Feature Blocks

Feb
12

Save the date for UNC School of Law’s most highly anticipated event of the year – the 2024 Annual CPILO Community Auction on Thursday, March 7th! Taking place at The

Jan
25

Earn 6 CLE credits including ethics and mental health requirements while engaging on today’s top legal issues with esteemed faculty and connecting with students at an exclusive Carolina Law Alumni Festival event on February 2nd, but act fast before the January 26th registration deadline.

Oct
26

Carissa Byrne Hessick, the Anne Shea Ransdell and William Garland “Buck” Ransdell, Jr. Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, has received a prestigious Fulbright Distinguished Chair to conduct comparative research on criminal sentencing practices in Australia. The Fulbright award will support Hessick’s field work in Australia and facilitate her larger book project examining sentencing frameworks across common law countries.

Oct
23

A 2007 conversation with Orange County Commissioner Sally Greene, an independent scholar who has taught as an adjunct professor at Carolina Law, and friend of Eric L. Muller, Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law in Jurisprudence and Ethics at UNC School of Law, sparked Muller’s research into the legacy of Thomas Ruffin, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1833-1852. Greene had begun focusing on Ruffin’s legacy in connection with his legacy at her church, which was founded on land donated by Ruffin in Hillsborough, N.C.