Faculty

By co-authoring a Nov. 14 intellectual property law scholars letter to President Obama and Congress, as well as a front page Dec. 6 column in the Los Angeles and San Francisco editions of the Daily Journal, California’s largest legal newspaper, Elon Law Professor David S. Levine continued to detail implications of secrecy in international law making. 

With 63 member states, UNIDROIT seeks to harmonize law across the globe through international conventions and the production of model laws. Elon Law Professor Henry Gabriel was the sole candidate from the United States, having been nominated to the governing council by the United States Department of State. 

Elon Law Professor Steve Friedland, who was featured as one of the nation’s 26 best law teachers in a recent book, shares insights about effective teaching in the December 4 edition of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly.

Elon Law Professors Patricia C. Perkins and Catherine J. Wasson presented results of their preliminary research on the relationship between writing skills and law school success at the North and South Carolina Legal Writing and Research Colloquium, held at the University of South Carolina.  

Elon Law Professor Henry Gabriel recently presented at law schools in St. Louis, Japan and the United Kingdom, as well as publishing scholarship in the Journal of Arbitration Studies.

Elon Law Professor Tom Molony presented at a Nov. 7-8 symposium of Washington and Lee University School of Law. 

Elon Law Professor David S. Levine recently presented at a conference on transparency in Paris and a conference on drones at NYU School of Law. He also continued his advocacy for transparency in fracking, wrote about NSA spying and net neutrality, and published insights about effective teaching and mentoring in legal education. 

Elon Law professor and Constitional Law scholar Scott Gaylord has provided analysis for several news organizations about the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case Town of Greece, N.Y. v Galloway.

One of the world's top authories on the Holocaust visited the California school for a week in early October.

Elon Law faculty members published books, books chapters, essays and scholarly articles last year, including articles in the following law journals: American Criminal Law Review, American University Law Review, Berkeley Business Law Journal, Columbia Journal of Tax Law, Connecticut Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Macquarie Journal of Business Law, Michigan State Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Santa Clara Law Review, Seton Hall Law Review, South Texas Law Review, Touro Law Review, Uniform Law Review, University of San Francisco Law Review, and University of Toledo Law Review.