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BLSA Competes in First-Year Trial Competition, Awarded for Community Activism
Britney Peguese Mary McDonald Alex Marshall Samera Beshir UNC School of Law’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) first-year trial team competed at the 2012 Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition...
View ArticleUNC Center for Media Law and Policy Hosts FCC Panel on Media Ownership
The UNC Center for Media Law and Policy and Common Cause will host a public discussion on the UNC campus at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 20 about the Federal Communication Commission’s media ownership rules and...
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ACLU of North Carolina Honors Professor Deborah Weissman
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of North Carolina honored Deborah Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law at UNC School of Law, for outstanding civil rights work at the...
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Lawyer and Activist Lawrence Lessig to Speak at Law School March 4
The UNC Center for Media Law and Policy will host a lecture by Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, at the UNC School of Law on Monday, March 4....
View ArticlePro Bono Program Included in 2013 President’s Community Service Honor Roll...
UNC School of Law Pro Bono Winter Break Trip 2013 from UNC School of Law on Vimeo. The Pro Bono Program at UNC School of Law played an instrumental part in helping The University of North Carolina at...
View ArticleUNC Law Students Work with Legal Aid to Draft Wills for Low-Income, Rural...
Students from UNC School of Law will spend three days of their spring break donating their time and expertise to help with the legal needs of low income residents in eastern North Carolina. Students...
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Weidemaier Research Sheds Light on Sovereign Debt Crisis
Sometimes court decisions change the world, like recent federal court rulings interpreting an obscure bit of contract language – the pari passu clause – used in many countries’ bonds. These decisions...
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Crayton Spearheads Amicus Brief to Safeguard Voting Rights Act
Forty-eight years after the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices, one of its provisions was challenged in the nation’s highest court. On Feb. 27, the Supreme...
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Broome and Omarova Lead National Financial Regulation Conference
Broome Omarova Speakers and panelists who attended a UNC School of Law Center for Banking and Finance co-sponsored conference in Washington, D.C, achieved what some believe Congress has seemed unable...
View ArticleUNC-Duke Pro Bono Project Offers Free Legal Services to Cancer Patients
Cancer patients at UNC and Duke have one less thing to worry about, thanks to the recently launched Cancer Pro Bono Legal Project. This cutting-edge collaboration among the law schools and cancer...
View ArticleBanking Professionals and Students Address Financial Industry Issues at 2013...
The implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act, operational risk, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are on the list of topics to be addressed at the 17th Annual Banking Institute to be held March...
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Two Students Win University Awards for Public Service
The University of North Carolina honored Meriwether Evans 3L and Charlotte Stewart 2L during a March 26 awards ceremony hosted by the Carolina Center for Public Service. Seventeen individuals and...
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N.C. Council of Churches Honors Nichol
Gene Nichol, Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor of Law and director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, will receive the Faith Active in Public Life Award from the North Carolina Council...
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UNC Study Reveals Corporate Board Diversity in N.C. Lagging the Fortune 100
The diversity of corporate boards in North Carolina has stagnated since 2009 and significantly lags the diversity of Fortune 100 boardrooms, according to data recently released by the UNC School of...
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‘A Tale of Two Law Schools’ Honors History Between UNC and NCCU
From left: Charles Daye, Mark Dorosin, Gene Nichol and Irving Joyner On February 27, 2013, students and professors from UNC School of Law and North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law...
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Forty-Five Honored with Gressman and Pollitt Oral Advocacy Awards
UNC School of Law congratulates 45 first-year law students who received a Eugene Gressman & Daniel H. Pollitt Oral Advocacy Award on April 17. The annual awards, given by faculty of the Writing...
View ArticleAdditional Birckhead Media Hits for Boston Bombing Case
Radio interview with Gil Gross of San Francisco's Talk 910 http://media.ccomrcdn.com/media/station_content/664/tamar_birckhead_1366947111_29241.mp3 Talk 910 – San Francisco, CA Boston Bombing Suspect...
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Former U.S. Solicitor General Seth Waxman to Speak at School of Law Commencement
Seth Waxman, the 41st Solicitor General of the United States and partner at WilmerHale, will deliver the Commencement address for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. The law...
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School Announces Faculty Awards
UNC School of Law presented three awards to distinguished faculty on Wednesday, May 1, in a ceremony at the Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center. The awards presented include: The Robert G. Byrd Award for...
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Davis Society Welcomes Eight Members from the Class of 2013
Eight law students from the Class of 2013 were selected to become members of one of the most prestigious societies at UNC School of Law. The James E. and Carolyn B. Davis Society is intended to...
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