School of Law

The Elon University School of Law Advisory Board held its fall meeting Dec. 3-4, providing input on a variety of key issues.

Faith Rivers, an associate professor of law, a made a Dec. 1 presentation to the Partition Sales Study Committee of the North Carolina General Assembly. Rivers was invited to discuss the key concepts in her recent article "Inequity in Equity: The Tragedy of Tenancy in Common for Heirs' Property Owners Facing Partition in Equity."

Margaret Robison Kantlehner, an associate professor of law, has had an article published in the ABA Preview of United States Supreme Court cases about the pending Supreme Court Case, Carcieri et al. v. Kempthorne et al., which deals with whether the Indian Reorganization Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust on behalf of an Indian tribe that was neither federally recognized nor under federal jurisdiction at the time of the statute’s enactment in 1934.

A $2 million gift commitment from the Dalton L. McMichael Sr. Foundation will provide the largest scholarship endowment at the Elon University School of Law. The endowment will fund three full-tuition scholarships annually, with the first to be awarded to a member of the 2009 entering class who is chosen as a McMichael Law and Leadership Fellow.

Will the death penalty in the United States be halted any time soon? Not likely. But the director of the national Death Penalty Information Center believes the frequency of executions will diminish in the coming years, in part because of budgetary issues. That and other topics were discussed Nov. 21, 2008, at the Elon Law Review Death Penalty Symposium in Greensboro.

Oxford University Press will publish next month Contracts for the Sale of Goods, a new book by visiting professor of law Henry Gabriel. It is the latest achievement for Gabriel in an autumn filled with presentations and conferences around the globe.

Registration is open for attorneys and law students who wish to attend a symposium on the death penalty scheduled for November 21, 2008, at the Elon University School of Law in downtown Greensboro. 5.75 CLE credits are pending approval from the North Carolina State Bar.

The Women’s Law Association at the Elon University School of Law helped educate the Greensboro community last month about the effects of, and ways to prevent, domestic violence in North Carolina with its three-day Domestic Violence Awareness Campaign.

Second-year law students competed this week in the Elon Law Intramural Moot Court Competition, which culminated Wednesday night when teammates Craig Turner and Blair Vocci claimed the top prize in an inaugural contest sponsored by the Moot Court Board.

Scott Gaylord, an associate professor of law, was quoted in the Nov. 10, 2008, edition of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, which published an article that detailed a research report Gaylord co-authored this fall for the Federalist Society.