Student News

A team from George Mason University took top honors in the 11th Billings, Exum & Frye National Moot Court Competition, which welcomed 48 teams from 31 law schools across the United States, making it the largest moot court contest ever hosted by Elon Law.

Students performed original works on October 15, 2020, during the second annual “High Rhymes & Misdemeanors” Poetry Slam hosted by Elon Law’s Legal Method & Communication Program.

McCathern Painter L’20 and Megan Wilson-Bost L’20 also reached the quarterfinals of the 20th Annual Leroy R. Hassell, Sr. National Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition hosted virtually by Regent University School of Law.

The director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project was joined by practicing attorneys and some of the nation’s top legal scholars on election law in a virtual program on the ways in which access to the ballot box has been expanded - and limited - throughout history.

Student organizations created videos and hosted online Q&As this month as Elon Law took a fresh approach to annual events impacted by the physical distancing practices in place because of COVID-19.

Twenty-seven students in the Class of 2021 will help lead moot court programs over the next year by participating in upcoming national contests and coordinating Elon Law's own Billings, Exum & Frye National Moot Court Competition.

A recent book discussion about the way history, culture, and psychology can shape stereotypes offered Elon Law’s newest students an opportunity to learn about each other during Orientation for the Class of 2022.

The 15th entering class of Elon University School of Law is its largest and one of the most diverse in program history.

In Convocation remarks to Elon Law’s Class of 2022, Kimberly Bullock Gatling, one of North Carolina’s most prominent intellectual property attorneys, encouraged students to “try a little bit of everything” as they begin their legal education in an era of unprecedented global challenges.

Cynthia Hernandez L’20, with guidance from Assistant Professor Taleed El-Sabawi, compiled a checklist sent to North Carolina lawyers who defend clients facing murder charges under the state’s new "death by distribution" law.