“Scarred For Life: The Legacy of Forced Sterilization at Home and Abroad,” co-sponsored by  Wake Forest Law, will be held Thursday and Friday, April 4-5, on the Wake Forest University Reynolda Campus. The events will focus on issues surrounding forced sterilization in both the national and international arenas.  The program will start at 5 p.m.  …

Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbtit is a key player in environmental and energy policies. His tenure as Secretary of the Interior has led to some of the most influential conservation policies.  Babbitt will discuss environmental policies during a question-and-answer session for students at the Wake Forest law school at …

Professor A. E. Dick Howard, the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, will present the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312. The title of his presentation, which is free and open to the public, is “The Changing …

Wake Forest Law Professor Kate Mewhinney will be among the N.C. lawyers who is giving freely of their time and talent on Friday, March 1, as participants in the North Carolina Bar Association’s sixth annual 4ALL Statewide Service Day. Volunteer attorneys will provide free legal information from eight call centers across the state from 7 …

Wake Forest University law students joined volunteer attorneys and community volunteers at the Winston-Salem Pro Bono Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)  event on Nov. 10 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Overseeing the event was Professor Margaret Taylor, well known for her teaching and research on immigration law and policy. The event saw volunteers of all …

Justice Randy J. Holland of the Delaware Supreme Court will visit the Wake Forest University School of Law to discuss “Delaware Courts and Corporate Law” at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 5, in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1301. The event, which is sponsored by the Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law, is free …

RALEIGH, N.C. — Professor Beth Hopkins (’73) and Kristina Wolf (JD ’13) were among nine Wake Forest women recognized at the 2012 Women of Justice Awards reception at the Raleigh Marriott City Center on Nov. 15, 2012. North Carolina Lawyers Weekly hosted the reception that recognized women across the state who have demonstrated leadership, integrity, service, …

Brad and Carole Wilson have given $1 million to the Wake Forest School of Law. The Wilsons’ generosity will address two priorities for the law school: transforming The Worrell Professional Center to meet the changing needs of law students, and providing endowed scholarships. Brad Wilson (’78) is a graduate of the Wake Forest University School of …

DUBLIN — Brad Wilson (’78), president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, will be the commencement speaker at  7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 10, at Bladen Community College’s curriculum graduation.  As president and CEO of North Carolina’s largest insurer since 2010, Wilson has worked to improve North Carolina’s health care system …

William Reingold (’83), the chief District Court judge in Forsyth County, will retire at the end of October after 27 years on the bench.  A graduate of Wake Forest University School of Law, Reingold has been chief District Court judge since 1998. He was appointed a District Court judge in 1986 and won election in …

WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Wake Forest University will provide three hours of free Continuing Legal Education (CLE) beginning at 1 p.m. on Friday, May 10, at the Wake Forest Historical Museum, 414 N. Main Street, on the old campus. Even though William Shakespeare never met President Nixon and the Watergate Hotel was never a setting …

n the 1946 classic It’s a Wonderful Life, James Stewart stars as George Bailey, the director of the Bailey Building and Loan Association in the fictional community of Bedford Falls, N.Y. Bailey faces numerous challenges to keep the Building and Loan afloat in order to continue supporting the people and businesses of his hometown. His …

The Worcester (Massachusetts) Police Department reports that Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body was buried in an undisclosed location in the middle of the night, bringing an end to a sad, unprecedented soap opera. This controversy has been resolved — but what happens next time? The Tsarnaev burial saga highlights a fundamental flaw in the American law regarding …

Many small banks will close or be forced to merge as a result of the regulatory costs and burdens of the Dodd-Frank Act, according to a new report. “If community banks are forced to merge, consolidate, or go out of business as a result of Dodd-Frank, one result will be an even greater concentration of …

BOSTON — The body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing who died after a shootout with the police last month, has been interred in an undisclosed location, the Worcester Police Department said in a statement on Thursday morning. “A courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to …

The Wake Forest University School of Law conferred hoods on 183 graduates on Sunday, May 19, in Wait Chapel. The graduates included the first two to earn the Scientiae Juridicae Doctor degree and the first nine to earn the Master of Studies in Law degree. The law school’s 39th annual hooding speaker, Thomas L. Sager …

Law schools hunting for students as their enrollment numbers drop are increasingly trying to attract an unexpected group: people who have no intention of practicing law. Doctors, environmental consultants and even an urban planner have signed up for the programs, which offer master’s degrees in law and typically cost about the same as one year …

Coming of age in Serbian-controlled Kosovo, Kreshnik Radoniqi risked everytCategorieshing for his education. To be taught by Albanian teachers, Radoniqi gathered with just a few other students in private houses instead of traditional school campuses. To avoid detection, they had to move from house to house, never staying too long in one place. Had Serbian …

Wake Forest Law will confer its highest postgraduate law degree, the Doctoral of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) degree, for the first time this month. After years of rigorous research and writing, Mohamad Basam of Saudi Arabia and Joel De Leon Quintero of Panama will receive their S.J.D.’s on Monday, May 20. The S.J.D. program is designed …