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One Day. One Community. Today is GiveUNC.
GiveUNC is Tuesday, March 24 — a 24-hour opportunity to come together with Tar Heels everywhere and invest in the students and programs that make UNC School of Law exceptional. Our ninth annual day of giving brings thousands of alumni, students, parents, friends, faculty, and staff into one shared moment of purpose.Your gift to the Law Annual Fund …
Carolina Law Students Spend Spring Break Serving Greensboro Families
While most of their classmates took spring break off, eight UNC School of Law students spent their break in Greensboro helping families in crisis. Working with the Women’s Resource Center of Greensboro, the students provided free legal assistance to women in need over two days, serving 14 clients and drafting more than 50 documents. Cases covered four areas: initial child custody, non-parent …
Tax Law Pro Bono Group Leads Tax Literacy Session for Carolina Law Community
On February 26, a full classroom in Room 5048 gathered for “My Parents Don’t Need to Do My Taxes Anymore,” a tax literacy session for the Carolina Law community organized and presented by student members of the Tax Literacy Pro Bono Board. The session included presentations by 3Ls Isabella Parsons, Rachel Stuart, Bianca Serafano, Maggie Caudle, and Jack Flesch. Tax Professors Kathleen Thomas …
Two Carolina Law Alumni Return to Chapel Hill as U.S. Tax Court Judges
Last week, two Carolina Law alumni came back to Chapel Hill not as students but as U.S. Tax Court judges, visiting Professor Kathleen Thomas’s Federal Income Tax course to talk about how they got there and what the work actually looks like. Neither Emin Toro ’00 nor Cathy Fung ’03 set out to reach the Tax Court. …
The Sold-Out Festival
Dean Emeritus Martin Brinkley ’92 spent his lunch break plotting. He scanned the crowd at the Festival of Legal Learning, deciding who to cold-call during his afternoon session. “You should all consider yourselves on the alert for a question from me,” he warned when he began his session. He picked Interim Dean Andy Hessick first. The assignment: Draft your own …