Law and Politics
The Game of the Century: A Clash of Perspectives On and Off the Gridiron
The year 1966 will long be remembered as one of protest and division over the escalating War in Vietnam and the rise of black power. It will also be remembered for a...
watch videoFighting for Lasting Peace
Peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the country’s principal guerrillas had come to a standstill yet again. One of the longest and bloodiest civil wars in...
watch videoFollow the Money: The Fight Against Terrorist Funding
Fifteen years after the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks, is the United States safer than we were that morning? Jimmy Gurulé, professor of Law, is an internationally known expert in the...
watch videoForum 16-17: Tension City: The Televised Presidential Debates
As part of the 2016-17 Notre Dame Forum, Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission for Public Debates, Dorothy Ridings, former president of the League of Women Voters, and...
watch videoWhat Judges Want: Goals and Personalities on the U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court justices are often viewed as rational actors who strategically pursue multiple goals, including policy influence, collegiality, and leisure. Yet these models...
watch videoCatholic Health Care’s Role in Integral Human Development
What role can Catholic health care play in the moral development of the United States? Sr. Carol Keehan, DC, RN, MS, claims it has the ability and obligation to go beyond...
watch videoTransformational Change in Healthcare
The full title of this lecture is “Transformational Change in Healthcare: What It Means for You, for Business and for the Government.” This talk is given by Elizabeth Heller...
watch videoNotre Dame Boston Massacre Trial Re-Enactment
In this video, Notre Dame and Boston College law students make final arguments in a re-imagining of the Boston Massacre Trial 245 years ago, celebrating the importance of the...
watch videoThe Costs and Benefits of Reducing Carbon Emissions
Richard A. Jensen, Gilbert F. Shafer Professor of Economics from the University of Notre Dame delivered the annual Hesburgh Lecture Series at Public Policy Institute at...
watch videoFighting For a New Generation of Peace Builders
Growing up in the midst of a decades-long civil war, Prashan de Visser witnessed the allure of violence, how people were willing to commit extreme acts in the name of their...
watch videoImpact of Gaudium et Spes on the Church in Southern Africa
Cardinal Wilfred Napier, O.F.M., Archbishop of Durbin, takes a practical approach to Gaudium et Spes by evaluating its impact on the Church in Southern Africa and the ways in...
watch videoFighting for God, Country, Notre Dame
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987, a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and one of the nation’s most...
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