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The Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Law's new approach to legal education earned praise in U.S. News & World Report’s "Best Graduate Schools 2017" guidebook.

An accomplished legal scholar, Charles Geyh - the first speaker in the newly constituted Dean's Lecture Series at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law - will propose a new way of looking at how the role of the American judiciary should be conceptualized and regulated. 

"There’s a better way to do this, and it starts with a redesigned curriculum grounded in the realities of being a modern lawyer."

The director of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law's Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic visited Nairobi for presentations on March 22-23, 2016, focused on her educational work and advocacy efforts in the United States. 

Senior Associate Dean Alan Woodlief participated in the second annual Minority Pre-Law Conference in Durham, North Carolina on March 19. 

Meghan Smith and Jackson Barnes, second year Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law students, were recognized for their exemplary professionalism at the Eighth Annual Charleston School of Law National Moot Court Competition on March 18-19, 2016. Smith and Jackson won the competition's Professionalism Award, selected by the Charleston Moot Court Board as the team best representing professional integrity, courtesy, and esteem throughout the competition.  

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law Review's latest volume includes articles examining the dissent in the Supreme Court's historic Obergefell v. Hodges decision,  the reasoning of a U.S. Court of Appeals in a book banning case and the lack of clarity in parts of the Americans with Disabilities Act. 

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law's 2016 Commencement ceremony will feature Judge Albert Diaz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.