School of Law

Hasina I. Lewis, a member of the Class of 2012 at Elon Law, published an article entitled "Cultivating Diversity in the Law School Classroom," featured in the January edition of the Law Student Division Bulletin of the North Carolina Bar Association.

Elon Law will open on a two-hour delay today (Friday, Feb. 5), due to icy conditions.

Tom and Karen Armstrong, longtime supporters of Elon University's study abroad and service learning programs, recently contributed gifts in support of the law school's Wills Clinic and its veterans scholarship fund.

Franklin McCain, one of the NC A&T students who energized the civil rights movement in 1960 by sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., was the featured speaker at Elon Law's second annual Martin Luther King, Jr. forum on January 14.

Due to continued icy roads and the aftermath of the weekend snowstorm, Elon University School of Law will close at 9 p.m. on Monday, February 1, and will open at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, February 2.

On Thursday, February 4, from 4 to 5 p.m., Elon University School of Law will welcome preceptors and other special guests from the legal community to socialize with Elon Law students, faculty, and administration, including as a special guest North Carolina Superior Court Judge Edwin G. Wilson. The event will be held in the Cemala Commons on the second floor of the law school.

Through an intensive "Public Law and Leadership" course in January, second-year Elon Law students worked with three nonprofit organizations and a government agency on a range of legal issues facing their organizations, from farmland preservation to juvenile substance abuse prevention.

At a January 20 Elon Law event recognizing more than 50 lawyers and judges who serve as mentors and coaches to law students, former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers reflected on her career in national politics and government, discussing several mentors that were pivotal in her professional development and success.

Measuring responses from more than 26,000 law students across the country, the 2009 Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) indicates that Elon Law students participate in clinical, pro bono, and field experiences more often and that they collaborate with colleagues and faculty at higher rates than the national average.

Through a January 14 presentation to first-year Elon Law students during the Winter Term course, "Lawyering, Leadership and Professionalism," University of St. Thomas law professor Hank Shea discussed the importance of ethics in the legal profession and presented a "Top Ten List of Lessons Learned from White Collar Crime."