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Faculty, students, alumni and friends of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law gathered June 21 for an informal reception to celebrate the law school’s achievement of ABA full approval. Speakers included ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ President Leo M. Lambert, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Steven House, and law school Dean George R. Johnson, Jr.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law has received full accreditation by the American Bar Association. The Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ to the Bar approved ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s application June 10, at its meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Seventeen law schools and 31 teams of law students participated in the inaugural Billings, Exum & Frye National Moot Court Competition at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law on April 1 and 2. David Gergen, chair of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's national advisory board, former adviser to four U.S. presidents, CNN senior political analyst, and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, delivered the keynote address at the competition banquet.

A two-day seminar organized by the faculty, staff and students of the Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law featured presentations by immigration law scholars and practitioners, law enforcement officials, and leaders of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service. Dozens of non-profit immigration service providers and attorneys specializing in immigration law attended the event.

Law scholars William M. Carter, Jr. of Temple University Beasley School of Law, Jacqueline D. Lipton of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and Frank Pasquale of Seton Hall Law spoke at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law this year through the law school's faculty development lecture series.

On October 21, 2011, the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Review will present a symposium to discuss criminal law issues emerging in the decade since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Details about the symposium and the Law Review's Request for Proposals are noted in this article.

At ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's sixth Reception with the Legal Community this year, The Honorable John C. Martin, Chief Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, spoke as the event's special guest judge.

Concluding ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's year-long series of Receptions with the Legal Community on April 14, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Catherine Dunham expressed appreciation to 53 lawyers who mentor law students through the school's Preceptor Program. Eloise Hassell received the Preceptor Outstanding Service to Students award from the Student Bar Association.

Volume 2, Issue 1 of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Review explores "Emerging Frameworks for International Business Transactions." Issue 2 explores issues in contract interpretation, the foreign intelligence exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement, property rights, and judicial discretion in the application of domestic violence protective orders.