UNC School of Law is No. 18 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Law Schools rankings for the second year, placing Carolina Law among the top 10% of law schools and tying with Georgetown University Law Center. The back-to-back ranking is no accident. Carolina Law has invested deeply in what happens inside the classroom. The …
When Lissa Broome, the Burton Craige Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Banking and Finance at UNC School of Law, gathered more than 215 attorneys at The Ritz-Carlton in Charlotte last week, the marquee moment wasn’t a keynote, but an envelope. On Thursday evening, Broome awarded 10 second-year law students $10,000 scholarships for their third year of law school. The …
UNC School of Law students are on a historic run. On back-to-back competition weekends, two Carolina Law teams claimed national championships in advocacy competitions, adding to an already impressive season. 3Ls Becca Feldman, Fikemi Fawehinmi, and Mary Kwon won the ABA Client Counseling Competition national title in Chicago. Around 86 teams competed in regional rounds …
UNC ‘s Center for Media Law and Policy will host the 2026 Wade H. Hargrove Media Law and Policy Colloquium on Monday, April 6, featuring Kevin Martin, vice president and head of global policy at Meta and former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. The event is free and open to the public. This year’s colloquium, “The Regulator’s Dilemma: …
Michele L. Jawando ’05, has spent her career building communities and coalitions to ensure that people often left out of consequential conversations have a seat at the table. A civil rights lawyer and former Google executive, she now brings that conviction to one of the most influential philanthropic organizations in the world. Jawando has been …
