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At Notre Dame Law School, we are blessed by a brilliant group of pre-tenure faculty who excel as teachers, scholars, and thought leaders.
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Stephanie Barclay
Associate Professor of Law
Director, Religious Liberty Initiative
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Recent and Forthcoming Publications
News from Prof. Barclay
After clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch during the 2021-22 term, Prof. Barclay began work on a Ph.D. in Law at Oxford University as a Clarendon Scholar and a Tang Scholar. At Oxford, she is working on research for a book about the nature of constitutional rights in a democracy. She is also establishing a presence for the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Clinic with students based in the United Kingdom this year.
Prof. Barclay delivered the keynote, “Making Constitutional Adjudication Safe for Democracy,” at the Law and Freedom Conference in January at the University of Toronto. She spoke at the Hastings Law Journal’s spring symposium, “The Present and Future of Religious Freedom,” in February as part of a panel on the developing doctrine under the Free Exercise Clause, in which she discussed the importance of creating a society where religion can flourish. She also participated in the 42nd annual Federalist Society National Student Symposium at the University of Texas on a panel about the unique features of American democracy.
Prof. Barclay will present chapters of her book manuscript later this month at a workshop at Georgetown Law School, and she will speak on a panel regarding the Establishment Clause this spring at Stanford Law School.
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Sadie Blanchard
Associate Professor of Law
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Recent and Forthcoming Publications
News from Prof. Blanchard
Prof. Blanchard recently presented a paper, “Contracting Under Threat of Incarceration,” in the Contracts Works in Progress panel at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego in January and at IU McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. She will present the paper again this week at the Law and Economics Conference in Lucerne, Switzerland, co-sponsored by Notre Dame Law School’s Research Program on Law and Market Behavior (LAMB).
Prof. Blanchard also convened Notre Dame’s Private Law Workshop during the fall 2022 semester, bringing six leading scholars who focus on different aspects of private law to Notre Dame Law School to present works in progress to students and faculty.
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Emily Bremer
Associate Professor of Law
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Recent and Forthcoming Publications
News from Prof. Bremer
The American Association of Law Schools honored Prof. Bremer in January with the AALS Section on Administrative Law’s Emerging Scholar Award for 2023. She won the award for her article, “The Rediscovered Stages of Agency Adjudication,” published last year in the Washington University Law Review.
Prof. Bremer also worked with the Notre Dame Law Review to organize this year’s Federal Courts Symposium, “The History of the APA and Judicial Review.” During the symposium, she participated in a panel discussion about the historical backdrop of the APA.
In addition, Prof. Bremer contributed a paper, “Power Corrupts,” to a conference on the Legitimacy of Administrative Law at the Hoover Institution in January. The paper will be published by Hoover’s Revitalizing American Institutions project.
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Christian Burset
Associate Professor of Law
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Recent and Forthcoming Publications
News from Prof. Burset
Prof. Burset’s forthcoming book, An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy, will be published by Yale University Press in fall 2023. Read a summary below:
The common law became less common in the eighteenth-century British Empire. Until the 1760s, Britain usually tried to impose its own laws on the peoples it conquered. That changed after the Seven Years’ War. Britain emerged from that conflict as the ruler of former French and Spanish colonies in North America, the West Indies, and Africa. At first, Britain declared that English law would govern these new possessions. But in 1774, Parliament passed the Quebec Act, which restored French civil law to what is now Canada and much of the midwestern United States. Meanwhile, the British East India Company had seized Bengal, where it administered a mix of Hindu, Islamic, and English law. In the new British Empire, English law would no longer follow the Union Jack.
Britain’s new legal policy reflected a careful effort to shape colonies’ political and economic development. Britons believed that English law could turn any territory into an anglicized, commercial colony. Retaining foreign legal systems, in contrast, would keep colonies culturally distinct, politically dependent, and economically subordinate. Thus, by deciding how much English law each colony received, British officials hoped to determine what kind of colony it would become. This strategic manipulation of colonial laws reflected a new and controversial vision for the British Empire — politically hierarchical, economically extractive, and culturally tolerant. In telling this story, An Empire of Laws sheds new light on the relationship between legal institutions and economic development and challenges conventional views about the nature of empire itself.
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Patrick Corrigan
Associate Professor of Law
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Recent and Forthcoming Publications
News from Prof. Corrigan
Prof. Corrigan’s working paper, “The ES/G Tradeoff,” was selected in a peer-review process from among more than 300 submissions to participate in the Michigan Junior Scholars Conference on April 21-22 at the University of Michigan.
During spring break, Prof. Corrigan is taking a group of students to London for a mini-course where they will meet with a senior legal attorney at the Bank of England, the founder and managing director of a private equity firm with a mission to unlock capital in underserved economies, professors at Cambridge and University College London, and a senior legal advisor at Travers Smith LLP. The trip is part of an innovative course that Prof. Corrigan designed.
In addition, Prof. Corrigan recently became a research associate with the Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics.
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Sherif Girgis
Associate Professor of Law
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Recent and Forthcoming Publications
News from Prof. Girgis
Prof. Girgis spoke at the 24th annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference in January in San Diego as one of the participants in the “Dobbs and the Rule of Law” panel discussion. Also in January, he spoke at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute conference on “The Age of Roe.”
On February 21, Prof. Girgis posted a paper, “Living Traditionalism.” University of Virginia Law Professor Lawrence Solum, editor of the influential Legal Theory Blog, designated “Living Traditionalism” as Download of the Week shortly after the paper was posted on SSRN. Prof. Girgis will speak on the paper at the Text and (What Kind of) History? conference in May at Stanford Law School.
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Maria Maciá
Associate Professor of Law
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News from Prof. Maciá
Prof. Maciá continued to serve as a fellow of the Law School’s Research Program on Law and Market Behavior (LAMB), a fellow of the Law School’s Program on Law & Economics, and an affiliated faculty member of the University of Notre Dame’s Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate.
Prof. Maciá recently presented “From Intent to Disparate Impact: A Legal Standard’s Effect on Mortgage Lending Discrimination” at the Financial Regulation Conference at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the Law & Economics Workshop at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School. During the fall 2022 semester, she presented “Mandatory Disclosure for Ethical Supply Supply Chains: Market Responses to Conflict Mineral Reports” at the Law & Economics Seminar, an interactive workshop organized by Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Law & Economics. Her other research in progress includes “The Dodd-Frank Act and Bank Concentration: The Persistence of ‘Too-Big’ in the ‘Too-Big-To-Fail’ Problem.”
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Tladi Marumo
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
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Recent and Forthcoming Publications
News from Prof. Marumo
Prof. Marumo completed his J.S.D. from Notre Dame Law School in 2022 and returned to the Law School in the fall as a visiting assistant professor of law, teaching Complex Civil Litigation.
Prof. Marumo was a guest speaker in the Notre Dame LL.M. in International Human Rights Law program’s Fall 2022 Graduate Seminar, where he discussed toxic exposure mass tort class settlements. He also had the opportunity to introduce a fellow South African, Justice Dumisa Ntsebeza of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, during the justice’s public lecture at the Law School on January 30.
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Stefan McDaniel
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Rodes Fellow, Program on Church, State & Society
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News from Prof. McDaniel
Prof. McDaniel joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty in fall 2021 as a visiting assistant professor of law and remained for the 2022-23 academic year as the inaugural Rodes Fellow of the Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society.
Prof. McDaniel is currently teaching Employment Law. His research agenda includes a variety of issues related to employment and arbitration, both in private industry and in religious organizations.
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Marah Stith McLeod
Associate Professor of Law
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News from Prof. McLeod
Prof. McLeod recently presented “Is the Principle of Desert Unprincipled in Practice?” at the 24th annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference in January in San Diego. This article, a winning entry in the Federalist Society’s Young Legal Scholars Paper Competition, explores how current sentencing procedures invite excessive punishments and argues for procedural reforms to help ensure defendants do not receive more punishment than they deserve.
In May, Prof. McLeod will host a criminal law conference at the University of Notre Dame’s Kylemore Abbey Global Centre in Ireland.
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Francisco Urbina
Associate Professor of Law
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Recent and Forthcoming Publications
News from Prof. Urbina
Prof. Urbina taught and researched at Notre Dame during the 2021-22 academic year as a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and concurrent visiting professor at the Law School. After a semester participating in public debate and advising decision-makers on the current constitution-making process in Chile, he returned to Notre Dame Law School in December 2022 as an associate professor of law. His research interests include human rights, legal philosophy, and comparative constitutional law.
Prof. Urbina recently presented “New Standards on the Right to Protest” to members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and participated in a panel with the secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on international courts and the rule of law organized by the Keough School of Global Affairs. During spring break he will present a paper at the Global Summit on Constitutionalism at the University of Texas, Austin, and in the summer he will give presentations at the Oxford Law Faculty and the annual conference of the International Society for Public Law (ICON-S).
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David Waddilove
Associate Professor of Law
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News from Prof. Waddilove
Prof. Waddilove joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty in 2019. His areas of expertise include English legal history, property, contracts, equity, and private law theory.
He serves as an affiliated faculty member of the University of Notre Dame’s Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate and is a fellow of the Law School’s Program on Private Law.
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