The board of the UNC School of Law Pro Bono Program announced the 2020 recipients of the Pro Bono Publico Awards at their annual celebration, held for the first time digitally on Tuesday, April 7, due to the coronavirus pandemic. This year’s award recipients included: Sylvia K. Novinsky Award – Miranda Goot 3L and Grace …
Dear Carolina Law Community, Last night, the Academic Affairs Committee met to consider whether to change the Law School’s grading policy for the spring semester. The Committee voted unanimously to recommend that we move to a mandatory Pass/Fail grading system. It did so after (1) receiving comments and input from members of the faculty, both …
UNC School of Law moved up seven spots to No. 27 out of 194 law schools ranked in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” released on March 17. Of the public university law schools listed in the top 50 schools as ranked by U.S. News, UNC School of …
We plan to reschedule this event sometime during the fall of 2020. As the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill officials continue to monitor the evolving situation related to COVID-19, and to promote the safety of our alumni, friends, staff, and students, the upcoming Wade H. Hargrove Media Law and Policy Colloquium scheduled for …
Four will be recognized for their significant contributions to the legal field. RESCHEDULED: Law Reunion Weekend has been rescheduled for September 25 and 26, 2020. With guidance from the Carolina Law Foundation Board of Directors, the leadership of the Law Alumni Association has decided to postpone Law Reunion Weekend. Given travel bans currently in place …
The 2020 Murphy Lecture has been canceled due to the worldwide public health crisis and related travel restrictions for many. Learn more at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Coronavirus Updates. Moseneke will speak about “The Transition from Apartheid to Democracy and Constitutionalism.” Dikgang Moseneke, the former deputy chief justice of South Africa who earned two degrees while imprisoned …
Attorneys can earn 12 hours of CLE credit at the annual legal learning conference in Chapel Hill February 7-8. For 30 years, UNC School of Law’s annual Festival of Legal Learning has provided continuing legal education for more than 15,000 attorneys and judges from across the country. Launched in 1980 to raise money for the …
As the mother of three children, Maxine Eichner, Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, has personal experience in facing the challenges that American families face in juggling work and parenting. That knowledge has inspired not only Eichner’s focus on family law but her most recent book, …
This article originally appeared in the Fall-Winter 2019 issue of Carolina Law. In his debut book, A Warren Court of Our Own: The Exum Court and the Expansion of Individual Rights in North Carolina, Mark Davis ’91, an associate justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court, examines the transformational impact of the eight years in …
This article originally appeared in the Fall-Winter 2019 issue of Carolina Law. From “one little room” to thousands of alumni worldwide, the state’s oldest professional school reaches its terquasquicentennial milestone at the turn of the decade. By Melissa M. Hyland ’13, Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Reference and Faculty Research Services Librarian The University of …