November 12th, 2008 | Campus | Comments Off
Wake Forest University School of Law graduates had the top bar passage rate among North Carolina universities for first timers taking the N.C. bar exam in July.
November 12th, 2008 | Campus | Comments Off
Wake Forest University School of Law Professor Margaret H. Taylor has been elected to The American Law Institute (ALI).
November 7th, 2008 | Campus | Comments Off
Wake Forest University named Jan Scales as the 2008 Employee of the Year at the university’s employee recognition luncheon Oct. 28.
November 5th, 2008 | Campus | Comments Off
Words matter. Language matters. Those are just a few conclusions drawn from the Wake Forest Law Review’s inaugural Fall Symposium on Oct. 31 that focused on free speech issues.
October 28th, 2008 | Campus | Comments Off
The Wake Forest School of Law, the Provost’s Office, and Women’s & Gender Studies program will host “Equality-based Perspectives on the Free Speech Norm: 21st Century Considerations” from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1309.
September 15th, 2008 | Campus | Comments Off
Robert Levy, senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, was the guest speaker at Wake Forest University School of Law’s first Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) luncheon discussion of the fall semester. Levy discussed District of Columbia v. Heller, a case in which the justices held that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual’s right to possess a firearm for private use, such as protection. The decision was split 5-4 with Justice Antonin Scalia writing for the majority.Levy, who served as co-counsel on the case when it was argued in front of the high court earlier this year, provided details of the affirmation of the final opinion. Wilson Parker, Wake Forest professor of law and constitutional law expert, provided details of the dissent written by Justice John Paul Stevens, who wrote that the case “bestowed a dramatic upheaval in the law.”
July 17th, 2008 | Campus | Comments Off
Thanks to the generous bequest from the estate of Robert B. “Bob” Broughton (JD ’51), the Wake Forest School of Law will be able to establish an endowed scholarship in his name. Mr. Broughton, who credited his Wake Forest law professors with inspiring him to pursue a legal career, died in Raleigh in 2007. In addition to this estate gift, Mr. Broughton had previously created two charitable gift annuities to benefit the Wake Forest law school in the future. These gifts will allow the law school to provide needed financial aid to many deserving law students.
July 15th, 2008 | Campus | Comments Off
The law school congratulates Robert (Bobby) Chesney and Ahmed Taha on their promotions to full professor with tenure as of July 1, 2008.
May 21st, 2008 | Campus | Comments Off
The School of Law Hooding Ceremony took place in Wait Chapel on Sunday May 18, with former Senator James Talent delivering the keynote address. Talent, a respected politician at both the state and national levels, addressed 141 candidates for the Juris Doctor degree and 23 candidates for the Master of Laws in American Law degree.
May 21st, 2008 | Campus | Comments Off
Wake Forest University School of Law and the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School are sponsoring a workshop for military and civilian junior faculty working in the area of national security law on May 23 at Wake Forest law school. The workshop is intended to provide an informal setting for participants to present and discuss works-in-progress, for civilian and JAG faculty to get to know one another, and for civilian faculty to receive instruction from JAG faculty concerning current issues in the law of war.
