Month: October 2022

Today, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (EO) directing the steps that the United States will take to implement the US commitments under the European Union-US Data Privacy Framework (EU-US DPF) announced by President Biden and European Commission President von der Leyen in March of 2022.

Transatlantic data flows are critical to enabling the $7.1 trillion EU-US economic relationship. The EU-US DPF will restore an important legal basis for transatlantic data flows by addressing concerns that the Court of Justice of the European Union raised in striking down the prior EU-US Privacy Shield framework as a valid data transfer mechanism under EU law.

The Executive Order bolsters an already rigorous array of privacy and civil liberties safeguards for US signals intelligence activities. It also creates an independent and binding mechanism enabling individuals in qualifying states and regional economic integration organizations, as

Sometimes I think of March 2, 2016, the day of the Supreme Court oral argument in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedtas the last truly great day for women and the legal system in America.

There are, to be sure, many such glorious moments to choose from, both before and after the election of President Donald Trump, but as a professional Court watcher, I had a front-row seat to this story, one that offered a sense that women in the United States had achieved some milestones that would never be reversed. Whole Woman’s Health represented the first time in American history that a historic abortion case was being heard by a Supreme Court with three female justices. Twenty-four years earlier, when the last momentous abortion case—Planned Parenthood v. Casey—had come before the Supreme Court, only one woman, Sandra Day O’Connor, sat on the bench. Go back a bit

The Notre Dame Law School Moot Court Board started off the academic year strong with victories at the International Moot Court Competition in Law and Religion, hosted by the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies. The competition took place at Córdoba Law School in Córdoba, Spain, on September 16 and 17, and served as the kickoff event to the 6th ICLARS Conference, which centered on the theme “Human Dignity, Law, and Religious Diversity: Designing the Future of Inter-Cultural Societies.”

The participating Moot Court Board members included Matt Delfino, Shannon Moore, Leo O’Malley, Michael Snyder, and Taylor Wewers. Oralists were split into two teams: Delfino and O’Malley argued a case as though it were before the United States Supreme Court, while Snyder and Wewers argued a case in front of the European Court of Human Rights. Moore served as a brief writer, while the Moot Court Board faculty advisor, Professor