School of Law

The Elon University School of Law completes Spring 2009 semester on Friday, May 1.

The Elon University School of Law begins its Spring 2009 semester on Thursday, Jan. 29.

Howard Katz, a professor of law, moderated a panel on the risks and opportunities of investing in hedge funds at the Public Funds Board Forum in San Francisco, from Dec. 13-16, 2008.

Elon University School of Law moves to holiday hours starting Dec. 18 and will be on an abbreviated schedule through Jan. 3, 2009.

Henry Gabriel, a visiting professor at the Elon University School of Law who has served on the Governing Council of The International Institute for the Unification of Private International Law (UNIDROIT) since 2003, has been elected to another five-year term on the council.

Eric M. Fink, an associate professor in the Elon University School of Law, will be a guest Dec. 18 on North Carolina Public Radio for the station’s “The State of Things” noontime program.

Faculty members in the Elon University School of Law co-authored an article for the Winter 2008 edition of The North Carolina State Bar Journal. In “Back to the Future: Creating a 21st Century Legal Education at Elon Law School,” Catherine Ross Dunham, Steve Friedland and George Johnson share ideas for instructing future lawyers in the Internet era.

Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, N.J., and a Yale Law alum and Rhodes Scholar, will deliver the Joseph M. Bryan Distinguished Leadership Lecture at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3. The event will be at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Greensboro.

Associate professor of law Faith Rivers James led a Dec. 9 workshop presentation at the South Carolina Nonprofit Legal Symposium, sponsored by the South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organizations for its 800-plus members.

Marty Peters, a professor of legal education at the Elon University School of Law, made a series of presentations in October at the American Bar Association’s “Bar Passage Conference: Outcome Measures and Student Achievement,” a national conference on bar pass issues.