One hundred percent of Elon Law faculty and staff contribute to law school scholarship fund

February 22, 2011

For a second consecutive year, every member of the faculty at Elon University School of Law contributed to the Law School Faculty and Staff Campaign in 2010. Giving from the staff at Elon Law rose from 80 percent in 2009 to 100 percent in 2010. Support from the law faculty and staff raises substantial funds for law student scholarships.

Elaine Jones describes elements of effective civil rights advocacy at Elon Law forum

February 22, 2011

Elaine R. Jones, the nation’s top civil rights lawyer from 1993 to 2004, identified core values and key strategies of the African-American Civil Rights Movement through remarks delivered at Elon University School of Law's third annual Martin Luther King, Jr. forum on January 13.

Chief justices discuss ethics and judicial power at Elon Law forum

February 22, 2011

Three former chief justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court spoke with first-year Elon Law students on January 14 about their careers, the qualities they value in lawyers, judicial power, and trends in North Carolina law, as part of the law school's winter-term course, Lawyering, Leadership, and Professionalism.

Blog follows law and MBA students’ journey in Asia

February 22, 2011

Elon law and MBA students participating in a collaborative Winter Term course on international business chronicled their trip to Vietnam and Singapore through a blog accessible through the E-Cast link to the right of this article.

War crimes evidence and social reconstruction explored at Elon Law forum

February 22, 2011

Three scholars whose current research explores the social significance of historical, visual, and scientific war crimes evidence spoke at Elon Law on January 18, exploring the Bosnian War and its aftermath in depth.

Andy Haile’s research on sin taxes published in Temple Law Review

February 22, 2011

An article by Elon Law professor Andy Haile has been published in the current issue of the Temple Law Review. Haile's article, "Sin Taxes: When The State Becomes The Sinner," examines increasing state dependence on revenues from taxes on tobacco.

David Levine presents on trade secrecy at Yale Law School

February 22, 2011

On February 10, Elon Law professor David Levine presented a talk entitled "The People's Trade Secrets?" at Yale Law School, through the school's Information Society Project speaker series.

First-year law students establish canned food drive

February 22, 2011

During the Winter Term, members of Elon Law's Leadership Fellows program initiated a canned food drive in support of Greensboro Urban Ministries, organizing the drive as a competition among teams of students in the course Lawyering, Leadership and Professionalism.

Bonnie McAlister presents at UK Centre for Legal Education

February 22, 2011

Elon Law faculty member Bonnie McAlister presented "Opportunities for Interaction: Improving Student Engagement in the Law School Setting" at the Learning in Law 2011 annual conference of the UK Centre on Legal Education.

Margaret Kantlehner explores Preceptor Program in Bloomberg Law Reports article

February 22, 2011

Elon Law Professor Margaret Kantlehner published an article exploring the law school's Preceptor Program in the January 2011 edition of Bloomberg Law Reports.