“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 Babbitt 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, …

LL.M. alumnus Manuel Moctezuma (’04)  will be speaking at the Houston Bar Association Seminar on Thursday, Dec. 12. Moctezuma will discuss litigation strategies for U.S. proceedings with connections in Mexico, from a Mexican legal perspective. His lecture is titled “International Litigation Strategies for U.S. Proceedings with Connections in Mexico: Perspectives from a Mexican Attorney.” “As business between Texas …

Crayon Lacing is on a mission to spice up the wardrobes of traditional businessmen one pair of colorful, waxed shoelaces at a time. This month, we sat down with co-founder and Charlotte native Bennett Rainey (’12) to talk about his sartorial start-up and the pair of colored laces that are enhancing more than just wingtips. …

Zach Linsey (’12) and several other young attorneys working in Washington, D.C., have started a website to address state and local policy issues. The writers collaborate to post and feature one article a week on Bridge50.com about a variety of topics. “Working in Washington, I witnessed the gridlock that is plaguing our country first hand,” …

Today, many politicians, brewers, trade groups and consumers are seeking relief from the excise tax on beer. Two competing bills currently pending in Congress — creatively titled the BEER Act and the Small BREW Act — would reduce the tax in different ways. While neither bill is perfect, enacting either one would be a victory …

The state of Arkansas and three school districts agreed to a legal settlement that phases out the multimillion-dollar annual payments the districts have received for decades to integrate black and white students. The districts include Little Rock, which was the site of one of the most famous desegregation battles in U.S. history, when Gov. Orval …

President Barack Obama‘s health care law is facing its biggest test this weekend since its disastrous Oct. 1 launch, as Americans find out whether the administration has met a self-imposed deadline to fix its insurance shopping website. Another major outage of glitch-ridden HealthCare.gov could spell more political trouble for the president, who was forced to apologize for the …

Before undergoing an MRI, a CT scan or a surgery to clean up that wobbly knee, consumers had better become accustomed to hearing: “How do you intend to pay for that?” As more Americans move into health insurance plans that require them to foot a larger portion of the bill for their care, hospitals are …

Yet another dark cloud is looming over global banks as officials examine their behavior in the massive foreign exchange market, threatening to deal a new blow to earnings and reputations. Regulators in the U.S., Europe and Asia are in the early stages of investigating whether traders at the world’s top banks manipulated foreign exchange benchmarks …

In his essay, the author Cory Howard (’14) discusses the recent problems concerning bonds issued by Puerto Rico in the municipal bond market in the United States. Moreover, he analyzes the possibility of Puerto Rico seeking protection under the Federal Bankruptcy Insolvency. Finally, Howard discusses some of the economic benefits that could provide statehood for …

Five hundred Forsyth County school children who rely on school lunches for nourishment will have full bellies over the winter break when schools are closed, thanks to 138 Master of Arts in Management students at Wake Forest University School of Business and the Forsyth Backpack Program, founded by a Wake Forest Law school professor. The …

Wake Forest University graduate business students are playing their own version of “The Hunger Games.” School of Business Master of Arts in Management students are participating in The Hunger Project, which will benefit hundreds of Forsyth County children over the holidays. The Forsyth Backpack Program was selected by the 138 students in the Action Learning …

Karon Fowler (’15) is the winner of the final round of the 42nd annual Stanley Moot Court Competition sponsored by the Wake Forest University School of Law Moot Court Board. The finalists in the Stanley Moot Court competition were Fowler and Aimee Durant (’15). Fowler represented the appellant, Nicole Swisher, vs. Durant, who represented the …