UNC School of Law

Examinations
2021-06-24 08:00 - 2021-06-25 17:00 (America/New_York)

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.
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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
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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

Friday Classes Meet
2021-04-14

State of the School Address with Dean Brinkley
2021-04-12 18:00 - 18:30
The Office of Advancement and Dean Martin H. Brinkley ’92 invite alumni to a state of the school address.

First Seat Deposit Due
2021-04-12

Faculty Speaker Series: Victoria Saker Woeste
2021-04-08 12:00 - 13:00
Victoria Saker Woeste
American Bar Association
Current projects include a study of the civil rights law practice of the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church (classified as hate speaker by the Southern Poverty Law Center) and an inquiry into the roots of the “fake news” trope in the history of antisemitic propaganda. http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/faculty/profile/60/bio.html

Watch: The Rise of the Prosecutor Politician: A Cause of Mass Incarceration, 1944-1992
2021-03-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Watch now: Play a recording of this panel discussion

The Prosecutors and Politics Project hosts a lunchtime conversation with Fordham Law Professor Jed Shugerman on The Rise of the Prosecutor Politicians, 1944-1992: A Cause of Mass Incarceration.

High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A Discussion of the Two Impeachments of Donald Trump (and What’s Next)
2021-03-29 18:30 - 19:30
UNC School of Law presents a look back at the impeachments of Donald Trump from the perspectives of three experts and participants. Speakers will provide an inside look at the process for both impeachments and their ramifications for presidential accountability in the future. Speakers include:

Congressman David E. Price
Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University
Michael J. Gerhardt, Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, UNC School of Law

This event is free and open to the public.

Law & Literature: Alumni Book Club with Professor Patricia Bryan
2021-03-23 17:30 - 18:30
Alumni are invited to join Professor Patricia Bryan in reading Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino.
Styled in the model of Professor Bryan’s popular Law & Literature class at Carolina Law, alumni are invited to take part in a thoughtful virtual conversation about this important book.
Professor Bryan will be joined by panelists:

Reggie Shuford ’91 (Executive Director, ACLU of Pennsylvania)
The Honorable Lucy Inman ’90 (Judge, North Carolina Court of Appeals)
Adreanna Sellers ’22 (President, UNC Black Law Students Association)

Conference on Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity (CRCGE)
2021-03-19 - 2021-03-20 | Virtual
UNC School of Law’s 26th annual Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity (CRCGE), “Immigration: A Global Humanitarian Crisis” considers the effects of state and national law on the lives of immigrants, as well as conditions leading to migration. Conference discussion topics include:

the effects of immigration laws on LGBTQ asylum seekers and domestic abuse survivors,
the effects of climate change on global migration,
and the expansion of executive power as it pertains to immigration.

Alina Das, Professor of Clinical Law and Supervising Attorney at New York University (NYU) School of Law is this year’s keynote speaker. Professor Das is Co-Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, a leading institution in local and national struggles for immigrant rights.
About CRCGE
The CRCGE was founded in 1996 by a group of students at the UNC School of Law. It was designed as an academic forum where recent political and legal developments could be examined through critical legal and social justice perspectives. This conference is an annual event, held in early spring, drawing scholars and activists from across the state and nation to address a topic chosen by the organization. A coalition of student groups at UNC School of Law work together to host the conference.

Faculty Speaker Series: Abbye Atkinson
2021-03-18 12:00 - 13:00
Abbye Atkinson
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Credit and Debt; Consumer Bankruptcy; Debt, Discrimination, and Inequality. Atkinson’s research focuses on the law of debtors and creditors as it affects economically disenfranchised communities.
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/abbye-atkinson/

Admitted Students Trivia Night
2021-03-16 18:00 - 19:30

Faculty Speaker Series: Issa Kohler-Hausmann
2021-03-04 12:00 - 13:00
Issa Kohler-Hausmann
A Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale. Her primary research interests are in Criminal Law, Sociology of Law, Empirical Legal Studies, and Social And Legal Theory.
https://law.yale.edu/issa-kohler-hausmann

Week Against Mass Incarceration
2021-03-01 12:00 - 13:00
UNC School of Law’s chapters of the National Lawyers Guild, Black Law Students Association and American Constitution Society present programming for the 2021 Week Against Mass Incarceration.

Monday, March 1

Emancipate NC Pro Bono Project: Scorecards for Police Accountability 12pm-2pm

Join us to help create police accountability scorecards with data from local police departments for Emancipate NC

Movement Lawyering in NC Panel from 7pm-8pm

Moderated by Sloan Taylor, UNC BLSA
Speakers include:

Dawn Blagrove, Emancipate NC
Kerwin Pittman, Emancipate NC
Whitley Carpenter, Forward Justice
Mark Dorosin, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Tuesday, March 2

Intersection of Mass Incarceration and Civil Legal Services Panel from 12pm-1pm

Moderated by Professor Kathryn Sabbeth, UNC Law
Speakers include:

Siya Hegde, Bronx Defenders
Professor Erika Wilson, UNC Law
Jen Story, Advocates for Children’s Services
(we may have another exciting speaker for this panel!)

Wednesday, March 3

Plea Bargaining and the Fourth Amendment Panel from 12pm-1pm

Moderated by Chris Heaney, North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services
Speakers include:

Professor Joseph Kennedy, UNC Law
Professor Shon Hopwood, Georgetown Law
Professor Carissa Hessick, UNC Law
Professor Thea Johnson, Rutgers Law

Thursday, March 4:

COVID and Incarcerated People in NC Panel from 12pm-1pm

Moderated by Professor Barbara Fedders, UNC Law
Speakers include:

Kristie Puckett-Williams, ACLU of NC
Leah Kang, ACLU of NC
Ben Finholt, NC Prisoner Legal Services
Zach Tooman, UNC Law

Film Screening: Judas and the Black Messiah 6:30pm-9:00pm

The film will be followed by a discussion led by Professor Kerrel Murray

Friday, March 5

Day of Action

Priority FAFSA Deadline
2021-02-28
For more info

Lunch Break: Gaming Law Discussion
2021-02-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
The Office of Advancement hosts Canon Pence (BA ’01, JD ’07), general counsel for Epic Games, and S. Gregory Boyd (MD ’02, JD ’04), Frankfurt Kurnit New York co-chair of Interactive Entertainment, to discuss intellectual property, regulations, and international legal issues around growing and managing a company like Epic Games. Epic Games, based in Cary, N.C., develops games like Fortnite and has 1,000+ employees and 40 offices worldwide. Attendees will have a chance to ask questions to both Pence and Boyd about the world of gaming law.

Tax Institute Speaker Series
2021-02-26 11:00 - 13:45 | Virtual
Presented by Caplin & Drysdale at UNC School of Law, the online Tax Institute Speaker Series is a continuing legal education program that features tax practitioners and scholars from throughout the country to address current developments in taxation. The online speaker series offers periodic, short sessions (2-3 hours) with networking opportunities throughout the year.
CLE credit is available.
