Student News

With help from Elon Law's Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic, Jesse Kizungu hugged his wife, Viviane, for the first time in three years after she arrived this week at Piedmont Triad International Airport from a refugee camp in Malawi.

In the first in a series of profiles of Elon Law students completing their residencies-in-practice, Richard Glenn L’19 explains why full-time work over the winter at A.G. Linett & Associates in Greensboro motivates him even more to excel in his final year of study.

Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, the first African-American woman to lead the Supreme Court of North Carolina, will share her wisdom at December's graduation ceremony for the Elon Law Class of 2019.

Kia Barrett, Alisha Harris, Timisha Henley and Cynthia Hernandez from Elon Law's Class of 2020 will work this summer in top legal placements through the North Carolina Bar Association's Minorities in the Profession 1L Summer Associate Program.

Travis Poulos L'20 is the first person to enroll at Elon Law as part of an agreement with Guilford College that provides students with an accelerated pathway to earn their law degree as they finish the requirements for their undergraduate studies.

Judges traveled to Greensboro to hear arguments in two cases: one involving evidence in a murder trial that ended in conviction, and another involving a lawsuit where a married couple on vacation contracted Legionnaires' Disease.

Paul Newby, senior associate justice on the N.C. Supreme Court, spoke Monday to members of Elon Law's Federalist Society about how the U.S. Constitution protects fundamental rights and freedoms. 

Attorney Toussaint Romain established a national reputation for his community activism following a police shooting in North Carolina, and in remarks delivered as part of Elon Law’s 2019 Inclusion Week, he implored students to use their legal education to confront the institutional racism embedded in society.

Knowing she will be the guardian for her older sibling has influenced the professional and personal choices of Emily Benson Chatzky '15 L'19.

Several student groups have organized programs from Feb. 18-23 to showcase the impact and importance of diversity in the legal profession.