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ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s Media and International Law Moot Court Team, comprised of Ben Kempton L’14 and Craig Martin L’15, advanced to the quarterfinals in the Americas Round of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition, held at Cardozo Law School in New York, N.Y. The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ team’s performance in the Americas Round qualified them for the final International Round of the Price Moot, to be held in April at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England.

Leaders in law and legal education shared insights about one of the nation’s most significant civil rights attorneys at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s 2014 Martin Luther King, Jr. forum.

Leslie P. Lasher L'09, Andrew Nettleman L'09, Stephen Shaw L'10 and Ryan H. Stewart L'09 have been selected as 2014 Rising Stars by Super Lawyers rating service, a recognition earned by no more than 2.5 percent of attorneys 40 or younger or in practice for 10 years or less.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's 2014 Martin Luther King, Jr. Forum will take place at 6 p.m., on June 21 at the law school. It will commemorate the legal career and legacy of civil rights attorney Julius Chambers.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ has named Luke Bierman, a highly accomplished attorney, legal scholar and teacher, and national leader in experiential legal education, to be the next dean of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law. 

In Constitution Daily, the online content platform of the National Constitution Center, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Scott Gaylord posits four reasons why the U.S. Supreme Court will rule in favor of Town of Greece in a legislative prayer case.

The American Bar Association’s Student Lawyer magazine focused its December issue on the increasing value of leadership experience for law students’ career success. The article spotlights ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s multi-year leadership program.

By co-authoring a Nov. 14 intellectual property law scholars letter to President Obama and Congress, as well as a front page Dec. 6 column in the Los Angeles and San Francisco editions of the Daily Journal, California’s largest legal newspaper, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor David S. Levine continued to detail implications of secrecy in international law making. 

With 63 member states, UNIDROIT seeks to harmonize law across the globe through international conventions and the production of model laws. ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Henry Gabriel was the sole candidate from the United States, having been nominated to the governing council by the United States Department of State. 

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Steve Friedland, who was featured as one of the nation’s 26 best law teachers in a recent book, shares insights about effective teaching in the December 4 edition of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly.