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In this week’s “ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Now” series, Professor Michael Rich explains Texas requirements to establish legal insanity in the context of the recently concluded trial of Eddie Ray Routh, the man who shot and killed Chris Kyle, subject of the recent Oscar-nominated film American Sniper, and his friend Chad Littlefield at a Texas shooting range. 

On Feb. 17 a federal judge blocked the Obama administration’s executive action that seeks to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation. ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Enrique Armijo provides analysis of the decision’s central legal issue in this week’s “ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Now.”

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Michael Rich explored the implications of new technology in the identification of likely criminals at the 2015 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Heather Scavone examines U.S. justifications for family detention of immigrant women and children, spotlighting a lack of legal representation for these families, as part the “ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Now” series of faculty analysis and commentary about current legal issues. 

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Dean Luke Bierman writes in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Experiential Learning about reinventing legal education to prepare lawyers for success in a world moving rapidly toward 22nd century thought and practice.

"Germany and China: Transnational Encounters since the Eighteenth Century" includes chapters Crowe authored, including one that was co-written by an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ  alumna who recently completed graduate work at Columbia University.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Antonette Barilla recently presented scholarship at regional and international conferences on the benefits of classical instruction in rhetoric within legal education and on teaching techniques for increasingly diverse graduate program classrooms.

Through scholarship, public analysis and direct engagement with the U.S. Senate, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor David S. Levine has spotlighted legal risks associated with the proposed Defend Trade Secrets Act and the Trade Secret Protection Act.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law is an executive partner in the coalition advancing a new Guilford County Family Justice Center, which will house 17 provider agencies and create a single point of access for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and elder abuse.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Professor Henry Gabriel recently published scholarship and presented internationally on topics that address the regional harmonization of trade law, agricultural development and the future of international trade law.