January 9th, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Professor John Knox tells GlobalWarmingIsReal.com that the international community must do more to protect environmentalists in the article “The Slaughter of Innocents: Our Complicity in the Murder of Environmentalists” published on Thursday, Jan. 8th:
January 9th, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
The Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity has scheduled a second town hall meeting at 11:45 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 19 (the federal Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday), in the Anderson Center’s Dillard Auditorium on the campus of Winston-Salem State University. The community is invited to participate.
Like the first meeting, the upcoming one will address the theme, “Solutions for Improving Police/Community Relations.”
January 7th, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Mark Rabil, director of the law school’s Innocence and Justice Clinic, joined the Honorable Samuel Wilson (’74) on a panel discussion regarding the U.S. death penalty system on Tuesday, Dec. 16, at Taiwan National University in Taipei. Also participating on the panel was Wilson’s former law clerk, John Brownlee, a former U.S. attorney in Virginia, and now head of while-collar crime for Holland & Knight. Continue reading »
January 6th, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Michael Green was recognized by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Torts and Compensation Systems Section on Sunday, Jan. 4. The section presented Green with the annual William L. Prosser Award for outstanding contribution in scholarship, teaching and service related to tort law. Continue reading »
January 2nd, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Two of the UN climate talks’ biggest greenhouse gas solutions also happen to be two of the negotiators’ most difficult human rights problems. Continue reading »
January 1st, 2015 | Research | Comments Off
Juries in North Carolina handed out just three death sentences in 2014, helping contribute to the lowest number of people sentenced to death nationally in 40 years, according to a report from the Death Penalty Information Center. Continue reading »
December 23rd, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Kami Chavis Simmons tells U.S. News that citizens need to understand the risks that police face daily, featured in the article “The Changes Facing U.S. Police,” published on Dec. 22, 2014:
December 22nd, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
State and local enforcement of federal immigration laws can have an adverse impact on the use of health care services by immigrant Hispanics, according to a North Carolina-based study by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers.
December 18th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
WalletHub’s 11 Economic Predictions for 2015
GDP Growth Will Be Roughly 3%
2015 is expected to be another solid year for the U.S. economy, despite the various problems being endured by many foreign markets. In fact, all of the experts we consulted expect the U.S. economy to continue slowly trending upward, as we gain momentum at the end of 2014, and for GDP growth to be around 3% in the New Year. Continue reading »
December 18th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
Former Wake Forest Law adjunct Professor Guy Blynn, a retired Reynolds American executive who was the chairman of the Silk Plant Forest Citizens Review Committee and established the Blynn Holocaust Collection at Forsyth Technical Community College, died Wednesday. He was 69. Continue reading »
