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Civil liberties lawyer and Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, in a Distinguished Leadership Lecture at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law, said he believes a special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election might end with more criminal indictments - just not of President Donald J. Trump.

The 2019 edition of "The Best 165 Law Schools" featured multiple student reflections on ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's approach to experiential education, with one student concluding "ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law doesn’t just teach the law, but paves the way for practicing the law."

The Guilford County Association of Black Lawyers awarded scholarships in October to four accomplished ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law students who have demonstrated a commitment to service in their communities and the profession.

Bob Edmunds, who served on the Supreme Court of North Carolina, shared with competitors of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's Ninth Billings, Exum & Frye National Moot Court Competition that a lack of diverse professional backgrounds on the U.S. Supreme Court should be remedied.

The Hon. Henry E. Frye, a retired chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina and a pioneering figure in North Carolina politics, was honored this month with ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s 2018 Leadership in the Law Award.

Anthony DeLucia, who graduates in December with the Class of 2018, earned ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s first ever “best oralist” moot court award at a competition hosted this fall by Regent University School of Law.

Tickets for the first Distinguished Leadership Lecture of the 2018-19 academic year, postponed from September due to Hurricane Florence, have been distributed. The lecture will be streamed to Yeager Recital Hall on ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's main campus for those unable to attend in Greensboro.

Judges heard appellate arguments in an employment discrimination lawsuit involving a former sheriff’s deputy in North Carolina, and a criminal case with Fourth Amendment considerations after police in West Virginia used a GPS tracker without a warrant.

When Assistant Professor Heather Scavone steps down from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law in October for a legal position in the federal government, Katherine Reynolds, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s Clinical Practitioner in Residence, will serve as interim director of the Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic.

Twenty-five students will help guide the school's Moot Court Program by participating in upcoming national contests and by coordinating ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's own national moot court competition in October.