Through op-ed columns and television news appearances, Elon Law professors Scott Gaylord, Andrew Haile, and Alan Woodlief recently provided analysis and evaluation of North Carolina's system for judicial elections, in response to a June 8 United States Supreme Court ruling in Caperton v. Massey Coal Co.

• Haile judicial elections op-ed, News and Record
• Woodlief op-ed on judicial elections
• Gaylord article on N.C. judicial elections

On June 27, the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA) honored Elon Law’s F. Leary Davis with the Judge John J. Parker Award, the association’s highest honor.

In a June 21 opinion column in the News and Record of Greensboro, John Alexander, the Isabella Cannon Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership at Elon University, identifies numerous benefits in the council-manager form of government and urges city and county elected bodies in the region not to abandon the government structure that has "a long and successful history in North Carolina."

• Alexander op-ed, News and Record, June 21

Mike Sprague, a rising second year law student at Elon University School of Law, was recognized on June 22 for his successful work on behalf of a client at Legal Aid of North Carolina's Greensboro office.

• Elon Law student Mike Sprague featured in probono.net/nc