School of Law

Elon Law's 2015 enrolling class of 132 Elon Law students is 18 percent larger than last year's class and selected from an applicant pool 16 percent higher than 2014, indicating a strong endorsement of the school's groundbreaking new curriculum.

On the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the Leadership Program is sponsoring a viewing of the film Selma, followed by discussion led by law students and alumni about current issues in election law. All members of the Elon Law community are invited to attend.

Elon Law’s fifth annual Immigration Law Seminar featured nationally prominent lawyers, scholars and federal agency leaders exploring cutting-edge issues in immigration law. 

The dangers of growing secrecy in government, for instance new North Carolina legislation to keep death penalty chemical compounds confidential from the public, forms the focus of Elon Law Professor David Levine's latest blog post for Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP).

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will deliver the keynote address at Elon Law’s New Student Convocation on August 5.

 

Elon spotlights the summer work experiences and professional insights of five law students as part of two-month weekly series. 

 

Elon Law student Courtney Pine, working with Public Citizen’s Global Access to Medicines Program this summer, coauthored an IP-Watch article that makes the case for laws that foster faster innovation in the development of biologics used to treat medical conditions.

In this week’s Elon Law Now faculty commentary series, Professor Mike Rich examines legal issues involved in the nationally prominent confrontation between Sandra Bland and Texas state trooper Brian Encina. In his commentary, Rich explores whether current law relating to law enforcement powers reflects society’s moral sense on matters of police conduct.

Elon Law Professor Enrique Armijo examines Gawker’s recent reporting and probes the line between free speech and privacy rights in an Elon Law Now commentary. 

Elon Law Professor Catherine Dunham presented July 16 at the "U.S. Supreme Court's Health Care Term in Review" symposium hosted by The North Carolina Society of Healthcare Attorneys, the Federal Bar Association and Parker Poe.