Professors Paolo Carozza and Richard Garnett Honored by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters
Notre Dame Law School Professors Paolo G. Carozza and Richard W. Garnett have been invested as new members of the American Academy of…
Notre Dame Law School Professors Paolo G. Carozza and Richard W. Garnett have been invested as new members of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. Their investment into the Academy highlights their outstanding contributions to legal scholarship and education.
Carozza is a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School and a concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. His expertise is in the areas of comparative constitutional law, human rights, law and development, and international law. From 2012-2022 he served as the Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He was elected as a member of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and served as its President in 2008-2009. From 2019 to 2024 he was the United States member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission). He currently serves as a member of the Oversight Board for Meta. He is an Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Professor of Law and a concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, criminal law, the First Amendment, and law and religion. He is a leading authority on questions and debates regarding religious freedom and church-state relations, and is the founding director of Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Church, State, and Society. He is a fellow with the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic. Garnett clerked for the late Chief Justice of the United States, William H. Rehnquist, and also for the late Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Richard S. Arnold.
Their inclusion in this prestigious organization aligns them with a distinguished group of scholars dedicated to promoting excellence in the arts and sciences. Congratulations to Professors Carozza and Garnett on this well-deserved honor.
Originally published by law.nd.edu on October 25, 2024.
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