Academics

Elon Law student Ben Snyder and his Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic client Lynn Knul had cause to celebrate on February 24, when Knul, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2011, took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States, becoming one of the nation's newest citizens.

Co-hosted by Elon Law and the Center for Creative Leadership, the April 13-14 conference will feature Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and David Gergen.

The Feb. 25 conference will focus on "War Crimes, Human Rights, and Immigration."

Thirty-four teams, representing 21 law schools, will participate in March 29 - 31 competition.

The 2012 Conference on International Law at Elon University School of Law will focus on "War Crimes, Human Rights, and Immigration."

Location: Elon University School of Law, Greensboro, N.C.
Time: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sponsors: Elon Law, Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa and The Fund for Excellence, International Studies, the Department of History and Geography, Department of Political Science, Prelaw and AAASE
Contact Person: Dr. David Crowe, School of Law / Department of History and Geography.

"We're paying more and getting less," said author T.R. Reid about the U.S. healthcare system at a recent Elon Law forum.

At the Fourth Annual Elon Law Intramural Moot Court Competition, held Nov. 2-7, twenty law students earned an invitation to join the law school's Moot Court Board. Grant Buckner and Chantelle Lytle were the competition champions.

Marking the ten-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, the 27-member editorial board of the Elon Law Review welcomed law scholars and criminal law enforcement experts from across the country on Oct. 21 to participate in a symposium titled, "Terrorism's Impact on Criminal Justice: How the Detection, Investigation, and Prosecution of Criminal Activity Has Changed Since 9/11."

Elon's Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic assisted in bringing together a family caught up in political unrest in the West African country of Togo.

Elon University School of Law and the Elon Law Review are major sponsors of a jointly presented conference scheduled for Nov. 4 in Raleigh, NC, titled, "A Radical Notion of Democracy: Law, Race, and Albion Tourgée, 1865-1905."