October 3rd, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Kami Chavis, director of the law school’s Criminal Justice Program and associate dean for research and public engagement, was quoted throughout the following Tulsa World story, “Blacks in Tulsa more likely than whites to be subject to police use of force,” published by Corey Jones and Curtis Killman on Oct. 3, 2016.
October 3rd, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Tanya Marsh, advocate and scholar of funeral and cemetery law, was quoted in the following Boston Globe story, “When a final resting place isn’t so final,” published by Lisa Wangsness on Oct. 3, 2016. Professor Marsh discusses Massachusetts statutes as they relate to the sale and displacement of burial grounds and cremated remains.
September 30th, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
North Carolina has endured a frenzy of political disarray over the past year, from House Bill 2 backlash to the recent protests in Charlotte over the death of Keith Lamont Scott. During this turbulent time, Professor Shannon Gilreath (JD ’02) has provided expert guidance, opinions and more to media sources, all while publishing a textbook for undergraduate political science students.
“When you do the sort of work I do, you’re almost always responding to some emergency,” Professor Gilreath says. “House Bill 2 was just another emergency that needed a response, and I think in many ways, the response of the mainstream gay groups and of the Department of Justice has been the wrong response. I felt my role was to try to clarify the question we should be asking before formulating the response.”
September 29th, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Kami Chavis, director of the law school’s Criminal Justice Program and associate dean for research and public engagement, is quoted in the following article, “Seeking Alternatives to the Deadly Use of Force,” published on American Constitution Society’s blog on Sept. 27, 2016.
September 26th, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Kami Chavis, Director of the Criminal Justice Program, was quoted in the following Wall Street Journal article, “Police Videos Fail to Quiet Protests in Charlotte,” published by Valerie Bauerlein on Sept. 25, 2016.
September 26th, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Harold Lloyd published the following article, “Beyond Words Alone: Poets as Artists of the Intentional,” on The Huffington Post Blog on Sept. 25, 2016.
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September 20th, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Andrew Verstein published his paper, “Enterprise without Entities” on Oxford Business Law Blog on Sept. 20, 2016. The abstract follows.
Professor Verstein teaches Business Associations, Contracts, Corporate Finance and Securities Litigation. His recent research, featured in the Virginia Law Review, focuses on insider trading in commodities markets. He has also written and spoken widely on crowd funding and person to person lending, market manipulation and nature of financial benchmarks and indices such as Libor.
September 20th, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
Professor John Knox, a United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, was quoted in the New York Time article, “Examining the U.N.’s Record on Urgent Global Challenges,” published by Somini Sengupta on Sept. 19, 2016.
September 16th, 2016 | Alumni | Comments Off
John I. Sanders (JD ’16), formerly a member of Wake Forest Law Review and the president and treasurer of the Wake Intellectual Property Student Association (WIPSA), authored the following post, “Insider Trading: A Danger for New Lawyers,” published on the Huffington Post blog on Sept. 16, 2016.
August 22nd, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Harold Lloyd told the Charlotte Observer in the following story, “Courts are roadblocks to NC lawmakers’ right turn,” written by Anne Blythe and published on Saturday, Aug. 20, the courts are “beginning to shine the light of day on this developing agenda where the legislators appear not to have meaningful public debate on issues.”
