University of Notre Dame
57 Mentions
26 Reimbursements
$656.3K Income Paid
University of Notre Dame has been linked to eight current Supreme Court justices via their disclosure forms. These ties could include direct financial relationships — such as employment, travel reimbursements or gifts — as well as other connections, such as degrees awarded.
8 Justices
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1 mention
John Roberts
1 mention
Travel Reimbursements
Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.
Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided Sept. 11 – 13, 2008 South Bend, IN Speaking, Teaching “Conversation with the Chief Justice” presentation to the law school community; visited administrative law class for discussions with students
Air Transportation, Food, Lodging
$29.1K income • 6 mentions
Clarence Thomas
$29.1K income
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6 mentions
Noninvestment income
Noninvestment income includes compensation from jobs the justice has had, such as teaching roles; jobs at law firms before they were judges; pension benefits; and royalties for intellectual property, such as books and copyrights.
Report Year Amount Purpose 2021 $19,595.00 Academic - Other 2014 $7,500.00 Teaching 2013 $2,000.00 Honorarium Charitable donation in lieu of honorarium
Travel Reimbursements
Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.
Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided Sept. 15 – 17, 2021 Notre Dame, IN Teaching Teaching and guest lecturer
Food, Lodging, Transportation Feb. 2 – 8, 2014 Notre Dame, IN Teaching Food, Lodging, Transportation March 5 – 6, 2013 Notre Dame, IN Meetings, Speaking Speech and meetings
Food, Lodging, Transportation
5 mentions
Samuel Alito
5 mentions
Travel Reimbursements
Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.
Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided July 18 – 22, 2022 Rome, Italy Conference/Symposium Religious Liberty Summit
Food, Lodging, Transportation Sept. 28 – 30, 2021 Notre Dame, IN Academic - Other, Speaking Meet with students, faculty and administration; lecture
Food, Lodging, Transportation Nov. 18 – 19, 2015 South Bend, IN Speaking Book presentation and discussion
Food, Lodging, Transportation July 9 – 11, 2013 Florence, Italy Conference/Symposium Conference
Food, Lodging, Transportation Oct. 8, 2010 South Bend, IN Speaking Speaking engagement
Food, Transportation
1 mention
Sonia Sotomayor
1 mention
Travel Reimbursements
Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.
Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided Sept. 1 – 3, 2015 South Bend, IN Speaking Address, question and answer conversation, meeting with students, meeting with faculty
Food, Lodging, Transportation
1 mention
Elena Kagan
1 mention
Travel Reimbursements
Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.
Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided Sept. 20 – 24, 2023 Notre Dame, IN Speaking Speech
Food, Hotel, Transportation
1 mention
Neil Gorsuch
1 mention
Travel Reimbursements
Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.
Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided Sept. 8 – 10, 2011 South Bend, IN Conference/Symposium Conference
Food, Hotel, Transportation
$25K income • 9 mentions
Brett Kavanaugh
$25K income
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9 mentions
Positions
Positions are those where a justice was an officer, director, trustee, partner, proprietor, representative, employee or consultant for any organization other than the U.S. government at the time the disclosure was filed.
Report Years Position 2022 – 2023 Adjunct professor Noninvestment income
Noninvestment income includes compensation from jobs the justice has had, such as teaching roles; jobs at law firms before they were judges; pension benefits; and royalties for intellectual property, such as books and copyrights.
Report Year Amount Purpose 2023 $25,000.00 Teaching Travel Reimbursements
Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.
Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided Sept. 20 – 23, 2023 Rome, Italy Speaking Speak to and participate in conference with foreign and American judges
Food, Lodging, Transportation March 5 – 11, 2023 London, United Kingdom Teaching Law school seminar teaching
Food, Lodging, Transportation Jan. 22 – 23, 2023 Notre Dame, IN Speaking Spoke at Law School Symposium
Food, Lodging, Transportation Feb. 2 – 3, 2017 South Bend, IN Speaking Deliver speech at law review symposium
Food, Lodging, Transportation Oct. 31 – Nov. 3, 2013 South Bend, IN Speaking Give keynote address at Notre Dame Law Review Symposium and talk to student Federalist Society chapter
Food, Lodging, Transportation Gifts
Gifts include gifts received by justices, their spouses or their dependent children from any source other than a relative. Justices are only required to disclose gifts whose aggregate value from the same source exceeds a certain threshold ($480 in 2023) within the reporting period and gifts that are individually worth more than 40% of that threshold. This only captures gifts that have been disclosed, which ProPublica reporting shows can be incomplete.
Report Year Description Value 2013 Contribution to Washington Jesuit Academy by the Law School $2,000.00
$602.2K income • 30 mentions
Amy Coney Barrett
$602.2K income
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30 mentions
Positions
Positions are those where a justice was an officer, director, trustee, partner, proprietor, representative, employee or consultant for any organization other than the U.S. government at the time the disclosure was filed.
Report Years Position 2018 – 2023 Adjunct professor 2016 Professor Education
Education lists the justice's educational history, including where they obtained their undergraduate and law degrees.
Degree Year J.D. 1997 Employment
Employment is the justice’s job history, including clerkships, private practice experience, earlier judgeships and other government jobs.
Job Title Dates Professor 2002 – 2017 – Present Noninvestment income
Noninvestment income includes compensation from jobs the justice has had, such as teaching roles; jobs at law firms before they were judges; pension benefits; and royalties for intellectual property, such as books and copyrights.
Report Year Amount Purpose 2023 $14,947.50 Teaching 2022 $29,447.50 Teaching Teaching income
2021 $14,280.00 Teaching Teaching income
2020 $28,000.00 Teaching 2019 $27,825.00 Teaching 2018 $28,264.45 Salary “My 2018 outside earned income was $214.45 over the statutory limit. The overage occurred because of my participation in the University of Notre Dame’s continuing education program for alumni. I delivered three lectures that I thought were uncompensated. When I discovered that I had been paid (by direct deposit) and that the amount caused me to exceed the limit. I returned the excess $214.45 to the University of Notre Dame.”
2016 $48,245.00 Salary Salary
2016 $209,676.00 Salary Salary
2016 $201,548.00 Salary Salary
Travel Reimbursements
Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values.
Date Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided April 7 – 13, 2023 London, United Kingdom Teaching Law school seminar teaching
Food, Lodging, Transportation Feb. 7, 2023 Notre Dame, IN Moot Court Moot court
Food, Transportation Aug. 21 – 27, 2022 Notre Dame, IN Teaching Law school seminar teaching
Food Feb. 13 – 15, 2022 Notre Dame, IN Speaking Law Review Symposium lecture
Food, Lodging, Transportation Aug. 19 – 24, 2021 Notre Dame, IN Teaching Law school seminar teaching
Lodging, Transportation Feb. 19 – 23, 2020 London, United Kingdom Conference/Symposium Notre Dame London Law Conference
Food, Lodging, Transportation Feb. 19 – 20, 2019 Washington, DC Speaking Notre Dame alumni lecture, educational
Food, Lodging, Parking, Transportation Oct. 18 – 19, 2018 Savannah, GA Speaking Hesburgh Lecture, educational
Food, Lodging, Registration, Transportation June 2 – 5, 2018 Seattle, WA Speaking Hesburgh Lecture, educational
Food, Lodging, Transportation Gifts
Gifts include gifts received by justices, their spouses or their dependent children from any source other than a relative. Justices are only required to disclose gifts whose aggregate value from the same source exceeds a certain threshold ($480 in 2023) within the reporting period and gifts that are individually worth more than 40% of that threshold. This only captures gifts that have been disclosed, which ProPublica reporting shows can be incomplete.
Report Year Description Value 2018 Judicial robe and shipping $570.27 2018 Catering, flowers and parking for investiture ceremony $23,793.44 Spousal income
Spousal income includes earned income from jobs a justice’s spouse has held, as well as honoraria. Justices are required to report a spouse’s income that exceeded $1,000 but are not required to disclose specific amounts.
Report Year Description Amount 2018 Salary About The Data
The bulk of the data we used came from the Free Law Project, which maintains a database of more than 35,000 financial disclosure records for federal judges, justices and magistrates, most of it dating back to 2003. These disclosures, which federal employees are required to file each year under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, are maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The law, however, requires most of them to be destroyed after six years, making many disclosures from earlier years hard to find. Our disclosures cover most of those filed since 2003, as well as some financial information disclosed by some justices during their Senate confirmations in 1990, 1991 and 2000. (Do you have information about a Supreme Court justice’s finances from before 2003? Email us.)
Because much of the data was extracted from PDFs using optical character recognition, we designed our own database and imported and cleaned the Free Law Project’s data to fix scanning and other errors. We corrected spelling errors, edited fields for style and clarity and, where possible, attempted to add contextual information by, for example, categorizing organizations and transactions, standardizing certain fields, updating entity names or filling in missing information.
In some cases, such as when the Free Law Project did not have a specific disclosure or had not extracted data from a report, we extracted or transcribed the data manually.
After cleaning and standardizing the data, we spot-checked it for accuracy, looking primarily for transcription or categorization errors. If you believe you see an error in the database, please contact us at [email protected].
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