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The longtime legal educator, whose expertise and research interests include business law and tax policy, was among those promoted in April by ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Board of Trustees.

The Hon. Mark Davis, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s Visiting Distinguished Jurist in Residence and a former justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court, advised students interested in clerkships (or serving as a judge) during an online conversation moderated by Professor Steve Friedland.

Professor and Senior Scholar Steve Friedland spoke recently with WCNC Charlotte and WFMY News 2 in Greensboro about a former Minneapolis police officer standing trial in Minnesota for the 2020 death of George Floyd.

Can your boss require you to have a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment? ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's Eric Fink addressed that question (short answer: yes, with caveats) for a regional broadcast news report.

Assistant Professor Vanessa Zboreak spoke with the Triad news station about legal efforts by a former superintendent to be reinstated to his top post for Rockingham County Schools.

A report by the International Refugee Assistance Project with contributions by Katherine Reynolds, who oversees ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic, recommends improvements to the process by which refugees separated by war and conflict can be reunited with loved ones. 

Assistant Professor Tammi Shimere Etheridge will lead courses in torts, food and drug laws, and health law starting this summer after previously teaching and mentoring law students at Howard University and Villanova University.

An article by Assistant Professor Tiffany Atkins L’11 in the Michigan Journal of Race and Law offers actionable steps for law schools to demonstrate their commitments to diversifying the profession for a new generation of students.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ President Connie Ledoux Book joined with Margaret Dudley, director of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s Emergency Legal Services Program, and Barbara Spencer L’21 on visits to resource centers for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and elder abuse in Guilford and Alamance counties.

Faculty and community members spoke of the legacy of grief and terror spawned by ongoing racial inequity and violence. ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ must address its past and accelerate change for justice and equality, they said.