March 8th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
GENEVA (7 March 2013) – The United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and environment and Wake Forest Law Professor John Knox highlighted the urgent need to clarify the human rights obligations linked to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Such clarification, he said, “is necessary in order for States and others to better understand what those obligations require and ensure that they are fully met, at every level from the local to the global,” according to a press release.
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March 6th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
RALEIGH, N.C. – Campbell Law School will host a full-day Gideon v. Wainwright Symposium on Friday, March 8, as the North Carolina Advocates for Justice (NCAJ) commemorate the 50thanniversary of the landmark case. Continue reading »
March 4th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
Professor George Walker, the Dean’s Research Professor of Admiralty and International Law, has received the North Carolina Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section’s Peace Award.
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March 1st, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
LOS ANGELES — Concord Law School Dean Greg Brandes and a panel of lawyers will discuss “Closing the Justice Gap: Law Schools and Their Critics Confront the New Realities of the Profession” on Friday, March 1.
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February 25th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
For the 21st consecutive year, Wake Forest law school will host oral arguments in the North Carolina Court of Appeals at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26, in Room 1312 of the Worrell Professional Center. Continue reading »
February 22nd, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
Law Professor Tracey Banks Coan was presented the Joseph Branch Excellence in Teaching Award during the Wake Forest Founders’ Day Convocation on Thursday, Feb. 21.
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February 20th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
Wake Forest Law Professor John Knox, who is the United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and the environment, urged world governments to take into account human rights laws in designing and developing environmental governance at the Global Ministerial Environmental Forum hosted by the U.N. Environmental Programme on Feb. 18-22 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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January 29th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
A little known office within the Small Business Administration (SBA) is working at the behest of industry to block new federal rules and should be reined in, a pair of pro-regulation groups charged Tuesday.
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January 29th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
An independent office within the Small Business Administration has worked to block health, safety and environmental regulations on behalf of small and large businesses without appropriate technical expertise, two new studies have charged.
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January 29th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
The William and Mary Law School will host a panel assessing the nature of contemporary legal education on Monday, Feb. 11. The forum will feature three guest speakers, Davison M. Douglas, Dean and Professor of Law at the William and Mary Law School; University of Richmond School of Law Professor Wendy Collins Perdue; and Wake Forest University School of Law Dean Blake D. Morant. William and Mary Law School Professor Paul Marcus will moderate the event.
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