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42 Honored at 20th Annual Gressman and Pollitt Oral Advocacy Awards
UNC School of Law congratulates 42 first-year law students who received a Eugene Gressman & Daniel H. Pollitt Oral Advocacy Award on April 16. The annual awards, given by faculty of the Writing...
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School Announces Faculty Awards
UNC School of Law presented three awards to distinguished faculty on Wednesday, April 29, in a ceremony at the Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center. The awards presented include: The Robert G. Byrd Award...
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Solorzano 3L Wins Clinic Outstanding Student Award
Andrea Solorzano with Professor Kathryn Sabbeth Andrea Solorzano 3L received the third annual Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Outstanding Student Award in April for her work in the Civil...
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Jacoby Research Sheds Light on Detroit Bankruptcy Case
This article was originally published in the Spring-Summer 2015 issue of Carolina Law. When Detroit said in 2013 that it was broke, it was the largest municipal bankruptcy ever. The Motor City owed...
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Liz Bower '01: Paving the Way for Others
This article was originally published in the Spring-Summer 2015 issue of Carolina Law . Elizabeth J. “Liz” Bower ’01 says UNC School of Law provided her the knowledge and opportunities that helped her...
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Rear Admiral James Crawford III '83 Finds JAG Career Challenging, Rewarding
Even as a young child, Rear Admiral James W. Crawford III ’83 knew he wanted a career as an attorney. “In the era in which I grew up, the law played a tremendous role in changing the trajectory of the...
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The Honorable Jenny Rivera to Speak at School of Law Commencement
Jenny Rivera, a judge on the New York State Court of Appeals, will deliver the Commencement address for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. The law school Commencement...
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Students Win UNC Public Service Award for Work with Domestic Violence Victims
Caline Hou 2L and Prof. Beth Posner at UNC Public Service Awards 2015 UNC School of Law’s Domestic Violence Action Project (DVAP) was awarded the Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award at UNC’s annual...
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Rear Admiral James Crawford III '83 Finds JAG Career Challenging, Rewarding
Editor's note: This article was originally published in the Spring-Summer 2015 issue of Carolina Law . Shortly after publication, in May 2015, Crawford was nominated by the president for appointment...
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Davis Society Welcomes Eight Members from the Class of 2015
Eight students of the Class of 2015 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...
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Jacoby Bankruptcy Article Wins Grant Gilmore Award
A crisis usually is not a good time to make rational decisions about one’s future. The same theory, applied to companies, is implicit in the Bankruptcy Code. Sometimes, though, lenders or other third...
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Pro Bono Program Announces 2015 Publico Awards
The Pro Bono Board awarded the 2015 recipients of the Pro Bono Publico Awards at the annual Public Interest Celebration April 8. This year's award recipients included: Sylvia K. Novinsky Award - Anna...
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Two Carolina Law Alumni Honored By Pitt County, N.C.
Attendees gather around the newly unveiled portraits of Robert Browning '66 and Jack Lewis '61, which were hung in the superior courtroom at the Pitt County Courthouse on June 6, 2014. (Aileen...
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Martin Brinkley '92 Chosen as 14th Dean of UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law
Martin H. Brinkley ’92, a partner in the law firm of Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, L.L.P. in Raleigh, North Carolina, will be the 14th dean of the University of North...
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UNC School of Law’s Center for Law, Environment, Adaptationand Resources (CLEAR), UCLA School of Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate and theEnvironment, and the Cooperative Institute for Climate and...
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Alumni Receive Unanimous Decision from Supreme Court in GPS Tracking Case
Luke Everett For Luke Everett ’08 and Mark L. Hayes ’08, it took just under a decade from when they first sat together in a law class to win a Supreme Court case. The impact of that decision, however,...
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Michael Gerhardt Becomes First Independent Scholar to Advise Library of...
UNC School of Law’s Michael Gerhardt, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor in Constitutional Law and director of the Program in Law and Government, has become the first independent scholar to advise...
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Former Chancellor and Professor Emeritus William B. Aycock '48 Dies at 99
William Brantley Aycock ‘48, who began his career as a high school history teacher and became Kenan Professor of Law at UNC School of Law and chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
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Amicus Brief By Hirsch Influences NLRB to Reverse Decision on Email
This article was originally published in the Spring-Summer 2015 issue of Carolina Law . In many workplaces, employees use company email for personal communications: weekend plans, birthday greetings,...
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School Announces Faculty Awards
UNC School of Law presented three awards to distinguished faculty on Wednesday, April 29, in a ceremony at the Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center. The awards presented include: The Robert G. Byrd Award...
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