Connect and Learn: Festival 2024

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.

Carolina Law Book Roundtable: Law & Inequality

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

The Power of a Year of Giving

See how your gifts to Carolina Law make a difference. In Carolina Law Impact, we gratefully acknowledge the outstanding commitment of alumni, students, faculty, staff, friends, companies and foundations who contributed

Carolina Law Library’s Holiday Gift Guide

Looking for the perfect holiday gift for the book lovers in your life? Let our talented law librarian, Kerri-Ann Rowe, guide your shopping with her thoughtful recommendations that will appeal

Fulbright Award Advances Criminal Justice Scholar’s Quest for Sentencing Insights 

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.

Scholar as Change Agent: Muller’s Ruffin Research Spurs Progress

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.