News Archive - 2022

Dear Carolina Law family: I write to share news of the passing of our beloved Charles E. Daye, Henry Brandis Professor of Law emeritus.  Our loss of Charles is momentous …

Make your year-end gift to Carolina Law. Hear from Roy Dixon ‘18 – Why He Supports Carolina Law Your gift to the annual fund shapes the entire Carolina Law experience. …

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently appointed Professor Deborah R. Gerhardt to its Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC). Gerhardt is the Reef C. Ivey II Excellence Fund Term Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law where she specializes in intellectual property law with an emphasis on the intersection of law and creativity. She teaches Arts Entrepreneurship, Art Law, and Copyright and Trademark Law. She is the only legal academic of the three people appointed to the committee. Gerhardt will serve a three-year rotating term.

A multi-disciplinary collaboration co-led by Dr. Beth Moracco (Associate Professor at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and Associate Director of the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center) and Professor Deborah M. Weissman (Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law at UNC School of Law) recently received a funding award from the North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM)’s inaugural NC Evaluation Fund Grants program to support measurement, development, and evaluation planning for Project RESTART.

Patricia Bryan, Henry P. Brandis Distinguished Professor of Law, recently released her second book based on murders in the late 19th century and the legal proceedings that followed. “The Plea: …

On November 4, Carolina Law alumni, students, faculty and staff will join members or Sylvia X. Allen’s family as well as special guests Provost Chris Clemens, UNC Board of Trustees Chair Dave Boliek and the Honorable James F. Ammons ’80, Cumberland County Senior Resident Superior Court Judge for the unveiling of the portrait of Sylvia X. Allen ’62.

On Friday, November 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., attendees of the Dan K. Moore Program in Ethics will have the unprecedented opportunity to hear from a very distinguished …

On November 18, an outstanding group of scholars will participate in the inaugural Carolina Law Roundtable on Law, Inequality, and the Civil-Criminal Divide.  The roundtable was organized by and will …

According to results released by the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners, UNC School of Law had 93% of its 127 first-time test takers pass the July 2022 North Carolina …

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 …