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Gerald L. Walden Jr. G'14, a top attorney for a national chain of specialty grocery stores headquartered in North Carolina, shared in a Convocation address to the Class of 2024 how five principles will lead to success in the legal profession.

One hundred and sixty eight students - more than half of whom moved to North Carolina for their legal education - comprise one of the largest and most diverse incoming classes ever for Elon University School of Law.

The Association of Legal Writing Directors presented Associate Professor Tiffany Atkins L’11 with its 2022 ALWD Diversity Award during a July conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Legal Writing Institute.

A project by Professor Enrique Armijo will explore how the lies speakers provide in direct response to someone else’s lies - flooding the “marketplace of ideas” with knowingly bad information - can suppress free speech and harm underrepresented communities.

An Elon Law residency-in-practice with the Hon. Christopher Dillon and his law clerk, Wesley Jones, introduced Tamara Gomez L'22 to a wide array of practice areas that interact each day with the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

A law review article by Assistant Professor Tammi S. Etheridge takes aim at the way two government agencies, without congressional approval and despite potential conflicts of interest, agreed to co-regulate the production and sale of meat substitutes.

Associate Dean Wendy B. Scott wrote how the late U.S. Supreme Court associate justice foreshadowed the impact of a possible overturn of Roe v. Wade in his dissents on other decisions related to abortion and reproductive health care.

Newspaper commentary co-authored by Elon Law Professor Andy Haile and Richard Cox of UNC Greensboro encourages local government offices to take part in efforts to transcribe and digitize bills of sale of those once enslaved in the United States.

Professor Thomas J. Molony writes in a July 5 commentary how constitutional limitations and case law may prohibit federal efforts to guarantee abortion access in states that ban the procedure.

A residency-in-practice at the corporate headquarters of a nationwide chain of boutique grocery stores offered Faisal Sulman L’22 an opportunity to use knowledge from his studies in Elon University’s law and MBA programs.