School of Law

A $2 million gift commitment from the Dalton L. McMichael Sr. Foundation will provide the largest scholarship endowment at the Elon University School of Law. The endowment will fund three full-tuition scholarships annually, with the first to be awarded to a member of the 2009 entering class who is chosen as a McMichael Law and Leadership Fellow.

Will the death penalty in the United States be halted any time soon? Not likely. But the director of the national Death Penalty Information Center believes the frequency of executions will diminish in the coming years, in part because of budgetary issues. That and other topics were discussed Nov. 21, 2008, at the Elon Law Review Death Penalty Symposium in Greensboro.

Oxford University Press will publish next month Contracts for the Sale of Goods, a new book by visiting professor of law Henry Gabriel. It is the latest achievement for Gabriel in an autumn filled with presentations and conferences around the globe.

Registration is open for attorneys and law students who wish to attend a symposium on the death penalty scheduled for November 21, 2008, at the Elon University School of Law in downtown Greensboro. 5.75 CLE credits are pending approval from the North Carolina State Bar.

The Women’s Law Association at the Elon University School of Law helped educate the Greensboro community last month about the effects of, and ways to prevent, domestic violence in North Carolina with its three-day Domestic Violence Awareness Campaign.

Second-year law students competed this week in the Elon Law Intramural Moot Court Competition, which culminated Wednesday night when teammates Craig Turner and Blair Vocci claimed the top prize in an inaugural contest sponsored by the Moot Court Board.

Scott Gaylord, an associate professor of law, was quoted in the Nov. 10, 2008, edition of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, which published an article that detailed a research report Gaylord co-authored this fall for the Federalist Society.

Prospective students are invited to an Elon University School of Law Admissions Open House from 2 to 4 p.m., Friday, Nov. 14. Read this note for details...

The Elon Law ACLU & the Black Law Students Association will be co-sponsoring Elon Law's first Racial Justice Week starting Monday, November 10, with two speakers and a movie scheduled through the week.

Noted constitutional law authority A.E. Dick Howard told Elon Law students the historic election of Barack Obama as president vindicates civil rights commitments made by our nation's Founding Fathers.