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An accomplished legal scholar, Charles Geyh - the first speaker in the newly constituted Dean's Lecture Series at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law - will propose a new way of looking at how the role of the American judiciary should be conceptualized and regulated. 

"There’s a better way to do this, and it starts with a redesigned curriculum grounded in the realities of being a modern lawyer."

The director of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic visited Nairobi for presentations on March 22-23, 2016, focused on her educational work and advocacy efforts in the United States. 

Meghan Smith and Jackson Barnes, second year ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law students, were recognized for their exemplary professionalism at the Eighth Annual Charleston School of Law National Moot Court Competition on March 18-19, 2016. Smith and Jackson won the competition's Professionalism Award, selected by the Charleston Moot Court Board as the team best representing professional integrity, courtesy, and esteem throughout the competition.  

Luke Bierman, dean of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law, offered the following statement regarding the nomination of Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to the United States Supreme Court. 

The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law Review's latest volume includes articles examining the dissent in the Supreme Court's historic Obergefell v. Hodges decision,  the reasoning of a U.S. Court of Appeals in a book banning case and the lack of clarity in parts of the Americans with Disabilities Act. 

Professor and author Danielle Keats Citron delivered the spring keynote address Thursday night in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Lauren Dunne Astley Memorial Lecture program, which aims to promote healthy relationships between young men and women and prevent domestic violence.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law's 2016 Commencement ceremony will feature Judge Albert Diaz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. 

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law welcomed North Carolina Court of Appeals Judges Rick Elmore, Lucy Inman and J. Douglass McCullough on March 9 as they presided over cases in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Robert E. Long Courtroom and met with law students following Court proceedings.