Faculty

These four awards recognize members of the Elon community for excellence in teaching, scholarship, civic engagement and mentoring.

Elon Law Associate Dean Enrique Armijo spoke with National Public Radio for a story on the conditions of pre-trial release for some demonstrators charged by federal authorities in Portland, Oregon, and how those conditions may violate the First Amendment.

Margaret Dudley of the law school’s Emergency Legal Services Program will team teach a webinar developed by the American Bar Association and Alliance for HOPE International’s Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention to help civil attorneys recognize what has been called "one of the most lethal forms of domestic violence" and better advocate for victims in court.

Cynthia Hernandez L’20, with guidance from Assistant Professor Taleed El-Sabawi, compiled a checklist sent to North Carolina lawyers who defend clients facing murder charges under the state’s new "death by distribution" law.

A guest column by Professor David S. Levine in STAT, one of the nation's most influential news sources related to health and medicine, warns that existing trade secrecy laws could slow the discovery and production of therapeutics in today's global pandemic.

Professor and Senior Scholar Steve Friedland spoke at length with journalist Anna Phillips of WECT News in Wilmington, North Carolina, about three police officers who were fired after a routine review of patrol car video footage revealed them making racist and violent comments.

Elon Law Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law George R. Johnson Jr. is one of five recipients of an annual honor bestowed by the North Carolina Bar Association's Minorities in the Profession Committee.

Elon Law Dean Luke Bierman invited law school students, faculty and staff to reflect on the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth - and then "put into action today’s cause for remembrance" - in an email delivered to the community on June 19, 2020.

Assistant Professor Katherine Reynolds, director of Elon Law's Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic, spoke with journalist Bill O'Neil for a June 18, 2020, report on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that the Trump Administration had attempted to end.

A pending decision by the U.S. Supreme Court threatens the right to choose established in Roe v. Wade, and in the most recent issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Elon Law Professor Tom Molony examines what Chief Justice John Roberts’s views on precedent could mean for Roe.