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ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law professor Scott Gaylord reviewed the status of judicial selection procedures in North Carolina in a presentation before the North Carolina Bar Association's (NCBA) Judicial Independence Committee on October 4.

At the 10th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, hosted by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the UC Berkeley School of Law on August 12 and 13, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law professor David Levine argued against a provision of the Patent Reform Act of 2010 on grounds that it would unjustifiably amplify the power of trade secrecy.

In an interview on WUNC radio's The State of Things, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law professor Andy Haile reviewed pending court cases and precedent setting U.S. Supreme Court decisions impacting the ability of states to tax retail purchases made over the internet.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law professor and senior scholar Steven I. Friedland has been elected to The American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.

Through an October 28 letter to President Obama, more then 70 law professors have urged the Obama administration to halt its public endorsement of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), citing a lack of transparency and public input in deliberations shaping the international intellectual property agreement.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law professor Scott Gaylord's article, "The North Carolina Supreme Court in 2010: Is it Time for Reform" has been published by The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.