Weidemaier Testifies Before U.N. Committee on Sovereign Debt
For two centuries, governments and the investors who buy sovereign bonds have struggled with the problem of how to help countries get debt relief without inviting excessive borrowing and undisciplined...
View ArticleLaw School Dean Candidates Announced
The search committee responsible for choosing the next dean of UNC School of Law announced the final round of candidates to visit campus for interviews during the month of April. The following five...
View ArticlePro Bono Program Announces 2015 Publico Awards
The Pro Bono Board awarded the 2015 recipients of the Pro Bono Publico Awards at the annual Public Interest Celebration April 8. This year's award recipients included: Sylvia K. Novinsky Award - Anna...
View Article42 Honored at 20th Annual Gressman and Pollitt Oral Advocacy Awards
UNC School of Law congratulates 42 first-year law students who received a Eugene Gressman & Daniel H. Pollitt Oral Advocacy Award on April 16. The annual awards, given by faculty of the Writing...
View ArticleLaw School Dean Candidates Announced
The search committee responsible for choosing the next dean of UNC School of Law announced the final round of candidates to visit campus for interviews during the month of April. The following five...
View ArticleSchool Announces Faculty Awards
UNC School of Law presented three awards to distinguished faculty on Wednesday, April 29, in a ceremony at the Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center. The awards presented include: The Robert G. Byrd Award...
View ArticleJacoby Research Sheds Light on Detroit Bankruptcy Case
This article was originally published in the Spring-Summer 2015 issue of Carolina Law. When Detroit said in 2013 that it was broke, it was the largest municipal bankruptcy ever. The Motor City owed...
View ArticlePro Bono Program Announces 2015 Publico Awards
The Pro Bono Board awarded the 2015 recipients of the Pro Bono Publico Awards at the annual Public Interest Celebration April 8. This year's award recipients included: Sylvia K. Novinsky Award - Anna...
View ArticleJacoby Bankruptcy Article Wins Grant Gilmore Award
A crisis usually is not a good time to make rational decisions about one’s future. The same theory, applied to companies, is implicit in the Bankruptcy Code. Sometimes, though, lenders or other third...
View Article42 Honored at 20th Annual Gressman and Pollitt Oral Advocacy Awards
UNC School of Law congratulates 42 first-year law students who received a Eugene Gressman & Daniel H. Pollitt Oral Advocacy Award on April 16. The annual awards, given by faculty of the Writing...
View ArticleAlumni Receive Unanimous Decision from Supreme Court in GPS Tracking Case
Luke Everett For Luke Everett ’08 and Mark L. Hayes ’08, it took just under a decade from when they first sat together in a law class to win a Supreme Court case. The impact of that decision, however,...
View ArticleMichael Gerhardt Becomes First Independent Scholar to Advise Library of...
UNC School of Law’s Michael Gerhardt, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor in Constitutional Law and director of the Program in Law and Government, has become the first independent scholar to advise...
View ArticleFormer Chancellor and Professor Emeritus William B. Aycock '48 Dies at 99
William Brantley Aycock ‘48, who began his career as a high school history teacher and became Kenan Professor of Law at UNC School of Law and chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
View ArticleSchool Announces Faculty Awards
UNC School of Law presented three awards to distinguished faculty on Wednesday, April 29, in a ceremony at the Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center. The awards presented include: The Robert G. Byrd Award...
View ArticleAmicus Brief By Hirsch Influences NLRB to Reverse Decision on Email
This article was originally published in the Spring-Summer 2015 issue of Carolina Law . In many workplaces, employees use company email for personal communications: weekend plans, birthday greetings,...
View ArticleClinical Programs Celebrate 35 Years of Training Students and Assisting Clients
Kaci Bishop '04 As a student at UNC School of Law, Kaci Bishop ’04 knew she wanted to work with indigent clients. Drawn to humanitarian immigration law, her involvement in the Civil Legal Assistance...
View ArticleJacoby Bankruptcy Article Wins Grant Gilmore Award
A crisis usually is not a good time to make rational decisions about one’s future. The same theory, applied to companies, is implicit in the Bankruptcy Code. Sometimes, though, lenders or other third...
View ArticleSchool Welcomes Three New Faculty Members
UNC School of Law is pleased to welcome three new faculty members this semester. The new faculty include: Rachel Gurvich Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Law Gurvich earned her bachelor’s...
View ArticleN.C. Law Review Hosts “800 Years of Magna Carta” Symposium Friday, Oct. 2
The North Carolina Law Review hosts "Celebrating 800 Years of Magna Carta," a symposium to explore the history, mythology and future of the English peace treaty charter document of 1215. The symposium...
View ArticleBirckhead and Kennedy Speak at "Understanding and Dismantling Mass...
Birckhead Kennedy Two UNC School of Law professors will speak about mass incarceration as part of the symposium “Understanding and Dismantling Mass Incarceration,” presented by the North Carolina...
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