UNC School of Law

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

Well-being Day 2 & Veterans Day observed – no classes
2023-11-10

Dan K. Moore Program in Ethics: Generative AI for Lawyers
2023-11-10 09:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
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/

Charlotte Happy Hour Event
2023-11-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Valhalla Pub & Eatery, 317 S Church St, Charlotte, NC, 28202
UNC School of Law, the Law Alumni Association, Charlotte Alumni Regional Club, and Young Alumni Leadership Council invite you and a guest to join them for a Happy Hour at Valhalla Pub & Eatery from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday November 15. Light bites and your first drink are on us!
Registration closes on November 13, 2023.

MAGIC Day
2023-11-21
Thurs. classes meet

MAGIC Day
2023-11-22
Fri. classes meet

Thanksgiving Recess – no classes
2023-11-23 - 2023-11-24
No classes Thurs. – Fri., Nov. 23-24

Classes End/MAGIC Day (Fri. classes meet)
2023-11-28

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.

Reading/Makeup Day
2023-11-29

Examinations Begin
2023-11-30

Examinations End
2023-12-13

Commencement
2023-12-17

Trial Advocacy Pre-Semester Class Sessions
2024-01-03 - 2024-01-06

AALS Annual Meeting
2024-01-03 - 2024-01-06

Classes begin
2024-01-08

Deadline for Faculty to Report 1L Fall Grades
2024-01-09

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.

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday – no classes
2024-01-15

Deadline for Faculty to Report 2L and 3L Fall Grades
2024-01-16

Deadline for Students to Add/Drop Classes
2024-01-16

Institute for Innovation Board of Advisor Meeting
2024-01-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom

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, NC, United States
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.

Well-being Days 1 & 2 (UNC-wide) – no classes
2024-02-12 - 2024-02-13

MAGIC Day (Monday classes meet)
2024-02-14

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.
