September 5th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
Wake Forest is delighted to announce the appointment as vice provost of Jennifer Collins, who currently serves as associate provost for academic and strategic initiatives. Collins is also a professor of law, joining the law school faculty in 2003, where her areas of focus are criminal law and family law. She continues to teach courses on gender and the law (to both law students and undergraduates) and legal professionalism; her acclaimed classroom gifts have earned her both of the School’s top teaching awards. Continue reading »
August 28th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
Dean Blake D. Morant will present a paper entitled, “Contractual Interpretation in the Commercial Context: The Case for Fairness for the Small Business Industry” at the Transatlantic Perspectives on Commercial Contract Law II Conference at the Edinburgh Law School in Edinburgh, Scotland, beginning Aug. 30, 2013. Continue reading »
August 26th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
Nearly five years after the failure of Lehman Brothers and three years after the passage of Dodd-Frank, the most comprehensive financial services regulatory reform since the Great Depression, a few things are clear. Continue reading »
August 19th, 2013 | General, Research | Comments Off
RALEIGH, N.C. — After passing politically divisive legislation on voting laws and setting in motion new abortion restrictions, North Carolina’s Republican-led General Assembly has given itself the authority to defend them in court Continue reading »
August 6th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
Two months after the murder of Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26-year-old environmental worker trying to prevent egg poaching fromleatherback turtle nests in Costa Rica, authorities made the first arrests on Wednesday in a series of raids in and around Limón, on the Caribbean coast. Continue reading »
July 23rd, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Emily Hammond’s article, Administrative Proxies for Judicial Review: Building Legitimacy from the Inside-Out, which she co-wrote with David Markell and is forthcoming in the Harvard Environmental Law Review, has been identified by Jonathan Weinberg as one of the best works of recent scholarship relating to Administrative Law, in a review published on July 17 in Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots).
July 17th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Professor Tanya Marsh testified in front of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 18, on Capitol Hill regarding “Regulatory Burdens: The Impact of Dodd-Frank on Community Banking.” Continue reading »
July 16th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing on Thursday to discuss the regulatory burdens of The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) on community banks. As I plan to testify at that hearing, community banks provide vital financial services to millions of Americans who may otherwise lack meaningful access to credit. Ensuring that they are regulated appropriately, not regulated out of existence, should be a bi-partisan priority. Continue reading »
July 10th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
WASHINGTON — It appears that the government office designed to make federal rule-making more efficient is one of the most inefficient agencies in Washington. Continue reading »
July 9th, 2013 | Research | Comments Off
RALEIGH — Chaney Stokes, who juggles two part-time jobs, can tell you about the hassles of being uninsured. Continue reading »
