N.C. Council of Churches Honors Nichol
Gene Nichol, Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor of Law and director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, will receive the Faith Active in Public Life Award from the North Carolina Council...
View ArticleUNC Study Reveals Corporate Board Diversity in N.C. Lagging the Fortune 100
The diversity of corporate boards in North Carolina has stagnated since 2009 and significantly lags the diversity of Fortune 100 boardrooms, according to data recently released by the UNC School of...
View ArticleForty-Five Honored with Gressman and Pollitt Oral Advocacy Awards
UNC School of Law congratulates 45 first-year law students who received a Eugene Gressman & Daniel H. Pollitt Oral Advocacy Award on April 17. The annual awards, given by faculty of the Writing...
View ArticleAdditional Birckhead Media Hits for Boston Bombing Case
Radio interview with Gil Gross of San Francisco's Talk 910 http://media.ccomrcdn.com/media/station_content/664/tamar_birckhead_1366947111_29241.mp3 Talk 910 – San Francisco, CA Boston Bombing Suspect...
View ArticleSchool Announces Faculty Awards
UNC School of Law presented three awards to distinguished faculty on Wednesday, May 1, in a ceremony at the Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center. The awards presented include: The Robert G. Byrd Award for...
View ArticlePractice, Not Theory: Externs Obtain Experience Beyond the Classroom
This story is from the Spring-Summer 2013 issue of Carolina Law . In her third year in law school, Janie Hauser was already forming federal litigation policy. Through UNC School of Law’s semester...
View ArticleFedders Submits Brief to N.C. Center for Safer Schools
UNC School of Law clinical assistant professor Barbara A. Fedders co-authored an issue brief submitted May 7 to the North Carolina Center for Safer Schools, a state program created in March 2013 that...
View ArticleMuller Wins Book Award
Eric Muller, Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law in Jurisprudence and Ethics, was honored by the Western History Association as the 2013 Joan Patterson Kerr Award recipient for his book...
View ArticleKennedy Leads U.S. Delegation at China Anti-Corruption Conference
How do you fight transnational corruption when norms and laws differ from one country to another? As nations across the globe focus more on anti-corruption initiatives, a conference in Beijing,...
View ArticleMcKinney Wins AALS Award
The Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) Section on Academic Support Award was presented to Ruth Ann McKinney, clinical professor of law emeritus and former director of the Writing and Learning...
View ArticleClinical Program Opens Doors for Faculty and Student Outreach
Read the full article in the fall-winter 2013 issue of Carolina Law. One way the law school supports community outreach for faculty and students is through the clinical program.The clinics — Civil...
View ArticleLau Research Finds Support for Same-Sex Marriage in Hong Kong
When the bus system in Hong Kong broadcast the results of his social science research study on its in-vehicle TVs, Holning Lau knew he had struck a chord. Lau, a comparative law professor at UNC...
View ArticleShaw Appointed Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director...
Theodore M. “Ted” Shaw will join UNC School of Law July 1, 2014, as the first Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and as director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights. The position had...
View ArticleForty-Five Honored with Gressman and Pollitt Oral Advocacy Awards
UNC School of Law congratulates 45 first-year law students who received a Eugene Gressman & Daniel H. Pollitt Oral Advocacy Award on April 9. The annual awards, given by faculty of the Writing and...
View ArticlePro Bono Program Announces Publico Awards
The Pro Bono Board awarded the 2014 recipients of the Pro Bono Publico Awards at the annual Public Interest Celebration April 9. This year's award recipients included: Sylvia K. Novinsky Award -...
View ArticleYankee Stadium: Patricia Bryan Questions the House That Taxpayers Built
Research by Carolina Law faculty members has thrust them into the national spotlight recently. Read the full article in the Spring-Summer 2014 issue of Carolina Law. Should a St. Louis Cardinals fan...
View ArticleDean John Charles “Jack” Boger ’74 Announces Plan To Return To Teaching;...
John Charles “Jack” Boger ’74 announced that he will conclude his role as dean of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in July 2015 to return to the law school faculty. He...
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