UNC School of Law

Faculty Speaker Series - Osamudia James
2022-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Osamudia James, University of North Carolina School of Law, in person
Administrative Law, Civil Rights and Discrimination, Education Law, Race and the Law.
https://law.unc.edu/people/osamudia-james/

NC Journal of Law & Technology’s Symposium on Vaccines and the Law
2022-01-28 13:00 | Virtual
The North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology’s annual symposia focus on cutting-edge legal issues in a wide array of technology-related topics. These symposia are open to UNC students and staff, NCBA members seeking CLE credit, and members of the public.

Festival of Legal Learning
2022-02-01 - 2022-02-04 | Virtual
UNC School of Law’s Festival of Legal Learning is a convenient, affordable and enjoyable way to satisfy all your MCLE requirements. Offering live sessions virtually over a 4-day period, the Festival is designed to build basics, sharpen skills, provide perspectives and highlight new developments in the field of law. The format offers you 12 hours of CLE credit, including selections in technology, ethics/professional responsibility, substance abuse/mental health. This diverse program also lets you customize your learning and choose the courses most beneficial to your needs. The quality of the courses you select is assured. Your instructors are recognized experts in their fields and will include professors from Carolina Law as well as distinguished guest faculty.

Faculty Speaker Series - Kara Bruce
2022-02-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Kara Bruce The University of Toledo College of Law, in person
U.S. Legal History—specifically twentieth century political economy, Civil Rights, and hate speech.
https://www.utoledo.edu/law/faculty/fulltime/Bruce.html

Faculty Speaker Series - Ben Levin
2022-02-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Ben Levin, Colorado Law School, in person
Criminal Law and Policy; criminal justice reform and its relationship to other movements for social and economic change.
https://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=824

Law & Literature Alumni Book Club - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
2022-02-23 17:30 - 18:30 | Virtual
Styled in the model of Professor Patricia Bryan’s popular Law & Literature class at Carolina Law, alumni are invited to take part in a thoughtful conversation with Professor Bryan and Grace A. Gregson, BA ’14, JD ’17.

Faculty Speaker Series - Sahar Aziz
2022-02-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Sahar Aziz, Rutgers Law School, S.I. Newhouse Center for Law and Justice, in person
Civil Rights, National Security, Middle East Law, Race and the Law.
https://law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/8277

CPILO Fun Run/Walk
2022-02-26 07:30 - 10:00 | NC
Who: Law students, faculty, partners, community members–all are welcome!
What: Fun 5K Run/Walk
Where: 160 Ridge Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
When: Saturday, February 26th at 7:30am
Why: To support public interest law summer grants
The Carolina Public Interest Law Organization (CPILO) is hosting a fun 5K run/walk. Proceeds will go directly towards funding modest grants for UNC Law students who accept unpaid summer internships in public interest law.

Classes resume
2022-03-21 | NC
Classes resume
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Information Warfare in the Russian-Ukraine Conflict
2022-03-24 16:00 - 17:00 | NC
This moderated panel will explore the information war underway in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In addition to discussing the many challenges facing journalists covering the conflict, the panelists will explore how social media has changed information warfare and impacted intelligence gathering and analysis, evaluate how social media platforms and journalists handle mis- and disinformation, and offer media literacy tips to our audience.

A Career of Service: A Symposium Honoring the Judicial Legacy of Judge James A. Wynn
2022-03-25 | NC
Please join Volume 100 of the North Carolina Law Review on Friday, March 25th, beginning at 9:00 AM for “A Career of Service: A Symposium Honoring the Judicial Legacy of Judge James A. Wynn.” This event will be hosted by Zoom.

CPILO Auction & Benefit
2022-03-25 19:30 - 22:30 | NC
Carolina Public Interest Law Organization invites the law school community to its annual Auction & Benefit. All proceeds from the event go directly to fund UNC law students accepting full-time, unpaid public interest law positions for the summer.
The Story Venue, 450 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC 27516

GiveUNC
2022-03-29 | NC
UNC School of Law offers students an accessible, affordable top 25 legal education. A Carolina Law degree allows our graduates to practice their chosen legal field without the burden of student debt. GiveUNC is a 24-hour virtual gathering of Tar Heels to give back and support Carolina. This GiveUNC, you can support our students, world class faculty, and hands-on programming. On March 29, support a degree like no other.

CRGE 2022: Public Health and Structural Inequality
2022-04-01 14:00 - 17:00 | NC
The Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity is proud to present our Spring 2022 Conference, focusing on topics of public health and structural inequality. Panels will run 2-5pm on Friday, April 1st and 9am-12:30pm on Saturday, April 2nd (with in person social that evening).

Institute for Innovation: Celebrating Legal Service to the State
2022-04-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Graham Memorial Hall, 210 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, 27514, United States
The UNC-Chapel Hill community is invited to an event showcasing Carolina Law’s faculty and students as they share the impactful stories of how they have helped for-profit and nonprofit businesses and organizations from across the state.
You will hear about B3 Coffee and how they are providing community-integrated social and vocational opportunities for people of all abilities by using coffee to bring people together to dismantle stigma and influence change toward a more inclusive equitable world. You will also hear about Chicora Engineering, a Native American owned and operated civil engineering firm based in Pembroke, N.C.
The Institute for Innovation fills in the missing piece of the puzzle for the entrepreneurship ecosystem by providing early stage legal counsel that is critical to the success of new businesses and organizations. The three clinics that comprise the Institute (Startup NC Law Clinic, Community Development Law Clinic, Intellectual Property Clinic) are training lawyers, supporting and protecting the dreams of entrepreneurs and strengthening economies across the state.

State of the School Address with Dean Martin Brinkley
2022-04-11 18:00 - 18:30 | NC
Jim Deal ’74 and the Law Alumni Association invite you to join them for an exclusive evening with Dean Martin H. Brinkley ‘92 as he shares the State of the School Address.
After an introduction by Jim Deal ’74 (President, Law Alumni Association and Partner, Deal, Mosley & Smith), Dean Brinkley will share information and important school initiatives as well as news from the school and give an inside look at life back in the halls of Van-Hecke Wettach.

Watch: District Attorney Candidate Debate
2022-04-12 12:00 - 12:50 | NC
The Prosecutors and Politics Project hosted a debate for the candidates in the 2022 election for Orange/Chatham District Attorney.
Watch now: Play a recording of this debate

Classes End
2022-04-13 | NC
Last day of classes
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An intimate conversation with young alumni and current students
2022-04-13 18:00 - 19:30 | NC
Join UNC School of Law for a night of engaging conversation with Young Alumni Leadership Council members along with current students.
There will be a session of student panelists that will be moderated by a Young Alumni Leadership Council Member and a session of Young Alumni Leadership Council Members moderated by a student. We invite you to submit questions that you might have for current students and alumni post graduation. Questions can range from how did you choose your career path to how navigating law school is going during a pandemic.

Law Alumni Association Board and Committee Meetings
2022-04-29 10:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Law Foundation Board

Advancement Committee
Alumni Engagement Committee
Community Outreach Committee
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Law Alumni Association Board

Watch: Private Money in Prosecutor Elections: the Pros, the Cons, and the Facts
2022-06-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
Watch now: Play a recording of this panel discussion

The Prosecutors and Politics Project will host a lunchtime conversation and share the results of the first national study of campaign contributions in prosecutor elections. Attendees will also hear from experts about the promise and the peril of private financing in prosecutor campaigns.
Panelists:
Jessica Brand, Wren Collective
Jessica Brand is the founder of the Wren Collective, which provides research, policy, and communications support to those who are trying to shrink the criminal legal system and implement policies that actually help communities thrive. She has helped run numerous political campaigns, including the successful Larry Krasner and Kim Gardner reelections, and works with progressive prosecutors across the country. “The Wreners” also advise grassroots and grasstop groups, athletes, and artists on their advocacy work. Previously, Jessica was the legal director at The Justice Collaborative, an attorney at the Texas Defender Service, and an appellate attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Jessica has trained attorneys on forensic and mental health issues across the country.
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Brennan Center Fellow
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is a professor at Stetson University’s College of Law teaching courses in Election Law, Corporate Governance, Business Entities, and Constitutional Law. Prior to joining Stetson’s faculty, Professor Torres-Spelliscy was counsel in the Democracy Program of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law where she provided guidance on the issues of money in politics and the judiciary to state and federal lawmakers. She was an associate at Arnold & Porter LLP and a staffer for Senator Richard Durbin. She is the author of the books Corporate Citizen (2016) and Political Brands (2019).
Whitney Tymas, Justice & Public Safety PAC
Whitney Tymas is an attorney with over 30 years of experience in criminal law. She has led initiatives to promote fairness and accountability and has taught and presented widely across the nation. Whitney advises individuals, organizations and political action committees, such as Justice & Public Safety PAC, Justice & Public Safety Action Fund and others, about justice policy and strategy. In 2015, Whitney launched a national initiative focused on electing progressive local prosecutors, committed to equity and public safety. Since then, she has overseen almost fifty campaigns in prosecutor races across the country. Before this, Whitney served as director of the Prosecution and Racial Justice Program at the Vera Institute of Justice. This groundbreaking national program identified and sought to remedy patterns of racial injustice and ethnic disparity caused by prosecutors. Beginning in New York City as a public defender with the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Whitney also practiced law at the Office of the Appellate Defender, the Legal Aid Society Criminal Appeals Bureau, as a prosecutor in Virginia, and in private practice as a defense and civil rights attorney. Whitney has practiced in state and federal courts, at the trial and appellate levels, handling a wide range of criminal cases, from misdemeanors to multiple defendant homicides. Whitney is a graduate of Barnard College and New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Snow Scholar. She was born in Washington, DC, came to adulthood in Harlem, and has devoted her life to public service and social justice.

Law School Reception at the NCBA Annual Meeting
2022-06-23 17:30 - 18:30 | The Marriott at Twin City Quarter, Hearn C/ 425 North Cherry Street, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
Make plans to join fellow Carolina Law alumni and friends at the NCBA Annual Meeting in Winston-Salem on Thursday June 23, 2022. You will hear remarks from Dean Martin H. Brinkley ’92 and meet the newest member of the Carolina Law family, Jennifer Guy, the director of alumni and donor relations.
You do not have to be signed up for the NCBA Annual Meeting to attend.
Registration is now open.
Questions about this event? Please contact Kelly Mann Rose (assistant director of alumni and donor relations) at mann@unc.edu.

Virtual Orientation
2022-08-08 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Orientation Welcome!

Student Development Office (SDO) Introduction
Administrative Items/Logistics
Orientation overview

Virtual Orientation
2022-08-09 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Carolina Law Community Sessions

Office of Admissions & Financial Adi
Academic Advising & Registration
Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)
UNC Student Legal Services

Virtual Orientation
2022-08-10 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Carolina Law Community Sessions

Law IT Department
Law Library
Office of Advancement
International Programs

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 | NC
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.
