Faculty

In this week’s Elon Law Now faculty commentary series, Professor Mike Rich examines legal issues involved in the nationally prominent confrontation between Sandra Bland and Texas state trooper Brian Encina. In his commentary, Rich explores whether current law relating to law enforcement powers reflects society’s moral sense on matters of police conduct.

Elon Law Professor Enrique Armijo examines Gawker’s recent reporting and probes the line between free speech and privacy rights in an Elon Law Now commentary. 

Elon Law Professor Catherine Dunham presented July 16 at the "U.S. Supreme Court's Health Care Term in Review" symposium hosted by The North Carolina Society of Healthcare Attorneys, the Federal Bar Association and Parker Poe.

In this week’s Elon Law Now faculty commentary series, Professor of Law and Senior Scholar Steven Friedland examines the significance of the U.S Supreme Court’s reasoning in its historic Affordable Care Act decision in King v. Burwell. 

Elon Law Professor Michael Rich has been named Jennings Professor of Law in recognition of his teaching and scholarship. 

Elon Law Professor David S. Levine, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, has been reappointed to the position of Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy for 2015-16.

Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord says today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to vacate a lower court decision that had prohibited North Carolina’s “Choose Life” license plate marks an important victory for government speech.

Elon Law Professor Michael Rich details questions of law and policy raised by the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision.

Elon Law Professor Enrique Armijo says U.S. Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling means “the right to marry the person you love can no longer be made to wait for the time it takes for the voters to debate and approve.”

Scholarship by Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord recently published in the South Carolina Law Review addresses a federal circuit court split over the authority of states to require doctors to communicate specific information to patients prior to an abortion.