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Faculty members in the ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ School of Law co-authored an article for the Winter 2008 edition of The North Carolina State Bar Journal. In “Back to the Future: Creating a 21st Century Legal Education at Elon Law School,” Catherine Ross Dunham, Steve Friedland and George Johnson share ideas for instructing future lawyers in the Internet era.

Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, N.J., and a Yale Law alum and Rhodes Scholar, will deliver the Joseph M. Bryan Distinguished Leadership Lecture at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3. The event will be at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Greensboro.

Associate professor of law Faith Rivers James led a Dec. 9 workshop presentation at the South Carolina Nonprofit Legal Symposium, sponsored by the South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organizations for its 800-plus members.

Marty Peters, a professor of legal education at the ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ School of Law, made a series of presentations in October at the American Bar Association’s “Bar Passage Conference: Outcome Measures and Student Achievement,” a national conference on bar pass issues.

The ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ School of Law Advisory Board held its fall meeting Dec. 3-4, providing input on a variety of key issues.

Faith Rivers, an associate professor of law, a made a Dec. 1 presentation to the Partition Sales Study Committee of the North Carolina General Assembly. Rivers was invited to discuss the key concepts in her recent article "Inequity in Equity: The Tragedy of Tenancy in Common for Heirs' Property Owners Facing Partition in Equity."

Margaret Robison Kantlehner, an associate professor of law, has had an article published in the ABA Preview of United States Supreme Court cases about the pending Supreme Court Case, Carcieri et al. v. Kempthorne et al., which deals with whether the Indian Reorganization Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust on behalf of an Indian tribe that was neither federally recognized nor under federal jurisdiction at the time of the statute’s enactment in 1934.

A $2 million gift commitment from the Dalton L. McMichael Sr. Foundation will provide the largest scholarship endowment at the ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ School of Law. The endowment will fund three full-tuition scholarships annually, with the first to be awarded to a member of the 2009 entering class who is chosen as a McMichael Law and Leadership Fellow.

Will the death penalty in the United States be halted any time soon? Not likely. But the director of the national Death Penalty Information Center believes the frequency of executions will diminish in the coming years, in part because of budgetary issues. That and other topics were discussed Nov. 21, 2008, at the Elon Law Review Death Penalty Symposium in Greensboro.

Oxford University Press will publish next month Contracts for the Sale of Goods, a new book by visiting professor of law Henry Gabriel. It is the latest achievement for Gabriel in an autumn filled with presentations and conferences around the globe.