USA Today
Revelations in New York court underscore Trump's legal peril on multiple fronts
January 20, 2022
"In the past, Trump's approach to any legal trouble has been to brush it off as some sort of political gamesmanship," said Jimmy Gurule, a former Justice Department official in the George H.W. Bush administration.
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Notre Dame Law School
Associated Press
Florida opens investigation into dark-money group key to ‘ghost’ candidate scandal
January 20, 2022
The reporting discrepancies raise “at least yellow flags,” said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a nonprofit expert and professor in the University of Notre Dame School of Law.
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Notre Dame Law School
Catholic News Service
Court leans toward allowing flag with cross to fly at Boston City Hall
January 19, 2022
Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative similarly filed an amicus brief in this case. The program’s interim director, Nicole Stelle Garnett, a Notre Dame law professor, said this case provides the court with the chance to “clarify that religious voices are welcome in the public square and that our nation and communities are enriched by them.”
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Notre Dame Law School
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Associated Press
Family seeks to sue Lebanon over dead father’s captivity
January 19, 2022
Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor at the Notre Dame Law School, said it may be challenging for a case to be brought against Lebanon, which is not designated a “state sponsor of terrorism.”
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Notre Dame Law School
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Associated Press
EXPLAINER: Microsoft’s Activision buy could shake up gaming
January 19, 2022
Pushing more people into such virtual social networks will not be all fun and games, however, and could amplify existing problems with online harassment, trolling and identity theft, according to Elizabeth Renieris, founding director of the Technology Ethics Lab at the University of Notre Dame.
The Christian Science Monitor
Biden’s soft-power policy faces reality of Xi-Putin big-power world
January 18, 2022
“Big-power politics is back in a big way. It’s not a reality President Biden can wish away or ignore,” says Michael Desch, a professor of international relations at the University of Notre Dame and founding director of the university’s International Security Center.
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Political Science
Financial Times
Academic research award: smart ideas with real-world impact
January 18, 2022
Sridhar worked with the lead author, Yixing Chen at Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, as well as colleagues from Ivy College of Business, Iowa State University and Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, alongside two researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Our Sunday Visitor
Opening the Word: An awe for Scripture
January 17, 2022
Catherine Cavadini, Ph.D., is the assistant chair of the Department of Theology and director of the master’s in theology program at the University of Notre Dame.
The Washington Post
American secularism is growing — and growing more complicated
January 14, 2022
“Secularism is at the very heart of the battles for the soul of the Democratic Party,” write the authors, political scientists John C. Green of the University of Akron and David E. Campbell and Geoffrey C. Layman, both of the University of Notre Dame.
Commonweal
The Right Questions
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January 13, 2022
Virtue ethics, as Notre Dame’s Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko contend, offers a method for reasoning about, and gaining new insights into, these age-old questions.
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Department of Philosophy
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The Christian Science Monitor
Does 5G dangerously crowd the spectrum? Federal referee may help.
January 12, 2022
Altimeter interference is a “valid” concern, says Monisha Ghosh, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, who worked as chief technology officer at the FCC until last June, but she adds that tests in other countries where 5G has been deployed did not show evidence of interference.
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Electrical Engineering
