Academics

The popular college guide’s “Best Law Schools for 2025” includes Elon Law and student praise for its innovative, skills-based curriculum and exceptional faculty and staff.

A new law review article by Assistant Professor of Law Erin Fitzgerald advocates national reform to juvenile court jurisdiction rules.

The “On the Rule of Law” Symposium, co-sponsored by the UNC Greensboro, featured faculty from both institutions speaking to the importance of due process and the checks and balances essential to democracy at home and abroad.

Elon Law students met with judges on the North Carolina Court of Appeals and watched the court in session. The court heard oral arguments in two cases: one involving statutes around claims of professional malpractice, and another involving an injury sustained during a high school lacrosse game.

Sixteen of Elon University School of Law's top students in the Class of 2025 will guide publication next year of the student-run and student-edited scholarly journal.

Savannah Stinson L'25 took home the top prize for students on October 22, 2024, with her original work, "Black Like Me," which won praise from judges and the audience alike in the 6th Annual “High Rhymes & Misdemeanors” Poetry Slam.

Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan has bestowed Professor Henry Gabriel with its Wenlan Scholar Chair Professorship in International Law.

Professor Yaniv Heled from Georgia State University College of Law painted a bleak future for Americans in need of affordable medications when he delivered keynote remarks at an Elon Law Review program focused on the intersection of public health and the legal system. 

RSVP for a lunch program co-hosted by Elon Law and Scuppernong Books with Corban Addison, who travels to Greensboro on October 16 for a book signing and panel conversation, alongside Associate Professor Sara Ochs, on attorneys who write books for popular audiences.

The former adviser to four American presidents concluded his tenure this fall as chair of the Elon Law Board of Advisors with an evening banquet that celebrated his many contributions to Elon University over the past quarter century.