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Elon Law Assistant Professor Caroleen Dineen is one of eight faculty members selected for an Elon University program that supports professors interested in incorporating or enhancing a focus on sustainable principles and practices in their courses.

A team from George Mason University took top honors in the 11th Billings, Exum & Frye National Moot Court Competition, which welcomed 48 teams from 31 law schools across the United States, making it the largest moot court contest ever hosted by Elon Law.

Students performed original works on October 15, 2020, during the second annual “High Rhymes & Misdemeanors” Poetry Slam hosted by Elon Law’s Legal Method & Communication Program.

A group of Elon Law faculty, staff and students is sharing on a monthly basis what members are reading and watching as part of a desire to engage in important discussions on topics related to race and history. 

McCathern Painter L’20 and Megan Wilson-Bost L’20 also reached the quarterfinals of the 20th Annual Leroy R. Hassell, Sr. National Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition hosted virtually by Regent University School of Law.

Professor David S. Levine outlined the ways in which legal scholars and medical practitioners must better understand how intellectual property laws can help - or hinder - the pursuit of therapeutics and vaccines.

The director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project was joined by practicing attorneys and some of the nation’s top legal scholars on election law in a virtual program on the ways in which access to the ballot box has been expanded - and limited - throughout history.

What was one of Assistant Professor Amanda Elyse’s observations to aspiring attorneys who took part in the inaugural program of a new video series hosted by the American Bar Association’s Law Student Division? "Where we start in legal writing is not a fixed point."

Elon Law Professor Catherine Ross Dunham's latest essay, named the 2020 Edward D. Ohlbaum Paper in Advocacy from Temple University, suggests that federal courts should reconsider the rules by which witnesses are allowed to testify to someone's character.

Elon Law Dean Luke Bierman, Associate Dean Wendy Scott, and Senior Scholar Steve Friedland reflect on the legacy of the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, a jurist who died September 18, 2020, at the age of 87.