Academics

Associate Dean Sue Liemer will receive the 2024 Association of American Law Schools Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research Section Award during the organization’s January meeting in Washington, D.C.

Anupama Pal will lead a team of seven staff members as she returns to North Carolina as associate dean for library and information services at Elon University’s downtown Greensboro law school.

Twenty-nine students in the Class of 2024 will participate in upcoming national contests and help coordinate Elon Law's own Billings, Exum & Frye National Moot Court Competition.

The Hon. Barron Thompson L’09, an Elon Law graduate who presides in North Carolina District Court, delivered a Convocation address to the Class of 2025 in which he reminded students that “we all owe something to those who came before us.”

Senior leaders welcomed to Greensboro on August 3, 2023, the largest class in the history of Elon University School of Law with a pledge from Dean Zak Kramer: “We will always put the students here first.”

Dean Zak Kramer answered questions for July coverage of his vision and goals for Elon University's downtown Greensboro law school.

Erin Fitzgerald will bring her prosecutorial background to criminal law courses while Sara Ochs, a Legal Method & Communication Fellow at Elon Law from 2018-2020, returns to the legal writing faculty after three years teaching at the University of Louisville.

Two dozen members of the Class of 2024 demonstrated their legal writing skills this spring during a pursuit of membership in Elon University School of Law's student-run scholarly publications.

Bolstered by the academic strength of incoming students and improvements in bar passage rates, Elon University School of Law in downtown Greensboro reached #133 - its highest-ever placement - in an influential annual guide to the nation’s best graduate programs.

Three judges, one of whom previously taught legal writing at Elon Law, answered student questions after hearing oral arguments on April 26, 2023, regarding a business dispute between several insurance companies and their former owner.