The last Homecoming Concert was hosted three years ago by the Student Union Board in 2022, when Tai Verdes performed.

Rock the Block is a fan-favorite Homecoming event featuring food trucks, a bar, yard games, inflatables and an end-of-night fireworks show. Traditionally hosted on the Friday of Homecoming to kick off the weekend of festivities, we are now bringing a headlining artist to the Rock the Block stage. Plain White T’s is set to perform from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Friday evening.

Rock the Block and the Homecoming Concert are open to all members of the Elon community for free! Registration for Homecoming & Reunion Weekend will open on Sep. 3 for all alumni.

The breakout star rose to fame during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when he went viral on TikTok. Verdes’ viral hits include “A-O-K,” which , and “Stuck in the Middle.” In 2022, Verdes released singles “LAst dAy oN EaRTh,” and “sheluvme.”

“A lot of work has gone into booking Tai and getting the Fall concert details together. We are really excited about Tai coming and thought that he was a really good fit for the university,” said Ben Clift ’25, SUB performance chair.

Tickets are available online until Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 11:59 p.m. via . Tickets for the concert are $10 for Elon students, $20 for Elon faculty and staff, and $25 for the public. �þ��� can also purchase tickets with Phoenix Cash by visiting the Student Involvement Office in Moseley 205 during the week, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. �þ��� must present their Phoenix Card and ticket at the door on the day of the show.

A limited amount of tickets will be available for purchase on the day of the show for $30 plus a $2 processing fee and taxes. Day-of-show tickets can be purchased or at the Schar Center Box office.

The fall concert is a part of several SUB-sponsored events for the semester. �þ��� can learn more about SUB or get involved by visiting or .

For more information about the fall concert, please contact Christina Carr ’24, SUB president, at ccarr10@elon.edu, Ben Clift ’25 at bclift@elon.edu, or call 336-278-7208.

The event will be hosted by the Student Union Board. Unable to host many in-person events as usual during the 2020-21 academic year, the SUB is particularly excited to put on this year’s fall concert.

Vine has been praised by Entertainment Weekly for his “boundary pushing aesthetic” and his music has been described as a blend of laid-back, in-the-cut hip-hop and anthemic choruses. He has performed on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “The Wendy Williams Show,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” “The Kelly Clarkson Show” and “The Late Late Show with James Corden.”

Vine is most well-known for his 2019 hit “Drew Barrymore,” which he performed at sold-out headline tours across the United States.

The fall concert joins an impressive line-up of SUB-sponsored events this semester. For more information, or to get involved, visit or the .

Tickets for the event are $10 for Elon students and $20 for faculty and staff. Tickets will be available for purchase online via  and will be available through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 3. There is a $2.68 processing fee and tax that is added to each ticket purchase. Tickets will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis. Tickets will be electronic and students must present their Phoenix Card as well as their ticket at the door on the day of the show.

There will be a limited number of tickets available for sale on the day of the show. All day of show tickets can be purchased for $30 at or at the Schar Center Box Office. There is a $2.68 processing fee and tax that is added to each ticket purchase.

To members of the media who would like to request press credentials for recording, photographing, reporting on the event, contact the SUB VP of Marketing by email at srogers11@elon.edu. All requests must be submitted by Sept. 24. All requests are subject to final artist and SUB approval.

Any additional questions can be directed to the SUB Performance Team to Grace Clift at gclift@elon.edu and Emily Sanderson at esanderson2@elon.edu.

“Leadership Resolution: A Panel of Experts on Leadership in Law and Beyond”
Moderated by Elon Law Professor Catherine Dunham
Monday, January 14
5:30-6:30 p.m. (a networking reception takes place from 6:30-7 p.m.)
�þ��� School of Law
201 N. Greene Street
Greensboro, NC 27401

Featuring:

• Dave Altman, COO of the Center for Creative Leadership
• Connie Book, President of �þ���
• Kathleen Bradley, Global Senior Advisor at the Center for Creative Leadership
• Marcus Shields, Guilford County District Court Judge, State of North Carolina

The event is sponsored by and , both initiatives of Action Greensboro. �þ��� Greensboro is a nonprofit aimed at attracting and retaining bright talent to meet the needs of Greensboro’s developing economy. SynerG is a networking group for young professionals in Greensboro.

�þ��� Greensboro’s seven colleges and universities are especially welcome.

Williams’ talk will address resistance, resilience and resolve in Prince Edward County, Virginia, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and the quest for civil rights both then and now.

The program is the latest in a series of events focused on �þ���’s 2018-2019 Common Reading selection, , who recounts how her home county closed its public schools for five years rather than intergrate following Brown v. Board.

“Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County” also serves as the Winter Term book selection for Elon Law’s Inclusive Community Book Club.

�þ���’s 2019 MLK Jr. Celebration Planning Committee partnered across campus to promote and provide opportunities for the Elon community to engage with contemporary issues involving civil rights and race. This year’s events carry the theme of “The Hammer on Civil Rights,” taken from a 1964 essay by King that called for all levels of government to revise laws and the legal system to ensure the protection of civil rights promised by the U.S. Constitution.

Tickets go on sale February 7, 2019, and are $15 each of free with an Elon ID by calling �þ���’s Center for the Arts Box Office at (336) 278-5610. 

Distinguished Leadership Lecture featuring Loretta Lynch
Thursday, February 28, 2019
6:30 p.m.
Elon Law Library (201 N. Greene Street in Greensboro)

Loretta Lynch served as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States from 2015-2017, capping a highly distinguished career over the previous three decades.

Appointed to the role by President Barack Obama in 2015, Lynch had twice previously served as the head of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, under both President Bill Clinton and Obama. Described by Obama as “the only lawyer in America who battles mobsters, drug lords and terrorists, and still has the reputation for being a charming ‘people person,” she has been instrumental in shaping the direction of the nation on a number of tough issues.

As the first African-American woman to serve in the role, Lynch improved the relationship between local law enforcement and the communities they serve, and she took bold stances on criminal justice reform. She had spent years rising through the ranks as a prosecutor, fighting terrorism, financial fraud and cybercrime — all while vigorously defending civil and human rights.

While leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, she became known for the high-profile civil rights conviction of two Brooklyn police officers who brutally assaulted Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. In private practice, Lynch served as a volunteer legal advisor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, established to prosecute those responsible for human rights violations in the 1994 genocide in that nation.

A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Lynch is the daughter of a school librarian and fourth generation Baptist minister. She has shared that she was inspired at a young age by stories about her grandfather, a sharecropper in the 1930s, who helped members of his community who had no recourse under the Jim Crow system.

NOTE: Tickets distributed in September will be honored at the program. For students and faculty unable to visit Greensboro, the lecture will be streamed on main campus in Yeager Recital Hall in the Center for the Arts.

Professor Emeritus Alan M. Dershowitz is a Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer,” one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world” and “the top lawyer of last resort.”  

The Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School has argued hundreds of appeals in courts throughout the nation throughout his career and he continues to consult actively on both transnational and domestic criminal and civil liberty cases, devoting half of his practice to pro bono cases and causes.

He has recently been a prominent critic of the ongoing special counsel investigation of the Trump Administration and instead believes the best way to investigate Russian interference in American elections would be a nonpartisan investigative commission similar to one established after the September 11 terror attacks.

Dershowitz has published more than 1,000 articles in magazines, newspapers, journals and blogs. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Huffington Post, Gatestone, Newsmax, Jerusalem Post, Ha’aretz, and Algemeiner.  

Dershowitz is the author of 35 fiction and nonfiction works with a worldwide audience, including the New York Times #1 bestseller “Chutzpah” and several other national bestsellers. His most recent books are “Trumped Up: How Criminalization of Political Differences Endangers Democracy” published in 2017, and “The Case Against BDS: Why Singling Out Israel for Boycott Is Anti-Semitic and Anti-Peace”, published in 2018.

Dershowitz likewise has been named America’s most “public Jewish Defender” and “the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.” The Yale Law School graduate joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 – the youngest in the school’s history – and assumed emeritus status after 50 years of �þ��� more than 10,000 students.

He has received numerous honorary doctoral degrees and academic awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on human rights, a fellowship at The Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences and several Dean’s Awards for his books.

In 1983, the Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith presented him with the William O. Douglas First Amendment Award for his “compassionate eloquent leadership and persistent advocacy in the struggle for civil and human rights.”

In addition, Elon Law students will have an opportunity to participate in a service event organized by the City of Greensboro.

Monday, January 15
City of Greensboro Day of Service
Co-sponsored by the Black Law �þ��� Association and the Pro Bono Board
Four Seasons Town Centre

�þ��� interested in volunteering from approximately 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. should  for organizers to coordinate an appropriate project with the City of Greensboro.

10 a.m. – Noon: No-Sew Scarves
10 a.m. – Noon: Valentines for Seniors
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.: Snack Packs
11 a.m. – Noon: First Aid Kits
11 a.m. – Noon: Suncatchers

Tuesday, January 16
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Keynote Address 
Delivered by Professor and Dean Emeritus George Johnson
“The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness” 
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Room 207

Dean George Johnson’s address will focus on how lawyers used innovative legal strategies during the Civil Rights Movement and how contemporary law students and lawyers can build upon that legacy as we continue to address societal inequality as a nation and a profession.

Wednesday, January 17
“Circle of Hope Dialogue – Contemporary Race Relations”
5:30-7:00 p.m. 
Room 105

Elon Law students working toward restorative justice efforts in the Greensboro community will lead a community dialogue about contemporary race relations. �þ���, faculty and staff are invited to attend and participate in the dialogue to gain deeper understanding of their colleagues’ perspectives.

Friday, October 27
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. 
�þ��� School of Law – Room 207
201 N. Greene Street
Greensboro, NC 27401

For more information, email lawreview@elon.edu.

Join us for a cutting-edge discussion on mediator ethics and standards across all areas and practices of law. Our symposium will provide an update on recent case law and advisory opinions in mediation and arbitration. It also will offer insights into the way clients make decisions and how a greater understanding of that process can be beneficial to attorneys.

The symposium counts toward 3.75 hours of CLE credit and 1 credit hour of CME credit at no cost to attendees. Lunch will be provided.

RSVP Required. Register Here.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

8:30: Registration
9:20: Welcome & Introduction by Elon Law Dean Luke Bierman
9:30: Panel: “A Need to Update the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators”
10:45: Break 
11:00: Panel: “Case Update on Mediation, Arbitration, Developments in ADR, and Collaborative Law“
12:30: Lunch and Keynote Address by Professor Kristen Blankley at Nebraska College of Law and co-chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Subcommittee on Ethics 
2:15: Presentation: “Psychological Aspects of Decision Making in Negotiation & Mediation“
3:30: Closing Remarks

Program subject to change.

SPEAKERS

Debra Berman
– Assistant Professor of Clinical Studies & Director of the Frank Evans Center for Conflict Resolution (South Texas College of Law – Houston)

Kristen Blankley
– Associate Profess of Law (Nebraska College of Law)
– Co-Chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Subcommittee on Ethics

Ramona Buck
– Commissioner – Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)
– Chair of the Federal government’s Interagency ADR Working Group (IADRWG) 

Susan Exon
– Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Development (University of La Verne College of Law)
– Member of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, Ethics Guidance Committee
– Member of the Civil Procedure Panel for the Legal Education, ADR, and Practical Problem-Solving Project
– Former co-chair of the Ethics Committee (2013)

Samuel Jackson
– Adjunct Professor (UNC School of Law) 
– Co-chair of the Committee on Mediator Ethical Guidance for the Dispute Resolution Section of the ABA 

Diane Pappayliou
– Attorney with Rountree Losee, LLP (Wilmington, N.C.)
– Elon Law Class of 2016, Editor in Chief of the Elon Law Review

John Sarratt
– Harris Sarratt & Hodges, LLP (Raleigh, N.C.)
– Adjunct Professor (Wake Forest School of Law)
– Served on the Board of Governors of the N.C. Bar Association, N.C. General Statutes Commission, and Chief Justices Commission on Professionalism

Nancy Welsh
– Professor of Law and Director of the Dispute Resolution Program (Texas A&M University School of Law)
– Chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution (2016-2017)

Supreme Court of North Carolina Chief Justice Mark Martin will deliver Elon Law’s Commencement address in December as the university graduates its first class enrolled in a 2.5-year program defined by an emphasis on experiential learning and practical training.

Commencement takes place Saturday, Dec. 16, at 11 a.m. inside �þ���’s Alumni Gym.

Martin, the state’s 28th chief justice and the only active jurist on the North Carolina Supreme Court whose legal career includes service on the state’s Court of Appeals and Superior Court, has authored hundreds of appellate decisions and participated in thousands of fully briefed and argued cases during his two decades on the appellate courts.

His distinguished career has focused on making improvements to the rule of law and the administration of justice, themes that have been emphasized to the first class enrolled in Elon Law’s new curriculum.

“The Class of December 2017 leaves a pioneering legacy as the first Elon Law students to complete an innovative curriculum designed to prepare them for the practice of law today,” said Elon Law Dean Luke Bierman. “It is only fitting that Chief Justice Martin address the class with insights gleaned from his own journey as a North Carolina legal pioneer.

“Chief Justice Martin is a tireless advocate for improving both the quality of our courts, and the ability for people of all backgrounds to access legal services. I can think of no better legal leader to conclude our students’ education than with parting wisdom from such a distinguished jurist and friend of Elon Law.”

When Martin was elected and installed to fill an open seat on the Supreme Court in 1998 at the age 35, he became the youngest Supreme Court justice in North Carolina history. He previously served on the Court of Appeals beginning in 1994, and as Resident Superior Court Judge in Greenville from 1992 to 1994.

Prior to his judicial service, Martin served as legal counsel to Gov. James G. Martin (no relation) and practiced law at the McNair Law Firm in Raleigh. He also clerked for U.S. District Judge Clyde H. Hamilton.

Highly respected by the legal profession, Martin has served in a number of leadership roles within the North Carolina Bar Association, including as its vice president, and as a member of its Litigation Section Council, Judicial Independence Committee and Strategic Planning and Emerging Trends Committee.

Most recently, he convened the North Carolina Commission on the Administration of Law and Justice, which conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the state’s judicial system before making recommendations for strengthening the courts within the existing administrative framework.

Martin currently serves on the Conference of Chief Justices’ Board of Directors and as chair of the Professionalism and Confidence of the Bar Committee. He has previously served as chair of the ABA Judicial Division, the ABA Appellate Judges Conference, and the Appellate Judges Education Institute. In November 2011, Martin was inducted into the Warren E. Burger Society of the National Center for State Courts.

Martin’s longtime commitment to strengthening the court system and the legal profession earned him Elon Law’s 2014 Leadership in the Law Award, the school’s highest professional honor.

Martin graduated Summa Cum Laude from Western Carolina University and received his Juris Doctor with honors at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law. He later attended the University of Virginia where he earned a Master of Laws in Judicial Process. Martin is married to Kym Lake Martin, executive director of the N.C. Center for Safer Schools, and is the proud father of five children.

About Elon Law:

�þ��� School of Law in Greensboro, North Carolina, is the preeminent school for engaged and experiential learning in law. It integrates traditional classroom instruction with highly experiential full-time residencies-in-practice in a logically sequenced program of transformational professional preparation. Elon Law’s groundbreaking approach is accomplished in 2.5 years, which provides distinctive value by lowering tuition and permitting graduates early entry into their professional careers.

For more information, visit law.elon.edu.