July 12th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
Wake Forest Law Professor John Knox has been appointed as the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment.
July 9th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
A new scaled-back Racial Justice Act will lead to more litigation, not less, supporters of the original law say.
July 9th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
In the coming weeks, months and years ahead there will be scholarly volumes written about yesterday’s landmark Supreme Court opinion. I’ve already read a few and there are many more to come – including this very short and far less scholarly one.
July 9th, 2012 | Student Life | Comments Off
The Wake Forest Law Review will host the symposium, “Privatizing the Public Good: Emerging Trends in K-16 Education,” on Friday, Oct. 26.
June 28th, 2012 | Community | Comments Off
Triad, NC — They’re young. They’ll learn a lesson and change. They didn’t mean it. Those may be excuses parents make for a child’s poor behavior but what if your child takes someone’s life?
June 28th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
Nearly 100 law professors from top universities nationwide, including Wake Forest University, signed a letter advising President Barack Obama that the executive branch has the authority to defer deportation of young immigrants — just weeks before the president announced plans to do so.
June 28th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
The law school congratulates Kami Chavis Simmons, Omari Simmons and Steve Virgil on their promotions to full professor with tenure as of July 1, 2012.
June 26th, 2012 | Alumni | Comments Off
Rhoda Bryan Billings (’66), former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, is the 34th recipient of the Judge John J. Parker Award, presented on Saturday, June 23, at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association in Wilmington.
June 25th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
Wake Forest University Law Professor Michael D. Green and University of Texas Law Professor William C. Powers Jr. have been announced as the 2012 co-winners of the John G. Fleming Memorial Prize for Torts Scholarship. They will jointly deliver the Second Fleming Lecture at Berkeley Law on Monday, Nov. 5.
June 19th, 2012 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Kami Chavis Simmons has recently published an article entitled, “Beginning to End Racial Profiling: Definitive Solutions to an Elusive Problem” in the Fall 2011 edition of the Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice.
