School Announces Faculty Awards
Dean Martin Brinkley, Professor Erika Wilson, Professor Elizabeth Gibson, Professor Mark Weidemaier. Photo by Tom Fuldner. UNC School of Law presented three awards to distinguished faculty on...
View ArticleState Schooling to Federal Rulings: Elizabeth Gibson ’76 Caps 33 Years of...
This article originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2016 issue of Carolina Law. Gibson is pictured here with Rosy Aleman and other 1L students from her Fall 2015 Civil Procedure course. Second row,...
View ArticleCatherine Kim Receives Eric K. Yamamoto Emerging Scholar Award
Civil rights scholars in the United States never lack new, wide-ranging social justice issues and cases to study. UNC School of Law Assistant Professor Catherine Kim focuses on the role that...
View ArticleOrtbahn 3L Places Third in Annual Bankruptcy Law Writing Competition
Some analysts expect the recent drop in oil prices to double the number of bankruptcies in the oil and gas industry. 3L Kate Ortbahn’s award-winning paper about issues in such bankruptcies is not only...
View ArticleWhen the White House Calls: Remus Tapped as Senior Ethics Counsel
This article originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2016 issue of Carolina Law. It’s not every day that a UNC School of Law faculty member gets a call from White House Counsel Neil Eggleston, but...
View ArticleMaking a Defense Attorney: Jerry Buting '81
This article originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2016 issue of Carolina Law. For criminal defense attorney Jerry Buting ’81, being prepared for the unexpected turns of a trial is part of his...
View ArticleWhere Law Meets Creativity: A Q&A with Intellectual Property Law Expert...
This article originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2016 issue of Carolina Law. Deborah R. Gerhardt is an associate professor at UNC School of Law, specializing in the intersection of law and...
View ArticleLisa and Frank Emory ’82 Create Scholarship for Eastern N.C. Students
This article originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2016 issue of Carolina Law. Frank and Lisa Emory believe in the transformative power of education, and they’re committed to putting their beliefs...
View ArticleLau Researches Benefits of Delay in South Africa’s Same-Sex Marriage Case
This article originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2016 issue of Carolina Law. When a court finds a government has violated a constitutional right, how soon should a remedy be implemented? Right...
View ArticleDavis Society Welcomes Eight Members from the Class of 2016
Eight students of the Class of 2016 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 recognizes eight third-year...
View ArticleGibson '76 Honored with Multiple Awards
S. Elizabeth Gibson '76 receives the Jefferson Award from Chancellor Carol L. Folt. Photo by Jon Gardiner. In April, S. Elizabeth Gibson ’76, Burton Craige Professor of Law, received one of the...
View ArticleA Walk Down Memory’s Lane: The Education of Fannie Memory Farmer Mitchell ’46
This article originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2016 issue of Carolina Law. A tree-lined street in Raleigh, now flanked by restaurants and stores, was originally a quiet road built by a father...
View ArticlePro Bono Program Announces 2016 Publico Awards
From left, Jones, Frost, Taylor, Mansour, Gardner, Chelsea Parish 2L, President of ELPS, and Everett. The Pro Bono Board awarded the 2016 recipients of the Pro Bono Publico Awards at the annual Pro...
View ArticleTop Law Journals to Publish Erika Wilson’s Papers on Affirmative Active and...
Erika K. Wilson With many Southern school districts no longer supervised by federal courts regarding desegregation, some suburban districts are essentially re-segregating by withdrawing from county...
View ArticleThomas Presents Research Findings at U.S. Department of Treasury
Kathleen Thomas Applying the psychology of taxpayer behavior could increase compliance with tax laws, and U.S. Department of Treasury officials have more insight on strategies, thanks to research by...
View ArticleCE3: Affecting Environmental Change Through Scholarship, Collaborations and...
“Erin Brockovich,” the 2000 biographical movie about the woman who crusaded for a safe public water supply in her California city, fueled Kristin Brunn’s interest in the environment. Later, as an...
View ArticleCE3: Effecting Environmental Change Through Scholarship, Collaborations and...
“Erin Brockovich,” the 2000 biographical movie about the woman who crusaded for a safe public water supply in her California city, fueled Kristin Brunn’s interest in the environment. Later, as an...
View ArticleMaking a Defense Attorney: Jerry Buting '81
This article originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2016 issue of Carolina Law. For criminal defense attorney Jerry Buting ’81, being prepared for the unexpected turns of a trial is part of his...
View ArticleInternational Jurist Magazine Recognizes Carolina Law’s LL.M. Program as Best...
The International Jurist magazine has included UNC School of Law’s LL.M. for International Lawyers degree program on its lists for best LL.M. programs for academics and law school experience for...
View ArticleWhere Law Meets Creativity: A Q&A with Intellectual Property Law Expert...
This article originally appeared in the Spring-Summer 2016 issue of Carolina Law. Deborah R. Gerhardt is an associate professor at UNC School of Law, specializing in the intersection of law and...
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