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At Commencement Exercises for ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s Class of 2014, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ trustee Gail McMichael Lane was presented with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in recognition of her extraordinary commitment to education and outstanding service to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ.

Members of the Class of 2014 at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law welcomed family members and friends to the law school on May 23 to celebrate achievements of the class on the eve of commencement ceremonies.

Thomas W. Ross, president of the 17-campus University of North Carolina system, will deliver ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law’s Commencement address on May 24, 2014.

The American Bar Association Center for Racial and Ethnic Diversity and the ABA Young Lawyers Division announced on May 17 that ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s student-led Diversity Week won first place in the annual Next Steps Diversity Challenge.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law professor and Constitutional Law scholar Scott Gaylord, who filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Town of Greece v. Galloway case, discussed the Court’s decision in the case with University of California Irvine School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky on May 6 through a National Constitution Center podcast.

The News & Observer spotlights ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Heather Scavone for her legal advocacy and teaching as director of the Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic.

As part of her semester-in-practice externship, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law student Caroline Johnson L'14 recently participated in the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group V (Insolvency) meeting in New York City from April 23 - 25, 2014.

An April 29 News & Observer article reports that ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law alumna Janison Dillon L’13 is leading a new organization of the North Carolina Bankers Association, created to broaden financial literacy across North Carolina.

An April 23 News & Record article examines the special role that the North Carolina Business Court plays in the education of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law students. ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ is one of the few law schools in the country to house a working court.

After a ten-year separation caused by civil war in Somalia, a family was reunited on April 16 in Greensboro, N.C., aided by law students in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic. Their story was featured on Fox news stations across the country.