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Established
in 1869, Notre Dame Law School today enjoys a rich and
proud tradition and reputation for preparing consummate
professionals. The Law School has chosen to remain among
the smaller nationally regarded law schools in order to
foster a sense of community among students and faculty.
Though the Law School has adapted and modified its curriculum
to reflect the changing nature of the profession, the
Law School has been steadfast in its emphasis on teaching
and developing lawyers who are committed to effectively
serving their clients and bringing honor to the profession.
Notre
Dame lawyers now number more than 7,500 men and women
who reside in all 50 states and more than three dozen
other nations. As attorneys, they represent clients
ranging from Fortune 500 companies to the indigent.
As graduates of Notre Dame, they are, almost without
exception, eager to support the Law School and other
alumni. Indeed, few other law schools can boast of the
loyalty that Notre Dame law alumni demonstrate.
Mission
Statement of Notre Dame Law School
We aspire to be a premier law school, as well as an
integral part of a great university which claims the
Catholic tradition as part of its intellectual heritage.
As a scholarly community, we seek to become key participants
in the most important academic conversations in our
fields. As a professional school, we aim to bridge
the worlds of theory and practice, facilitating the
interchange of information between the academy and
the corridors of political and legal power. Our Catholic
tradition, which spans the globe and embraces believers
from all races, cultures, and levels of economic development,
leads us to strive to broaden and deepen our academic
and practical understanding by drawing upon the unique
resources of our religious tradition and the traditions
of other faiths. Committed to the most demanding standards
of scholarly inquiry, we seek to illustrate the possibilities
of dialogue between and integration of reason and faith.
We view ourselves as engaged in a single integrated
mission that combines research, teaching, and service.
In our research and writing, we aspire to engage the
legal academy at the highest level, to bring legal
scholarship into conversation with other disciplines,
and to engage insights and challenges drawn from other
legal systems. Given our unique mission, questions
that will always have a central place here include
the relationship between law and morality, the distribution
of power between the state and other social institutions,
and the importance of identifying universal norms of
justice and exploring the approaches of diverse cultures
in implementing those norms.
Through our teaching, we seek to prepare our students
to practice law with competence and compassion and
to contribute, as leaders in the bar, the academy,
and government, to the development and reform of an
increasingly
complex and internationalized legal and regulatory
framework.
Through our service, we strive to assist the University
and the other communities to which we belong in understanding
how law enables and limits the achievement of individual
and social goals, as well as to facilitate greater
understanding of and commitment to the relationship
between law and social justice.
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here for information on Saint Thomas More.
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here for alumni perspectives on the Law School.
Click here to learn more
about the traditions that have shaped a Notre Dame legal
education.
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here for details regarding plans for the expansion
of the Law Building.
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