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Thank you for your interest in UNC School of Law. Van Hecke-Wettach Hall is closed to all visitors for the Spring 2021 semester. While the law school building is closed, …

UNC School of Law graduate Darpan Patel ’20 was recently awarded first place in the prestigious H. Thomas Austern Writing Competition for his article, “Clinical Trial Data Reporting: Breaking Free …

Before, during and after the 2020 presidential election, questions swirled online and among friends and colleagues. Why was the vote count taking longer than usual – or was it? What …

Douglas Freedle ’65 donates $1 million to support incoming law students from rural North Carolina. Thomasville, North Carolina, is home to the state’s oldest railroad depot and its oldest festival, …

On February 18 and 19, the UNC Center for Civil Rights will present “Equal Protection’s Grand Promise and Betrayals: Reconstruction, Plessy to Bakke and Beyond: Is There a Way Forward?” …

In the fall of 2020, UNC School of Law established the country’s first Critical Race Lawyering Civil Rights Clinic to teach students how to merge the theoretical frameworks offered by …

By Jess Clarke When Carolina Law Professor Alexa Z. Chew began practicing law, she was asked to write letters to sweepstakes winners about their obligations and contractual terms of the …

By Jess Clarke Carolina Law Professor Holning Lau first visited mainland China in 1988, a year before the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, in which government troops killed some of …

By Jess Clarke A petition filed by foreign domestic workers, aided by UNC School of Law students and human rights and legal advocacy groups, has been moved forward to the …

When the U.S. Supreme Court recognizes a law professor’s scholarship, it can be both an honor and a surprise. “There isn’t a formal communication letting you know that you’ve been …