    "There is no middle ground in Dobbs," said Sherif Girgis, a professor at University of Notre Dame Law School who clerked for Justice Samuel Alito.

  5. Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Steps Down From C.E.O. Role

    “If you stand back and you think about who’s had a big influence on social media over the past decade, the name Jack Dorsey is always going to come up,” said Tim Hubbard, assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.

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    Timothy David Hubbard

    Timothy Hubbard

    Mendoza College of Business

  6. For Clarence Thomas, avowed critic of Roe v. Wade, Mississippi abortion case a moment long awaited

    At the symposium on Thomas’s jurisprudence, Notre Dame law professor Nicole Stelle Garnett said her fellow Thomas clerks became familiar with it.

  7. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to step down and be replaced by CTO Parag Agrawal

    “The stock price jumping is an indication that the market might have felt that a new CEO with a focus only on the one company might be more effective,” said Tim Hubbard, a management professor at University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, in an emailed statement.

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    Timothy David Hubbard

    Timothy Hubbard

    Mendoza College of Business

  8. Supreme Court set to take up all-or-nothing abortion fight

    “There are no half measures here,” said Sherif Girgis, a Notre Dame law professor who once served as a law clerk for Justice Samuel Alito.

  9. For US Mormons, religiosity has declined over time, study shows

    As political scientist David Campbell of the University of Notre Dame has analyzed the Congressional Election Study, the trend line for Mormons shows some decline compared with two other minority religions over the same period. 

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    David Campbell

    David Campbell

    Political Science

  10. After Kyle Rittenhouse's Acquittal, Will His Rifle Be Returned to Him?

    Jimmy Gurule, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame's Law School explained to Newsweek that evidence is generally impounded until it is released by the court and the defense counsel must file a motion in order to have it released.

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    Jimmy Gurulé

    Jimmy Gurulé

    Notre Dame Law School

  11. What are God’s pronouns? How the church today is (or isn’t) gendering God

    Tim O’Malley, academic director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Liturgy, noted that Catholic liturgies don’t often rely on pronouns for God — though they are masculine, when present — and they frequently implement the trinitarian language of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

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    Timothy O'Malley

    McGrath Institute for Church Life

  12. U.S. Is ‘Considering’ Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Olympics, Biden Says

    “Regimes have a history of treating their hosts of the Olympics with an international seal of approval for whatever they’re doing,” said John Soares, a history professor at Notre Dame who has written about the Olympics. 

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    John Soares

    John Soares

    Department of History

  13. America’s Catholic schools are seeing a surprising rise in enrollment

    Father Joe Corpora of the University of Notre Dame warns: “We’ll never get another chance like this again.” 

  14. Catholic bishops endorse communion guidelines for public figures

    NPR's A Martinez talks to Kathleen Sprows Cummings of Notre Dame, about U.S. Catholic Bishops approving a position paper urging Catholics to abide by church teachings if they take communion.

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    Kathleen Cummings Portrait

    Kathleen Sprows Cummings

    American Studies