Nicole Stelle Garnett to present 42nd Annual Donald A. Giannella Memorial Lecture, Oct. 30
棉花糖直播 University Charles Widger School of Law will hold its annual Donald A. Giannella Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, October 30 at 3 p.m. in the Martin G. McGuinn '67 Ceremonial Courtroom (Room 201) at the Law School. Nicole Stelle Garnett, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School, will present 鈥淭he Case for Educational Pluralism.鈥
Nicole Stelle Garnett鈥檚 research focuses on property, land use, urban development, local government law and education policy. She is the author of numerous articles on these subjects and of two books, Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing and the Restoration of Urban America (Yale University Press, 2009) and Lost Classroom, Lost Community: Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America (University of Chicago Press, 2014). At Notre Dame, Garnett is a Fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the Senior Policy Advisor for the Alliance for Catholic Education, a program engaged in a wide array of efforts to strengthen and sustain K-12 Catholic schools. From 2008-2010, she served as a Provost Fellow at Notre Dame, and, during the Spring 2007 semester, as a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Garnett received her BA with distinction in Political Science from Stanford University and her JD from Yale Law School. Following law school, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Morris S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court. Before joining Notre Dame in 1999, she worked for two years as a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice, a non-profit public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C.
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About the Donald A. Giannella Memorial Lecture:
Through the generosity of Professor Giannella鈥檚 family, colleagues, Law School alumni and other friends, an endowed fund was established to honor the distinguished scholar and beloved educator who died in 1974.