Legal Education
Elon offers an innovative approach to the study of law, grounded in a rigorous core curriculum and enriched through programs that connect students to the profession from the outset of their legal education.
Curriculum:
Students master the fundamentals of law and skills in legal analysis, research, and advocacy through courses that enhance the classical study of law through client simulations, extensive trial practice, field-based experiences, and regular interaction with practicing attorneys, judges, and leaders in business and public life.
Preceptor Program:
Elon's Preceptor Program connects attorneys with students in a mentoring relationship that introduces students to business and professional dimensions of law. Preceptors invite students to accompany them to observe trials, client interviews, depositions, and mediations among other things. Students receive advice and guidance about the profession from the moment they enter law school.
Leadership Program:
Through the law school's Leadership Program, students prepare to become lawyers who can excel at the highest levels of the profession and contribute to solving regional, national and global challenges. The program emphasizes direct client engagement, teamwork, project management, exploration of the ethical foundations of law, and development of communications and interpersonal skills important to success in the profession.
Law
The faculty, students and alumni of Elon Law contribute to the improvement of law and policy through cutting-edge scholarship, significant professional service, and outstanding achievement in their areas of practice.
Recent Faculty Scholarship:
The battle between states and retailers over the taxation of Internet sales
Complexities in representing low-income refugee homeowners in the clinical setting
Implications of U.S. Supreme Court decisions for facially religious government speech
The future of individual privacy and government transparency in the digital age
The role of intergovernmental organizations in advancing food security and agricultural finance
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Student Leadership:
Elon Law students advance federal legislation, state law, and private-sector cases through summer internships
Lu Johnson selected as Senior Editor for Southern Region Black Law Students Association Law Journal
Jeb Brooks designs program to build civic engagement
Keely Sewell works with Ethiopian federal court to improve representation of children in family law cases
Bernard Brown co-authors article on patents for international nanotechnology conference
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Alumni in the Profession:
Society
Each class of students at Elon Law contributes more than 20,000 hours of community service across three years of law study through the school's clinics, programs, classes, and student-led volunteer initiatives.
STUDENT Service Highlights:
Law students encourage kids to excel in school through mock trial performance
Elon's Innocence Project presents research and hosts Dwayne Dail, exonerated after 18 years
Family Law Society forum features Children’s Law Center
Law student spearheads formation of Latin American Law Students Association
Law students serve as judges in national debate competition of African-American honors programs
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