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Nine ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law students, accompanied by Professor Antonette Barilla, visited the Belgian and French embassies in Washington D.C. in July, participating by invitation in private question and answer sessions that explored topics of international law and policy with diplomats from both consulates. 

In this week’s ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Now faculty commentary series, Professor of Law and Senior Scholar Steven Friedland examines the significance of the U.S Supreme Court’s reasoning in its historic Affordable Care Act decision in King v. Burwell. 

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Professor Michael Rich has been named Jennings Professor of Law in recognition of his teaching and scholarship. 

The Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic helped families who visited the university when the Consulate General of Mexico opened mobile offices on ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s main campus this week as part of its public outreach efforts.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Professor David S. Levine, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, has been reappointed to the position of Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy for 2015-16.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Professor Scott Gaylord says today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to vacate a lower court decision that had prohibited North Carolina’s “Choose Life” license plate marks an important victory for government speech.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Professor Michael Rich details questions of law and policy raised by the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Professor Enrique Armijo says U.S. Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling means “the right to marry the person you love can no longer be made to wait for the time it takes for the voters to debate and approve.”

Scholarship by ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Professor Scott Gaylord recently published in the South Carolina Law Review addresses a federal circuit court split over the authority of states to require doctors to communicate specific information to patients prior to an abortion.

In a new American Bar Association task force report, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law Dean Luke Bierman calls on the legal profession to “preserve values core to our role in society as the shepherds of the rule of law while concomitantly adapting to a new era.”