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Meet the UNC law professor who went viral for bringing a doll to his empty lecture

By Anthony Howard | April 7

From learning how to teach remotely to updating curricula to fit a new online structure, the cancellation of in-person instruction brings its own set ...

Here's a UNC law professor's take on the investigation into Richard Burr's stock sales

By David Richman | April 2

Burr is under investigation for selling stock after confidential briefings on COVID-19.

Law students to spend spring break giving back through free legal services

By A.J. OLeary | March 6

From Asheville to Charlotte, UNC law students will be traveling across North Carolina to offer free legal services.

'A small seed planted': This nonprofit hopes to improve the bail system in Orange County

By Meredith Radford | November 14

The organization is working to establish a $50,000 revolving bail fund that will be used to post low-cost bail for people in the county who cannot afford ...

UNC's School of Law wants to know how attorneys influence criminal justice

By Noah Dolgoff | September 22

Carissa Byrne Hessick, a professor in the UNC School of Law, launched the Prosecutors and Politics Project to study campaign finance for prosecutor elections. ...

The LSAT will go fully digital starting this month

By Maydha Devarajan | September 18

The Law School Admission Council is changing the LSAT format starting this September.

UNC School of Law unveils portrait of civil rights champion Julius Chambers

By Mary Mac Porter | August 27

"Julius Chambers deserves to be remembered, and would want to be remembered, for always being available to the thousands of poor people of color, who ...

UNC School of Law professor wins 2019 BOG Excellence in Teaching Award

By Nathan Wesley | April 11

Donald Hornstein, a winner of the 2019 Award of Excellence in Teaching selected by the UNC Board of Governors, has been teaching "Environmental Law and ...

Here's what you missed at Saturday's Critical Race Theory Symposium

By Kyle Arendas | March 24

The Critical Race Theory Symposium hosted students to discuss racial and gender discrimination in housing, environmental justice, and health care.

Meet the deans of UNC's nationally ranked graduate schools

By Lauren Westbrook | March 20

U.S. News & World Report ranked graduate programs throughout the United States. How did UNC's graduate schools fall on the leaderboard?

What you should know about court-packing, according to a Washington D.C. insider

By Edward Trentzsch | March 20

The UNC School of Law hosted a distinguished lawyer to talk about court packing, and what it means for the judicial system in the current political climate. ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke in the Greensboro Coliseum on Tuesday, June 14, 2017.

Here's how the political climate could be making it even harder to get into law school

By Evely Forte | March 3

Both pre-law students and law admission officers attribute some increase in law school applications to the current political climate.

Sammie Espada (right), a junior women's and gender studies and poll sic double major, holds out a letter addressed to the Equal Opportunity and Compliance Office as Michele Natale (left) signs.

'They’re not prosecutors': Due process not always clear under Title IX

By Eva Ellenburg | November 8

As Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos rolls back Obama-era protections for sexual assault survivors, questions are raised about the application of due ...

Editor from Breitbart met with protest from UNC law students during guest lecture

By Stephanie Mayer | October 30

Students protested guest lecturer Ken Klukowski, senior legal editor for Breitbart News Network, condemning his place of employment and positions on Brett ...

Taking the LSAT in 2019? It will be digital

By Evely Forte | October 7

The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) will begin administering digital Law School Admission Test (LSAT) exams to all law school applicants starting ...

Free speech is protected on public campuses like UNC, but isn't guaranteed elsewhere

By Blake Weaver | September 10

As emails from UNC administrators reaffirming their support of First Amendment rights become almost a weekly tradition, students at other universities ...

Is Silent Sam going back up within 90 days? This law might hold the answer.

By Casey Quam | August 27

In the week following Silent Sam's forced removal on Aug. 20, questions over what will become of the statue have centered on the interpretation of N.C. ...

New entrepreneurship program hopes to attract students to UNC law school

By David Saff | July 1

A new program at the law school aims to attract new students thanks to a $1.53 million gift from the Kenan Trust.

Debunking NC tax changes and what they mean for public funding and universities

By Blake Weaver | April 17

Kathleen Thomas, a tax law professor at the UNC School of Law, said there is definitely a potential for a loss in higher education funding, especially ...

Struggling to pass the bar exam? It might not be your fault

By Casey Quam | April 11

Every pre-law student spends the better part of their career prepping for the inevitable bar exam. But what they don't know is the state of North Carolina ...