November 26, 2025

By Asher Kaufman, Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.

November 25, 2025

That reading of the pardon’s text is believable, said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame,who first wrote about the request Laiss’s lawyers were making. “Here you’ve got kind of a broad set of conduct and an undefined group of individuals who are protected,” Muller said in an interview. “It’s quite plausible to read this and suggest that anyone involved in voting for slates of presidential electors in 2020 has now been pardoned.”

November 25, 2025

“The situation on the ground in Ukraine continues to deteriorate, the military is having trouble with desertions ... and now Zelenskyy has a very big corruption scandal on his hands,” points out Michael Desch, an international affairs professor at the University of Notre Dame.

November 25, 2025

“It is not entirely clear whether the statute of limitations has in fact expired — lawyers will argue both sides — but for Comey there is at least a chance that the government will not be able to re-indict him,” Jennifer Mason McAward, a professor at the Notre Dame Law School, toldThe Independent.

November 24, 2025

The pair have analysed the political, economic and cultural rationales for any constitutional change in a book,For and Against a United Ireland, published by the Dublin-based Royal Irish Academy and the University of Notre Dame under their project Analysing and Researching Ireland, North and South (Arins).