Alan Woodlief has been named associate dean for admissions and administration and associate professor of law at the Elon University School of Law. Woodlief will coordinate recruiting efforts for the new school, located in downtown Greensboro, N.C., which is scheduled to open in fall 2006. Woodlief will travel extensively to other colleges and universities to recruit students and establish relationships with pre-law advisers.
Woodlief joins Elon after serving as associate dean for admissions at Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law since 1999. Woodlief joined Campbell’s law faculty in 1995 and has taught courses in commercial law, remedies, legal research and writing and appellate advocacy. He also served as a moot court coach and chaired the scholarship committee.
A 1994 Campbell law graduate, Woodlief served as a research assistant for N.C. Supreme Court Justice Henry Frye before joining the Campbell law faculty. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991, where he received the Aubrey Lee Brooks Scholarship.
Woodlief has written two treatises on North Carolina law, “North Carolina Civil Practice and Procedure” and “North Carolina Law of Damages.” He was a guest presenter before the N.C. House of Representatives’ Blue Ribbon Task Force on Medical Malpractice and served as a guest commentator on WRAL-TV in Raleigh during the murder trial of Michael Peterson in 2003. Woodlief serves on the N.C. State Bar Publications Board and the Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Editorial Board. He also serves as the research associate to the Criminal Subcommittee of the Pattern Jury Instruction Committee of the N.C. Conference of Superior Court Judges.
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