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Eleven of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law's top students will guide the publication next year of the student-run and student-edited scholarly journal.

Executive board members and class representatives help lead an umbrella organization that governs other law school organizations and committees.

Capping a busy fall for advocacy students at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law, Jordan Hensley L'18 and Therron Causey L'19 reached the semifinals in the Richmond regional of a program co-sponsored by New York City Bar Association's National Moot Court Competition Committee and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

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.

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.