UNC School of Law

Classes begin
2024-01-08

Deadline for Faculty to Report 1L Fall Grades
2024-01-09

Carolina Law Alumni Reception with Dean Martin H. Brinkley ’92 at Smith Anderson
2024-01-10 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Smith Anderson, 150 Fayetteville Street, Suite 2300, Raleigh, NC, 27601, United States
Dean Martin H. Brinkley ’92 and the UNC Law Alumni Association invite you to a Carolina Law reception at Smith Anderson.
Join Dean Brinkley at Smith Anderson and welcome the new year with Carolina Law alumni and friends. The Dean will share brief remarks about the exciting things happening at the law school at 6:15 p.m.
Registration closes on January 8, 2024.
Questions? Contact Kelly Mann Rose, assistant director of alumni and donor relations, 919.445.0170 or mann@unc.edu.

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday – no classes
2024-01-15

Deadline for Faculty to Report 2L and 3L Fall Grades
2024-01-16

Deadline for Students to Add/Drop Classes
2024-01-16

Institute for Innovation Board of Advisor Meeting
2024-01-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom

State of the School Address with Martin H. Brinkley ’92, Dean and William Rand Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law
2024-01-19 12:00 - 12:55 | Virtual
The UNC Law Alumni Association invites you to an exclusive event with Dean Martin H. Brinkley ‘92 as he shares the State of the Law School Address.
Dean Brinkley will provide an overview of the state of the school, share important initiatives, and give an inside look at life back in the halls of Van Hecke-Wettach. Jim Deal ’74, president of the UNC Law Alumni Association and partner at Deal, Moseley & Smith in Boone, NC, will introduce the program and moderate the Q&A.
The event will be Zoom webinar format and space is limited. Registration is required for this event so be sure to secure your spot today! A Zoom link will be sent out 24-48 hours prior to the event.
Questions about this event? Please contact Kelly Rose (assistant director of alumni and donor relations) at mann@unc.edu. This event is exclusively for Carolina Law alumni.

Carolina Law Book Roundtable: Law & Inequality
2024-01-26
On January 26th, an esteemed group of scholars will participate in the 2024 Carolina Law Roundtable on Law & Inequality.
The roundtable was organized by and will be led by Henry P. Brandis Distinguished Professor of Law Eisha Jain, who explained “The Roundtable brings together scholars working on these topics from different perspectives and disciplines within the law. All of the scholars presenting have been developing these ideas for years; it’s exciting to read the manuscripts and see how the work has evolved over time. My hope is that this gathering furthers scholarship development while fostering connections across legal disciplines.”
The books-in-progress presented at the 2024 roundtable will cover a range of topics at the intersection of law and inequality, including criminal law, law and democracy, access to courts, race and the law, and more. Participants include:

Aziza Ahmed, Boston University
Monica Bell, Yale Law School
Rabia Belt, Stanford Law School
Marie Boyd, University of South Carolina
Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard Law School
Debbie Dinner, Cornell Law School
Trevor Gardner, Washington University
Margaret Hu, William & Mary
Jessica Eaglin, Cornell Law School
Irene Joe, UC Davis Law
Timothy Lovelace, Duke Law School
Huyen Pham, Texas A&M
Naomi Schoenbam, George Washington University School of Law
Josh Sellars, University of Texas
Lauren Sudeall, Vanderbilt
Fred Smith, Emory

Festival
2024-02-02 09:00 - 19:00 | Carolina Club
On February 2, 2024, the UNC Law Alumni Association will present Festival, a boutique offering of CLE exclusively for Carolina Law alumni. Join us at the Carolina Club for a full day of interesting CLE taught by beloved professors, including Dean Martin H. Brinkley.
This curated Festival offering will satisfy six hours of CLE, including professional responsibility and substance abuse/mental health.
This premier program is $180 and includes six hours of CLE credit (pending approval), continental breakfast, lunch, and a reception with members of the Carolina Law community including faculty, students, alumni, and staff.

Festival 2024 Schedule:
8:00 – 9:00 AM Check-in and continental breakfast
9:00 AM Opening Remarks
9:20 – 10:20 AM “Professionalism” Standards and the First Amendment (PR)
Mary-Rose Papandrea, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, UNC School of Law
Soon after students at Stanford Law School disrupted Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech at a Federalist Society event in March 2023, Dean Jenny Martinez issued an eloquent statement explaining why robust protections for the free of expression are essential for the mission of legal education. Curiously, however, her memo included an argument that “[l]ively, candid, civil, and evidence-based discourse in disagreement is not just positive for our community, constituted as it is in difference, it is a professional duty.” (emphasis added) As it turns out, when Dean Martinez wrote this statement, the California Bar was considering the adoption of an enforceable civility standard for admitted lawyers. Such standards are common throughout the country, although most are unenforceable. Relatedly, lower courts have rejected First Amendment challenges to university decisions to regulate student speech that is inconsistent with the professionalism standards of the relevant discipline. This session will focus on the First Amendment concerns that civility and professionalism standards would raise for both the bar and for law schools.
Session Materials: Endorsed Petition re Civility Rules, Greenberg v. Lehocky, Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L. by and through Levy, Next Steps on Protests and Free Speech, Speech First, Inc. v. Sands, Tatro v. University of Minnesota
10:20 – 10:30 AM Break
10:30 – 11:30 AM The Law of Presidential Accountability
Michael J. Gerhardt, Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, UNC School of Law
Professor Gerhardt will discuss what we know, and do not know, about the constitutional mechanisms for holding presidents accountable for their misconduct. These questions still dominate the news, not just because Donald Trump is running again for president but also because the House has begun three impeachment inquiries against President Biden. He will discuss the basic law governing presidential accountability, including impeachment, the scope of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment as a mechanism for rendering ineligible anyone running for president who has incited insurrection in violation of their constitutional oaths, how the 25th amendment’s procedures for temporarily suspending presidents, whether censure is constitutional, the procedures required in impeachment trials, and whether there are any precedents that will help to guide the nation as it moves increasingly closer to election day and beyond.
Session Materials: The Trump Impeachments: Lessons for the Constitution, Presidents, Congress, Justice, Lawyers, and the Public, How Impeachment Works
11:30 – 12:30 PM Lunch
12:40 – 1:40 PM Hot Topics at the U.S. Supreme Court
David S. Ardia, Reef C. Ivey II Excellence Fund Term Professor of Law, UNC School of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Media Law and Policy; Osamudia James, Professor of Law, UNC School of Law; Elizabeth Fisher, Adjunct Professor, UNC School of Law with moderator and panelist: Mary-Rose Papandrea, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, UNC School of Law
This panel will discuss some of the hot topics before the U.S. Supreme Court, including several First Amendment and social media cases, the future of the Chevron doctrine, and a double jeopardy case featuring Carolina Law’s Supreme Court program.
Session Materials: McElrath Brief for the Petitioner, McElrath v. State of Georgia Petition for Writ of Certiorari
1:40 – 2:40 PM Attorney Mental Health: General concepts, individual experience (SA/MH)
David Kouba ‘02, Arnold & Porter
This engaging session will focus on attorney mental health, including issues that frequently impact attorneys and strategies for recognizing and responding to those issues. Informed by ethical considerations and legal obligations, the presentation will draw from David’s education, experience, and observations as an attorney and trained mental health counselor and attempt to make mental health issues clearer and more relatable.
Session Materials: Attorney Mental Health: General Concepts… Individual Experiences (PPT)
2:40 – 2:50 PM Break
2:50 – 3:50 PM Generative AI in Legal Education & Law Practice
Nicole M. Downing, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and the Assistant Director for Public Services, Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, UNC School of Law and Pete Nemerovski, Clinical Associate Professor, UNC School of Law
Professors Downing and Nemerovski have spent much of 2023 studying the impact of Generative AI on legal education and law practice, and both have incorporated GenAI into their courses. In this presentation, they will share their experiences with GenAI and their thoughts on how lawyers and law students will engage with this technology in the years to come. The topics covered will include teaching students about prompt engineering, differences between legal and non-legal GenAI programs, and the potential for GenAI to help lawyers better serve their clients.
Session Materials: Generative AI in Legal Education & Practice (PPT), Generative Artificial Intelligence in Legal Education and Law Practice- Nemerovski Slides (PPT), Generative AI Exercise Handout
3:50 – 4:00 PM Break
4:00 – 5:00 PM UNC Law School: The First Century, 1843-1939
Martin H. Brinkley, Dean and William Rand Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, UNC Law Institute for Innovation
This session will chart the history of UNC Law School from its inception as an experiment in blending private and university legal education in the 1840s, through its emergence as a “modern” law school at the opening of World War II. He will cover public resistance to Carolina’s halting efforts to adopt the reforms in legal education fostered by Harvard Law School Dean Christopher Columbus Langdell, through the eventual triumph of the Langdellian “case method” under Dean Merton Leroy Ferson and President Harry Woodburn Chase in the early 1920s.
Session Materials: A New Model Law School
5:00 – 6:00 PM Reception with law students
Space is limited and will be based on a first come basis.

UNC School of Law Game Watch in Charlotte
2024-02-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Kilted Buffalo Plaza Midwood, 1212 Central Ave, Charlotte, NC, 28204, United States
UNC School of Law, Charlotte Alumni Regional Club, and Young Alumni Leadership Council invite you and a guest to join them for a Game Watch at the Kilted Buffalo Plaza Midwood.
Make plans to join alumni for a game watch and fellowship at the Kilted Buffalo Plaza Midwood from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. on Saturday February 10. Appetizers and drinks are on us!
Registration closes on February 8, 2024.
Questions? Contact Kelly Rose (assistant director of alumni and donor relations) at mann@unc.edu.

Well-being Days 1 & 2 (UNC-wide) – no classes
2024-02-12 - 2024-02-13

MAGIC Day (Monday classes meet)
2024-02-14

Cornerstone Weekend in the Capital City (By invitation only)
2024-03-01 - 2024-03-03
March 1

6:00-8:00 pm | An Evening at the North Carolina Governor’s Mansion
Attire: Business
Transportation will be provided from The Umstead

9:00-10:30 pm | Staying at The Umstead? Please join us in the bar for a nightcap before calling it an evening.
The Umstead Bar
March 2
9:30-11:30 am | Breakfast and Carolina Law program with Dean Brinkley
Attire: Casual
The Umstead, Room TBD
11:30 am-6:00 pm | Enjoy the amenities of The Umstead and Raleigh attractions
4:00-6:00 pm | UNC vs. NCSU game watch (for Tobacco Road basketball fans)
The Umstead Carolina Law Hospitality Suite
6:00-9:00 pm | Dinner at the home of Carol and Martin Brinkley
Attire: Business Casual
Transportation will be provided from The Umstead

Pricing
$125 per person covers the cost of attending Cornerstone Weekend.
Accommodations
A room block has been held at The Umstead at the special rate of $399 per night. Please make your hotel reservations directly with The Umstead by calling (919) 447-4000 and request the UNC School of Law room block.
If you are local and will not be taking transportation from The Umstead, addresses and parking information will be shared with your confirmation materials.

RSVP by February 19, 2024, so we can ensure we have adhered to all registration requirements for the Cornerstone Weekend in the Capital City. Please note: after February 19, some of our weekend event partners may not be able to accommodate additional registrations.
Questions? Contact Kelly Mann Rose, assistant director of alumni and donor relations, at mann@unc.edu or (919) 445-0170.

UNC School of Law Stewardship Luncheon (By invitation only)
2024-03-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Carolina Club
Dean Martin Brinkley ‘92 and the Carolina Law community look forward to the UNC School of Law Scholarship Stewardship Luncheon each year because it is a wonderful occasion for us to thank you for your generous support, celebrate the impact of your commitment to Carolina Law, and introduce you to some of the Carolina Law students who are the beneficiaries of your generosity.
Register now
Friday, March 1, 2024
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
The Carolina Club
150 Stadium Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Business Attire
Parking Available at Rams Head Parking Deck
104 Ridge Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Access to the Carolina Club is on level 3. Parking vouchers will be provided at the luncheon registration table.
RSVP: Please respond by Friday, February 23, 2024 here.
Questions?
Contact Kelly Mann Rose, assistant director of alumni and donor relations, at mann@unc.edu or (919) 445-0170.

CPILO Auction
2024-03-07 18:00 - 23:00 | The PITCH, 462 W Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC, 27516, United States
The CPILO Auction is one of Carolina Law’s most anticipated events of the year. As in previous years, this year’s event will feature both a silent auction with online bidding on items donated by businesses AND a live auction where attendees will have the opportunity to bid on professor experiences. Tickets to the live event are not necessary to bid in the silent auction. Live event ticket purchases can be made at the link below, and names will be verified at the door.

Spring Break
2024-03-11 - 2024-03-15

CHANNEL/ Institute for Innovation Collaboration Kickoff Event
2024-03-12 10:00 - 13:00 | Channel, 106 Market Street, Wilmington, NC, 28401
Join us to celebrate CHANNEL and the UNC School of Law’s collaboration to support entrepreneurs and innovators in Wilmington, NC.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
This is the first in a series of events for CHANNEL and the Institute for Innovation in Wilmington.
Register on or before March 1, 2024. FREE Lunch and Networking immediately to follow the speaker event.
Speakers:

Chakema Clinton-Quintana Director of CHANNEL
Atiba Johnson CPBA, CHANNEL, Business Advisor
Martin H. Brinkley UNC School of Law, Dean and William Rand Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor
Aaron Gard UNC School of Law, Executive Director, Institution for Innovation
Dustin Marlan UNC School of Law, Assistant Professor, Director of Intellectual Property Clinic

Wilmington Carolina Law Alumni Reception
2024-03-12 17:30 - 19:00 | Home of Mary Boney Denison ’81 and Jack Clark, 8 Cedar Island, Wilmington, NC, United States
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 from 5:30-7 p.m.
Home of Mary Boney Denison ’81 and Jack Clark
8 Cedar Island
Wilmington, NC
Register by Friday, March 8, 2024
Please join us in Wilmington to learn about developments at Carolina Law and a new exciting collaboration with the Wilmington community and the UNC School of Law Institute for Innovation. Dean Martin H. Brinkley ’92, Dean and William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor, will share exciting updates about new opportunities for scholarship, learning, and experiential education inside the halls of Van Hecke-Wettach.
Questions about this event? Please contact Kelly Mann Rose (assistant director of alumni and donor relations) at mann@unc.edu. This event is exclusively for Carolina Law alumni.

Admitted Students Day
2024-03-22, 2024-04-12

ABCs of Banking Law
2024-03-26 | Moore & Van Allen, Charlotte, North Carolina
The ABCs of Banking Law is an annual continuing legal education program presented by the Center for Banking and Finance that focuses on the basics of banking law for lawyers. This program introduces the banking law regulatory structure. It is designed for young attorneys and those who desire a basic framework in banking law, including in-house bank attorneys who do not work directly on bank regulatory issues, and business lawyers who want to understand how banking law impacts the banks with which their clients interact. Others who might benefit from the program include bank examiners and risk and compliance professionals.
The North Carolina Banking Institute Journal will be published in the spring. All those registered for the program will receive a copy of the journal.
7 hours CLE Credit: Approved

Banking Institute
2024-03-27 - 2024-03-28 | Ritz-Carlton in Charlotte, 201 E Trade St, Charlotte, NC, 28202, United States
The Banking Institute is a two-day continuing legal education program presented by the Center for Banking and Finance that focuses on cutting-edge issues for bankers and their lawyers. The program is the result of extensive planning by the center’s board of advisors, a distinguished group of banking law professionals from leading banks and law firms and reflects the board’s commitment to provide one of the best banking CLEs in the country. Attendees have an opportunity to interact with bank counsel, private practitioners, regulators, students, and nationally recognized speakers in the industry between sessions, at meals, and a reception.
Participants will receive the North Carolina Banking Institute Journal, an invaluable reference for in-depth treatment on recent developments of interest to banking lawyers.
CLE Credit: Pending

Well-being Day 3 (UNC-wide) – no classes
2024-03-28

University Spring Holiday
2024-03-29

Legal Aid of NC Innovation
2024-04-11 17:30 - 19:30 | 79°West, 120 Mosaic Blvd, Ste 120, Pittsboro, NC, 27312, United States
Thursday, April 11, 5:30 PM – 7:00PM, EST. 79West, Pittsboro, NC
Fireside Chat with Aaron Gard and Legal Aid of NC Innovation
79 West Private Office and Coworking HUB/ Co-working in Pittsboro, NC
Moderator:

Aaron Gard, Executive Director, Institute for Innovation

LAA Foundation Board Meeting
2024-04-12 08:00 - 12:00 | Boardroom 5003

LAA Board of Directors Meeting
2024-04-12 12:00 - 16:00 | Boardroom 5003

This Art Belongs to the Artist: Art as Human Rights Exhibition & Symposium
2024-04-12 15:00 - 19:00 | Hanes Art Center, 121 E. Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
FRIDAY APRIL 12
Exhibition Reception, 2 – 3 pm
Hanes Art Center Gallery
Symposium, 3 – 7 pm
Hanes Art Center Auditorium, Room 121, zoom https://unc.zoom.us/j/99121784899
Through an art exhibition and symposium, this program explores the ongoing impact of state violence and the consequences of the extralegal prison at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp through the framework of art and law. The program includes an exhibition of art created by men imprisoned at the GBDC followed by symposium speakers, including the virtual participation of several released detainee artists. Speakers will address the sovereign, political, and legal dimensions of detainee art, comment on the inter-related international law issues and the paradox within claims to human rights with a focus on art and the rights of detainees to own and control their creative work. Panelists will also discuss art and abolition as a framework for human rights and the law.
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Introduction
3:00 – 3:20 pm
Martin Brinkley, Dean of the School of Law and the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina
Panel 1 History Lessons: The Road Starts Here
3:20 – 4:00 pm
This panel provides an overview of the historical circumstances that gave rise to U.S. control of the Naval Station in Guantánamo, and participation of the state of North Carolina in the U.S. program of extraordinary rendition and torture that culminated in Guantánamo.

Christina Cowger, NC Stop Torture Now, “First in Torture Flights: North Carolina’s Role in CIA Renditions
Louis A. Pérez, Carlyle Sitterson Professor UNC Department of History “Guantánamo: From Naval Station to Detention Center”

Panel 2 – This Art Belongs to the Artist
4:00 – 5:15 pm
This Art Belongs to the Artists brings together several former detainees and survivors of Guantánamo Bay Detention Center along with attorney Mark Mahar and human rights scholar Alexandra Moore to share stories of art making as a form of protest and a necessary process for survival.

Moath Al-Alwi via Alexandra Moore, Director; Professor Human Rights Institute; English, General Literature and Rhetoric, Binghamton Univ., State Univ of New York
Mansoor Adayfi, Writer and former Guantánamo prisoner
Ahmed Rabbani, Artist and Former Guantanamo prisoner 1461
Sabri Al Qurashi- Artist and former Guantánamo prisoner
Mark Maher, Treasurer of Healing and Recovery After Trauma and former attorney for U.S. Reprieve

Break
5:15 – 5:30 pm
Keynote
5:30 – 6:15 pm
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and former UN Special Rapporteur Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights 2017-2023. “You Came too Late”: Reflection on the First UN Visit to the Detention Facility at Guantánamo Bay
Panel 3 – Social Action, Law & Art
6:15 – 7:00
This panel will explore the connections between art, liberation, and abolition and the growing interdisciplinary work of artists using their practices as tools towards justice and abolition. Addressing art and abolition as a framework for human rights and the law, this panel will think through critical questions around the law and the fundamental issues of freedom of expression and art as resistance.

Aliya Hussain, Center for Constitutional Rights, “Resisting Guantánamo”
Aaron Hughes & Amber Ginsburg, artists, “Remaking the Exceptional”

This project is a collaboration between UNC Law and the Dept of Art & Art History, and has been generously supported by: UNC School of Law, Dept of Art & Art History, Institute for the Study of the Americas, College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for Arts and Humanities, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, Center for European Studies, Asian American Center, Beth D Jacob/Healing and Recovery After Trauma, Department of History, Department of Communications, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Department of Women & Gender Studies, NC Stop Torture Now, Sociology Department, Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, and the Department of Romance Studies.
For more information, please contact Deborah M. Weissman weissman@email.unc.edu or Hồng-Ân Trương hatruong@email.unc.edu

2024 Hargrove Colloquium: Media Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
2024-04-16 19:00 - 20:30 | George Watts Hill Alumni Center
Join us for an exploration of the legal landscape surrounding media and artificial intelligence as we navigate the complexities of this rapidly evolving field. Come hear from David McCraw, Deputy General Counsel at The New York Times, and a panel of experts who will discuss the impact of generative AI on copyright law, defamation law, political communication, and journalism. We’ll tackle such questions as who owns the creative output generated by AI? Who, if anyone, can be held liable for harmful or defamatory content that AI generates? What are the potential risks and safeguards around AI-powered misinformation and voter manipulation? How is AI transforming the news industry?
Whether you’re a lawyer, journalist, media executive, or simply curious about the intersection of AI and media, we hope that you will join us for this thought-provoking exploration of Media Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
This event is free and open to the public.
