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Cocurricular
activities, through which students may earn credit toward
graduation, provide students with a variety of opportunities
to enhance their classroom experiences with "real
world" research, writing and supervised law practice.
These activities help strengthen the sense of community
within the Law School by allowing students to work together
on projects - whether publishing a legal periodical
or preparing for a team competition. These activities
also sensitize students to the needs of the community
that exists beyond the Law School by giving students
the opportunity to interact with students from other
law schools, practitioners and individuals in need of
legal services.
GALILEE
An acronym for Group Alternative Live-In Legal Education,
GALILEE is a one-credit hour course designed to acquaint
Notre Dame law students with the legal problems of the
urban poor. The program involves a multi-day series
of sessions that students arrange in an urban area and,
subsequently, develop a reflection paper summarizing
and reflecting on their experience. Students participating
in GALILEE typically meet and interact with a variety
of professionals who are involved in various areas of
public interest law, such as public defenders, legal
aid attorneys, and other social service professionals.
These interactions provide students with the opportunity
to explore public interest law while developing an appreciation
for the tensions and complexities that are associated
with resolving real legal issues
The
GALILEE program began in 1981 when six students and
one professor participated in the first GALILEE program
in Chicago. Now over fifty Notre Dame law students participate
in many different cities across the country in such
activities as riding with police officers on their beats,
visiting battered women's shelters, touring jails and
prisons, witnessing criminal trials in addition to meeting
with legal and social service professionals. Click
here for additional information regarding GALILEE.
Law
Journals
Law journals provide second- and third-year students
with the opportunity to research, write and edit articles
on topics of interest to them as well as to legal practitioners
and academics who use the journals as research tools.
Students may serve as staff members and editors of one
of four journals published by the Law School, each of
which has a specialized focus.
- The
Notre Dame Law Review provides qualified students
an invaluable opportunity for training in precise
analysis of legal problems and in clear and cogent
presentation of legal issues.
- The
Journal of College and University Law, the
hallmark publication of the National Association of
College and University Attorneys, which is the only
law review dedicated exclusively to the law of higher
education,
- The
Journal of Legislation publishes articles
by public-policy figures and distinguished members
of the legal community on issues such as existing
and proposed legislation, suggestions for legislative
change, and public policy matters
- The
Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy
is unique among the Law School's legal periodicals
in that it directly analyzes law and public policy
from an ethical perspective and, consequently, strengthens
the Law School's commitment to moral and religious
values in legal education by translating traditional
Judeo-Christian principles into imaginative, yet workable,
proposals for legislative and judicial reform.
Click
here to obtain more information about the NDLS Law
Journals.
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