UNC School of Law

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 (America/New_York) | 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.

Last day of classes
2024-04-19

Institute for Innovation Board of Advisors Meeting
2024-04-19 08:30 - 13:00 | Innovate Carolina Junction, 136 E. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States

Institute for Innovation Speaker Series: Innovation & Building Effective Teams
2024-04-19 13:30 - 14:30 | Innovate Carolina Junction, 136 E. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Friday, April 19, 2024, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM, EST. Carolina Junction, Chapel Hill, NC
Leadership & Building Effective Teams through Innovation
Panelists:

Patricia Brown, Executive Vice President & CLO / SAS
Dedric Carter, Vice Chancellor for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development And Chief Innovation Office/ UNC Chapel Hill
Anson Dorrance, Women’s Soccer Coach, University of North Carolina Athletics
Jeff Allred, Nelson Mullins – Jeffrey A. Allred
John Hardin: Executive Director for the North Carolina Board of Science, Technology & Innovation

Reading Day (Inclement weather make-up day if needed)
2024-04-22

Examinations begin
2024-04-23

CHANNEL/ UNC law Institute for Innovation w/ New Hanover Community Endowment Presents Nonprofit Startup Basics
2024-05-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Channel, 106 Market Street, Wilmington, NC, 28401
Wed. May 1, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST, CHANNEL, Wilmington, NC
Nonprofit Startup Basics with Thomas A. Kelley, III, James Dickson Phillips, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Director of the Community Development Law Clinic

UNC Rural Tom Kelley nonprofit presentation
2024-05-02 13:00 - 14:00
UNC Rural Tom Kelley nonprofit presentation- Webinar Event

Examinations end
2024-05-03

Class of 2024 Commencement Celebration
2024-05-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Top of the Hill, 100 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC
The UNC Law Alumni Association and the entire Carolina Law community look forward to celebrating the Class of 2024 and your accomplishments on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, from 5:00-7:00pm at TOPO.
We invite you to join us, ease into Commencement festivities, unwind, laugh, and celebrate while taking in the views from one of Carolina’s favorite gathering spots – Top of the Hill!
Congratulations, Class of 2024!
Additional details:

There is no cost to attend – food, all non-alcoholic beverages, and two beverage tickets will be provided.
Dress is casual.
Paid parking is available in multiple public lots and decks around Top of the Hill.
If you have questions, please contact Kelly Rose at kmmann@email.unc.edu.

Law School Commencement (12:30 p.m.)
2024-05-10

Externship Orientation
2024-05-13

Classes Begin
2024-05-13
