Elon Law Now

Elon Law Professor Enrique Armijo examines Gawker’s recent reporting and probes the line between free speech and privacy rights in an Elon Law Now commentary. 

In this week’s Elon Law Now faculty commentary series, Professor of Law and Senior Scholar Steven Friedland examines the significance of the U.S Supreme Court’s reasoning in its historic Affordable Care Act decision in King v. Burwell. 

Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord says today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to vacate a lower court decision that had prohibited North Carolina’s “Choose Life” license plate marks an important victory for government speech.

Elon Law Professor Michael Rich details questions of law and policy raised by the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision.

Elon Law Professor Enrique Armijo says U.S. Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling means “the right to marry the person you love can no longer be made to wait for the time it takes for the voters to debate and approve.”

In this week's Elon Law Now faculty commentary series, Professor Catherine Wasson explains that a U.S. Supreme Court decision validating same-sex marriage would require changes in the policies and procedures of the secular state, not religious doctrine and practice.

Fast tracking the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) in Congress excludes any opportunity for meaningful public input about the agreement and leads to bad policy, Elon Law Professor David Levine says in this week’s Elon Law Now faculty commentary.

In this week’s Elon Law Now faculty commentary series, Professor Margaret Kantlehner describes the legal battle over the remains of Olympian Jim Thorpe, illustrating the value of wills.

In this week’s Elon Law Now faculty commentary series, Elon Law Dean Luke Bierman supports a landmark ruling on pension protection by the Illinois Supreme Court and calls for creative thinking on a national scale to ensure fair and effective state budget solutions.

In this week’s “Elon Law Now” faculty commentary series, Elon Law Professor of Legal History David M. Crowe describes the emergence and importance of International Humanitarian Law and the International Criminal Court following World War II.