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Today at 6 p.m., the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law community is invited to watch via LIVESTREAM ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Keynote Address by MSNBC host and award-winning author Melissa Harris-Perry, in Room 107 of the Law School. Refreshments will be served. No RSVP needed.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law alumnus Grant Buckner L’13 is the Supreme Court of North Carolina’s first Director of the Office of Central Staff, a new office created by the Administrative Office of the Courts to increase the efficiency of the Supreme Court in adjudicating cases.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law students succeeded in advocacy that led to the reunification of a family separated for more than five years by war in Darfur, Sudan. 

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Hannah Vaughan, director of the Law School’s Elder Law Clinic, authored “Falling On Deaf Ears: Lawyers’ Obligation to Provide Sign Language Interpreters for Deaf Clients.” Vaughan’s article appears in the December issue of Gray Matters, a publication of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Elder and Special Needs Law Section. 

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Antonette Barilla proposed measures for law school educators to maximize millennial students’ learning and achievement at the New England Consortium of Academic Support Professionals Conference.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law recognized the achievements of thirteen students who completed the Law School’s academic requirements for graduation in the fall 2015 semester.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor David Levine’s article detailing weaknesses of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and its relationship to cybersecurity was published Dec. 1 in the Washington and Lee Law Review Online. 

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law has added five accomplished lawyers to its national advisory board, bringing insight from decades of experience in an array of law practice areas to advance the Law School’s groundbreaking approach to legal education.