School of Law

Prospective students are invited to an Elon University School of Law Admissions Open House from 2 to 4 p.m., Friday, Nov. 14. Read this note for details...

The Elon Law ACLU & the Black Law Students Association will be co-sponsoring Elon Law's first Racial Justice Week starting Monday, November 10, with two speakers and a movie scheduled through the week.

Noted constitutional law authority A.E. Dick Howard told Elon Law students the historic election of Barack Obama as president vindicates civil rights commitments made by our nation's Founding Fathers.

Elon Law students joined the Young Lawyers Division of the North Carolina Bar Association, local volunteers and law students from around the region on Oct. 25 for  “Wills for Heroes,” a day set aside to draft legal documents for more than 300 emergency responders. 

A.E. Dick Howard, White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Virginia School of Law, will deliver the Sandra Day O'Connor Lecture at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 6. The talk will be at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Greensboro.

Scott Gaylord, an associate professor of law, co-authored a report this fall for the Federalist Society and, in a separate project, joined another colleague in presenting research to North Carolina's Senior Resident Superior Court Judge.

Two of the Triad's largest media outlets turned to Scott Gaylord, an associate professor of law and expert in constitutional law, for analysis of a defamation lawsuit filed Oct. 30 against U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., by the candidate hoping to unseat her in the fall elections.

Andrew J. Haile, an assistant professor of law, has had an article published in the ABA Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases about the pending Supreme Court case of Altria Group, Inc. v. Good, which deals with whether the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act preempts state law claims against tobacco companies for the use of “descriptors” such as “light” and “lowered tar.”

OutLaw, a group of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender and allied law students at the Elon University School of Law, will host a seminar on estate planning for LGBT families on Thursday, October 30, at 6 p.m. in Room 204 of the law school.

Frank H. Wu, the inaugural Law and Humanities Lecturer for the Center for Law and Humanities, encouraged an audience in Whitley Auditorium on Oct. 28 to not be bystanders in a struggle for diversity and to develop a sense of community through dialog about race and difference.