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Lunch n Learn focused on Educational Equity Under Attack: From \u27Anti-Wokeness\u27 to Affirmative Action bans
No full textOur Fall 2023 Lunch n Learn focused on Educational Equity Under Attack: From \u27Anti-Wokeness\u27 to Affirmative Action bans. Speakers included AU Professors Kenjus Watson and Lia Epperson, accompanied by student leader Josiah Carolina
Faithfulness as a Husband, Father, and Attorney
No full textWednesday, September 4, 2024 | 12:30 PM | Eck Hall of Law, Room 3140
The St. Thomas More Society hosts Notre Dame Law School alum Michael Bradley, who speaks of faithfulness as a husband, father, and attorney. Michael was a Polking Fellow, clerked for Judges Hardiman and Pryor, and is starting at Jones Day in D.C. He\u27s also the father to five young children. He will be speaking about incorporating your faith in your career and how to maintain a strong family and spiritual life as a lawyer.
Sponsor: St. Thomas More Societyhttps://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1877/thumbnail.jp
REGULATING THE RENEWABLE REVOLUTION: REVISITING FERC’S AUTHORITY UNDER THE FEDERAL POWER ACT POST-MAJOR QUESTIONS DOCTRINE
No full textJury nullification in the US (Glenn Reynolds, University of Tennessee College of Law)
No full textImagine you are a juror in a criminal trial. The evidence is overwhelming that the defendant is guilty. But you can’t shake the feeling that it would be unjust to convict. Maybe you don’t believe what the defendant did should be treated as a crime. Or maybe you simply believe the defendant deserves mercy. Can you vote to acquit, or must you vote according to the evidence?
It turns out that, in the US and the UK, jurors do have the power to acquit, even if they believe a defendant committed the charged crime. This is known as jury nullification.
In this episode, host Janelle Wrigley chats with Professor Glenn Reynolds from the University of Tennessee College of Law. They discuss the history of jury nullification in the US, the role of the jury, and the debate on whether jurors should be told they have the power to nullify if they believe a conviction would be unjust
The Fundamental Right to Education: an opportunity for a fairer education system?
No full textWednesday, September 11, 2024 | 12:30 PM | Biolchini Hall of Law, Room 1315
The International and Graduate Programs Office invites you to a Lunch and Learn on September 11 at 12:30 p.m. with Visiting Professor of Law Felix Hanschmann from Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. Professor Hanschmann will discuss the German Federal Constitutional Court’s 2021 decision recognizing a constitutional right to education and its implications for educational equality. He will also provide a comparative analysis with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, which denied such a right, and address current debates in U.S. legal scholarship on the topic.
Sponsor: Notre Dame Law School, International and Graduate Program Officehttps://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1884/thumbnail.jp
Tribes and AI: Possibilities for Tribal Sovereignty
No full textArtificial Intelligence (AI) has permeated every facet of modern existence. Governments across the globe are exploring its applications and attempting to establish regulatory frameworks. Numerous scholars have proffered recommendations for governing AI at the local, national, and international levels. However, as is often the case, Indian tribes have been neglected in AI policy discussions. This oversight is significant because the 574 federally recognized tribes are sovereigns with their own judicial, education, and healthcare systems. Due to their relatively small populations and geographic isolation, tribes stand to benefit significantly from the services AI can perform. Moreover, tribes are uniquely well-suited to implement AI. This is the first law review article dedicated to exploring how AI can enhance tribal sovereignty. This article begins with a history of tribal sovereignty and then provides an overview of AI. Subsequent sections delve into the ways AI can augment tribal legal systems, healthcare, education, cultural preservation endeavors, economic development, and administrative capacity. By illuminating the intersection of AI and tribal sovereignty, this article seeks to foster a more inclusive discussion of AI
Panel 2: The Lawyer as Advocate - Moderator Pat Longan
No full textMeet the Panelists
Mark R. Brown was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and earned his bachelor of science degree from the University of Dayton in 1981. Following graduation from the University of Louisville School of Law in 1984, he earned his LL.M. at the University of Illinois (1988). He clerked for the Honorable Harry W. Wellford, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1984-1985) and served as a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States (October Term 1993) under the chief justice of the United States. Brown currently holds the Newton D. Baker/Baker & Hostetler Chair at Capital University where he teaches courses on constitutional law and constitutional litigation. He has authored and co-authored several books and scholarly works addressing matters in both subject areas. He has taught at Stetson University, the University of Illinois, Ohio State University, and Florida State University. Brown’s most recent works include LexisNexis Civil Rights & Strategy Series: Section 1983 Litigation (2023); A Critical and Historical Analysis of Ohio’s Post-Millennium Regression to Major-Party Monopoly, 50 Hast. Con. L.Q. 227 (2023); and Candidate Debates in Ohio: Can Corporations Fund the Major Parties?, 83 Ohio St. L.J. Online 160 (2022).
Jonathan Rapping is a professor of law and director of the Criminal Justice Certificate Program at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School and the founder and president of Gideon’s Promise, a non-profit organization whose mission is to transform criminal justice by building a movement of public defenders who provide equal justice for marginalized communities. Before founding Gideon’s Promise, Rapping spent a decade as a public defender in Washington, D.C. before coming to Georgia to serve as the first training director for Georgia Public Defender Council. He then joined the leadership team in New Orleans to help rebuild the public defender office there in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He did work in Alabama and Mississippi and the challenges he saw public defenders facing across the South led him to start Gideon’s Promise to provide public defenders in under-resourced jurisdictions with training, mentorship, support, and leadership development.
Rapping is the author of Gideon’s Promise: A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice. Most notably among numerous recognitions, Rapping was the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant for his cutting-edge approach to justice transformation. He has been awarded the Alumni Professional Achievement Award form his alma mater, The University of Chicago, and was elected for membership to the American Law Institute. He is a frequent contributor to the national conversation on criminal justice reform and has been featured by numerous media outlets. Rapping has been a speaker at TEDx Atlanta, and frequently presents nationally. Rapping’s work was the inspiration for the award-winning HBO documentary “Gideon’s Army.”
Christian Stegmaier is a shareholder at Collins & Lacy, P.C., a Columbia, South Carolina-based civil defense firm where he leads the Retail & Hospitality practice group. He has extensive experience in defending businesses and their insurers in high exposure litigation. Stegmaier regularly advises clients on risk management and litigation strategies, and his expertise also includes alcohol liability, dram shop cases, and ADA compliance. In addition to his legal practice, he is a frequent speaker at legal seminars and a published author, contributing to industry blogs and legal publications. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and has appeared more than 45 times before state and federal appellate tribunals. Stegmaier also serves as the staff judge advocate for the South Carolina State Guard. He was educated at the University of South Carolina and has done post graduate coursework at the University of California, Los Angeles
The Role of Kenneth Kaunda’s Humanism in Fostering Higher Education for Social Responsibility in Post-colonial Zambia (1964-1991)
No full textKenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s first president from 1964 to 1991, advanced a Pan-African social-political ideology of humanism as a moral code to guide all human activities in the nation’s political, economic, and social spheres. Within education, humanism envisaged producing socially responsible and public good-oriented graduates equipped with humane values and capable of driving the national development agenda. This paper critically examines the nexus between Kaunda’s humanism and education by focussing on its role in fostering higher education for social responsibility in post-colonial Zambia. In addressing this, it focusses on the University of Zambia as a case study by drawing on secondary data sources through a systematic desktop review of related literature. It examines how the university endeavoured to produce socially responsible graduates in line with the national ideology of Zambian humanism. Situated within a post-colonial theoretical paradigm, the paper advances that Kaunda’s social-political thoughts on humanism offer an alternative framework for examining the role of higher education in fostering students’ social responsibility outcomes. In so doing, it contributes to the scholarship on human development and decoloniality in education. ________________
A Close Look at Kenneth Kaunda’s Life: Interviews with those who knew him personally
No full textVictoria Phiri Chitungu and her team conducted a remarkable series of interviews with people personally close to Kenneth Kaunda, along with Kaunda himself, and together these offer a different, more personal perspective on Kaunda’s life. The articles in this special issue primarily focus on Kaunda as a public and political figure and Kaunda as a real-life human being can sometimes disappear in this perspective. He was a symbol for many people, alternately revered and reviled. Chitungu’s interviews are different. Here, we glimpse into Kaunda’s personal life: the food he ate, the songs he sang, how he slept, and his family relationships. The lack of a biography or autobiography of Kaunda make the personal and intimate histories in these interviews an important source