Archive for July 1, 2008

Rain clouds gave way to a crystal blue sky as the 118th Commencement exercises got underway May 24, 2008, when bachelor degrees were conferred on the largest graduating class in Elon University history.

A renowned expert in litigation and advocacy skills, Peter Hoffman joins the Elon law faculty after serving for the past year as Fulbright Senior Scholar at Chinese University in Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was director of the Blakeley Advocacy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. Hoffman has served as the Neibel Professor of Law and the Newell H. Blakeley Chair in Evidence at Houston and has served as director of clinical legal education since 2005.