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On April 2, students of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) provided commentary to raise awareness and advance discussion about racially motivated crimes and police brutality in the United States. Excerpts from their commentary follow. 

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Professor Tom Molony discusses the growth of the Business Court in North Carolina and the Court’s value to the state’s economic future in this week’s “ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Now.”

North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark D. Martin delivered remarks before competitors at the March 28 competition banquet and presided at the final round of the competition with former NC Supreme Court Chief Justice Rhoda Bryan Billings and NC Court of Appeals Judge John M. Tyson. 

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Professor Scott Gaylord provides analysis of a U.S. Supreme Court case about speech rights and specialty license plates in a March 27 “Constitution Daily” podcast of the National Constitution Center.

In this week's "ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Now," Associate Dean Faith Rivers James provides commentary on the moral, political and procedural dimensions of the advancing federal budget in Congress.

In a News & Observer op-ed, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Professor Catherine Ross Dunham examines California gender bias case Pao v. Kleiner and a recent U.S. Supreme Court case to illustrate the limits of current law in addressing questions of equal treatment and opportunity in the workplace.

In this week’s “ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Now” series, Constitutional Law scholar Scott Gaylord examines legal issues in a case coming before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, March 23, that addresses the ability of states to control messages on specialty license plates.

A celebration on March 10, 2015, in honor of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s birthday raised more than $702,000 to support students, scholarships, athletics, and faculty and staff.

In the U.S. Supreme Court case Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc., ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Professor Scott Gaylord is the author of both the amicus brief on behalf the State of North Carolina and scholarship cited four times in the petitioner’s merits brief in the case.

This week, Wisconsin became the twenty-fifth state to adopt a so-called “right-to-work” law. ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Professor Eric Fink details the legal issues and implications of such laws in this week’s ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Now.