In the wake of the tragic death of George Floyd, UNC School of Law’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) sent a letter to the law school’s administration and faculty on June 15, 2020, sharing their expectations. Carolina Law community leaders have since vowed to address the systems of oppression and the institutional racism that impacts ...
Jay Butler William & Mary Law School His scholarship and teaching focuses on International Law, and Corporations And Contracts. He served as a law clerk to Judges of the International Court of Justice and worked as a legal adviser to the Government of Japan. https://law2.wm.edu/faculty/bios/fulltime/jbutler.php
Presented by Caplin & Drysdale at UNC School of Law, the online Tax Institute Speaker Series is a continuing legal education program that features tax practitioners and scholars from throughout the country to address current developments in taxation. The online speaker series offers periodic, short sessions (2-3 hours) with networking opportunities throughout the year. CLE ...
The Office of Advancement hosts Canon Pence (BA ’01, JD ’07), general counsel for Epic Games, and S. Gregory Boyd (MD ’02, JD ’04), Frankfurt Kurnit New York co-chair of Interactive Entertainment, to discuss intellectual property, regulations, and international legal issues around growing and managing a company like Epic Games. Epic Games, based in Cary, ...
UNC School of Law's chapters of the National Lawyers Guild, Black Law Students Association and American Constitution Society present programming for the 2021 Week Against Mass Incarceration. Monday, March 1 Emancipate NC Pro Bono Project: Scorecards for Police Accountability 12pm-2pm Join us to help create police accountability scorecards with data from local police departments for Emancipate ...
Issa Kohler-Hausmann A Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale. Her primary research interests are in Criminal Law, Sociology of Law, Empirical Legal Studies, and Social And Legal Theory. https://law.yale.edu/issa-kohler-hausmann
Abbye Atkinson University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Credit and Debt; Consumer Bankruptcy; Debt, Discrimination, and Inequality. Atkinson’s research focuses on the law of debtors and creditors as it affects economically disenfranchised communities. https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/abbye-atkinson/
UNC School of Law's 26th annual Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity (CRCGE), "Immigration: A Global Humanitarian Crisis" considers the effects of state and national law on the lives of immigrants, as well as conditions leading to migration. Conference discussion topics include: the effects of immigration laws on LGBTQ asylum seekers and domestic abuse ...
Alumni are invited to join Professor Patricia Bryan in reading Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino. Styled in the model of Professor Bryan’s popular Law & Literature class at Carolina Law, alumni are invited to take part in a thoughtful virtual conversation about this important ...
UNC School of Law presents a look back at the impeachments of Donald Trump from the perspectives of three experts and participants. Speakers will provide an inside look at the process for both impeachments and their ramifications for presidential accountability in the future. Speakers include: Congressman David E. Price Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell ...
