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ND in the News: May 2021

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  1. James O’Rourke, professor of management at the University of Notre Dame, said the Postal Service still faces myriad problems even as Biden seeks to reshape it through the board of governors and as Congress aims to alleviate some of its financial burden.

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    James O’Rourke

    James O'Rourke

    Mendoza College of Business

  2. Declan Kiberd was born on May 24th, 1951, and teaches at the University of Notre Dame in Dublin.

  3. The Rev. John I. Jenkins, the university’s president, said in an email: “As one of the first women to take a leadership role on Notre Dame’s board of trustees, Kathleen combined strength with her characteristic kindness. While others might raise their voices, I remember Kathleen telling me, with her warm smile, that one of my decisions was plain wrong.”

  4. Sebastian Rosato is an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, and author of “Intentions in Great Power Politics: Uncertainty and the Roots of Conflict” (Yale University Press, 2021).

  5. That will never be enough for anti-abortion-rights activists, though. In the conservative magazine First Things, John Finnis, a professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, recently made an argument that could provide the framework an anti-abortion-rights Supreme Court could use to outlaw abortion across the country: that the legislators who wrote the Fourteenth Amendment viewed unborn children as persons.

  6. I came across this historical comparison recently while reading War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe, which was originally the PhD thesis of Hong Kong native and University of Notre Dame political scientist Victoria Hui Tin-bor.

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    Victoria Hui

    Victoria Hui

    Political Science

  7. O. Carter Snead, professor of law and director of the De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame.

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    Carter Snead Portrait

    Carter Snead

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  8. Richard W. Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Rick Garnett

    Richard Garnett

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  9. The five benchmarks were announced by the University of Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life in November.