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Elon Law professor Scott Gaylord published a column in the Greensboro News and Record on May 15 detailing concerns with proposed legislation to change North Carolina's method of judicial selection. His research on the low number of cases being decided in recent years by the North Carolina Supreme Court was highlighted in the 2010 Annual Report of The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and in the May 6, 2011 edition of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly.

The article, exploring legal obstacles to public access of government documents and information, was published in the fall 2011 edition of the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review. He also spoke about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on January 7 at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in Washington, DC.

In December and January, Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord explored First Amendment issues in radio and television news interviews across the country, including an interview on WUNC's The State of Things about free speech and license plates. He also authored the article, "Government Speech and North Carolina's 'Choose Life' License Plate," published Dec. 21 by Jurist, the web-based legal news service.

Published December 19 by the Stanford Law Review Online, the article details "potentially disastrous consequences" of two pieces of federal legislation pending in Congress related to the Internet and intellectual property law.

Elon Law Professor Peter Hoffman's article, "Law Schools and the Changing Face of Practice," was recently published in the New York Law School Law Review.

Elon Law professor David Levine discussed his recent article, Transparency Soup: ACTA and the Failure of Black Box Lawmaking, at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in Washington, DC, January 7.

Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord authored the article, “Government Speech and North Carolina’s ‘Choose Life” License Plate,” published Dec. 21 by Jurist, the web-based legal news service.

In November, Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord gave presentations at law schools in Mississippi and Virginia and participated in a debate in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Presenting at the University of Dayton School of Law on Nov. 17 through the school's faculty colloquium series, Elon Law professor Michael L. Rich detailed why and how criminal law informants should be better protected.