UNC School of Law

Classes End
2025-11-21

Magic Day 2—Monday classes meet
2025-11-19

2025 Dan K. Moore Program: Sea Changes in Business Law
2025-11-14 09:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Sea Changes in Business Law
Friday, November 14, 2025
9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST
Cost: $99 | Virtual CLE

Business law is changing. Statutory and market-driven changes are upending long-held assumptions, and developments in artificial intelligence are increasingly impacting the way firms and in-house practitioners provide legal services. What do business lawyers need to know about these significant statutory and technological developments?
This four-hour online CLE will feature experienced practitioners, in-house counsel, thought leaders, and scholars discussing these and other topics, including the following:

Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence and Legal Practice
Corporate Charter Competition & Delaware’s Statutory Changes
Challengers to Delaware’s Dominance — Texas & Nevada
Top Ethics Issues for Corporate and In-House Attorneys

The 2025 Dan K. Moore Program will be held online. Information regarding how to access the webinar and materials will be sent prior to the start.
This program is dedicated to the exemplary legacy of professional ethics left to us by the distinguished life and work of Dan K. Moore, former governor of North Carolina and 1929 graduate of the UNC School of Law.

First Amendment Law Review Symposium
2025-11-14
More information coming soon

Well-being Day 2—no classes (Veterans Day; CHCCS Holiday)
2025-11-11

Institute for Innovation – Business Law Symposium
2025-11-07 13:00 - 17:00 | Room 5042

Cornerstone Weekend in the High Country
2025-11-07 - 2025-11-09 | Chetola Resort, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
By invitation only
November 7-9, 2025
Chetola Resort
Blowing Rock, N.C.
Invitations to come this summer.

AI vs. Human Mock Criminal Trial
2025-10-24 10:00 - 11:30 | UNC School of Law Graham Kenan Courtroom, 160 RIDGE RD CB 3380 CB 3380, CHAPEL HILL, NC, 27514-4387, United States
A Jury of your AI Peers? The Trial of Henry Justus
The year is 2036, and Henry Justus, an African American high school senior, stands trial on a charge of robbery of Victor Fehler, a white high school sophomore, before a jury of widely used artificial intelligence programs under the imaginary AI Criminal Justice Act of 2035. This trial simulation imagines that generative artificial intelligence models will be used in the future as jurors to reduce the operation of human bias and other cognitive errors by judges. This exercise will use present day technology to simulate such a trial with human actors playing the roles of prosecutor, defense lawyer, victim and defendant before a jury of three generative AI programs. This trial will be simulated but not scripted, so all participants will learn the verdicts of the three large language models serving as jurors along with the audience. This simulation will be followed by brief commentary from a panel of experts composed of legal scholars, a philosopher and a data librarian.
This simulated trial—one of the first of its kind–is being conducted by the University of North Carolina School of Law as part of Converge-Con), a large AI Festival taking place at UNC-Chapel Hill from October 22nd through 24th.
The trial of Henry Justus is intended to provoke discussion about the proper scope of artificial intelligence in criminal justice by highlighting the issues of accuracy, efficiency, bias and legitimacy raised by such use. Whether the trial serves as a cautionary tale about a possible dystopian future or a roadmap to a better one will remain to be seen.
The event is available on live stream.

Carolina Law Connections: New York City Reception
2025-10-16 17:30 - 19:00 | ArentFox Schiff LLP, 1301 Avenue of the Americas, Floor 42, New York, NY, 10019, United States
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 5:30-7 p.m.
ArentFox Schiff LLP
1301 Avenue of the Americas, Floor 42
New York, NY 10019
Reconnect with fellow alumni and meet Interim Dean Andy Hessick and Professor Lissa Broome, who will be attending with 1L students visiting the city as part of the Center for Banking & Finance Career Trek during fall break.
Enjoy drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and conversation while hearing updates from Carolina Law and supporting our students as they explore legal careers.
Business attire is encouraged.
Register by October 9
Questions? Contact Brian Stern.

Fall Break
2025-10-16 08:00 - 2025-10-17 17:00

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

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

Crime and Punishment in the Statehouse: New Data and a Conversation with Experts
2025-10-01 12:00 - 13:15
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

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

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.

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

Labor Day—no classes
2025-09-01

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

Classes Begin
2025-08-18

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

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

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

Grades Due
2025-07-02

Atlanta Summer Reception
2025-06-24 17:30 - 19:00 | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
For more information, please visit:
Carolina Law Summer Reception Tour 2025 | UNC School of Law

Externships End
2025-06-20

No Classes Meet, No Exams
2025-06-19

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

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

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

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