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Keep it concise and know your audience: N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Richard Dietz’s writing advice in a virtual presentation to first-year Elon Law students was drawn from his experience as an appellate attorney and six years on the bench.

Sara L. Ochs, a Legal Method & Communication Fellow at Elon Law with research interests in international criminal law, warns in a newspaper guest column that President Donald Trump's disregard for the International Criminal Court is not in the best interests of American foreign policy.

“Teaching Legal Analysis: A Tale from the Front” by Chuck Splawn in the Office of Academic Success appears in a recent issue of Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing. 

Assistant Professor Taleed El-Sabawi recently hosted the first of what she hopes will be several online social gatherings for first-year students learning from home during the 2020 Spring Trimester.

Jackie Gauntlett L'19 and Megan Reilly-Dreas L'21 were recognized for their entries in the 2020 Multimodal Writing Competition hosted by the university's Center for Writing Excellence.

The Constitutional Law Appellate Advocacy Clinic tasked students this winter with researching and writing amicus curiae briefs in the Supreme Court of the United States and a U.S. Court of Appeals dealing with questions of judicial process and freedom of speech.

Katherine Reynolds, interim director of the Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic, provided background on immigration law - and how some overseas adoptions may be problematic for children once they reach the age of 18 - for a story on a Greensboro teen in fear of deportation.

preLaw Magazine's 2020 guide to “Best Schools for Practical Training” listed Elon Law as a top law school for "giving students real-world experience before they step into the real world."

The NBC affiliate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, turned to Taleed El-Sabawi - an assistant professor of law with a Ph.D. in public health - to help viewers understand the lexicon of stay-at-home orders issued by municipalities across the state.

Online course instruction and residencies-in-practice will continue for the spring trimester after Elon Law administrators, in light of statewide stay-at-home orders, announced the closure of all facilities until the end of the 2020 Spring Trimester.