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Newsweek
July 03, 2025
By Joel Day, Ph.D., managing director of the University of Notre Dame's Democracy Initiative and a former administrator for the city of San Diego, where he led local immigration initiatives and oversaw several public safety programs.
The Wall Street Journal
July 03, 2025
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Newsweek
July 02, 2025
Jessica Payne, professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame, told Newsweek the study needs to be interpreted with caution until it is published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Yahoo
July 02, 2025
This spiritual downtick has spawned endless charts and data-driven debates, with scholars pinning the blame for it on everything from economic comfort and fraying family ties to shifting demographics. But sociologist Christian Smith, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, believes that these reams of stats, while helpful, do not capture what’s really going on.
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The New York Times
June 30, 2025
By Samuel Bray. Mr. Bray is a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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The Washington Post
June 30, 2025
“The Supreme Court has fundamentally reset the relationship between the federal courts and the executive branch,” Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor Samuel Bray, who has studied nationwide injunctions, said in a statement. “Since the Obama administration, almost every major presidential initiative has been frozen by federal district courts issuing ‘universal injunctions.’”
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NBC News
June 30, 2025
Barrett defenders dismiss suggestions she would be influenced by negative comments from MAGA world, with Samuel Bray, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, saying her ruling that limited nationwide injunctions simply shows her independent qualities as a judge. “It should reinforce the sense that she’s her own justice and she’s committed to giving legal answers to legal questions. We shouldn’t be looking for political answers to political questions,” he said.
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Reuters
June 30, 2025
"I do not expect the president's executive order on birthright citizenship will ever go into effect," said Samuel Bray, a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor and a prominent critic of universal injunctions whose work the court's majority cited extensively in Friday's ruling.
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Bloomberg
June 30, 2025
A prominent critic of nationwide injunctions, Notre Dame law professor Samuel Bray, hailed the decision — but also predicted a surge of class action suits and new court orders blocking the citizenship policy.
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Los Angeles Times
June 30, 2025
Notre Dame law professor Samuel Bray, an expert and critic of nationwide injunctions, hailed Friday's ruling but predicted it will not allow...
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Newsweek
June 27, 2025
Professor Samuel Bray, a nationwide injunctions expert at Notre Dame Law 91视频, told Newsweek that there would likely be litigation now on two fronts—Firstly, the states that want broader injunctions against Trump's executive order, and secondly, a "surge of new class actions" against how the executive order will be enforced.
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Politico
June 27, 2025
It’s a big day for Samuel Bray, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame. His work on this issue is cited extensively in the majority’s opinion — a notable achievement for any academic.
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Bloomberg
June 27, 2025
President Joe Biden gained 57 openings, both current and future, between January 1 and June 1 of his first year in office, according to Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor who tracked the early pace of vacancies for recent presidencies using the US Courts’ archived data. George W. Bush had 30 during the same time frame, while 29 opened for Obama.
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BBC News
June 27, 2025
Samuel Bray, a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor and expert on nationwide injunctions, said the ruling "has fundamentally reset the relationship between the federal courts and the executive branch".
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NPR
June 27, 2025
"An injunction is an order by a court telling somebody to do something or not do something," explains Samuel Bray, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame. Usually injunctions protect the parties to the case. But a universal injunction "controls how the federal government acts toward anyone." He says universal injunctions are "a recent innovation" and their use has seen "a meteoric rise over the last 10 years" in tandem with an increase in executive orders issued by the administrations of presidents Barack Obama, Trump and Joe Biden.
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OSV News
June 27, 2025
“Trends in extreme weather events and social vulnerability are such that there is an ongoing need to invest in the current and future resilience of communities worldwide, including the United States,” Danielle Wood, director of , the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, told OSV News. “Disinvesting in socio-environmental concerns, such as thoughtful interventions and the data and analysis that support them, will serve to compound environmental challenges and human suffering.”
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NBC News
June 27, 2025
Samuel Bray, a critic of nationwide injunctions at Notre Dame Law 91视频 whose work was cited in the ruling, said both the states and individual plaintiffs can still get broad injunctions against the birthright citizenship executive order, potentially even on a nationwide basis. "I don't expect the executive order will ever go into effect," he added.
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Stat News
June 26, 2025
“We were all taken aback when we saw the results,” said Marya Lieberman, the professor who led the research. More than 30 manufacturers made products that met standards. But for patients receiving poor-quality drugs, the effects could be devastating. “Once a person has been diagnosed with cancer, there’s a limited window of opportunity for treatment to work,” said Lieberman.
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The New York Times
June 26, 2025
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame found last year that inauthentic accounts generated by A.I. tools could readily evade detection on eight major social media platforms: LinkedIn, Mastodon, Reddit, TikTok, X and Meta’s three platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
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Time
June 24, 2025
DEET “blocks the sensors for an insect to find you, so you end up with a cloak of invisibility,” says Lee Haines, a medical entomologist at the University of Notre Dame who studies how insects spread diseases. “They’re attracted to your heat, but they can’t find you.”
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Biological Sciences
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The New York Times
June 23, 2025
Global commerce could be roiled. Any individual company that ships through the strait would be impacted, though the energy industry is the key concern, Eugene Gholz, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, told DealBook.
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OSV News
June 23, 2025
“If diplomacy is possible, war is unlawful,” Mary Ellen O’Connell, professor of law and international peace studies at the University of Notre Dame, told OSV News. “Diplomacy is needed now more than ever to end the senseless bloodshed throughout the Middle East. While Iran is correct that it is the victim of a grave breach of international law, it has no right to retaliate merely for the sake of revenge.”
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Reuters
June 23, 2025
A 2023 analysis of law school debt-to-income ratios by Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller had found that at more than a quarter of American Bar Association-accredited law schools, graduates had a median cumulative debt that was more than twice their annual income one year after graduation.
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The New York Times
June 18, 2025
“The founders expected the United States to comply with international law and for Congress to check a president’s lawless rush to war,” said Mary Ellen O’Connell, a University of Notre Dame law professor and an expert on international law. “Without a discussion and vote in Congress, this restraining mechanism is lost.”
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Fast Company
June 18, 2025
“What’s cool about this paper is . . . by exploring the human element, it really sheds a new light on the firm’s operations and why there’s variability in different operational processes,” said study coauthor Kaitlin Wowak, an associate professor of business analytics at the University of Notre Dame.
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Scientific American
June 18, 2025
But the paper’s senior author Beth Archie, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Notre Dame, says her instinct is that baboon “dads are more important than they seem at first glance.” One possible explanation for these results is that fathers create a “zone of safety” around their daughters, intervening to protect them in conflicts.
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Biological Sciences
The Guardian
June 17, 2025
“Among primates, humans are really unusual in how much dads contribute to raising offspring,” said Prof Elizabeth Archie, co-author of the research from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. “Most primates’ dads really don’t contribute very much, but what the baboons are showing us is that maybe we’ve been under-appreciating dads in some species of primates.”
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Biological Sciences
The Conversation
June 17, 2025
Jason Colquitt, Professor of Management, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
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Bloomberg
June 16, 2025
Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 and the former Under Secretary for Enforcement at the Department of the Treasury, discusses the legal fight over Trump's tariffs.
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Fortune
June 16, 2025
Ultimately, private equity firms make money for investors by exiting their investments, when they attempt to turn notional valuations on paper into cash. Therefore, there must be some correlation between the performance of public and private assets, said Jason Reed, a finance professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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