A team of six first-year law students from UNC School of Law won first place at the Kilpatrick Townsend 1L Mock Trial Competition, held virtually February 4-6. The Broun National Trial Team, a student organization at Carolina Law, coordinates the annual competition that brings teams from law schools across North Carolina together to practice trial …
After 13 years of print, UNC School of Law has published its first fully-digital issue of Carolina Law magazine. Members of the UNC School of Law community received a copy of the latest school news by email, rather than in mailboxes, this semester. To be fiscally responsible and more environmentally friendly, the school’s Office of …
Selected from more than 800 nominations, the winners of the 2022 University Teaching Awards will receive special recognition at the Jan. 15 men’s basketball game. Carolina honored 25 faculty members and teaching assistants for their accomplishments with the 2022 University Teaching Awards. Given annually, the awards acknowledge the University’s commitment to outstanding teaching and mentoring …
Attorneys can earn 12 hours of CLE credit at North Carolina’s annual legal learning conference online February 1-4. For more than 30 years, UNC School of Law’s annual Festival of Legal Learning has provided continuing legal education for over 15,000 attorneys and judges from across the country. In 2022, Festival will offer 28 sessions online …
See the power of a year of giving In the annual Carolina Law Impact, we gratefully acknowledge the outstanding commitment of alumni, students, faculty, staff, friends, companies and foundations who contributed to UNC School of Law between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021. We sincerely appreciate the support of our donors and the exceptional …
A $2 million commitment to Carolina Law will create The Kerr Family Civil Rights Endowment Fund, which will support teaching, research, experiential learning and student engagement in the area of civil rights. While recent events across the country have renewed Americans’ awareness of racial inequality, James Yancey “Jim” Kerr II J.D. ’92, and his wife, …
Story by Brandon Bieltz, University Communications Students at the UNC School of Law’s Military and Veterans Law Clinic help veterans fight for upgrades or corrections in military discharges to make life-saving resources available to the former service members. For one North Carolina veteran, they restored all the honors he was owed — including his Purple …
Students practicing in simulated courtroom proceedings will now earn experiential learning course credits. One UNC School of Law’s many student activities recently got an academic makeover. Since its inception in 1951, the Holderness Moot Court program has helped law students develop skills in legal research, written preparation, and oral advocacy. After decades as a predominantly student-run organization, …
For the Class of 2020, remote classes, no graduation and an uncertain future dominated their world. Amid this uncertainty, these graduates were asked to dig deep and study for the bar exam under the most difficult circumstances. O.J. Salinas, director of the UNC School of Law’s Academic Excellence Program and clinical professor of law, recognized …
Clean, safe drinking water is essential for every home. An estimated 3 million people in North Carolina rely on well water for their drinking water. Many of the contaminants in well water – whether naturally occurring arsenic or industrial pesticides – cannot be tasted, smelled or seen; they can only be detected through well water …