School of Law

On November 18, the Family Law Society hosted its second networking lunch of the semester, featuring two attorneys from the Children's Law Center of Central North Carolina. Amy Kuhlman and Iris Sunshine spoke with Elon Law students about the practice of family law, focusing on child advocacy and public service.

Elon University School of Law has established the Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic, allowing students under the supervision of law faculty to provide free legal services to low-income refugees and asylum seekers in North Carolina.

Elon Law professors Steve Friedland and David Levine delivered presentations on trade secrecy and privacy in the digital age at a January 20 program of The Cardozo Society of the Greensboro Jewish Federation.

The generosity of Elon employees has fueled the success of this year's Faculty/Staff Campaign. The annual giving drive runs through May 31.

While Elon University's main campus in Elon will open on a delayed schedule today due to icy conditions, the law school will operate on a normal schedule. As always, please use caution in your travels to the law school. More details follow ...

Elon University School of Law will open on a delayed schedule on Wednesday, January 12, due to weather conditions. Details are included in this posting.

Elaine R. Jones, who served as the first woman president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 1993 to 2004 and championed a number of groundbreaking civil rights cases over a career spanning three decades, will deliver the keynote address at Elon University School of Law's third annual Martin Luther King, Jr. forum on Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. in the law library.

Elon University professors, students and alumni made regional and national news in recent weeks through their research and activities, both on and off campus. Notable in December and early January was media coverage of the Elon University School of Law's Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic and the announcement by university leaders of a decision to locate the new physician assistant program on main campus.