November 11th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
Wake Forest Law will host Professor Kami Chavis Simmons, Director of the Criminal Justice Program, as part of its “Conversation With” series at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 19, in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312. Continue reading »
November 10th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
An article in Wake Forest Law Review was cited addressing the legal obligations of companies that take on the legal status of “benefit corporations,” such as the company Plum Organics that was recently acquired by Campbell Soup. Continue reading »
November 7th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A panel, including Wake Forest Law Professor Harold Lloyd, will discuss the roles and responsibilities of in-house counsel when a company goes through a corporate crisis, such as the one faced by General Motors earlier this year, beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13, at the O’Henry Hotel.
October 31st, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Tanya Marsh shares her thoughts in a new article, “Ebola, Embalming, and The Dead: Controlling The Spread of Infectious Diseases,”published by the Wake Forest Law Review on Oct. 31, 2014. Continue reading »
October 30th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
The United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and the environment, John Knox, will undertake an official visit to France from 20 – 24 October 2014, to assess how the country is implementing human rights relating to environmental protection and to identify good practices.
“France is at the forefront at linking human rights with environmental protection,” the expert said, praising it for being the first country to devote an entire constitutional declaration to the right to the environment.
The French Environment Charter raises sustainable development to the highest level in France’s legal structure, alongside the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and the preamble to the 1946 Constitution.
“However,” Mr. Knox stressed, “it is important to assess the lessons learned and challenges faced in the country with regard to realisation of such environmental rights, as well as how it is addressing global environmental challenges with human rights impacts, such as climate change.”
During his five-day visit, at the invitation of the Government, the UN Independent Expert will meet Government officials and experts, as well as representatives of civil society.
Mr. Knox will present his preliminary observations on the visit at a press conference on the last day of the mission, Friday 24 October at 11:00, at Salle René Cassin, Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme (CNCDH), 35 rue saint Dominique, 75007 Paris.
Read the story on The Asia Digest.
October 30th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
Imagine this scenario. One day, the foreign minister of a distant and developing country finds you, a young faculty member, in your law school office and asks for your help in writing a new constitution for his struggling nation. As a law professor, what do you tell the foreign minister? What tools would you use to write this new constitution? Where do you begin? Continue reading »
October 30th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
Toxic tort experts are in dispute over the proper employment of the Supreme Court’s Daubert ruling in regards to determining the sufficiency of evidence of causation and when it’s appropriate to address admissibility in asbestos cases. Continue reading »
October 28th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
Since 1970, the Institute of Medicine has recognized and tapped into the collective knowledge of a broad range of health care experts, and has now added another Triad expert to its number. Continue reading »
October 27th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Alan Palmiter is quoted in an Oct. 26, 2014, New York Times article on Valeant Pharmaceuticals ‘ partnering with a hedge fund to buy out Allergan, the maker of Botox.
October 27th, 2014 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Andrew Verstein is quoted in a new book released September 2014 entitled, “Open Secret: The Global Banking Conspiracy That Swindled Investors Out of Billions.”
