Faculty

Elon Law Professor Michael Rich has been named Jennings Professor of Law in recognition of his teaching and scholarship. 

Elon Law Professor David S. Levine, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, has been reappointed to the position of Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy for 2015-16.

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.”

Scholarship by Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord recently published in the South Carolina Law Review addresses a federal circuit court split over the authority of states to require doctors to communicate specific information to patients prior to an abortion.

In a new American Bar Association task force report, Elon Law Dean Luke Bierman calls on the legal profession to “preserve values core to our role in society as the shepherds of the rule of law while concomitantly adapting to a new era.”

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.

Catherine J. Wasson, associate professor of law and director of Elon Law’s legal method & communication program, has been elected to the executive board of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD).  

For the 800th anniversary of one of the world’s most important documents, Elon Law Dean Luke Bierman writes in a Greensboro News & Record column that “history’s most important and persuasive statements of liberty, justice and equality, including our own U.S. and state constitutions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights, derive from that field in Runnymede 800 years ago.”