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An annual showcase of the university's strongest faculty and student scholarship spotlighted an Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law professor whose expertise has influenced judicial decisions and media coverage of the law.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law Dean Luke Bierman recently published a column in regional newspapers about the need for innovation in American legal education.

The law school community gathered Dec. 15, 2016, to recognize 10 students who completed their legal studies a semester early while, in the words of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law Dean Luke Bierman, “leaving this place better than you found it.”

The opportunity to work full-time in a course-connected legal environment has already "exceeded expectations" of students in the Class of December 2017 whose experiential learning is unlike that found at other law schools.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law's associate dean of Academic Affairs took part in a Dec. 6, 2016, conversation about the future of "fake news" where no one knows what is real - and what can be done about it.

The Maurice Jennings Emerging Scholar and an associate professor at Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Law died Dec. 7, 2016, following a lengthy illness.

The new international, interdisciplinary journal "explores secrecy as the intentional or nonintentional concealment of information at the intersections of theory, definition, language, praxis, and culture."

The professor of law analyzed the proper standard under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act for determining whether a government action substantially burdens religious exercise.

The City of Greensboro's Operation Bed Roll, in which Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law students are assisting, removes plastic bags from the waste stream and transforms them into bed rolls for the homeless.

The assistant professor of law and director of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law's Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic writes about helping asylees in the United States reach the "American dream."