Faculty

Professor Steve Friedland spoke with the national news outlet about the murder of imprisoned Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger and the length of time it took for federal prosecutors to charge three inmates in connection with the crime.

"The Law of COVID-19: Courts, Education, and Civil Rights," the theme of the Elon Law Review's 2022 online symposium, takes place virtually on September 23 with legal scholars and advocates discussing the way the pandemic has affected the judicial system and the balance of public health with protecting individual freedoms.

Professor Enrique Armijo spoke with program host Robin Young about the free speech considerations in a defamation lawsuit brought against the media mogul by parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim.

The Association of Legal Writing Directors presented Associate Professor Tiffany Atkins L’11 with its 2022 ALWD Diversity Award during a July conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Legal Writing Institute.

A project by Professor Enrique Armijo will explore how the lies speakers provide in direct response to someone else’s lies - flooding the “marketplace of ideas” with knowingly bad information - can suppress free speech and harm underrepresented communities.

A law review article by Assistant Professor Tammi S. Etheridge takes aim at the way two government agencies, without congressional approval and despite potential conflicts of interest, agreed to co-regulate the production and sale of meat substitutes.

Associate Dean Wendy B. Scott wrote how the late U.S. Supreme Court associate justice foreshadowed the impact of a possible overturn of Roe v. Wade in his dissents on other decisions related to abortion and reproductive health care.

Newspaper commentary co-authored by Elon Law Professor Andy Haile and Richard Cox of UNC Greensboro encourages local government offices to take part in efforts to transcribe and digitize bills of sale of those once enslaved in the United States.

Professor Thomas J. Molony writes in a July 5 commentary how constitutional limitations and case law may prohibit federal efforts to guarantee abortion access in states that ban the procedure.

Professor and Senior Scholar Steve Friedland spoke with anchor Tanya Rivera for a "2 Wants to Know" segment on the way abortion regulations will be affected by the U.S. Supreme Court's recent overturn of Roe v. Wade.