NBC News
Trump, gun owners and Jan. 6 rioters: Tough-on-crime Justice Alito displays empathy for some criminal defendants
May 13, 2024
Sherif Girgis, a former Alito law clerk who is a professor at Notre Dame Law School, said in relation to Alito’s recent comments that it is “hard to draw firm conclusions from oral argument,” noting that the immunity case in particular “raises extremely unusual constitutional questions.”
The Conversation
I’ve spent decades overseeing relief operations around the world, and here’s what’s going wrong in Gaza
May 10, 2024
By Raymond Offenheiser, Professor of global affairs, director of the McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business, University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business; Keough School of Global Affairs
The Guardian
Biodiversity loss is biggest driver of infectious disease outbreaks, says study
May 09, 2024
“The take-home messages are that biodiversity loss, climate change and introduced species increase disease, whereas urbanisation decreases it,” said lead researcher Prof Jason Rohr from the University of Notre Dame in the US.
Associated Press
The $230 billion donor-advised fund industry gets an IRS hearing
May 09, 2024
The IRS seems to be concerned that “there are abuses out there and there’s money going places it probably shouldn’t,” said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
The Hill
How Congress would decide the presidency if there’s an Electoral College tie
May 09, 2024
“It would lead to a pretty significant, potentially — I won’t call it disastrous — but disruptive election process if it does happen,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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Law School
The Washington Post
How climate change is raising the risks of another pandemic
May 08, 2024
The connection appeared with all types of infections and their hosts, suggesting that as the planet continues to warm and humans continue to disrupt nature, increases in disease spread “will be consistent and widespread,” said Jason Rohr, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame and one of the study’s authors.
phys.org
Disadvantaged entrepreneurs often fear success, but new research can help
May 08, 2024
Michael H. Morris, a professor of the practice in the University of Notre Dame's Keough School and director of the Urban Poverty and Business Initiative, a program offered by the school's McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business, is lead author of a journal article where these recommendations are outlined, as recently published in Business Horizons.
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McKenna Center for Human Development & Global Business
The New York Times
Environmental Changes Are Fueling Human, Animal and Plant Diseases, Study Finds
May 07, 2024
“It means that we’re likely picking up general biological patterns,” said Jason Rohr, an infectious disease ecologist at the University of Notre Dame and senior author of the study. “It suggests that there are similar sorts of mechanisms and processes that are likely occurring in plants, animals and humans.”
Inside Indiana Business
Notre Dame names dean of Keough School of Global Affairs
May 07, 2024
A University of Michigan leader and expert in Chinese domestic politics has been named the new dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
ABC News
RFK Jr.'s 'clever move' to help earn ballot access nationwide: Allying with little-known parties
May 06, 2024
"As the campaign sees and recognizes that these are very convenient vessels out there, it's a clever move, and it's not a surprise they do it," Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame professor specializing in election law, told ABC News.
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Law School
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The Guardian
What happens if a US presidential candidate dies?
May 06, 2024
In states where ballots have already been printed or mailed, the party could instruct voters – and electors – to treat the names at the top of the ticket “as hieroglyphics”, said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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Law School
The Irish Times
US college football match at Aviva ‘generates €180m for Irish economy’
May 02, 2024
The US college football game between Notre Dame and Navy at the Aviva Stadium last year generated an economic impact of €180 million for the State, according to an analysis by professional services firm Grant Thornton. The report notes that an estimated 39,702 visitors from the US attended the Aer Lingus College Football Classic, along with 1,063 spectators from other parts of the world.
Daily Beast, HuffPost, Yahoo! News
Doubts Over Kristi Noem’s Alleged Meeting With Kim Jong Un: Report
May 02, 2024
“I don’t see any conceivable way that a single junior member of Congress without explicit escort from the U.S. State Department and military would be meeting with a leader from North Korea,” George Lopez, University of Notre Dame professor and expert on the rogue nation, told The Dakota Scout Thursday.
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Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Keough School of Global Affairs
Clarín (Argentina)
Against the war in Gaza, US universities face the largest protests since the Vietnam War
April 30, 2024
“Students have always been at the forefront of great social movements. The current one against Israel's war in Gaza is similar to that of the Vietnam war, although that one was bigger for now. But we are still in the early stages of this movement,” David Cortright, professor emeritus of Policy Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a Vietnam War veteran, told Clarín .
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Keough School of Global Affairs