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Professor Ron Wright, Jones Byrd (’02) discuss U.S. Supreme Court weighing DWI case

In most cases, police officers have to get a warrant to search your home, but in North Carolina, they don’t need one to get a sample of your blood if you’re accused of driving while impaired.

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Professor Jennifer Collins weighs in on complicated scenarios of child gun deaths

Two-year-old Brennan Nowell is locked in his loved ones’ minds as the “smiling, blue-eyed angel that absorbed life and loved all around him.” Continue reading »

Dean Blake D. Morant

Dean Blake D. Morant ranks 13th among most influential people in legal education by The National Jurist

The National Jurist has announced that Dean Blake D. Morant ranks 13th among 24 legal educators and one legal education public policy advocate on its 2012 list of the most influential people in legal education.

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Professor Mark Hall quoted in American Medical News article regarding physician groups eye mergers but blindsided by legal fights

Courts are taking up lawsuits that are challenging such consolidations, and doctors need to be aware of their antitrust risks.

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Banks should rediscover the art of caution

Capitalists used to bear the costs of the downside not just those of the upside, writes James Grant.

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Professor Alan Palmiter weighs in on financial rulings of Jed Rakoff

Many people looked at the financial crisis and thought, “How on earth did nobody take the blame for this?” Jed Rakoff had the same thought.

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Professor Gregory Parks’ Huffington Post article addresses gay men in black fraternities

On Sept. 8, 2012, Nathanael Gay married Robert Brown in Lexington, Ky. About a month later, on Oct. 4, 2012, Brown uploaded a video of the wedding to YouTube. Their wedding was only slightly remarkable given our society’s changing attitude with respect to marriage equality. Something about their nuptials was striking, however.

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Professor Margaret Taylor shares best ways to find an immigration law attorney

Following Thursday’s column on how to find an immigration law attorney, Margaret Taylor, a professor at Wake Forest University School of Law who specializes in immigration law, wrote in to provide additional suggestions.

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Professor Michael D. Green delivers Second Fleming Lecture at Berkeley Law

Professor Michael D. Green, 2012 winner of the John G. Fleming Memorial Prize for Torts Scholarship, delivered the Second Fleming Lecture at Berkeley Law with co-winner William Powers, Jr. of the University of Texas on Monday, Nov. 5. Upon acceptance of the prize, both men presented a lecture entitled “Restating Torts”, largely centered around their outstanding co-report on two core portions of the new Restatement (Third) of Torts, “Restatement Third, Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm“, for which, among other accomplishments, they were being honored.

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Dean Blake Morant and Kenneth Imo (’00) named in On Being a Black Lawyer’s second Annual Power 100 List

Dean Blake Morant and law school alumnus Kenneth Imo (’00) are named in the On Being  a Black Lawyer’s second Annual Power 100 List. The list is a comprehensive catalog of the nation’s most influential black attorneys working in government, academics, and both the public and private sectors.

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