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Bob Edmunds, who served on the Supreme Court of North Carolina, shared with competitors of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's Ninth Billings, Exum & Frye National Moot Court Competition that a lack of diverse professional backgrounds on the U.S. Supreme Court should be remedied.

The Hon. Henry E. Frye, a retired chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina and a pioneering figure in North Carolina politics, was honored this month with ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s 2018 Leadership in the Law Award.

Anthony DeLucia, who graduates in December with the Class of 2018, earned ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s first ever “best oralist” moot court award at a competition hosted this fall by Regent University School of Law.

Tickets for the first Distinguished Leadership Lecture of the 2018-19 academic year, postponed from September due to Hurricane Florence, have been distributed. The lecture will be streamed to Yeager Recital Hall on ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's main campus for those unable to attend in Greensboro.

Judges heard appellate arguments in an employment discrimination lawsuit involving a former sheriff’s deputy in North Carolina, and a criminal case with Fourth Amendment considerations after police in West Virginia used a GPS tracker without a warrant.

Twenty-five students will help guide the school's Moot Court Program by participating in upcoming national contests and by coordinating ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's own national moot court competition in October.

Forthcoming publications by Sara Ochs, a Legal Method & Communication Fellow at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law, and subsequent presentations to international scholars will explain how a "hybrid" tribunal designed to prosecute war criminals in Southeast Asia is on the verge of collapse.

Rebecca Elliott L'19 was honored in the Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition sponsored by the Mercer University School of Law and the ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law.

David S. Levine, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s Jennings Professor and Emerging Scholar, partnered with Ted M. Sichelman of the University of San Diego School of Law to research why young companies in software, biotechnology, medical device, and hardware industries opt to use - or not use - laws that can protect competitive advantage and profits.

In Convocation remarks to the Class of 2020, one of North Carolina’s top philanthropic leaders encouraged ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s newest students to never forget the fortunes of fate that brought them to law school or the responsibilities they have to serve the public with a legal education.