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Notre Dame Professor Defends Life Against Cloning Research
5/17/2013
University of Notre Dame law professor O. Carter Snead criticized the advancements made in therapeutic cloning that were announced by scientists on Wednesday.

CUA Law Professor Shows that Legal Abortion Has Led to the Increase of Infanticide
5/15/2013
CUA law professor Mark Rienzi demonstrates that a culture that celebrates abortion as a constitutional right has led to an increase in the murder rates among babies less than a year old.

Santa Clara University School of Law Names New Dean
4/19/2013

Saint Louis University Law School Can't Keep its Dean
3/6/2013
Interim law school dean, Tom Keefe, has resigned from St. Louis University's law school, saying he's "too politically incorrect" to be dean.

Ave Maria School of Law Doing OK
12/10/2012
Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, recalls some of the growing pains that occurred at Ave Maria University’s School of Law in years past and said that the troubling times are behind the Catholic law school.

Students to March on Trustees Meeting, Hold Weeklong Novena at Saint Louis University
12/5/2012
This fall has been a tumultuous one for Saint Louis University. The Dean of Saint Louis University’s law school resigned at the beginning of the school year with a scathing resignation letter that called into question the integrity and honesty of the institution.

Prayer Request for Fr. Robert Araujo, S.J.
12/4/2012
University of Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett is asking for prayers for fellow Mirror of Justice writer Father Robert John Araujo, S.J., a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law

New dean named for Catholic U law school
11/27/2012
The Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law has hired a new dean. The National Law Journal is reporting that Daniel Attridge, managing partner of Kirkland & Ellis’ Washington office, will take over in July 2013 from acting dean, George Garvey.

Fordham Law Profs Demand Funding for Vagina Monologues, Pro-Abortion Groups
11/19/2012
A group of faculty at Fordham University Law School are urging that in light of the university president’s refusal to outright cancel an invitation to conservative author Ann Coulter, he should also be willing to fund pro-abortion groups on campus and activities like The Vagina Monologues, according to The Fordham Observer.

USF honors anti-Prop 8 attorney: David Boies says HHS mandate “a normal law”
11/6/2012
From the California Catholic Daily: by Gibbons J. Cooney. On November 9, 2012, the Public Interest Law Foundation of the (Jesuit) University of San Francisco will host their ninth annual gala.

SLU Faculty Senate and Students Pass No Confidence Votes in Jesuit President
11/2/2012
The Faculty Senate at the Jesuit Saint Louis University yesterday overwhelmingly (51-4) voted no confidence in the university’s president, Fr. Lawrence Biondi, S.J., acording to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And SLU’s Student Government Association has just today expressed no confidence in Fr. Biondi in a unanimous vote.

Georgetown Alumni Politicians Dissent on Abortion, Marriage
10/29/2012
Georgetown University’s student newspaper boasted recently that nine candidates for Congress, six current U.S. senators and 13 members of the House are alumni of the Jesuit university. But Cardinal Newman Society researchers have found that most of these alumni are at odds with Catholic teaching on abortion and/or same-sex “marriage.”

St. Louis University Profs Retaliate Against President’s Tenure Proposal
10/18/2012
Professors at Saint Louis University have voted “no confidence” in the university’s president, Fr. Lawrence Biondi, S.J., in retaliation for his promising but short-livedproposal to reform tenure. The policy was announced in August but rescinded in September.

Adversity Breeds Strength. The Story of Ave Maria Law School
10/2/2012
It started in response to scandal. A group of professors at the University of Detroit-Mercy School of Law lost their jobs after protesting a decision to have a pro-abortion judge give the oath of commitment at the end of a school-sponsored Red Mass for lawyers.

Congressman Outrageously Compares Religious Liberty Hearing to ‘Nero Fiddling While Rome Burns’
9/13/2012
At yesterday’s U.S. House of Representatives hearing on the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) harassment of Catholic colleges and universities, Congressman Robert Andrews (N.J.-1st) reportedly put his foot in his mouth when he characterized the hearing as a “classic case of Nero fiddling while Rome burns”

Even AFL-CIO Supports NLRB Reprieve for Catholic Colleges?
9/12/2012
The vice dean of Villanova University’s law school testified today before Congress, warning that recent rulings by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against Catholic colleges and universities are “a threat to religious freedom.” But what was surprising was the apparent support for religious institutions from the AFL-CIO.

Congress to Discuss NLRB Harassment of Catholic Colleges
9/12/2012
An education committee hearing this morning in the U.S. House of Representatives will address the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) long history of harassing Catholic colleges and universities and violating federal court rulings that prohibit NLRB jurisdiction over religious education.

Onward Christian Professors
8/30/2012
Fr. Robert John Araujo, S.J., of Loyola University Chicago’s School of Law writes that many challenges face law schools today such as declining student populations and increasing costs, but one that should receive an increased focus is training and educating law students in virtue.

Georgetown’s Fluke May Speak at Democrat Convention
8/22/2012
The Associated Press is reporting that pro-contraception and homosexual rights activist Sandra Fluke, a law student at Georgetown University, will speak at the Democrat Party convention in September.

Catholic Law Professor Attacks Paul Ryan
8/16/2012
A professor at a Catholic law school lambasted vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan in the pages of the Huffington Post today, saying Ryan’s record is “that of a man in thrall to a curdled, warped individualism.” Charles J. Reid Jr.,Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, employs Ryan’s oft-repeated praise for Ayn Rand’s work while completely rejecting his disavowal of her “atheistic philosophy.”

Saint Louis U. Law Dean Represented Woman Who Wanted Abortion
8/15/2012
A Catholic Jesuit law school has announced that its new interim dean will be a personal injury lawyer who in 2010 reportedly represented a mother in a “wrongful life” lawsuit, claiming doctors had failed to detect that her child had a congenital condition leading to the loss of the baby’s left foot. Had she known, the woman said she would have aborted the baby. Following the abrupt resignation of the previous dean, Saint Louis University announced last week that alumnus Thomas Q. Keefe Jr. would be the interim dean of SLU’s School of Law.

Jesuit Law School Dean Signs Scathing Resignation Letter
8/9/2012
The Dean of a Jesuit law school resigned Wednesday with a scathing resignation letter that called into question the integrity and honesty of the institution.Saint Louis University told Insider Higher Ed that the dean was able to resign only because she had avoided a meeting Wednesday at which she was to have been fired.“It is the ultimate irony that a Jesuit university would operate so far outside the bounds of common decency, collegiality, professionalism and integrity,” Annette E. Clark, the resigning dean, wrote in her resignation letter. “I simply cannot be part of, and I assure you I will not be complicit with, an administration that can’t be trusted to act honestly.”

Shock Decision: Court Rejects Concept of Tenure as Lifetime Appointment
8/7/2012

Boston College Law School: Standing by Victoria Kennedy
5/14/2012

Georgetown Student Not Allowed to Testify at Religious Liberty Hearing, Dems Storm Out
2/16/2012

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