Nicole Stelle Garnett is the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, where she also directs the Notre Dame Education Law Project. She writes primarily on topics related to education policy and religious liberty. In addition to dozens of scholarly and popular articles on these subjects, she is the coauthor of Lost Classroom, Lost Community: Catholic Schools’ Importance in Urban America (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and the co-editor of The Case For Parental Choice (Notre Dame Press, 2023). She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Garnett earned a B.A., with distinction, from Stanford University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She then clerked for Judge Morris S. Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States. Before joining the law school faculty in 1999, she practiced law for two years at the Institute for Justice, where she helped to defend the constitutionality of the nation’s first private-school-choice programs.