UNC School of Law

Faculty Speaker Series - Sean Williams
2021-09-30 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Sean Williams, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law/visiting Duke Law this fall
Behavioral Law and Economics; Contracts; Torts; Family Law.
https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/sean-h-williams/

First Amendment Day
2021-09-29
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill celebrates its annual First Amendment Day on Wednesday, September 29, 2021. This campus-wide, daylong event is designed to both celebrate the First Amendment and explore its role in the lives of Carolina students.

Constitution Day: "The Constitution and the 6-3 Supreme Court"
2021-09-23 17:30 - 19:00 | Virtual
WATCH NOW: “The Constitution and the 6-3 Supreme Court”
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 23 with an online panel about the Supreme Court of the United States.
Professors from the law school and political science department will discuss the past, present and future of the U.S. Supreme Court. This round table conversation will focus on the impact recent retirements from and appointments to the court have made on the court’s decisions. Panelists will discuss some of the court’s landmark decisions in the 2020 term and significant cases on the docket for the coming 2021 term.
Moderator/Panelist:

Mary-Rose Papandrea, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, UNC School of Law

Panelists:

Andy Hessick, Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law, UNC School of Law
Eisha Jain, Assistant Professor, UNC School of Law
Bill Marshall, William Rand Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, UNC School of Law
Kevin McGuire, Professor of Political Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
Isaac Unah, Associate Professor of Political Science, UNC-Chapel Hill

Fall For All: Bluegrass & BBQ
2021-09-17 - 2021-09-18 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Fall for All is back! Join alumni, family and friends for a scholarship golf tournament, reunion class gatherings, Bluegrass &BBQ tailgate, Carolina football and more.

Postponed: Scholarship Golf Classic
2021-09-17 | UNC Finley Golf Course, 500 Finley Golf Course Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514
The UNC Law Alumni Association Scholarship Golf Classic has generated almost $300,000 in scholarship assistance over the years. Join alumni, students and sponsors for a day on the UNC Finley Golf Course in Chapel Hill each fall semester. Sponsorship includes a foursome of golf, signage at the tournament and a commemorative framed pin flag signed by varsity coaches.

Constitution Day
2021-09-17
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 23 with an online conversation about the U.S. Supreme Court:
“The Constitution and the 6-3 Supreme Court”

Law Reunion Weekend
2021-09-17 - 2021-09-18 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Celebrating the Classes of ’70, ’71 ’75, ’76, ’80, ’81, ’85, ’86, ’90, ’91, ’95, ’96, ’00, ’01, ’05, ’06, ’10, ’11, ’15, ’16, and the Golden Tar Heels
Each year, the UNC Law Alumni Association hosts Law Reunion Weekend for classes marking another five years since law school graduation. This proud tradition provides a wonderful time to reconnect with professors and classmates and reflect on all you have accomplished since graduation.

Faculty Speaker Series - Rick Su
2021-09-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Faculty Speaker Series:
Rick Su

Labor Day Holiday - No Classes
2021-09-06
No Classes.
Academic Calendars

Fall Semester Classes Begin
2021-08-23
Academic Calendars

Trial Advocacy Intensive Session
2021-08-19 08:00 - 2021-08-22 17:00
Trial Advocacy Intensive Session
MANDATORY ATTENDANCE for those enrolled in Trial Advocacy

Grades Due
2021-07-06

Fiscal Year-End Gift Deadline
2021-06-30
By supporting the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, you are ensuring that students realize their dreams of a Carolina Law education and faculty have the resources available to perform innovative research over the next academic year. With your help, we can continue to deliver the exceptional value that a Carolina Law degree is known for and remain competitive in the current education environment.
Make your gift to UNC School of Law by 12 p.m. ET on June 30.
View all Giving Opportunities (including a current challenge to unlock) at UNC School of Law.

Alumni Awards Celebration
2021-06-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
The UNC School of Law Alumni Association proudly honors members of the Carolina Law community through its annual alumni awards. These five awards—The Lifetime Achievement Award; The Distinguished Alumni Award; The Outstanding Recent Graduate Award; Professor S. Elizabeth Gibson Award for Faculty Excellence; and The Extraordinary Service Award—showcase alumni, faculty and friends who have contributed to the profession and the law school.
Join us as we recognize our 2020 and 2021 recipients at this virtual celebration, which includes a performance from Dean Martin H. Brinkley ’92.
Registration closes Sunday, June 27, 2021. Information on how to access the event link will be sent 24-48 hours prior to the start of the celebration.
Questions about this event? Please contact Carrie Clifford (director of alumni and donor relations) at carrie.clifford@unc.edu.

Externships End
2021-06-25

Examinations
2021-06-24 08:00 - 2021-06-25 17:00

Admitted Students Day
2021-06-22 17:30 - 19:00, 2021-05-26 17:30 - 19:00
A registration link from the Office of Admissions will be emailed to admitted students prior to the event.
For more info

Summer Classes End
2021-06-22

Employer Reception
2021-06-08 17:30 - 19:30 | Virtual
Employers are invited to join the Career Development Office and our students for a virtual reception. Employer attendees will receive a single link for their virtual room and meet with small groups of up to three students in 15-minute time slots. Students will move from employer room to employer room.

Second Seat Deposit Due
2021-06-07
Pay online

Equal Protection Under Algorithms: A New Statistical and Legal Framework
2021-06-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
The Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Research (AI-DR) Program invites students, faculty, staff and community members to a keynote address by Professor Crystal S. Yang of Harvard Law School. She will be discussing her work regarding Equal Protection Under Algorithms: A New Statistical and Legal Framework.

Beyond the Headlines: Bankruptcy in the Shadow of COVID-19
2021-05-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Within the last two decades, major shocks such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the global financial crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic have fueled and complicated the use and effectiveness of the American bankruptcy system.
Join UNC School of Law’s New York City Alumni Regional Club and Melissa B. Jacoby, Graham Kenan Professor of Law, for Beyond the Headlines: Bankruptcy in the Shadow of COVID-19 (sponsored by Greenberg Traurig, LLP), where you will explore how a shock like each of these events intersects with bankruptcy use in a variety of contexts.
This presentation is of interest to lawyers specializing in other areas because it will highlight how restructuring professionals and other repeat players in the bankruptcy system use crises like the pandemic to advance expansive and “off-label” uses of bankruptcy that affect legal and policy issues far beyond its intended domain.
Approval pending for one hour of CLE credit for attending this event.
Questions about this event? Please contact Kelly Mann Rose (assistant director of alumni and donor relations) at mann@unc.edu.

Cocktails/Mocktails and Clinics: Entrepreneur Edition
2021-05-13 17:30 - 18:30 | Virtual
The Office of Advancement invites alumni to join Scott Maitland ’95 (Owner, Top of the Hill) and Professor Marjorie S. White (Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Startup NC Law Clinic) for a special night of Cocktails and Clinics: Entrepreneur Edition.
Maitland will be sharing a special cocktail recipe, called “The Articles of Incorporation” (created exclusively for Carolina Law alumni) with attendees while sharing how his law school experience led him to run one of Chapel Hill’s most popular places on Franklin Street, Top of the Hill. Participants may also modify the recipe to be mocktail-friendly. Professor White will also be sharing about the current happenings with the law school’s Startup NC Clinic at the Institute for Innovation.
Emceed by Danielle Kimelstein ’16 (Chair, Alumni Events and CLE Subcommittee of the Law Alumni Association and Member-at-Large, Triangle Alumni Regional Club), this event is for alumni who graduated between 2010 and 2020 as well as current 3L students.

Artificial Intelligence Conversation with USC Annenberg's Dr. Kate Crawford
2021-05-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
Law students, faculty, staff and community members interested in artificial intelligence are invited to attend a discussion with author Dr. Kate Crawford.
Crawford will share a preview of her new book Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, published by Yale in April 2021. Atlas of AI explores the historical origins, labor practices, infrastructures, and epistemological assumptions that underlie the contemporary artificial intelligence. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers a political and a material perspective of how AI is “made:” from lithium mines in Nevada, to the exploited workers behind “automated” systems, to the regimes of classification in training data. This talk outlines how AI functions as a registry of power, which has only amplified during the pandemic at a time of deepening inequality around the world.
This event, hosted UNC School of Law’s AI Decision-Making Research Program (AI-DR) is free and open to the public.
About Kate Crawford
Dr. Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. Her work focuses on understanding large-scale data systems, machine learning and AI in the wider contexts of history, politics, labor, and the environment. She is a Research Professor of Communication and STS at USC Annenberg, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR-NYC, and the inaugural Visiting Chair for AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure. Her academic research has been published in journals such as Nature, New Media & Society, Science, Technology & Human Values and Information, Communication & Society. Crawford’s work also includes collaborative projects and visual investigations. Her project Anatomy of an AI System with Vladan Joler – which maps the full lifecycle of the Amazon Echo– won the Beazley Design of the Year Award in 2019, and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her collaboration with the artist Trevor Paglen, Excavating AI, won the Ayrton Prize from the British Society for the History of Science. Crawford’s latest book, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence is published by Yale University Press in 2021.

Examinations End
2021-05-05

Meet & Greet with Professor Michael J. Gerhardt
2021-04-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual
The Office of Advancement invites alumni to hear from Professor Michael J. Gerhardt about the ramifications of both the two impeachments of President Donald J. Trump as well as the Supreme Court of the United States confirmation conflicts over the last few decades. Facilitated by John Albers ’08 (Member-at-Large of the San Francisco/Northern California Alumni Regional Club), there will also be time for attendees’ pre-submitted questions to be addressed.

Admitted Students Bingo Night
2021-04-21 18:00 - 19:30

Challenging and Confronting Student Debt for Borrowers with Disabilities
2021-04-16 12:00 - 14:15 | Virtual
UNC School of Law’s Consumer Financial Transactions Clinic is partnering with Disability Rights of North Carolina to present a program on student loan debt for borrowers with disabilities. Learn how current federal law can provide persons with disabilities relief from student debt for certain federal education loans. You must register to attend.
Panelists
Kate Sablosky Elengold, Assistant Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, directs the Consumer Financial Transactions Clinic. She also teaches and researches consumer credit and debt, civil rights, property, and professional responsibility. Elengold’s scholarship bridges consumer and civil rights doctrines, with a specific focus on student debt. Elengold is a 2005 graduate of New York University Law School. She has been on the faculty at UNC School of Law since 2016.
Rachel Grossman*, Certified Student Attorney, University of North Carolina School of Law
Madeline Labovitz*, Certified Student Attorney, University of North Carolina School of Law
Tisha Martin*, Certified Student Attorney, University of North Carolina School of Law
Frank Qin*, Certified Student Attorney, University of North Carolina School of Law
*students in the Consumer Financial Transactions Clinic work with allied organizations and represent low-income individuals in civil litigation, regulatory, and transactional matters related to consumer credit and debt, with a specific emphasis on issues related to student debt.

Monday Classes Meet
2021-04-15
