UNC School of Law

Examinations
2025-04-22 - 2025-05-02 | NC

Commencement
2025-05-09 12:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Carmichael Arena, 310 South Road, Chapel Hill, 27514, United States

Externship Orientation
2025-05-12 | NC

Summer Classes Begin
2025-05-12 | NC

Dean Brinkley's State of the School Address
2025-05-16 12:00 - 12:50 | Virtual

DDI Bootcamp
2025-05-21 - 2025-05-22 | Rizzo Center, 150 DuBose Home Lane, Chapel Hill, NC, 27517, United States

Memorial Day Holiday—No Classes
2025-05-26 | NC

Raleigh Summer Reception
2025-06-03 17:30 - 19:00 | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
For more information, please visit:
Carolina Law Summer Reception Tour 2025 | UNC School of Law

Washington, D.C. Summer Reception
2025-06-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Squire Patton Boggs

Greensboro Summer Reception
2025-06-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Brooks Pierce

Charlotte Summer Reception
2025-06-11 17:30 - 19:00 | Katten

Summer Classes End
2025-06-17 - 2025-06-20 | NC

New York City Summer Reception
2025-06-17 17:30 - 19:00 | Saul Ewing LLP

Summer Exams (Evidence 6/18 and PR 6/20)
2025-06-18 - 2025-06-20 | NC

No Classes Meet, No Exams
2025-06-19 | NC

Externships End
2025-06-20 | NC

Atlanta Summer Reception
2025-06-24 17:30 - 19:00 | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

Grades Due
2025-07-02 | NC

Orientation for 1L Students
2025-08-11 - 2025-08-15 | NC

Orientation for Transfer Students
2025-08-11 - 2025-08-13 | NC

Trial Advocacy Pre-Semester Class Sessions
2025-08-13 - 2025-08-16 | NC

Classes Begin
2025-08-18 | NC

Deadline for Students to Add/Drop Courses
2025-08-25 | NC

Labor Day—no classes
2025-09-01 | NC

Virtual Briefing on Recent SCOTUS Decisions
2025-09-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Virtual Briefing on Recent SCOTUS Decisions
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
12-1 p.m.
Register by September 9
Join UNC School of Law faculty members Andy Hessick and Osamudia James for a virtual and interactive legal discussion on two timely U.S. Supreme Court decisions: Trump vs. CASA and Ames v. Ohio.
This session will offer practitioner-focused analysis of these two impactful rulings from the most recent SCOTUS term.
Kindly register by 5 pm on September 11 to receive the Zoom link. We hope you will join us for this timely and substantive conversation.
Interim Dean Andy Hessick, Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Strategy & Planning, teaches and researches on topics including federal courts, administrative law, remedies, and criminal sentencing.
Osamudia James, Henry P. Brandis Distinguished Professor of Law, teaches and writes on topics including education law, race and the law, administrative law, and torts.
Questions? Contact Brian Stern

Constitution Day
2025-09-17 12:00 - 12:50 | Classroom 5048
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 the hopes it represents for the future.
The law school will celebrate the federal observance this year on September 17 with a presentation by Associate Professor of Law Marcus Gadson exploring themes from his book Sedition: How America’s Constitutional Order Emerged From Violent Crisis in Room 5048 at 12:00 p.m. The talk will examine how moments of constitutional crisis shaped the framework of American constitutionalism, tracing episodes when dissent and disorder threatened to destabilize the young republic and how leaders responded—sometimes repressively, sometimes with reform—in ways that forged the institutions and norms we now take for granted.
This will be a free and open-to-the-public event recorded by C-SPAN.

Magic Day 1—Thursday classes meet
2025-09-22 | NC

Crime and Punishment in the Statehouse: New Data and a Conversation with Experts
2025-10-01 12:00 - 13:15 | NC
Listen to the results of a new report analyzing over 11,000 bills proposed across all 50 states about how state legislatures have attempted to expand or contract laws on crime and punishment. Then, an esteemed panel of experts will provide context and insight on the utility of these efforts.
Panelists:

Robert Hamill, Project Manager, Council of State Governments Justice Center

Gary Daniels, Legislative Director, ACLU of Ohio

Vikrant Reddy, Senior Fellow, Stand Together Trust

John Roman, Senior Fellow & Director, Center on Public Safety and Justice, University of Chicago NORC

The event will be moderated by:
Carissa Byrne Hessick
Anne Shea Ransdell and William Garland “Buck” Ransdell, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law
Director of the Prosecutors and Politics Project

Well-being Day 1—no classes
2025-10-02 | NC

2025 UNC Law Alumni Association Awards Ceremony
2025-10-03 17:30 - 21:00 | Carolina Club
The 2025 UNC Law Alumni Association awards ceremony will take place on October 3, 2025, from 5:30-9 p.m. at the Carolina Club. Registration is required by September 25.
Read more about the 2025 award winners:
– Henry E. Frye ’59
– Charles P. Brown ’66
– David B. Sentelle ’68
– Richard E. Myers ’98
– Alison A. Grounds ’01
– Carl R. Fox ’78
– Isabelle R. Stevens ’21
– Professor Thomas Lee Hazen
