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Practice, Not Theory: Externs Obtain Experience Beyond the Classroom
This story is from the Spring-Summer 2013 issue of Carolina Law . In her third year in law school, Janie Hauser was already forming federal litigation policy. Through UNC School of Law’s semester...
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Fedders Submits Brief to N.C. Center for Safer Schools
UNC School of Law clinical assistant professor Barbara A. Fedders co-authored an issue brief submitted May 7 to the North Carolina Center for Safer Schools, a state program created in March 2013 that...
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Former Gov. James E. Holshouser ’60 Dies
Courtesy of Robert Willett, News and Observer James Eubert “Jim” Holshouser Jr. ’60, former governor of North Carolina from 1973-1977, died Monday, June 17, 2013 in Pinehurst, N.C. Holshouser was the...
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Deyneka 2L Wins International Internship Award
Natalia Deyneka 2L received an International Internship Award from UNC's Center for Global Initiatives, which will enable her to intern with Human Rights First's Refugee Protection Program in New York...
View ArticleUNC Center for Civil Rights Argues Pitt County School Desegregation Case in...
On July 22 a trial over the issue of racial segregation of students in Pitt County Schools (PCS) will begin at the Eastern District Federal Courthouse in Greenville, N.C. The UNC Center for Civil...
View ArticleGrants Help Students Gain Essential Experience at Unpaid Internships
Every time someone walks in the door at Pisgah Legal Services, Samuel Williams ’15 knows something terrible has happened. An unexpected job loss, an unwanted diagnosis, and life for those on the brink...
View ArticleStudent-run Environmental Law Project Wins ABA Award
The areas of energy law and environmental law are becoming more intertwined, prodded by climate change. By increasing awareness of related issues among attorneys and policymakers, UNC School of Law’s...
View ArticleSchool Announces Endowed Professorships
Six faculty members were awarded endowed professorships this fall, as announced by Dean John Charles “Jack” Boger ’74 in July. “ Our faculty is full of colleagues who are making outstanding...
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Muller and Brown ’13 Participate in Auschwitz Fellowship Program
Among the most memorable images Andrew Brown ’13 recalls from his recent fellowship is the Grunewald Track 17 memorial in Berlin, a Nazi deportation site with dates and destinations for each person...
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School Mourns the Loss of Civil Rights Leader Julius Chambers ’62
Julius Chambers ’62, civil rights leader, educator and founding director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights, died Friday, Aug. 2, 2013, after a decline in health over the past several months. “It is...
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Omarova Article Puts Questionable Banking Practices in National Spotlight
What is bigger than companies that are “too big to fail”? Possibly, it is banks involved with physical commodities, a topic of national prominence largely due to UNC School of Law associate professor...
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What I Did This Summer: Rising 2Ls Work In New ‘Crim Lab’
How closely does a computer hard drive resemble the trunk of a car when you’re looking at it from the perspective of search-and-seizure? What does a death-row inmate look like? Does that profile...
View ArticleProf. Hornstein Delivers Popular Course To Thousands Online
At the end of the day, when Donald T. Hornstein, the Aubrey L. Brooks Professor of Law at UNC School of Law, packs up his work to bring home, it includes his laundry. His office in Van Hecke-Wettach...
View ArticleDo Trademark Lawyers Matter? A New Paper by Professors D. Gerhardt and...
New research by two UNC School of Law professors, Deborah R. Gerhardt and Jon P. McClanahan, show that, although the trademark registration process is fairly straightforward, when the going gets...
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Silliman '68 Discusses The War Powers Act and Use of Force in Syria on...
Celebrate the Constitution of the United States on Tuesday, Sept. 17, by attending a timely discussion about the presidential and congressional authority to authorize military actions short of war,...
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School Welcomes Three New Faculty Members
UNC School of Law welcomes three new faculty members for the fall 2013 semester. The new faculty members include: Beth S. Posner Beth S. Posner formally joins the faculty this year as clinical...
View ArticleUNC Center for Civil Rights Report Highlights Plight of ‘Excluded’...
North Carolina’s racially segregated African American and Latino neighborhoods are more likely to suffer from inequality in living conditions related to housing, environmental justice and equal access...
View ArticleDan K. Moore Program in Ethics to be Held Friday, October 4
The annual Dan K. Moore Program in Ethics will be held at the UNC Center for School Leadership Development on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The continuing legal education program is...
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Hornstein Featured in New Book on Top Law Profs
A new book names Donald Thomas Hornstein, Aubrey L. Brooks Professor of Law, one of only 26 “best law teachers” in the United States. The book, “What the Best Law Teachers Do” (Harvard University...
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