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Bridges promoted to assistant dean of administration

January 13, 2014

RALEIGH, N.C. – Campbell Law School Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced that Ulmer Zack “Zeke” Bridges, III, has been promoted to assistant dean of administration effective Jan. 1, 2014. He joined the law school administration as the director of mentorship on Jan. 28, 2013. A 2003 Campbell Law graduate, Bridges brings nearly 10 years of private practice experience into his role at the law school. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at Campbell University’s Lundy-Fetterman [...]

Human rights violations in the international context

January 13, 2014

BY: Sarah Murray, Guest Contributor  Editor’s Note: The Campbell Law Observer has partnered with Judge Paul C. Ridgeway, Resident Superior Court Judge of the 10th Judicial District, to provide students from his International Business Litigation and Arbitration seminar the opportunity to have their research papers published with the CLO.  The following article is one of many guest contributions from Campbell Law students to be published over the next two weeks. A quick search of [...]

Show Me The Money: The increasingly complex laws of collegiate athletics

January 9, 2014

It all started with a football player’s tweet.  In the early morning hours of May 29, 2010, Marvin Austin, then a defensive tackle for the University of North Carolina (UNC) Tar Heels, posted, “I live In club LIV so I get the tenant rate… bottles comin [sic] like its [sic] a giveaway.”  Those seemingly innocuous words, later identified as lyrics from hip-hop artist Rick Ross’s song “Sweet Life,” launched an NCAA investigation into the team and, eventually, the entire [...]

Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst to deliver Campbell Law commencement address

January 8, 2014

RALEIGH, N.C. – Red Hat President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Whitehurst will deliver the commencement address at Campbell Law School’s 36th annual hooding and graduation ceremony on Friday, May 9. The celebration is scheduled for 10 a.m. at Meymandi Concert Hall at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh. Jim Whitehurst “It’s an honor to be asked to deliver the commencement address for Campbell Law School’s 36th annual commencement ceremony,” said [...]

Owning your own content pays off

January 7, 2014

After experiencing the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, photojournalist Daniel Morel posted several photos of the devastation to his Twitter page in hopes of selling them to news agencies and other potential buyers.  Instead, Lisandro Suero, a resident of the Dominican Republic, copied the photos and sold them to Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Getty Images as his own, in violation of Twitter’s copyright policy.  The photos eventually surfaced in news sources such as The Washington Post, leading [...]

Kansas lawsuit aims to remove evolution from science standards

January 2, 2014

A new lawsuit filed by Citizens for Objective Public Education (COPE) aims to remove evolution from the curriculum in Kansas public schools.  COPE’s self described objective is for children to “have the right to be objectively informed about controversial explanations that impact religious beliefs, rather than be indoctrinated to accept a particular explanation.” The lawsuit (pdf) specifically targets freedom of religion rights for both students and parents.  COPE argues that [...]

Supreme Court of North Carolina to hear oral argument in appeal of redistricting cases

January 1, 2014

The current trend in politics is a move away from the center and towards the wings of both major parties.  This growing partisanship is seen at all levels of government and has placed an even greater emphasis on the redistricting process.  Redistricting is now a way for the party in power to consolidate their electoral majority until the next census and is often met by lawsuits from those aligned with the minority party.  Partisan redistricting paired with North Carolina’s checkered past [...]

2013 Editor’s Picks

December 17, 2013

The following is a brief list of some of the most interesting and insightful articles published by the Campbell Law Observer over the past year. We hope you take a moment to read - hopefully not for the first time - these excellent articles by our staff. [...]

Officers of the Legal System: Requirements of a Self-Policing Profession

December 12, 2013

Editor’s Note: The Campbell Law Observer has partnered with the Wake County Bar Association & Tenth Judicial District to occasionally re-publish articles from the Professionalism Committee.  The following article was recently published on the WCBA’s Professionalism Committee blog. I, like many of you, have never really considered myself to be a “policeman,” or perhaps more appropriately, a “law enforcement officer.” For one, law enforcement officers wear holsters on [...]

Campbell Law unveils flexible enrollment option

December 11, 2013

Campbell Law School Dean J. Rich Leonard announced today the establishment of Campbell Flex, a flexible enrollment option beginning with the fall 2014 semester. A premium option of study for area residents looking to pursue alternative career paths, Campbell Flex enables students to earn a Juris Doctor by taking fewer hours each semester than required by the traditional program. Dean J. Rich Leonard “The Triangle is a vibrant area which continues to grow and attract the best and brightest [...]
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