School of Law

Professor Steve Friedland’s presentation to the Council of Chief Judges of the State Courts of Appeal used emerging research to show how human thought processes rely on implicit biases that don’t always lead to the best judicial decision-making.

Twelve of Elon University School of Law's top students will guide the publication next year of the student-run and student-edited scholarly journal.

During his keynote remarks for an evening awards banquet, the Hon. Robert N. Hunter Jr. encouraged dozens of students from law schools across the country who competed in Elon Law’s 10th Billings, Exum & Frye National Moot Court Competition to learn from mistakes and to recognize the value of the work they perform for clients.

Associate Professor of Law David Levine offered insights for the article, which discussed history's most influential pieces of computer code.

Preet Bharara served as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan from 2009-2017, and during his visit to North Carolina to deliver Elon Law’s 2019-20 Distinguished Leadership Lecture, he underscored the need to hold people in power accountable for their crimes, which leads to a stronger democracy.

Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, visited Elon Thursday to deliver the Elon Law Distinguished Leadership Lecture.

Assistant Professor Taleed El-Sabawi took part this fall in a New York University School of Law conference focused on legal and regulatory impacts of the nation’s ongoing opioid health crisis.

The Elon Law Review’s 2019 Symposium on Judicial Independence brought to Greensboro some of the nation’s leading experts on the American court system, with keynote remarks by a Yale Law scholar who favors keeping the U.S. Supreme Court at nine justices while reconfiguring the way they are appointed and help decide cases.

Professor Henry Gabriel's election to the International Academy of Comparative Law highlighted a busy summer that included an appointment by the U.S. Department of State, paper presentations around the nation, and teaching in China.

A grant from the Association of Legal Writing Directors supported the two-day visit by Ruth Anne Robbins, a distinguished clinical professor from Rutgers Law who taught Elon Law students, faculty, and staff about the power of narrative storytelling and the importance of document design in the legal profession.