Faculty

Catherine J. Wasson, associate professor of law and director of Elon Law’s legal method & communication program, has been elected to the executive board of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD).  

For the 800th anniversary of one of the world’s most important documents, Elon Law Dean Luke Bierman writes in a Greensboro News & Record column that “history’s most important and persuasive statements of liberty, justice and equality, including our own U.S. and state constitutions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights, derive from that field in Runnymede 800 years ago.”

Fast tracking the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) in Congress excludes any opportunity for meaningful public input about the agreement and leads to bad policy, Elon Law Professor David Levine says in this week’s Elon Law Now faculty commentary.

In this week’s Elon Law Now faculty commentary series, Professor Margaret Kantlehner describes the legal battle over the remains of Olympian Jim Thorpe, illustrating the value of wills.

In this week’s Elon Law Now faculty commentary series, Elon Law Dean Luke Bierman supports a landmark ruling on pension protection by the Illinois Supreme Court and calls for creative thinking on a national scale to ensure fair and effective state budget solutions.

In this week’s “Elon Law Now” faculty commentary series, Elon Law Professor of Legal History David M. Crowe describes the emergence and importance of International Humanitarian Law and the International Criminal Court following World War II.

On May 18, Elon Law Professor James G. Exum Jr. delivered the opening address at the Ninth Annual Guilford Model Congress, hosted by high school students at the Early College at Guilford.

In this week’s “Elon Law Now” faculty commentary series, Senior Associate Dean Alan Woodlief details a variety of laws that appear to be created for special interests and urges greater focus on the most important issues facing North Carolina. 

Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord has authored both an article for the spring 2015 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics and an amicus brief in Walker-McGill v. Stuart, which is pending petition in the United States Supreme Court.  

Elon Law Professor Heather Scavone, director of the law school's Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic, is the 2015 recipient of Elon University's Periclean Award for Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility.