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Â鶹ÊÓƵ parents Eugenia Leggett P'15 and Barry Frank P'15 of Greensboro, N.C., have established the George R. Johnson Dean’s Discretionary Fund to honor Johnson, who recently stepped down as dean of Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Law after five years of service in the role to return to the faculty.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law Professor Scott Gaylord was retained by the North Carolina House and Senate, through the legislature’s Speaker and President Pro Tem, to represent the State in its efforts to get the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that prohibits North Carolina from issuing “Choose Life” specialty license plates.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law Professor David S. Levine, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, has accepted a position as a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy for 2014-15. 

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law Professor Howard Katz was one of 25 professors and the only full-time law faculty member to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) program on Westward Expansion and the Constitution in the Early American republic. He was also selected as one of 22 law professors and deans to participate in a Wolters Kluwer conference on the future of legal education. 

Drawing from his scholarship about the application of the First Amendment to new technologies, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law Professor Enrique Armijo submitted a July 9 filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) net neutrality proceeding.

On July 8, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law’s Elder Law Clinic hosted a Triad Retirement Living Association (TRLA) forum that focused on misconceptions about romance as people age. 

A July 7 North Carolina Lawyers Weekly cover story about the rise of experiential education in law features insights from Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law Dean Luke Bierman and Professor Jim Exum.

Law professors at Â鶹ÊÓƵ recently have published scholarship and engaged in service at regional, national and international levels. Explore highlights of their work in this article.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law Practitioner-in-Residence Hannah Vaughan offered analysis for WGHP's Successful Aging Series to address legal questions pertaining to Health Care Power of Attorney and Living Wills.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law Professor Heather Scavone recently spoke at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network’s Bi-annual Conference on Effective Representation of Refugees and Asylees in Dallas, Texas.