Claiming that the resegregation of Wake County public schools has already begun, the state NAACP has launched a far-reaching legal effort to stop the transformation of North Carolina’s largest school district. Read the full story »

I recently attended in Washington, D. C. an insightful debate, “How to Interpret the Constitution.” I asked each of four panelists to opine on the constitutionality of the individual mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health care beginning 2014. Two thought the mandate constitutional; two did not. Read the full story »

Lawyer and New York Times best-selling author John Grisham visited Wake Forest University on September 14, 2010, as a guest of the law school and the first speaker of the academic year in President Hatch’s Voices of Our Time series. Read the full story »

As a local government official, Debra Conrad said, she can see why Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona fought so hard for a controversial immigration law that is considered the toughest in the country. Read the full story »

Wake Forest law professor and regulation expert Sidney Schapiro on Friday blasted House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) for criticizing plans by the Obama administration to implement 191 rules that would have an economic cost. Read the full story »

Wake Forest University will host a panel, ” Arizona Senate Bill 1070: One State’s Attempt to Curb Illegal Immigration,” on Tuesday, Sept. 21. Read the full story »

There are 2.5 million miles of natural gas pipelines in the United States, enough to circle the Earth one hundred times. Last week’s deadly explosion near San Francisco raises a troubling question: are Americans living with unacceptable risk? Also, the US steps up drone attacks in Pakistan, and the first state visit by a Pope to Great Britain since the early 1500′s. Will he meet with priestly sex-abuse victims? Will he publicly apologize for the worldwide scandal? Read the full story »

Famed lawyer and author John Grisham spoke to a packed house at Wake Forest University Tuesday. Read the full story »

BP’s own report about the April explosion on its Gulf oil rig has rekindled the debate over responsibility. BP names Transocean and Halliburton as additional responsible players in events leading up to the fatal accident. Read the full story »

Please join us in welcoming the following new Fellows, inducted in October of 2010: Read the full story »