Together with UnidosUS and UNC Center for Community Capital, UNC School of Law released the first report arising out of a generous grant from Lumina Foundation to study the relationship between debt, achievement and equity in higher education, with a specific focus on Latino students. “Debt, Doubt, and Dreams: Understanding the Latino College Completion Gap” …
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 critical race theory with lawyering practice. In this clinic, run by Erika K. Wilson, associate professor of law, Wade Edwards Distinguished Scholar and Thomas Willis …
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 prizes. She’d written a few types of legal documents in law school, but the letters were new to her. “I was too scared to ask” …
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 the student protesters who demanded democratic freedoms. The trip and the horrific violence in Beijing the next year heightened Lau’s interest in human rights and …
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 merits stage by an international human rights commission. The decision that the petition is admissible by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has been …
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 cited,” says Andrew Hessick, Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law and associate dean for strategy. “Usually, I find out I’ve been cited just …
Law schools are constantly battling the myth that law school applications are down each year. For Carolina Law, this simply isn’t true. And we have the numbers to prove it. “The Class of 2023 is one of the strongest classes Carolina Law has seen in years,” says Martin H. Brinkley ’92, dean and Arch T. …
On Wednesday, October 7, Charles E. Daye, Henry Brandis Professor of Law Emeritus at UNC School of Law, was honored with a virtual portrait dedication that drew close to 300 friends, family, colleagues and former students. The commissioned portrait is displayed on the fifth floor of Van Hecke-Wettach Hall. Artist William Paul Thomas’ portrait of …
Bianca Mack, Carolina Law’s assistant dean for admissions, was recently selected to join the University Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council as a council member. Created in May 2020, the University Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Council at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill serves as the advisory and recommending body to the Chief Diversity …
UNC School of Law is pleased to share that over the next 12 months, Professors Ifeoma Ajunwa and Osamudia James will join our faculty, bringing with them expertise in labor and employment law, privacy law, law and technology, anti-discrimination law and ethics, race and the law, torts, administrative law and education law. Ifeoma Ajunwa will …