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Panelists for the presentations included:

• Judge DArmy Bailey, a two-term judge on the Tennessee Circuit Court, 30 ^th Judicial District.Bailey disagreed with the perspective that would allow judges to recuse themselves from cases because of conflicts between the law and the judges religious commitments.He stressed that judges take an oath to uphold the law, and that this oath should not be overridden or informed by religious commitments.

• Matthew Franck, professor and chair of the Political Science Department atRadfordUniversity, who offered a brief survey of the Supreme Courts historical religious breakdown and stressed that the recent focus on religion in the confirmation process is a new phenomena.He observed that this new phenomena is likely driven by concern over the growing number of adherents to one religion (Catholicism) on the court, as well as by how religious commitment will affect the justicesdecisions in cases on abortion rights, gay marriage, and the right to die, which are at the center of theculture wars.Dr. Franck also noted that inquiries into religious commitments are used as an indirect form of questioning on judicial philosophy by those who feel uncomfortable directly questioning judicial philosophy, or by those who are stonewalled by the nominees on direct questions.

• Francis Beckwith is the associate professor of church-state studies, associate editor of the Journal of Church&State , and associate director of the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State 91ÊÓƵ atBaylorUniversity.Beckwith argued that, unlike scientific, historical, mathematical, or other sources of knowledge, religion has been systematically and intentionally marginalized (and personalized) so that it is no longer acceptable as a respectable source of information for the legal opinions of judges.

The Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy , __ analyzes legal and public policy questions within the framework of the Judeo-Christian intellectual and moral tradition.The Journal offers two symposia a year.Next semesters symposium will discuss issues surroundingThe American Worker.

For more information about the symposium and the Journal, please see

_ Contact: Carol Jambor-Smith, director of external relations,Notre DameLaw91ÊÓƵ, 574-631-6891 or cjambors@nd.edu
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The Public Service Law Network Worldwide has presented its Pro Bono Publico Award to third-yearNotre DameLaw91ÊÓƵstudent Adrienne Lyles-Chockley for her work to establish Social Justice Services, a non-profit legal aid clinic in nearbyBenton Harbor,Mich.

Formerly a philosophy professor at theUniversityofSan Diego, Lyles-Chockley enrolled at Notre Dame in the summer of 2003, not long after racial rioting rocked the city ofBentonHarbor. The following summer, she split her time working as a research assistant for Walter Pratt, associate dean of theNotre DameLaw91ÊÓƵ, and as an intern with the Economic Development Group ofBentonHarbor. In the latter capacity, she assisted the city council on the development of the Hope VI project, a $32 million public housing initiative.

Her work with the Hope project and with Cornerstone Alliance, an organization that promotes economic and civic development inSouthwest Michigan, convinced Lyles-Chockley of the need for an agency to assistBentonHarborresidents who lack the means to secure legal services and resources.

This past summer, Lyles-Chockey worked for the South Bend law firm Jones Obenchain for 40 hours a week and, during evenings and off days, she returned to Benton Harbor to gather community support for a legal aid clinic. Using connections she had established the previous year, she secured donated office space and is now offering limited pro bono legal assistance while awaiting approval of a 501©(2) request to open the clinic full time.

According to the Social Justice Services mission statement, the clinicaims to achieve social justice through information dissemination, legal service provision, community empowerment, alliance formation and individual self-sufficiency.

In nominating Lyles-Chockley for the PSLawNet award, Erika Harriford-McLaren, assistant director for career services in theNotre DameLaw91ÊÓƵ, wrote:(She) has always maintained her focus in the public service sphere. It is because of her unwavering dedication to serving the needs of the under-privileged and under-represented that I Â….nominate (her).Harriford-McLaren added:Her pursuit of justice for a community that is not even her own Â… and her fearlessness in approaching this challenge and making this project come alive has really shown me and her other classmates the necessity of using our law degrees to provide pro bono services.

Lyles-Chockley earned her bachelors degree in English fromIowaStateUniversityand her masters and doctoral degrees in philosophy from theUniversityofColorado. Prior to enrolling at Notre Dame she served as an assistant professor of philosophy at theUniversityofSan Diego. Her future plans include practicing at Jones Obenchain and expanding Social Justice Services into a full-service holistic legal services clinic.

The Public Service Law Network Worldwide (PSLawNet) is composed of nearly 130 member law schools and more than 12,000 law-related public interest organizations in theUnited Statesand around the world. Through an online database, PSLawNet provides a comprehensive clearinghouse of public interest opportunities for lawyers and law students. Members can perform customized searches of several thousand public interest opportunities around the world, ranging from short-term volunteer and paid internships to post-graduate jobs, fellowships and pro bono opportunities.

_ Contact: Adrienne Lyles-Chockley at Lyles-Chockley.1@nd.edu _

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At the request of the Paraguayan government, Jimmy Gurulé, professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, will speak Oct. 15 to 20 to governmental, police, banking and education groups in that country on money laundering and the financing of terrorists.

Gurulé will deliver a talk titledMoney Laundering and the Global Effort to Stop Terrorist Financingto Minister Regelio Benitez Vargas and other members of the Ministry of the Interior; officials in the General Prosecutors Office, the BankersAssociation on Paraguay, the Ministry of the Treasury, and the Financial Intelligence Unit; and students and faculty at the Catholic University of Asuncion Law 91ÊÓƵ. He also will meet with Paraguayan Vice President Luis Castiglioni.

The Paraguayan government currently is promoting a concerted effort to develop money laundering laws and enforcement avenues. Its efforts include education on the negative economic effects of money laundering as well as the establishment of an enforcement team that has created three special investigative units in customs, tax and internal investigations to address criminal activity that contributes both to the laundering itself and terrorist financing.

Gurulé is an expert on the effects of global funding of terrorism and is a frequent guest of international organizations working to combat such criminal activity. A member of theNotre DameLaw91ÊÓƵfaculty since 1989, he twice has taken a leave of absence from the University to serve in various capacities for theU.S.government.

From 2001 until 2003, Gurulé was under secretary for enforcement in the Department of the Treasury, where, in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he played a central role in developing and implementing theU.S.strategy to deprive terrorist organizations of funding. He also was responsible for drafting the 2001 and 2002 National Money Laundering Strategy.

From 1990 until 1992, he served as assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice.

Gurulé teaches international criminal law at Notre Dame and is the co-author of the first law casebook on the subject.

_ Contact: Jimmy Gurulé at 574-631-5917 or gurule.1@nd.edu _

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