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In this week’s ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Now commentary, Distinguished Professor of the Judicial Process James G. Exum Jr. says that state legislation to alter the structure of Greensboro’s city council breaks with long-standing public policy and leads to less democratic, less responsive local government.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law and Vermont Law School will offer a dual-degree program that enables students to earn two graduate degrees in two-and-a-half years, beginning in the fall of 2015. 

A new website for the technology, law and policy radio show and podcast hosted by ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor David Levine features a mobile-friendly design, a new logo, expanded social network links and an embedded audio player for each show post.

Roy Cooper, the attorney general of North Carolina, will deliver ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law’s Commencement address on May 23, 2015. 

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor John Flynn comments on the value of the collaborative approach to local entrepreneurial business development within the global Startup Weekend movement in this week’s “ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Now” series.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor David Levine calls for the public release of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, challenges the secret process by which the agreement was created and says "fast track" authority by Congress will result in the exclusion of expert and public input that could improve the international agreement.  

The dean of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law offers four steps to reinvent legal education in an April 15 article for the ABA Journal’s “The New Normal” series. 

The forum continued a yearlong series of events and activities at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law that have probed national concerns about police misconduct against minorities and the uneven application of law based on race.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Antonette Barilla examines developing responses to migration flows and itinerant groups in Italy, in this week’s “ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Now” series of faculty commentary.

On April 2, students of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) provided commentary to raise awareness and advance discussion about racially motivated crimes and police brutality in the United States. Excerpts from their commentary follow.