When Carolina Law’s Michael Gerhardt testified with three other law professors before the House Judiciary Committee in President Donald Trump’s impeachment proceedings, the experience was both familiar and novel. Familiar, because he testified (as a witness called by both sides) during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment proceedings in 1998. New, because the atmosphere at the Trump …
Tracy Schaefer Calder ’84 financed her law school education with loans and summer jobs. Although she worried about her rising debt burden and ability to repay it, the low cost of tuition at the time – even for an out-of-state student like her – enabled Calder to easily pay her loans within the first few …
Since 1967, UNC School of Law’s graduating class has selected a member of the faculty to receive the Frederick B. McCall Award for Teaching Excellence in recognition for outstanding teaching. The award is named for Frederick B. McCall, who served on the Carolina Law faculty for more than 40 years. He was an outstanding scholar …
UNC School of Law congratulates 36 first-year law students who received a Eugene Gressman & Daniel H. Pollitt Oral Advocacy Award in April. The annual awards, given by faculty of the Writing and Learning Resources Center, recognize outstanding oral advocacy in the first-year Research, Reasoning, Writing, and Advocacy (RRWA) Program. This year marked the 25th …
UNC School of Law presented three awards to distinguished faculty on Tuesday, May 12, in an online ceremony. The awards presented include: The Robert G. Byrd Award for Excellence and Creativity in Teaching, awarded to Lissa Broome, Burton Craige Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Banking and Finance. The Byrd Award is named …
Eight students of the Class of 2020 were selected to become members of one of the most prestigious societies at UNC School of Law. The James E. and Carolyn B. Davis Society recognizes eight third-year students possessing both academic and personal excellence and a willingness to serve for the betterment of the School of Law …
The following email message from Dean Martin H. Brinkley ’92 was shared with the law school community on Saturday, May 2, 2020. “Learning to Live with Passion”Anthony Eden Rand ’64(1 September 1939 – 1 May 2020) For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love …
For the third year in a row, a Carolina Law student group is recognized with the Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recognized the Veterans Advocacy Legal Organization (VALOR) for the group’s work to provide pro bono legal assistance to former military service members. VALOR President Isabelle …
As the first-year class coordinator for UNC School of Law’s Pro Bono Program, Jaazaniah Catterall is helping his classmates to use their skills to provide free legal help to North Carolinians. Jaazaniah Catterall was born into helping. Led by his pastor father, the family moved around, introducing themselves to new communities through their offered service. …
A new book by Professor Gene R. Nichol, Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor of Law at UNC School of Law, tackles public policy, injustice, race, wealth disparity, politics and lawmaking in North Carolina. Indecent Assembly: The North Carolina Legislature’s Blueprint for the War on Democracy and Equality (Blair Publishing, 2020) explores the political changes in the …