Archive for January 12, 2009

From the Winston-Salem Journal (1/12/08): North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue says her office is reviewing an executive order filed by predecessor Mike Easley that attempts to clarify policy about state e-mails.

Legal minds from the United States, Japan, Scotland and Germany will share their expertise with Elon Law students this winter in “Constitutions and Cultures: The Idea of a Constitution,” a course taught by noted constitutional law expert A.E. Dick Howard.

During World War Two, many captured German soldiers were transferred overseas to prison camps in the United States. After discovering an unlikely connection to one of these POWs, Tom Nelson, an associate professor of communications, began work on "Prisoners of Plenty," a documentary that tells the Germans' stories due out this year.

Associate dean and associate professor of law Alan Woodlief recently authored annual supplements to two North Carolina treatises, Shuford North Carolina Civil Practice and Procedure and North Carolina Law of Damages.