Elon Law Now

In this week’s “Elon Law Now” faculty commentary series, Senior Associate Dean Alan Woodlief details a variety of laws that appear to be created for special interests and urges greater focus on the most important issues facing North Carolina. 

In this week’s “Elon Law Now” series, Elon Law Professor Hannah Vaughan, director of the school’s Elder Law Clinic, comments on food insecurity among senior citizens in Guilford County.

In this week’s Elon Law Now commentary, Distinguished Professor of the Judicial Process James G. Exum Jr. says that state legislation to alter the structure of Greensboro’s city council breaks with long-standing public policy and leads to less democratic, less responsive local government.

Elon Law Professor John Flynn comments on the value of the collaborative approach to local entrepreneurial business development within the global Startup Weekend movement in this week’s “Elon Law Now” series.

Elon Law Professor Antonette Barilla examines developing responses to migration flows and itinerant groups in Italy, in this week’s “Elon Law Now” series of faculty commentary.

Elon Law Professor Tom Molony discusses the growth of the Business Court in North Carolina and the Court’s value to the state’s economic future in this week’s “Elon Law Now.”

In this week's "Elon Law Now," Associate Dean Faith Rivers James provides commentary on the moral, political and procedural dimensions of the advancing federal budget in Congress.

In this week’s “Elon Law Now” series, Constitutional Law scholar Scott Gaylord examines legal issues in a case coming before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, March 23, that addresses the ability of states to control messages on specialty license plates.

This week, Wisconsin became the twenty-fifth state to adopt a so-called “right-to-work” law. Elon Law Professor Eric Fink details the legal issues and implications of such laws in this week’s Elon Law Now. 

In this week's "Elon Law Now," Prof. Catherine Ross Dunham provides analysis of the legal issues in the Supreme Court case that will determine the fate of the Affordable Care Act.