UNC School of Law

Faculty Speaker Series: Barbara A. Fedders
2020-01-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Barbara A. Fedders, UNC School of Law

Youth justice; children’s rights; children sexuality and the law; criminal defense; juvenile and criminal justice systems.

AALS Annual Meeting
2020-01-02 08:00 - 2020-01-05 17:00

D.C. Alumni Reception with Dean Martin H. Brinkley
2019-12-09 17:30 - 19:00
Delicious drinks, great food, and the opportunity to connect and network with the vibrant Tar Heel legal community in D.C. is on deck for you for this special event in your city.
Special guest Dean Martin H. Brinkley ’92 (Dean and Arch T. Allen Distinguished Professor of Law) will be in town to host this event, sharing a brief update with attendees on Carolina Law, as well as other various staff from UNC School of Law.
There is no cost to attend, and appetizers as well as a cash bar will be available onsite the night of the event. Guests are welcome to join, too.
Questions about this upcoming event? Contact Kelly Mann (assistant director of alumni and donor relations) at mann@unc.edu.

Examinations Begin
2019-12-03

Companion Animal Law- Writing Contest deadline
2019-11-30 17:00
‘Companion Animal Law Writing Contest’ ( www.writeaboutanimallaw.com ) for law students. This year’s contest focuses on two questions, the first one is state legislature’s animal control and enforcement laws’ bond-for-care provisions, and the second one is on fraudulent claims of emotional support and service animals.
https://cqrcengage.com/akc/file/C60zbHeAua7/writeaboutanimallaw.pdf

FRIDAY classes meet / Classes End
2019-11-27

THURSDAY classes meet
2019-11-26

Student Organization Council Meeting
2019-11-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
November Meeting – Semester Overview

Winter Break Pro Bono Project Signups
2019-11-21 06:00 - 10:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Sign ups for Winter Break pro bono projects. Details will follow soon.

NC Racial Justice Act Event
2019-11-20 18:30 - 19:30 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
The Death Penalty Project has partnered with an undergraduate group to host a NC Racial Justice Act event. Elizabeth Hambourger from the Center for Death Penalty Litigation and Senator Floyd Mckissick are expected to speak. The event is open to all and food will be provided!
Classroom 5046

Go Cafe!
2019-11-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Go Cafe! Contact person is Stephanie Schantz with International Programs and LL.M.

Expert Witnesses in Asylum Proceedings
2019-11-15 09:30 - 15:30 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Session One: 9:30 to 12
Session Two: 1:00 to 3:30
University of North Carolina School of Law, Room 5052
Expert testimony can be critical to the outcome of asylum hearings. Academics and others with knowledge of country conditions, and medical and mental health professionals can harness their expertise to support asylum-seekers fleeing harm.
This training is designed to provide members of the academic community, professionals, and others with specialized knowledge with an overview of the purposes served by experts in these cases. Expert witnesses and immigration attorneys will explain the uses of expert evidence in asylum claims, offer practical advice on providing written and oral testimony, and engage in a discussion on the collaboration between attorneys and experts. UNC law students will present a mock trial examination of expert witnesses.
There will be one session specifically addressing country conditions experts followed by a second session devoted to mental health and medical evaluations. You can register for both sessions if you wish.

Light refreshments will be provided.
The event is free, but registration is required.
A full agenda is available at the registration link. Materials will be provided to those who register.
Directions and parking information
Contact Deborah M. Weissman, weissman@email.unc.edu, with questions.

Sponsored by the UNC School of Law and the UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas

Carolina Christian Legal Society Speaker Series: David Brown & Pam Keenan
2019-11-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Join us in welcoming David Brown & Pam Keenan of Apex Immigration Services (AIS) to UNC Law. Come hear from these two speakers how to use your legal skills to address a pressing need in our world. Last year, CLS’s work in partnership with AIS won the UNC Public Service Award. Come hear how you can help provide pro bono legal assistance to immigrants and refugees, possibly in another project this year!
Classroom 4085

Faculty Speaker Series: Kevin Scott Haeberle
2019-11-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Kevin Scott Haeberle, William & Mary Law School

Corporate and Securities Law with focus on the regulation of secondary markets, 􏰀inancial economics, and market-microstructure economics.

Chicago Regional Alumni Event 2019
2019-11-13 17:30 - 19:00
Women’s Athletic Club (626 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL)
Are you a UNC alumni who graduated from Carolina undergrad and went on to law school? Or are you a UNC School of Law graduate?
If you answered “yes”, than make plans to join us for a gathering of UNC alumni working in the Chicago legal community!

SELA Presents: Practicing Entertainment Law in a Non-Major Market
2019-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
On November 12, The Sports and Entertainment Law Association will be proud to host two entertainment lawyers who make the Triangle their home base for a discussion with UNC law students titled Practicing Entertainment Law in a Non-Major Market . Shawn Rogers Nolan of Shawn Nolan Law and Neil Schulman of Ploegsma & Schulman LLP will discuss how their legal careers lead to entertainment law, what brought them to North Carolina, and how they practice outside of the entertainment hubs of New York and Los Angeles. Both attorneys have found an uncommon home in the Chapel Hill area working with artists, musicians, songwriters, record labels, publishing companies, actors, social media influencers, industry executives, production companies and more. This event will surely be of interest to any law students interested in entertainment, music, or practicing any kind of law in a non-major market. Lunch will be provided.

Representing People - Fighting the Fight in Private Practice
2019-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
PD Boot Camp #2: Representing People – Fighting the Fight in Private Practice
Tuesday, November 12 | Noon | Room 5048
Too often students think the government or a legal services organization are the only ways to do something meaningful with their law degree. If you want your practice to have a meaningful impact in the lives of your clients joins us for a session designed to educate you on the opportunities to serve others as a plaintiff’s attorney. The panel will be moderated by Kim Crouch, executive director of NC Advocates for Justice, the bar association for plaintiff’s attorneys in North Carolina. Our panelists represent different practice settings and areas:

Fred Baker is a partner with Motley Rice, one of the largest plaintiff’s firms in the country with over 100 attorneys. Fred’s practice involves consumer fraud protection and securities class actions.
Ben Burnside is an attorney with Deuterman Law Group, a plaintiff’s firm of eleven attorneys with offices in Greensboro and Winston-Salem. Ben focuses his practice on obtaining the Social Security and VA disability benefits his clients deserve.
Chris Stevens is also an attorney with Deuterman Law Group. Chris works on behalf of his clients to protect their legal rights and ensure they receive justice and helps to improve their lives in the wake of their injuries.
Matthew Ballew is a partner with Zaytoun Ballew & Taylor, a firm of five attorneys in Raleigh. Matt practices in all areas of the firm, including Police Brutality and Civil Rights, Medical Malpractice, Complex Business Litigation, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Premises Liability and General and Class-Action Civil Litigation.

Lunch will be served. Register in Symplicity under the Events tab.

Cancer Pro Bono Legal Project Clinic
2019-11-08 09:00 - 16:00
One Friday per month, UNC School of Law students and volunteer attorneys partner with volunteer attorneys, Legal Aid of North Carolina, and the NC Cancer Hospital to provide advanced directives for cancer patients, caregivers, and survivors. For more information, email Liliya Oliferuk.

Meet Successful Entrepreneurs - Institute for Innovation Drop-in Hours
2019-11-07 15:00 - 17:00
Join Professor Zaneta Robinson, Buck Goldstein ‘76, Entrepreneur in Residence and Professor of the Practice, Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship , Larry Robbins ‘79 of Wyrick Robbins, and Sally Shuping Russell, Chair, Carolina Research Ventures and former Managing Director for BlackRock who serve on the Institute’s Board of Advisers for conversation and tasty treats from local food entrepreneurs. UNC School of Law’s Institute for Innovation provides early stage legal counsel that is critical to the success of new for-profit and nonprofit ventures.
Institute for Innovation, 201A East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514

'When They See Us, When We See Us'
2019-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Please come out and support BLSA, HLLSA, NLG, The Innocence Project, Lambda, and LSASDV as we organize a discussion that will focus on Ava Duvernay’s “When They See Us” documentary, Wrongful Convictions in North Carolina, and what we can do as future legal professionals to remedy this issue. We will be joined by Prosecutor(s), District Attorneys, Former Judges, Solo Practitioners, The North Carolina Innocence Project, and a person who was wrongly convicted. This program will feel more like a discussion than a panel, with the lead question being: What can WE do about this problem?

Faculty Speaker Series: Abbe Gluck
2019-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Abbe Gluck, Yale Law School

Congress and the political process, federalism, civil procedure, and health law; realities of Congressional law-making process; challenges to the Affordable Care Act; and state implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

Closing the Wealth Gap Conference
2019-11-06 08:00 - 2019-11-07 17:00 | Kenan Flagler Business School, 300 Kenan Center Drive, Chapel Hill, 27599, United States
The most important economic challenge of our time is the large, and growing, wealth gap. Increasing income disparities and declining opportunities have diminished America’s middle class.
Featured speakers for this event include Amy Goldstein (Washington Post journalist and author of Janesville: An American Story), Sandra Moore (Chief Impact Officer, Advantage Capital), Winslow Sargeant (former SBA Chief Counsel for Advocacy).
This event is the culmination of a 3-part series in which thought leaders present to local elected officials, academic researchers, students, and community members on the ever-increasing wealth gap of the United States, and its ramifications for U.S. prosperity. The conference will cover a range of topics, including consequences of wealth inequities in America, the role of investors and financial institutions in closing the wealth gap, practices of other countries with lower disparities, and place-based solutions to addressing this issue.
This conference is an interdisciplinary forum hosted by CREATE, an economic development research center at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, the Institute for Innovation at the UNC School of Law, and Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Alliance of Minority Business Students.
This event is free and open to the public.

1L Public Interest Summer Job Search
2019-11-06 12:00 - 13:00
Classroom 4004
Information session for 1Ls to learn how to navigate the public interest job search.
Please RSVP in Symplicityunder the Events tab.

Environmental Law Project Networking Event
2019-11-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Networking event for students interested in environmental and energy law to meet with attorneys.
CDO Lobby

William Horn Battle Leadership Dinner
2019-11-01 18:00 - 21:00
Leadership giving society members are invited to join Martin H. Brinkley ’92, Dean and Arch T. Allen Distinguished Professor of Law, and other Carolina Law supporters for a reception and dinner at the Carolina Club.
Invitation only, black tie optional.

2019 Legal Assistance for Military Personnel
2019-11-01 08:00 - 17:00
Room 5042

The University of North Carolina School of Law’s Military and Veterans Law Clinic, in partnership with the North Carolina State Bar Legal Assistance for Military Personnel Committee (LAMP), is proud to sponsor Legal Assistance for Military Personnel, a continuing legal education program that focuses on military issues. This program is designed for military attorneys and paralegals working in legal assistance, as well as civilian counsel whose practices involve military clients or issues. Contact person is Professor John W. Brooker at jbrooker@email.unc.edu

Faculty Speaker Series: Victoria Saker Woeste
2019-10-31 12:00 - 13:00 | Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, 160 Ridge Road, CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Victoria Saker Woeste, American Bar Association

U.S. legal history, speci􏰀ically twentieth century political economy, civil rights, and hate speech.

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships
2019-10-30 12:00 - 13:00
Classroom 4082
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships (FLAS) is intended for students interested in studying a modern foreign language that is less commonly taught (e.g., Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, among many others) with a focus on a world region. Academic Year FLAS offers students a $15,000 stipend plus tuition and fees and summer FLAS supports intensive language learning for a minimum of six weeks.

Justice Mark Davis of the NC Supreme Court Talk - Mike Gerhardt
2019-10-28 12:00 - 13:00
Classroom 5048
Today, at noon, Justice Mark Davis will sit down with Professor Michael Gerhardt to discuss his new book, “A Warren Court of Our Own (Carolina Academic Press), and the work and responsibilities of a North Carolina Supreme Court justice. Lunch will be provided, and there will be plenty of time for student questions.

Innocence Inquiry Commission Pro Bono Project
2019-10-25 12:00 - 15:00
Classroom 4085
Students will assist the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission to investigate a claim of actual innocence.
