About

Established in 2020 upon a foundational gift from Matt and Lindsay Moroun, Notre Dame Law School’s Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic is one of the world’s leading academic institutions dedicated to promoting and defending religious freedom.

Within Notre Dame’s Catholic tradition, the Clinic integrates teaching, research, and service to stand as a source of advocacy, counsel, scholarship, fellowship, and hope in defense of the fundamental right to religious freedom for all people. We envision a world with robust legal protections for religious liberty and a shared cultural commitment to this foundational human right, so that it may flourish for all people.

Our Clinic pursues these goals through a variety of work that advocates for and defends the right to religious freedom and which engages the academy and the public in research, conversation, and reflection exploring this fundamental right. And at its core, the Clinic is a teaching law practice that educates, forms, and prepares Notre Dame law students to become the rising generation of religious liberty leaders. The Clinic helps further the mission of Notre Dame Law School to form students who will serve their communities with competence and compassion as a powerful force for good in the world.

“As a Catholic university, Notre Dame has from its founding proven that faith is not only compatible with a free society and the open pursuit of truth, it is necessary to their fulfillment. That is why Notre Dame Law School is the ideal home for an initiative that prepares its students to be fearless defenders of every person’s God-given right to live their lives according to their beliefs."

_{– Lindsay and Matt Moroun}

 

 

 

“Without freedom of conscience — to believe, and then to live our lives as our beliefs require us — nothing else matters.”

_{– Dean Marcus Cole, Founder of Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic}