Academics

Seventeen law schools and 31 teams of law students participated in the inaugural Billings, Exum & Frye National Moot Court Competition at Elon University School of Law on April 1 and 2. David Gergen, chair of Elon Law's national advisory board, former adviser to four U.S. presidents, CNN senior political analyst, and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, delivered the keynote address at the competition banquet.

A two-day seminar organized by the faculty, staff and students of the Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic at Elon Law featured presentations by immigration law scholars and practitioners, law enforcement officials, and leaders of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service. Dozens of non-profit immigration service providers and attorneys specializing in immigration law attended the event.

Law scholars William M. Carter, Jr. of Temple University Beasley School of Law, Jacqueline D. Lipton of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and Frank Pasquale of Seton Hall Law spoke at Elon University School of Law this year through the law school's faculty development lecture series.

On October 21, 2011, the Elon Law Review will present a symposium to discuss criminal law issues emerging in the decade since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Details about the symposium and the Law Review's Request for Proposals are noted in this article.

At Elon Law's sixth Reception with the Legal Community this year, The Honorable John C. Martin, Chief Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, spoke as the event's special guest judge.

Concluding Elon Law's year-long series of Receptions with the Legal Community on April 14, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Catherine Dunham expressed appreciation to 53 lawyers who mentor law students through the school's Preceptor Program. Eloise Hassell received the Preceptor Outstanding Service to Students award from the Student Bar Association.

Volume 2, Issue 1 of the Elon Law Review explores "Emerging Frameworks for International Business Transactions." Issue 2 explores issues in contract interpretation, the foreign intelligence exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement, property rights, and judicial discretion in the application of domestic violence protective orders.

The faculty at Elon Law held the first in a series of Hot Topics forums on April 5, exploring a range of legal and societal implications of WikiLeaks. The Hop Topics series is designed to engage the law school community in regular analysis and conversation about prominent issues in legal current affairs.

The featured guest at Elon Law's March 10 reception with the legal community was the Honorable V. Stuart Couch, appointed by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in October 2010 to serve as an Immigration Judge in the Charlotte Immigration Court.

The Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 said that the agency's top priority had changed dramatically since 2001, from detection and prosecution of crime to prevention of terrorism.