Faculty

Elon Law professor and Constitional Law scholar Scott Gaylord has provided analysis for several news organizations about the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case Town of Greece, N.Y. v Galloway.

One of the world's top authories on the Holocaust visited the California school for a week in early October.

Elon Law faculty members published books, books chapters, essays and scholarly articles last year, including articles in the following law journals: American Criminal Law Review, American University Law Review, Berkeley Business Law Journal, Columbia Journal of Tax Law, Connecticut Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Macquarie Journal of Business Law, Michigan State Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Santa Clara Law Review, Seton Hall Law Review, South Texas Law Review, Touro Law Review, Uniform Law Review, University of San Francisco Law Review, and University of Toledo Law Review.

In addition to teaching and scholarship, Elon Law faculty members enrich public understanding of law and contribute to the legal profession through a variety of professional service and public commentary. Some of the faculty’s contributions during the 2012-13 academic year are featured here. 

Each semester, Heather Scavone, Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic, oversees upper level law students who represent refugees, asylees, asylum seekers, parolees and victims of human trafficking with federal immigration benefits.

The recent scholarship of Constitutional Law expert Scott Gaylord examines the scope of First Amendment speech and religious liberty under the Roberts Court.

Professor of Law Steven Friedland is on a mission to boost experiential learning in law school classrooms through hands-on techniques like simulations, role-playing, small group problem solving and interactive workshops. His teaching “team” includes fingerprint experts, K-9 police officers and their dogs, prosecutors, defense attorneys and Elon Law graduates.

Assistant Professor of Law Enrique Armijo has taken on an advocacy role at an international level through his freedom of expression work in Rwanda, Jordan, Yemen and other countries throughout the Middle East and South America. His most recent work is in Myanmar (Burma), which is in the midst of democratic reforms after 50 years of oppressive military rule.

In a recently published article, Elon Law Professor Tom Molony identifies ambiguities in federal law and judicial frameworks that have attempted to define when fraudulent activity is connected to securities transactions. Molony’s article also poses solutions to the lack of clarity in this area of law. 

The Berkeley Business Law Journal has published scholarship by Elon Law Professor Faith Rivers James focusing on demographic diversity as a strategy for nonprofits to achieve better corporate governance and organizational performance.