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ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s second-year law students recently helped three nonprofit organizations with legal matters involving urban development, alternative transportation and organizational management.  

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Scott Gaylord has authored a United States Supreme Court "friend of the court" brief opposing the contraceptive coverage mandate in the Affordable Care Act. 

Delivering the keynote address at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s eighth annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. forum, Guilford County Schools Superintendent Maurice “Mo” Green urged greater engagement by communities and future lawyers to strengthen educational systems and expressed excitement about ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s role in Guilford County’s Say Yes to Education partnership.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s newest clinic empowers law students to protect and promote the best interests of abused and neglected children while gaining valuable advocacy skills at the appellate level of the North Carolina court system. 

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law has created the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Legal Incubator to support ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law graduates who wish to develop solo law practices and to create opportunities for lawyers to provide reduced-cost legal services for low-income residents of Guilford County. 

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Michael Rich’s article “Machines as Crime Fighters—Are You Ready?” in the winter 2016 edition of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice magazine, examines legal and practical challenges to the automated prediction of criminals. 

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Michael Rich is featured in a journal devoted to identifying "the best new scholarship relevant to the law" for his forthcoming University of Pennsylvania Law Review article on law enforcement's use of "big data."

In an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Now commentary, Prof. Antonette Barilla writes that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s impact internationally is significant, but often under-appreciated. 

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.