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2022-08-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
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2022 New Student Orientation
2022-08-15 08:00 - 18:00 | Friday Conference Center, 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill, 27599, United States
Welcome to Carolina Law!

2022 New Student Orientation
2022-08-16 09:00 - 17:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States

First Day of Class
2022-08-22 08:00 - 17:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States

POSTPONED, New Date TBA - LAA Leadership Awards Celebration
2022-09-30 18:00 - 21:00
As part of the Fall for All weekend celebration, join us Friday for the LAA Leadership Awards Celebration and alumni affinity group events.

Fall For All
2022-10-01 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Calling all Carolina Law Alumni, Family and Friends – We Can’t Wait to See You at Fall for All Weekend 2022!
It’s officially here. Don’t miss THE alumni weekend at Carolina Law – Fall for All Weekend, September 30-October 1. We’re excited to welcome you back to the hill for two days of Carolina Law fun. Alumni, students, faculty and staff are invited to a weekend full of family-friendly activities in celebration and support of UNC School of Law. See the full schedule of events below.
Registration closes September 19 at 11:59 p.m. EST.

Greensboro Alumni Reception
2022-10-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Tuggle Duggins, Tuggle Duggins 400 Bellemeade Street, Suite 800, Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
The offices of Alumni Affairs and Career Development and the Center for Banking & Finance invite you to join us for a Greensboro Alumni Reception on Thursday, October 20, 2022, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. Hosted by Tuggle Duggins, this reception is part of the Career Development Office’s efforts to expose members of our first-year class to our great Greensboro alumni and showcase the opportunities to build successful careers in Greensboro.

Law Alumni Association Board and Committee Meeting and Leadership Donor Celebration
2022-11-04 10:00 - 12:00
Carolina is always fun in the fall. Come for the meetings and stay for the leadership donor celebration! More details coming soon.

Sylvia X. Allen Portrait
2022-11-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Kathrine R. Everett Law Library
On November 4, Carolina Law alumni, students, faculty and staff will join members or Sylvia X. Allen’s family as well as special guests Provost Chris Clemens, UNC Board of Trustees Chair Dave Boliek and the Honorable James F. Ammons ’80, Cumberland County Senior Resident Superior Court Judge for the unveiling of the portrait of Sylvia X. Allen ’62. The unveiling will take place at noon in the reading room of the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library followed by a luncheon in the rotunda.
Allen was a public servant, civil rights activist and a woman of many firsts. She was the first Black female to graduate from Carolina Law, one of the first three Black female lawyers admitted to the bar in North Carolina and the first Black female assistant district attorney in the state.
Join us to celebrate her wonderful legacy.

Watch: Media Coverage of Prosecutors and Their Elections
2023-02-22 12:00 - 13:30
Watch now: Play a recording of this event.
A recent survey found that most Americans do not know that their local prosecutor is elected. How could that be?
One possible answer to that question may lie in the media coverage that prosecutors receive. Outside of large cities, prosecutors do not receive much media coverage, and the coverage that they do receive rarely mentions that they are an elected office—even in an election year.
Join the Prosecutors and Politics Project for an important discussion about media coverage of prosecutors and their elections, featuring journalists and prosecutors!
Panelists include:
Mark Dupree, Sr., District Attorney in Wyandotte County, Kansas
Dupree leads an office of over 60 employees. His administration has increased the felony trial conviction rate by 27%. Dupree has successfully created the first ever “Conviction Integrity Unit” in the state of Kansas, since re-named “Community Integrity Unit” which is responsible for ensuring that convictions obtained previously still hold integrity today and holding law enforcement accountable with the establishment of a hotline for residents to register complaints. His efforts for transforming the traditional manner in which District Attorney’s Offices have operated has been recognized nationally, with articles featured twice in the New York Times and interviewed on the nationally syndicated Roland Martin Show. Community involvement is the bedrock of the Dupree Administration. It builds community trust, and that trust greatly assists in crime prevention and bringing justice. Dupree and his administration lead the way in speaking at schools, neighborhood watch meetings, church gatherings, and civic organizations.
Julie Gunnigle, Legal Director, Arizona NORML
Gunnigle is an attorney and former prosecutor who fights for justice in our criminal legal system, for funding in our public schools, and for reproductive justice for our families. She was the 2020 and 2022 Democratic nominee for Maricopa County Attorney, coming closer than any reform candidate in 40 years to taking that office. Since that time, Gunnigle has worked as the Legal Director for Arizona NORML where she helps individuals who have been directly impacted by the war on drugs expunge their convictions and get a true second chance.
George Joseph, Senior Reporter for The City
Joseph is a Senior Reporter for The City with a focus on criminal justice and courts. He previously worked for WNYC and Gothamist, and has published stories with NPR, ProPublica, Esquire, and The Intercept among other outlets.
Will Knight, Attorney, Maricopa County, Arizona

Knight is a directly impacted Colombian-American attorney who practices criminal defense and civil rights litigation in Phoenix, Arizona. Knight has a background in both prosecution and indigent defense, and he had the privilege of defending numerous protesters against false, politically motivated gang prosecutions during the 2020 uprising, leading to several high profile multi-plaintiff and class action lawsuits against local police and prosecutors. Knight ran in a crowded field for Maricopa County Attorney in 2019 and 2020 following the appointment of the previous office-holder to the Supreme Court of Arizona.
Ryan Thornburg, Associate Professor at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Thornburg is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an interest in social media, data driven reporting and digital media economics. Before joining the school in 2007, he spent a decade in leadership positions in online newsrooms, mostly working on national and international news at The Washington Post.

The Future of the First Amendment-2023 Wade H. Hargrove Media Law and Policy Colloquium
2023-04-10 19:30 - 21:00 | The Carolina Inn, 211 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, United States
On April 10, the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy will host the 2023 Wade H. Hargrove Media Law and Policy Colloquium featuring Floyd Abrams, Senior Counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. Abrams, one of the nation’s leading First Amendment lawyers, will speak about “The Future of the First Amendment.” In addition to giving prepared remarks, he will sit down with Mary-Rose Papandrea, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at the UNC School of Law, for an extended conversation about this important topic.
Abrams has extensive experience in high-visibility matters, often involving First Amendment, securities litigation, intellectual property, public policy and regulatory issues. He has argued frequently in the U.S. Supreme Court in cases raising issues as diverse as the scope of the First Amendment, the interpretation of ERISA, the nature of broadcast regulation, the impact of copyright law, and the continuing viability of the Miranda rule. Most recently, he prevailed in his argument before the Supreme Court on behalf of Senator Mitch McConnell as amicus curiae, defending the rights of corporations and unions to speak publicly about politics and elections in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Abrams also represented The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case and other important First Amendment litigation before the Supreme Court. He represented Nina Totenberg and National Public Radio in the 1992 “leak” investigation conducted by the United States Senate arising out of the confirmation hearing of Justice Clarence Thomas and, in 2004 and 2005, Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper in their efforts to avoid revealing their confidential sources.
Described by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan as “the most significant First Amendment lawyer of our age,” Abrams has been awarded with Lifetime Achievement Awards by The New York Law Journal and The American Lawyer (2013). For fifteen years, Abrams was the William J. Brennan, Jr. Visiting Professor of First Amendment Law at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He also has been a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School and Columbia Law School and he is author of Friend of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment, published by Yale University Press (2013) and Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment, published by Viking Press (2005).
Abrams will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Chancellors’ Ballroom at the Carolina Inn. The event is free and open to the public.
About the Colloquium
The UNC Center for Media Law and Policy hosts the Wade H. Hargrove Media Law and Policy Colloquium, which was established in 2009 to honor a figure of national prominence in the areas of media law or media policy. It was funded in part by the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters and North Carolina Cable Telecommunications Association to recognize the more than 30 years of service that Wade Hargrove, a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the UNC School of Law, provided to these organizations as well as media and technology companies throughout North Carolina and the nation.
The colloquium is a world-class event that draws attendees from both industry and academia. Speakers have included David Barrett, former chairman and CEO of Hearst Television Inc.; Ben Sherwood, former president of Disney|ABC Television; and David Cohen, Ambassador to Canada and former senior executive vice president of Comcast Corp. Past colloquia have been televised by C-SPAN and UNC-TV.

Prosecuting Cannabis: Approaches from States without Legalization
2023-05-17 12:00 - 13:15
Over the last decade, a large number of states have adopted various forms of marijuana reform. To date, 21 states have legalized marijuana for recreational purposes and 38 have legalized medical marijuana use. While public opinion polls suggest that the vast majority of people support marijuana legalization, less is known about the opinions and policies of prosecuting attorneys in states that have not yet legalized marijuana for any purpose.
Join the Prosecutors and Politics Project at UNC School of Law and the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law for a conversation with a panel of legal experts and academics. Panelists will discuss results from a recent study of marijuana enforcement and examine how different district attorney offices approach marijuana offenses.

Constitution Day
2023-09-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 5042
Each year, UNC School of Law organizes the campus-wide Constitution Day celebration to commemorate September 17, the day on which the Constitution of the United States was signed. Constitution Day allows schools and colleges across the country to reflect on United States history, the deeper meanings within the Constitution and hopes it represents for the future.
The law school will celebrate the federal observance this year on September 26 with a fireside chat at noon in room 5042, featuring double Tar Heel Reggie Shuford ’91, executive director of the N.C. Justice Center and Martin H. Brinkley ’92, dean and William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Law where Shuford will discuss his civil rights work and perspectives on the Constitution.

University Day 2023
2023-10-12 10:45 - 12:30
University Day is right around the corner. Join the festivities as UNC-Chapel Hill celebrates its 230th anniversary on Thursday, Oct. 12.
Classes will be canceled from 10:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in honor of the events. Participants can begin gathering at the Old Well for the University Procession at 10:30 a.m. before heading to Memorial Hall for the 11 a.m. ceremony. Students, faculty and all others who decide to join in the celebration will be treated to a variety of activities and food trucks on campus.

Law Alumni Weekend
2023-10-13 - 2023-10-14
If you graduated from Carolina Law, the UNC Law Alumni Association invites you back to Chapel Hill on October 13-14, 2023 for the annual Law Alumni Weekend.
Bring your significant other, your kids and encourage your classmates to come back to Chapel Hill for THE ONLY event that brings together all alumni, students, faculty and staff for a weekend of family friendly activities in celebration and support of UNC School of Law.
Events for the weekend include:

October 13:

5:30-7:30 p.m. | Law Alumni Weekend Welcome Reception, Rizzo Conference Center, Loudermilk Hall
Dress attire: come as you are
Drinks and hors d’oeuvres served
Plan to meet your Carolina Law friends and classmates at the Welcome Reception and then enjoy your time in Chapel Hill and stroll down Franklin Street and stop for dinner, dessert, and drinks. Remember Chapel Hill is busy for football weekends. We encourage you to make plans with your friends in advance and try to get dinner reservations ahead of time.

October 14:

4:30 p.m. | Briefing with Dean Martin H. Brinkley ’92, UNC School of Law
5:30 p.m. | Carolina Law Tailgate and Pre-Game Fun, School of Law Rotunda
7:30 p.m. kick off | Carolina vs. Miami, Kenan Memorial Football Stadium

Additional details and registration information to come but don’t miss the opportunity to book your hotel room now. We have courtesy blocks reserved at three hotels with deadlines in August.
We can’t wait to see you in the fall!
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2023 Tax Summit in Chapel Hill hosted by UNC School of Law and Kenan Flagler Business School featuring the 50th Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Daniel I. Werfel, JD '97
2023-11-03 | Friday Conference Center, 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill, 27599, United States
The UNC Tax Summit is a continuing education event for accountants and lawyers to earn 8.4 CPE and/or 7 CLE credits. The event will take place at the Friday Conference Center located in Chapel Hill, NC. Twelve knowledgeable speakers will discuss local, state, and federal tax policy issues and their legal implications, in addition to a session devoted to professional conduct in business communications. The keynote speaker will be the Internal Revenue Service Commissioner and Carolina Law alum, Danny Werfel ’97.
Learn more and register

Dan K. Moore Program in Ethics: Generative AI for Lawyers
2023-11-10 09:30 - 15:00
Join our panelists to learn more about how generative AI (think ChatGPT) will impact attorneys. Our panelists include UNC experts, private practice AI innovators, in-house counsel, and the senior vice president of Aon’s loss prevention team. The panel will provide an introduction to AI, describe how AI is or may be used in a transactional practice, consider how we will prepare our law students to use AI in legal practice, and discuss the professional responsibility issues related to the use of generative AI in law practice. This program provides four hours of NC CLE credit, including 1 in technology training and 1 in professional responsibility.

The registration link is: https://cle.law.unc.edu/dan-k-moore/

DC Carolina Law Alumni Reception
2023-11-28 17:30 - 19:30 | Charlie Palmer Steak, 101 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, DC, 20001, United States
UNC School of Law and The Law Alumni Association invite you to join us for Carolina Law Reception in D.C. with Professors Andy Hessick, Rick Simpson, and law students in the Supreme Court Program.
On November 28, the United States Supreme Court will hear argument in McElrath v. Georgia – a case filed by the UNC School of Law Supreme Court Program. The program provides an opportunity for Carolina law students to draft briefs and assist counsel in cases before the Supreme Court.
At issue in the McElrath case is whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits retrying a defendant on a charge following an earlier acquittal. The defendant, Damien McElrath, was tried for malice murder, aggravated assault, and felony murder after he stabbed his foster mother. The jury found McElrath not guilty of malice murder by reason of insanity but convicted him of aggravated assault and felony murder. The Georgia Supreme Court concluded that those verdicts were impermissibly repugnant because they depended on conflicting findings about McElrath’s sanity. For that reason, the court vacated both the acquittal and convictions for retrial.
Working with the UNC Program, Professor Richard Simpson ’77, a Carolina Law alumnus and partner at Wiley Rein, along with co-counsel Professor Andy Hessick, represents McElrath before The Supreme Court. Their position is that double jeopardy precludes retrial of the acquittal. The case will be argued by Professor Simpson.
Join us at Charlie Palmer Steak from 5:30 – 7:30 to hear from Professors Simpson and Hessick. Remarks will begin at 6:15 p.m.
RSVP by Monday, November 27th, at noon. Questions? Contact Kelly Mann Rose, assistant director of alumni and donor relations, at mann@unc.edu.

Carolina Law Alumni Reception with Dean Martin H. Brinkley ’92 at Smith Anderson
2024-01-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Smith Anderson, 150 Fayetteville Street, Suite 2300, Raleigh, NC, 27601, United States
Dean Martin H. Brinkley ’92 and the UNC Law Alumni Association invite you to a Carolina Law reception at Smith Anderson.
Join Dean Brinkley at Smith Anderson and welcome the new year with Carolina Law alumni and friends. The Dean will share brief remarks about the exciting things happening at the law school at 6:15 p.m.
Registration closes on January 8, 2024.
Questions? Contact Kelly Mann Rose, assistant director of alumni and donor relations, 919.445.0170 or mann@unc.edu.

State of the School Address with Martin H. Brinkley ’92, Dean and William Rand Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law
2024-01-19 12:00 - 12:55 | Virtual
The UNC Law Alumni Association invites you to an exclusive event with Dean Martin H. Brinkley ‘92 as he shares the State of the Law School Address.
Dean Brinkley will provide an overview of the state of the school, share important initiatives, and give an inside look at life back in the halls of Van Hecke-Wettach. Jim Deal ’74, president of the UNC Law Alumni Association and partner at Deal, Moseley & Smith in Boone, NC, will introduce the program and moderate the Q&A.
The event will be Zoom webinar format and space is limited. Registration is required for this event so be sure to secure your spot today! A Zoom link will be sent out 24-48 hours prior to the event.
Questions about this event? Please contact Kelly Rose (assistant director of alumni and donor relations) at mann@unc.edu. This event is exclusively for Carolina Law alumni.

Carolina Law Book Roundtable: Law & Inequality
2024-01-26
On January 26th, an esteemed group of scholars will participate in the 2024 Carolina Law Roundtable on Law & Inequality.
The roundtable was organized by and will be led by Henry P. Brandis Distinguished Professor of Law Eisha Jain, who explained “The Roundtable brings together scholars working on these topics from different perspectives and disciplines within the law. All of the scholars presenting have been developing these ideas for years; it’s exciting to read the manuscripts and see how the work has evolved over time. My hope is that this gathering furthers scholarship development while fostering connections across legal disciplines.”
The books-in-progress presented at the 2024 roundtable will cover a range of topics at the intersection of law and inequality, including criminal law, law and democracy, access to courts, race and the law, and more. Participants include:

Aziza Ahmed, Boston University
Monica Bell, Yale Law School
Rabia Belt, Stanford Law School
Marie Boyd, University of South Carolina
Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard Law School
Debbie Dinner, Cornell Law School
Trevor Gardner, Washington University
Margaret Hu, William & Mary
Jessica Eaglin, Cornell Law School
Irene Joe, UC Davis Law
Timothy Lovelace, Duke Law School
Huyen Pham, Texas A&M
Naomi Schoenbam, George Washington University School of Law
Josh Sellars, University of Texas
Lauren Sudeall, Vanderbilt
Fred Smith, Emory

Festival
2024-02-02 09:00 - 19:00 | Carolina Club
On February 2, 2024, the UNC Law Alumni Association will present Festival, a boutique offering of CLE exclusively for Carolina Law alumni. Join us at the Carolina Club for a full day of interesting CLE taught by beloved professors, including Dean Martin H. Brinkley.
This curated Festival offering will satisfy six hours of CLE, including professional responsibility and substance abuse/mental health.
This premier program is $180 and includes six hours of CLE credit (pending approval), continental breakfast, lunch, and a reception with members of the Carolina Law community including faculty, students, alumni, and staff.

Festival 2024 Schedule:
8:00 – 9:00 AM Check-in and continental breakfast
9:00 AM Opening Remarks
9:20 – 10:20 AM “Professionalism” Standards and the First Amendment (PR)
Mary-Rose Papandrea, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, UNC School of Law
Soon after students at Stanford Law School disrupted Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech at a Federalist Society event in March 2023, Dean Jenny Martinez issued an eloquent statement explaining why robust protections for the free of expression are essential for the mission of legal education. Curiously, however, her memo included an argument that “[l]ively, candid, civil, and evidence-based discourse in disagreement is not just positive for our community, constituted as it is in difference, it is a professional duty.” (emphasis added) As it turns out, when Dean Martinez wrote this statement, the California Bar was considering the adoption of an enforceable civility standard for admitted lawyers. Such standards are common throughout the country, although most are unenforceable. Relatedly, lower courts have rejected First Amendment challenges to university decisions to regulate student speech that is inconsistent with the professionalism standards of the relevant discipline. This session will focus on the First Amendment concerns that civility and professionalism standards would raise for both the bar and for law schools.
Session Materials: Endorsed Petition re Civility Rules, Greenberg v. Lehocky, Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L. by and through Levy, Next Steps on Protests and Free Speech, Speech First, Inc. v. Sands, Tatro v. University of Minnesota
10:20 – 10:30 AM Break
10:30 – 11:30 AM The Law of Presidential Accountability
Michael J. Gerhardt, Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, UNC School of Law
Professor Gerhardt will discuss what we know, and do not know, about the constitutional mechanisms for holding presidents accountable for their misconduct. These questions still dominate the news, not just because Donald Trump is running again for president but also because the House has begun three impeachment inquiries against President Biden. He will discuss the basic law governing presidential accountability, including impeachment, the scope of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment as a mechanism for rendering ineligible anyone running for president who has incited insurrection in violation of their constitutional oaths, how the 25th amendment’s procedures for temporarily suspending presidents, whether censure is constitutional, the procedures required in impeachment trials, and whether there are any precedents that will help to guide the nation as it moves increasingly closer to election day and beyond.
Session Materials: The Trump Impeachments: Lessons for the Constitution, Presidents, Congress, Justice, Lawyers, and the Public, How Impeachment Works
11:30 – 12:30 PM Lunch
12:40 – 1:40 PM Hot Topics at the U.S. Supreme Court
David S. Ardia, Reef C. Ivey II Excellence Fund Term Professor of Law, UNC School of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Media Law and Policy; Osamudia James, Professor of Law, UNC School of Law; Elizabeth Fisher, Adjunct Professor, UNC School of Law with moderator and panelist: Mary-Rose Papandrea, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, UNC School of Law
This panel will discuss some of the hot topics before the U.S. Supreme Court, including several First Amendment and social media cases, the future of the Chevron doctrine, and a double jeopardy case featuring Carolina Law’s Supreme Court program.
Session Materials: McElrath Brief for the Petitioner, McElrath v. State of Georgia Petition for Writ of Certiorari
1:40 – 2:40 PM Attorney Mental Health: General concepts, individual experience (SA/MH)
David Kouba ‘02, Arnold & Porter
This engaging session will focus on attorney mental health, including issues that frequently impact attorneys and strategies for recognizing and responding to those issues. Informed by ethical considerations and legal obligations, the presentation will draw from David’s education, experience, and observations as an attorney and trained mental health counselor and attempt to make mental health issues clearer and more relatable.
Session Materials: Attorney Mental Health: General Concepts… Individual Experiences (PPT)
2:40 – 2:50 PM Break
2:50 – 3:50 PM Generative AI in Legal Education & Law Practice
Nicole M. Downing, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and the Assistant Director for Public Services, Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, UNC School of Law and Pete Nemerovski, Clinical Associate Professor, UNC School of Law
Professors Downing and Nemerovski have spent much of 2023 studying the impact of Generative AI on legal education and law practice, and both have incorporated GenAI into their courses. In this presentation, they will share their experiences with GenAI and their thoughts on how lawyers and law students will engage with this technology in the years to come. The topics covered will include teaching students about prompt engineering, differences between legal and non-legal GenAI programs, and the potential for GenAI to help lawyers better serve their clients.
Session Materials: Generative AI in Legal Education & Practice (PPT), Generative Artificial Intelligence in Legal Education and Law Practice- Nemerovski Slides (PPT), Generative AI Exercise Handout
3:50 – 4:00 PM Break
4:00 – 5:00 PM UNC Law School: The First Century, 1843-1939
Martin H. Brinkley, Dean and William Rand Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, UNC Law Institute for Innovation
This session will chart the history of UNC Law School from its inception as an experiment in blending private and university legal education in the 1840s, through its emergence as a “modern” law school at the opening of World War II. He will cover public resistance to Carolina’s halting efforts to adopt the reforms in legal education fostered by Harvard Law School Dean Christopher Columbus Langdell, through the eventual triumph of the Langdellian “case method” under Dean Merton Leroy Ferson and President Harry Woodburn Chase in the early 1920s.
Session Materials: A New Model Law School
5:00 – 6:00 PM Reception with law students
Space is limited and will be based on a first come basis.

UNC School of Law Game Watch in Charlotte
2024-02-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Kilted Buffalo Plaza Midwood, 1212 Central Ave, Charlotte, NC, 28204, United States
UNC School of Law, Charlotte Alumni Regional Club, and Young Alumni Leadership Council invite you and a guest to join them for a Game Watch at the Kilted Buffalo Plaza Midwood.
Make plans to join alumni for a game watch and fellowship at the Kilted Buffalo Plaza Midwood from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. on Saturday February 10. Appetizers and drinks are on us!
Registration closes on February 8, 2024.
Questions? Contact Kelly Rose (assistant director of alumni and donor relations) at mann@unc.edu.

Cornerstone Weekend in the Capital City (By invitation only)
2024-03-01 - 2024-03-03
March 1

6:00-8:00 pm | An Evening at the North Carolina Governor’s Mansion
Attire: Business
Transportation will be provided from The Umstead

9:00-10:30 pm | Staying at The Umstead? Please join us in the bar for a nightcap before calling it an evening.
The Umstead Bar
March 2
9:30-11:30 am | Breakfast and Carolina Law program with Dean Brinkley
Attire: Casual
The Umstead, Room TBD
11:30 am-6:00 pm | Enjoy the amenities of The Umstead and Raleigh attractions
4:00-6:00 pm | UNC vs. NCSU game watch (for Tobacco Road basketball fans)
The Umstead Carolina Law Hospitality Suite
6:00-9:00 pm | Dinner at the home of Carol and Martin Brinkley
Attire: Business Casual
Transportation will be provided from The Umstead

Pricing
$125 per person covers the cost of attending Cornerstone Weekend.
Accommodations
A room block has been held at The Umstead at the special rate of $399 per night. Please make your hotel reservations directly with The Umstead by calling (919) 447-4000 and request the UNC School of Law room block.
If you are local and will not be taking transportation from The Umstead, addresses and parking information will be shared with your confirmation materials.

RSVP by February 19, 2024, so we can ensure we have adhered to all registration requirements for the Cornerstone Weekend in the Capital City. Please note: after February 19, some of our weekend event partners may not be able to accommodate additional registrations.
Questions? Contact Kelly Mann Rose, assistant director of alumni and donor relations, at mann@unc.edu or (919) 445-0170.

UNC School of Law Stewardship Luncheon (By invitation only)
2024-03-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Carolina Club
Dean Martin Brinkley ‘92 and the Carolina Law community look forward to the UNC School of Law Scholarship Stewardship Luncheon each year because it is a wonderful occasion for us to thank you for your generous support, celebrate the impact of your commitment to Carolina Law, and introduce you to some of the Carolina Law students who are the beneficiaries of your generosity.
Register now
Friday, March 1, 2024
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
The Carolina Club
150 Stadium Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Business Attire
Parking Available at Rams Head Parking Deck
104 Ridge Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Access to the Carolina Club is on level 3. Parking vouchers will be provided at the luncheon registration table.
RSVP: Please respond by Friday, February 23, 2024 here.
Questions?
Contact Kelly Mann Rose, assistant director of alumni and donor relations, at mann@unc.edu or (919) 445-0170.

CPILO Auction
2024-03-07 18:00 - 23:00 | The PITCH, 462 W Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC, 27516, United States
The CPILO Auction is one of Carolina Law’s most anticipated events of the year. As in previous years, this year’s event will feature both a silent auction with online bidding on items donated by businesses AND a live auction where attendees will have the opportunity to bid on professor experiences. Tickets to the live event are not necessary to bid in the silent auction. Live event ticket purchases can be made at the link below, and names will be verified at the door.

ABCs of Banking Law
2024-03-26 | Moore & Van Allen, Charlotte, North Carolina
The ABCs of Banking Law is an annual continuing legal education program presented by the Center for Banking and Finance that focuses on the basics of banking law for lawyers. This program introduces the banking law regulatory structure. It is designed for young attorneys and those who desire a basic framework in banking law, including in-house bank attorneys who do not work directly on bank regulatory issues, and business lawyers who want to understand how banking law impacts the banks with which their clients interact. Others who might benefit from the program include bank examiners and risk and compliance professionals.
The North Carolina Banking Institute Journal will be published in the spring. All those registered for the program will receive a copy of the journal.
7 hours CLE Credit: Approved

Banking Institute
2024-03-27 - 2024-03-28 | Ritz-Carlton in Charlotte, 201 E Trade St, Charlotte, NC, 28202, United States
The Banking Institute is a two-day continuing legal education program presented by the Center for Banking and Finance that focuses on cutting-edge issues for bankers and their lawyers. The program is the result of extensive planning by the center’s board of advisors, a distinguished group of banking law professionals from leading banks and law firms and reflects the board’s commitment to provide one of the best banking CLEs in the country. Attendees have an opportunity to interact with bank counsel, private practitioners, regulators, students, and nationally recognized speakers in the industry between sessions, at meals, and a reception.
Participants will receive the North Carolina Banking Institute Journal, an invaluable reference for in-depth treatment on recent developments of interest to banking lawyers.
CLE Credit: Pending

This Art Belongs to the Artist: Art as Human Rights Exhibition & Symposium
2024-04-12 15:00 - 19:00 | Hanes Art Center, 121 E. Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
FRIDAY APRIL 12
Exhibition Reception, 2 – 3 pm
Hanes Art Center Gallery
Symposium, 3 – 7 pm
Hanes Art Center Auditorium, Room 121, zoom https://unc.zoom.us/j/99121784899
Through an art exhibition and symposium, this program explores the ongoing impact of state violence and the consequences of the extralegal prison at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp through the framework of art and law. The program includes an exhibition of art created by men imprisoned at the GBDC followed by symposium speakers, including the virtual participation of several released detainee artists. Speakers will address the sovereign, political, and legal dimensions of detainee art, comment on the inter-related international law issues and the paradox within claims to human rights with a focus on art and the rights of detainees to own and control their creative work. Panelists will also discuss art and abolition as a framework for human rights and the law.
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Introduction
3:00 – 3:20 pm
Martin Brinkley, Dean of the School of Law and the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina
Panel 1 History Lessons: The Road Starts Here
3:20 – 4:00 pm
This panel provides an overview of the historical circumstances that gave rise to U.S. control of the Naval Station in Guantánamo, and participation of the state of North Carolina in the U.S. program of extraordinary rendition and torture that culminated in Guantánamo.

Christina Cowger, NC Stop Torture Now, “First in Torture Flights: North Carolina’s Role in CIA Renditions
Louis A. Pérez, Carlyle Sitterson Professor UNC Department of History “Guantánamo: From Naval Station to Detention Center”

Panel 2 – This Art Belongs to the Artist
4:00 – 5:15 pm
This Art Belongs to the Artists brings together several former detainees and survivors of Guantánamo Bay Detention Center along with attorney Mark Mahar and human rights scholar Alexandra Moore to share stories of art making as a form of protest and a necessary process for survival.

Moath Al-Alwi via Alexandra Moore, Director; Professor Human Rights Institute; English, General Literature and Rhetoric, Binghamton Univ., State Univ of New York
Mansoor Adayfi, Writer and former Guantánamo prisoner
Ahmed Rabbani, Artist and Former Guantanamo prisoner 1461
Sabri Al Qurashi- Artist and former Guantánamo prisoner
Mark Maher, Treasurer of Healing and Recovery After Trauma and former attorney for U.S. Reprieve

Break
5:15 – 5:30 pm
Keynote
5:30 – 6:15 pm
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and former UN Special Rapporteur Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights 2017-2023. “You Came too Late”: Reflection on the First UN Visit to the Detention Facility at Guantánamo Bay
Panel 3 – Social Action, Law & Art
6:15 – 7:00
This panel will explore the connections between art, liberation, and abolition and the growing interdisciplinary work of artists using their practices as tools towards justice and abolition. Addressing art and abolition as a framework for human rights and the law, this panel will think through critical questions around the law and the fundamental issues of freedom of expression and art as resistance.

Aliya Hussain, Center for Constitutional Rights, “Resisting Guantánamo”
Aaron Hughes & Amber Ginsburg, artists, “Remaking the Exceptional”

This project is a collaboration between UNC Law and the Dept of Art & Art History, and has been generously supported by: UNC School of Law, Dept of Art & Art History, Institute for the Study of the Americas, College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for Arts and Humanities, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, Center for European Studies, Asian American Center, Beth D Jacob/Healing and Recovery After Trauma, Department of History, Department of Communications, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Department of Women & Gender Studies, NC Stop Torture Now, Sociology Department, Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, and the Department of Romance Studies.
For more information, please contact Deborah M. Weissman weissman@email.unc.edu or Hồng-Ân Trương hatruong@email.unc.edu

2024 Hargrove Colloquium: Media Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
2024-04-16 19:00 - 20:30 | George Watts Hill Alumni Center
Join us for an exploration of the legal landscape surrounding media and artificial intelligence as we navigate the complexities of this rapidly evolving field. Come hear from David McCraw, Deputy General Counsel at The New York Times, and a panel of experts who will discuss the impact of generative AI on copyright law, defamation law, political communication, and journalism. We’ll tackle such questions as who owns the creative output generated by AI? Who, if anyone, can be held liable for harmful or defamatory content that AI generates? What are the potential risks and safeguards around AI-powered misinformation and voter manipulation? How is AI transforming the news industry?
Whether you’re a lawyer, journalist, media executive, or simply curious about the intersection of AI and media, we hope that you will join us for this thought-provoking exploration of Media Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
This event is free and open to the public.
