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The UNC School of Law traces its start to William Horn Battle, the university's professor of law by 1845, when it began offering the bachelor of law degree. In June 1951, after a federal lawsuit by Black law students, its summer session enrolled the first African American students at the university.

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Books, articles, records, and images about UNC School of Law. Each has been reviewed for relevance; materials held at OCPL appear first.

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Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, April 5, 1991: interview L-0064-7, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Seventh of nine Southern Oral History Program interviews with Daniel H. Pollitt, a professor at the UNC School of Law. Recorded April 5, 1991, by Ann McColl, this session of just under an hour is devoted to the Speaker Ban Law, the 1963 act of the General Assembly that barred Communists and certain other speakers from state campuses, and to the fight over it at Chapel Hill in the mid-1960s, in which Pollitt took part. Published online in 2008 in Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, December 13, 1990: interview L-0064-3, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Third session of the nine-part Pollitt series, recorded December 13, 1990, by Ann McColl, an hour and a quarter long. Daniel H. Pollitt, who joined the UNC law faculty in 1957, picks up the portrait of his colleagues begun in the previous interview: who they were, what they did in the classroom and beyond it, and how the school changed as Black students and women entered it. Published online in 2008 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, February 15, 1991: interview L-0064-4, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Race, sports and student protest at UNC are the subjects of this fourth interview with law professor Daniel H. Pollitt, recorded February 15, 1991, by Ann McColl for the Southern Oral History Program. Pollitt discusses the integration of Carolina athletics, including basketball player Charlie Scott, the university's first Black scholarship athlete, the discrimination Black athletes met, student activism from the late 1950s through the 1960s, and the Campus Y. Published online in 2008 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with Daniel H. Pollitt, November 28, 1990: interview L-0064-2, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Pollitt, Daniel H. · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Second interview in the Pollitt series, recorded November 28, 1990, by Ann McColl, and the shortest at about 35 minutes. Daniel H. Pollitt explains how he came to join the UNC law faculty in 1957. Before that he had declined a loyalty oath demanded by another university, and the interview covers that episode and his move to Chapel Hill. Published online in 2008 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library as part of the Southern Oral History Program collection in Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with Harvey E. Beech, September 25, 1996 interview J-0075, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Beech, Harvey E. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Harvey E. Beech (born 1923), one of the first African American students at the UNC School of Law, interviewed by Anita Foye on September 25, 1996 for the Southern Oral History Program. He describes growing up in Kinston, youngest of five children of a barber who never learned to read but built a chain of shops that put his children through college, then his legal education at Chapel Hill and career as a lawyer and civil rights advocate. One hour thirty-four minutes. Electronic edition 2007.

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Oral history interview with Kathrine Robinson Everett, April 30, 1985 interview C-0005, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Everett, Kathrine R. · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Kathrine Robinson Everett (1893-1992), a Fayetteville native who in 1920 was among the first women graduates of the UNC law school, interviewed by Pamela Dean on April 30, 1985 for the Southern Oral History Program. She talks about her family, her schooling at Columbia and Chapel Hill, and a long life in law and politics including women's suffrage, voter registration and women officeholders in North Carolina. About an hour. Electronic edition 2006.

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An Historical Study of the Administrative Actions in the Racial Desegregation of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1930-1955

Cheek, Neal · 1973

Neal Cheek's 1973 study of how the administration of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill handled racial desegregation between 1930 and 1955, the years leading up to and through the admission of the first Black students. It also treats the law school at North Carolina College at Durham, which the state opened as a separate law school for Black students. 227 leaves with a bibliographic essay.

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Dedication, Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, School of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, May first through third, nineteen hundred sixty-nine : program.

1969 · School of Law, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The program for the dedication of Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, the building that became home to the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, over three days at the start of May 1969. Six unnumbered pages with portraits, printed by the law school, 22 by 28 cm.

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Commencement address, June 3, 1968

Coates, Albert, 1896-1989 · 1968 · School of Law, University of North Carolina

Albert Coates addressed the law graduates of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on June 3, 1968. The School of Law printed the speech as a special issue of the Tar Heel Barrister, twenty four pages with a portrait. Coates, who founded the Institute of Government at the university, was himself a member of the law faculty.

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Special issue dedicated to Henry Brandis, dean of the law school 1949-1964 : fifteen years of law school deaning, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Coates, Albert, 1896-1989 · 1964

Albert Coates gathered this tribute to Henry Brandis for his fifteen years as dean of the law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from 1949 to 1964. Published in 1964 as a special issue.

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William B. Aycock : : In memoriam, a digital library

Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Memorial collection assembled by the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for William B. Aycock, 1915 to 2015, who taught in the School of Law and served as chancellor. Issued as an online resource.

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The Integration of Negroes into the Law School at the University of North Carolina

Vaughan, James Herbert, Jr. · 1952

James Herbert Vaughan Jr.'s 1952 account of the admission of the first Black students to the law school of the University of North Carolina, which followed a federal court order in 1951. The title uses the period term of its day.

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Anne Klinefelter

Klinefelter, Anne · 2012

A recorded interview with Anne Klinefelter, director of the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library and a law teacher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, taped on September 17, 2012 and issued by William S. Hein and Company as streaming video. Twenty seven minutes of sound and color, an oral history.

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A task of legal education in North Carolina

Coates, Albert · 1930 · s.n.

Albert Coates on what legal education in North Carolina ought to do, printed in 1930 in fifty seven pages. The preface traces the argument to an address Coates gave to the Law School Association of the University of North Carolina in May 1928 and to reports he made to the university law faculty the following year.

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Carol Avery Nicholson

Nicholson, Carol Avery · 2012 · William S. Hein & Co.

Recorded interview with Carol Avery Nicholson, a law librarian at the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library of the UNC School of Law, taped on September 17, 2012. The video runs 28 minutes and 28 seconds in sound and color, issued by William S. Hein and Company of Buffalo among its oral histories of law librarians.

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Laura N. Gasaway

Gasaway, Laura N. · 2012 · William S. Hein & Co.

Laura N. Gasaway, law teacher and director of the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina, speaks in this oral history recorded on September 17, 2012. Thirty one minutes and forty one seconds of video in sound and color, published by William S. Hein and Company of Buffalo. Topics include North Carolina law librarians, law teachers and library directors.

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A Century of legal education

Wettach, Robert Hasley · 1947 · University of North Carolina Press

Robert Hasley Wettach's history of the University of North Carolina School of Law over its first century, published in 1947 by the University of North Carolina Press. The text first ran in June 1946 in the North Carolina Law Review, filling its centennial issue (volume 24, number 4). 146 pages, illustrated.

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The integration of UNC-Chapel Hill: Law School first

Nixon, Donna (Donna L.) · 2019 · North Carolina Law Review Association

Donna Nixon's article on the desegregation of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which began at the School of Law. Subjects include Harvey E. Beech, James L. Lassiter, J. Kenneth Lee, Floyd B. McKissick and James R. Walker Jr. Published in 2019 at Chapel Hill by the North Carolina Law Review Association and shelved with the law collection.

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UNC School of Law : reflections on a strong foundation

1999 · Horizon Video Productions

A video produced by Horizon Video Productions of Durham for the dedication of the addition to the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on October 20, 1999. It looks back over the school's history. A second version runs eighteen minutes and forty four seconds without the dean's closing remarks.

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University of North Carolina School of Law dedication ceremony : remarks

O'Connor, Sandra Day, 1930-2023 · 1999 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Law

Remarks by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at the dedication of the law school addition in Chapel Hill on October 22, 1999, printed in five pages by the University of North Carolina School of Law. Her subjects were lawyers, legal ethics and legal etiquette. Programs for the Van Hecke-Wettach Hall addition and for the law library's five hundred thousandth volume are laid in.

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A preliminary analysis into the relationship between law school admissions test scores and career development subsequent to law school graduation

Kumar, Nisha · 1998

Nisha Kumar's 1998 paper on whether law school admissions test scores relate to the careers graduates go on to have. It deals with the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and with affirmative action programs there. Described as preliminary in its own title, with a bibliography on leaves 59 to 61.

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The University of North Carolina School of Law : a sesquicentennial history, [1845-1995].

1995

A history of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina marking its first 150 years, 1845 to 1995. The North Carolina Law Review appears at the head of the title, so the history was carried by the school's own law journal. Topics include the history of the law school under both of the names the catalog uses for the university.

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Stress and its effect on interpersonal relationships of medical and law students

Clark, Elizabeth J. · 1980

A 1980 study by Elizabeth J. Clark of stress among students in the School of Medicine and the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and of how that stress bore on their relationships with other people. It concerns work on law students and medical students in North Carolina. A bibliography runs on leaves 49 to 55.

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Report on School of Law, University of North Carolina.

American Bar Association. Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar · 1972

Inspection report on the School of Law at the University of North Carolina, prepared by the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association and issued from Chicago in 1972. A note records that it rests on a visit of April 26, 27 and 28, 1972 by a joint team from the association and the Association of American Law Schools.

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Remarks for the law school graduating ceremony at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill : on Monday afternoon the 3rd of June 1968

Coates, Albert, 1896-1989 · 1968

Remarks Albert Coates (1896-1989) prepared for the law school graduating ceremony at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on the afternoon of Monday 3 June 1968, eleven leaves. Topics include baccalaureate addresses in the School of Law and the commencement of 1968. It sits in UNC's North Carolina Collection.

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The story of the Law School at the University of North Carolina

Coates, Albert, 1896-1989 · 1968

A 1968 account of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina by Albert Coates, founder of the Institute of Government. Topics include law as a subject of study and teaching in North Carolina and the history of the Chapel Hill law school, so the narrative runs to legal education in the state as well as to the school itself.

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William B. Aycock albums, 1963-1964; 1986.

Aycock, William B. (William Brantley), 1915-2015 · 1963

Two albums kept by William B. Aycock (1915-2015), chancellor and law teacher at Chapel Hill, dated 1963 to 1964 and 1986, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3287.14.15. The albums concern college administrators and law teachers in North Carolina in the twentieth century, with the School of Law faculty named.

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Law students and politics : the rising elite

Agger, Robert E.; Goldstein, Marshall N. · 1957

Robert E. Agger and Marshall N. Goldstein produced this 1957 typescript, 'Law students and politics: the rising elite', a study of the attitudes and political activity of students at the University of North Carolina School of Law. It survives as a typescript with a duplicate negative on microfilm at Chapel Hill.

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William P. Murphy papers, 1951-2005

Murphy, William P. (William Patrick), 1919-2007 · 1951

Papers of the law professor William Patrick Murphy (1919-2007), 1951 to 2005, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 05797. Subjects include academic freedom, the political aspects of higher education and dispute resolution in law, with material on both the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Mississippi.

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J. Kenneth Lee papers, 1949-1994

Lee, J. Kenneth (John Kenneth), 1923-2018 · 1949

J. Kenneth Lee (1923 to 2018), a Black lawyer in North Carolina, left papers covering 1949 to 1994, collection 4782 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The papers concern his legal career alongside the integration of higher education in the state, civil rights work for African Americans, and the study of law at Chapel Hill, where Harvey E. Beech is named with him.

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Manning Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill

Morton, Hugh M. · 1946

Manning Hall at UNC in Chapel Hill around 1946, when the building housed the law school. A cropped print appeared in the December 1946 Alumni Review. Black-and-white sheet film negative by Hugh Morton.

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William B. Aycock papers 1942-2006.

Aycock, William B. (William Brantley), 1915-2015 · 1942

Personal papers of William B. Aycock (1915-2015), who taught in the law school and served as chancellor at Chapel Hill, covering 1942 to 2006 in about 2,400 items and 6 linear feet. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5328. Topics include academic freedom and the North Carolina Speaker Ban Law, Army service in the Second World War, basketball under Dean Smith, and photographs.

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Manning Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Wootten, Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959 · 1939 · Gray & Thompson Advertising, Chapel Hill, N.C

Manning Hall on the Chapel Hill campus, photographed by Bayard Wootten for a natural-finish postcard made by Gray and Thompson of Chapel Hill in 1939. The sender's note on the back tells of arriving safely, a family dinner, a rainy departure from Hillsville and broken glasses.

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University of N.C. early Law School, Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina

Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952 · 1938

The early Law School building of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as Frances Benjamin Johnston photographed it in 1938 for the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South. One 8 by 10 inch safety film negative.

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Daniel H. Pollitt papers, 1935-2009.

Pollitt, Daniel H. · 1935

Daniel H. Pollitt taught in the School of Law at Chapel Hill, and his papers, 1935 to 2009, come to roughly 33,500 items in 55.5 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5498. Labor and civil liberties are major subjects, with material on the American Association of University Professors, the ACLU and its North Carolina affiliate, the National Labor Relations Board, the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the Speaker Ban Law, and the National Sharecroppers Fund.

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Harry E. Groves papers, 1929-1999.

Groves, Harry E. · 1929

Harry E. Groves taught in the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his papers covering 1929 to 1999 form collection 4975 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The papers also concern North Carolina Central University, affirmative action programs, and the Second World War.

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Manning Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Graycraft Card Co. (Danville, Va.) · 1915 · Danville, Va.: Graycraft Card Co

Postcard view of Manning Hall at the University of North Carolina, printed in black and white by the Graycraft Card Co. The hall, built in 1923 on the north quad facing out from South Building, was home to the School of Law until 1968. Undated, from the Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection.

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Margaret Berry Street papers, 1910-1930

Street, Margaret Berry, 1892-1967 · 1910

The papers of Margaret Berry Street, 1892 to 1967, cover 1910 to 1930. Topics include her from the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College in Greensboro, and its Adelphian Literary Society, Chapel Hill, where they note women students at the University of North Carolina and at its School of Law, along with drama and social life. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5537-z.

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Robert and Alpha Wettach papers, 1892-2001

Wettach, Robert Halsey; Wettach, Alpha · 1892

Robert Halsey Wettach and Alpha Wettach left papers spanning 1892 to 2001. The papers concern the School of Law at the University of North Carolina, the United States Navy, and kindergarten in Chapel Hill. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5711.

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Albert Coates and Gladys Hall Coates papers, 1841-2001

1841

Joint papers of Albert Coates (1896-1989) and Gladys Hall Coates, 1841 to 2001, about 51,600 items in 73.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3818. The papers cover the law school and the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, student government, local government and community organization in North Carolina, the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, scouting, and the photographer Bayard Morgan Wootten.

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Judge James Dickson Phillips, Jr. : A digital collection / by the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library.

Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

An online collection assembled by the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on James Dickson Phillips, Jr., 1922 to 2017, who taught at the university's law school before serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Topics include judges and law teachers in North Carolina.

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Law School (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)

Newspaper clippings on the UNC School of Law, in an undated folder from box 36 of the UNC series in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Vertical File Collection (CHHS.001).

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Law school first : The African Americans who integrated UNC-Chapel Hill.

Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A history produced by the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the African American students who first integrated the campus through its School of Law. Harvey E. Beech, J. Kenneth Lee and Floyd B. McKissick are among the people discussed, and the account sits within twentieth century civil rights and race relations in North Carolina.

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Alumni directory

1954

The University of North Carolina alumni directory of 1954, covering alumni from 1795 through 1953: xxi and 1,016 pages printed by Seeman Printery. It carries alphabetical and geographical listings, a list of deceased alumni and a list of life members of the alumni association.

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Handbook

Kathrine R. Everett Law Library · 1994

The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill set out its collections and services in this handbook for the fall of 1994. An unpaged volume of 22 cm. Topics include law libraries in Chapel Hill and the Everett library in particular, and the text served students and faculty of the law school.

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Greetings to first year law students at the beginning of the academic year 1983

Coates, Albert · 1983 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Albert Coates's address of welcome to the entering class at the University of North Carolina School of Law, printed in 1983 as a 16-page pamphlet; a 1976 version also exists. It includes a letter from Thomas Wolfe, the novelist and Coates's friend from their Chapel Hill student days.

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UNC Law: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Law, information and application, 1991-1992

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1991 · The School

Information and application booklet for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law for the 1991 to 1992 admissions year, issued by the school in 1991. Forty pages with illustrations and maps. A prospectus useful for the school's history in the early 1990s.

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Annual handbook

Law Wives Association (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 1981 · Law Wives Association

Annual handbooks of the Law Wives Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from 1981. The volumes carry the association's by-laws together with a directory of members, naming the women attached to the law school community in a given year. They measure 22 centimeters.

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University Law School! : Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Manning, John, 1830-1899 · 1874

John Manning's 1874 statement of his plan of studies for the School of Law at the University of North Carolina, issued after the Board of Trustees elected him Professor of Law. For prospective students at Chapel Hill, he sets out the courses, the textbooks and the cost of attendance.

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Kathrine R. Everett Law Library · Internet Archive

Archived captures of the website of the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, the law library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, preserved by the Internet Archive.

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Carolina law : the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law ... record.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 2000 · UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law and the offices of Publications Services and Design Services

The annual record of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued from 2000 by the law school with the university's Publications Services and Design Services offices. Part course catalog and part report, the volumes set out the curriculum and carry illustrations, a map and portraits. 28 cm.

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Dean's report.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 2000 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Law

The later run of the law school dean's report at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including a 2000 issue and a title that varies slightly from year to year. Published by the School of Law at Chapel Hill in volumes measuring 28 by 22 centimeters.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1990-1991]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1990 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

October 1990 issue, number 1041 of the university's Record series, describing the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law and its curriculum for 1990 to 1991.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1989-1990]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1989 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bulletin of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law for 1989 to 1990, issued in August 1989 as number 1032 of the university's Record series. It covers the law school's curriculum in Chapel Hill.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1988-1989]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1988 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Record series catalog, number 1021, for the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for the 1988 to 1989 academic year. Published in August 1988, it gives the curricula and course offerings.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1987-1988]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1987 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Law bulletin at UNC-Chapel Hill for 1987 to 1988, published in August 1987 as number 1007 in the university's Record series, with the law school curriculum.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1986-1987]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1986 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Course catalog for the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for the 1986 to 1987 academic year, issued in August 1986 as number 992 of the University's Record series. It sets out curricula and course offerings.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1985]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1985 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Law catalog of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from August 1985, published as volume 978 of the university's Record and setting out the law curriculum.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1984]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1984 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Law school catalog of August 1984 for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, volume 962 in the university's Record series, setting out the School of Law curriculum and courses.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1983]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1983 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In August 1983 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill issued its catalog for the School of Law as volume 948 of its Record series. It describes the curricula and courses.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1982]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1982 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In August 1982 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill issued its catalog for the School of Law as volume 932 of its Record series. It describes the curricula and courses.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1981]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1981 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The School of Law at Chapel Hill issued this catalog in May 1981 as volume 917 of the University of North Carolina Record. It covers the law curriculum and courses. From the North Carolina Yearbooks collection.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1980]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1980 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Law catalog from Chapel Hill, May 1980, published as volume 901 of the University of North Carolina's Record series and describing the law curriculum and courses. From the North Carolina Yearbooks collection.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1979]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1979 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Law school bulletin of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 1979, dated May 1979 and issued as volume 885 of the university's Record series. It covers the School of Law's curriculum.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1978]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1978 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Law bulletin from UNC-Chapel Hill for 1978, dated May 1978. Published as volume 869 of the university's Record series, it describes the law school's curriculum.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1977]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1977 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Law bulletin at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 1977, dated May 1977. Volume 853 of the university's Record series, it describes the law curriculum.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1976]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1976 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Law school catalog of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dated May 1976 and published as volume 837 of the university's Record, describing the School of Law's curriculum.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1975]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1975 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law bulletin, dated 30 May 1975 and issued as volume 822 of the university's Record series, with the law school's curriculum and courses. From the North Carolina Yearbooks collection.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1974]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1974 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A May 1974 catalog of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published as volume 808 of the university's Record and describing the law curriculum.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1973]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1973 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Record series catalog, volume 790, for the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Published in March 1973, it gives the curricula and course offerings.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1972]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1972 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Law school catalog from Chapel Hill, issued 10 March 1972 as volume 776 of the university's Record series. It describes the curriculum and courses of the School of Law at UNC.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1971]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1971 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Law bulletin of UNC-Chapel Hill for 1971, dated March 1971. Volume 763 of the university's Record series, it describes the law school's curriculum.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law [1970]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1970 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

March 1970 bulletin of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, volume 749 of the university's Record series. It describes the law school's curriculum for 1970.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1940]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1940 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Catalog of the University of North Carolina School of Law, dated 15 April 1940, issued as University Bulletins number 357 and describing the law curriculum and courses.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1939]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1939 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Law bulletin from the University of North Carolina, dated 15 April 1939 and numbered 345, setting out the law school's courses at Chapel Hill.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1938]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1938 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

June 1938 catalog of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina, University Bulletins number 334, with the law school's curriculum and courses at Chapel Hill.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1937]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1937 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Law school bulletin of the University of North Carolina dated 30 April 1937, number 321 in the University Bulletins, with the curriculum of the School of Law at Chapel Hill.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1936]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1936 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Law school catalog of the University of North Carolina dated 30 April 1936, issued as University Bulletin number 309, with the School of Law's courses and curriculum.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1934]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1934 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bulletin of the University of North Carolina School of Law, published in June 1934 as number 291 of the University's series and setting out the law curriculum at Chapel Hill.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1932]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1932 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Catalog of the University of North Carolina School of Law for 1932, published in May 1932 as University Bulletins number 279 in the university's Record.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1931]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1931 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Published in August 1931, University Bulletin number 275 is the University of North Carolina School of Law's catalog, with the law curriculum at Chapel Hill.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1930]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1930 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Law bulletin of the University of North Carolina from June 1930, University Bulletins number 267, setting out the law school's curriculum and courses at Chapel Hill. From the North Carolina Yearbooks collection.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1929]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1929 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Law catalog of the University of North Carolina, published in May 1929 as University Bulletin number 261, describing legal study at Chapel Hill.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1928]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1928 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

June 1928 catalog of the University of North Carolina School of Law, University Bulletin number 255, with the law school's courses at Chapel Hill.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1927]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1927 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

July 1927 catalog of the University of North Carolina School of Law, issued as University Bulletins number 246 and covering the law curriculum and courses.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1926]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1926 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Law bulletin issued at Chapel Hill in June 1926, number 235 of the University Bulletins, giving the curriculum of the University of North Carolina's law school.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1925]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1925 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Law school catalog of the University of North Carolina dated 16 May 1925, published as University Bulletins number 223 with the School of Law's curriculum and courses.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1915]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1915 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Course bulletin of the University of North Carolina School of Law, published at Chapel Hill in February 1915 as University Bulletins number 126.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The School of Law. [1910]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1910 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Law bulletin from the University of North Carolina, May 1910, number 82 in the University Bulletins, giving the law school's courses at Chapel Hill.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The Law School. [1909]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1909 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Law School announcement from the University of North Carolina, issued in April 1909 as bulletin number 72, with the course of legal study at Chapel Hill.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The Law School. [1908]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1908 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Law School announcement of the University of North Carolina, published at Chapel Hill in February 1908 as bulletin number 59. It describes the school's course of study.

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The University of North Carolina Record. The Law Department. [1907]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1907 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Law Department announcement of the University of North Carolina, issued at Chapel Hill in March 1907 as bulletin number 51. It describes the course of study for students of law.

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The University Record. The Law Department [1906]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1906 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina Law Department catalog from January 1906, number 41 in the University Bulletins, describing the course of legal study at Chapel Hill.

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The University Record. The Law Department [1905]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1905 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Law Department of the University of North Carolina described its course of study in this March 1905 catalog, University Bulletin number 36.

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The University Record. The Law Department [1904]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1904 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Law Department catalog of the University of North Carolina, printed in March 1904 as number 27 of the University Bulletins, describing the law course at Chapel Hill.

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The University Record. The Law Department [1903]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1903 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Announcement of the University of North Carolina's Law Department for 1903, describing its course of study at Chapel Hill. It appeared in March 1903 as bulletin number 19 of The University Record.

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The University Record. The Law Department [1902-1903]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1902 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Law Department catalog for the 1902 to 1903 year, University Bulletins number 4 in The University Record series, describing legal study at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

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University of North Carolina School of Law. Announcement of Summer Session [1896]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1896 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Announcement of the summer session of the University of North Carolina School of Law for 1896, printed at Chapel Hill. It describes the university curriculum. From DigitalNC's North Carolina Yearbooks collection.

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Carolina law

2009 · School of Law, University of North Carolina

Magazine of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the school from 2009. Covers the law school and lawyers in North Carolina. Issued in volumes, 28 cm.

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UNC law alumni news

1995 · School of Law, University of North Carolina

Alumni news publication from the School of Law at UNC Chapel Hill, dated 1995 and published by the school. Volumes measure 28 centimeters.

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The Dean's report to the Chancellor.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1984 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Law

A serial report from the dean of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to the chancellor, including a 1984 report. Issued by the school at Chapel Hill in volumes at 23 centimeters.

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Law placement handbook

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1983 · The School

Placement handbook from the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued in volumes from 1983 by the school's placement office. It served students looking for legal work as they finished the degree.

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Introducing-- the faculty of the School of Law : the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1982-83.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1982 · The University

Directory introducing the faculty of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the 1982 to 1983 year, published by the university. Twenty three unnumbered pages, naming the teaching staff at that moment, useful to anyone tracing a law professor's career.

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Placement handbook

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1980

The Placement Office of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill issued this handbook in 28 centimeter volumes from 1980, an earlier run than its law placement handbook of 1983. Subjects include vocational guidance in law and the employment of law students in Chapel Hill.

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Law alumni newsletter

1977 · School of Law, University of North Carolina

Newsletter for graduates of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina, published in Chapel Hill from 1977 and carrying news of the school and its graduates. The Orange County link is the law school's Chapel Hill campus.

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Carolina law alumni news

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 2008 · University of North Carolina School of Law

Alumni magazine of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the school in Chapel Hill. It is a periodical for law school alumni and alumnae in North Carolina. The 2008 issues of the serial.

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The LLUNCCH times

2003 · The Law Library

Newsletter published by the law library at UNC Chapel Hill beginning in 2003. Issued in volumes measuring 35 centimeters.

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UNC law weekly

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 2003 · University of North Carolina, School of Law

Weekly of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the school in Chapel Hill. The 2003 issues.

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law ... record.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1998 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Record, published by the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a serial running to six volumes with illustrations, a map and portraits, with an issue dated 1998. It carried news of the law school, its faculty and its graduates, and belongs with periodicals about law schools in Chapel Hill.

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Handbook of student organizations

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law. Office of Student Affairs · 1995 · Office of Student Affairs, School of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Student organizations at the University of North Carolina School of Law, set out in a handbook the school's Office of Student Affairs issued in volumes of 28 cm from 1995.

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Sesquicentennial alumni directory

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1995 · UNC School of Law

Alumni directory of the UNC School of Law, issued in 1995 for the school's sesquicentennial. Two hundred eighty six pages listing graduates, useful for tracing a lawyer's education or the reach of the Chapel Hill faculty.

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Handbook.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law. Office of Career Development & Services · 1994

Career handbook from the Office of Career Development and Services at the School of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recorded for 1994. It concerns vocational guidance in law in North Carolina, so the volume gathers advice for law students entering practice in the state. Neither extent nor publisher appears beyond the Chapel Hill imprint.

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UNC law newsletter

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1993 · University of North Carolina, School of Law

Newsletter of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the school and entered here at 1993.

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Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : the School of Law.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1992 · The University of North Carolina Press

Law school volume of the Record of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, printed by the University of North Carolina Press and carrying announcements of courses for each session. Volumes of 23 cm, dated 1992. The series provides a yearly account of the law curriculum at Chapel Hill.

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Faculty publications 1981-1991

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1991 · School of Law

Bibliography of what the faculty of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published between 1981 and 1991, issued by the school in 1991. Thirty-five pages list the books, articles and other writing of the law faculty across that decade.

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UNC School of Law 1990 alumni directory

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1990 · Carleton Graphics

Directory of the graduates of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, compiled for 1990 and printed by Carleton Graphics of South Bend, Indiana. It concerns alumni directories for the law school. Researchers tracing lawyers trained at Carolina use directories like this one to fix a graduate by class year and address.

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School of Law faculty : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989-90.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1989 · School of Law

A directory of the law faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the 1989-90 academic year, issued by the School of Law itself. Published 1989, 31 pages.

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Faculty publications 1981-1987

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1987 · School of Law

Earlier of two faculty bibliographies from the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this one covering writing from 1981 through 1987 and published by the school in 1987. Twenty pages, with entries for each faculty member's books and articles. The 1991 list continues the same run.

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Kathrine R. Everett Law Library records, 1987-1996

Kathrine R. Everett Law Library · 1987

Library records from the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1987 to 1996, about 800 items in 1.5 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40246. The records cover law libraries and legal research in North Carolina, library resources and higher education, with material on Laura N. Gasaway alongside the university's School of Law.

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Library user's guide

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Law Library · 1987 · Law Library, the University of North Carolina

A nineteen page user's guide to the Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued for the fall of 1987 with illustrations and floor plans. It is a handbook for a law library in Chapel Hill, written for students learning where legal material sat and how to work with it.

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Greetings to first year law students at the beginning of the academic year 1984

Coates, Albert, 1896-1989; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1984 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Albert Coates addressed the entering law class at the beginning of the 1984 academic year, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill printed his greeting that year. A letter from Thomas Wolfe is included. Topics include Coates himself, Wolfe and his friends and associates, and the study and teaching of law in North Carolina.

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Law placement guide, 1983-84

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1983 · Placement Office, UNC-CH School of Law

A pocket placement guide for 1983 to 1984 from the Placement Office of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sixteen pages, 22 by 10 centimeters.

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The University of North Carolina School of law ... placement brochure.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1982 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Law

A placement brochure from the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law, produced for law firms and other employers looking at the school's students. The 1982 issue is recorded here, one of a run of volumes with illustrations and portraits at 25 centimeters. Includes directory information for law students seeking employment.

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Law alumni directory 1980 : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

1981

Directory of law school alumni of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 1980, published in 1981 in two hundred and eighty eight pages with photographs. Entries list graduates of the School of Law, so the volume serves anyone tracing North Carolina lawyers of that generation.

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SBA newsletter.

1977 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Student Bar Association

Six numbers of the newsletter of the Student Bar Association at the School of Law of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dating from 1977. Published in Chapel Hill by the university in a 28 centimeter format.

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Greetings to first year law students at the beginning of the academic year 1976

Coates, Albert, 1896-1989; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1976 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Albert Coates, the law professor who founded the Institute of Government, addresses the entering law class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the 1976 academic year. The printed greeting includes a letter from Thomas Wolfe, with material on Wolfe's friends and associates along with legal education in North Carolina. Published in Chapel Hill in 1976.

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North Carolina law record.

1974 · University of North Carolina School of Law

A periodical published by the School of Law at UNC Chapel Hill, covering law in North Carolina and the school itself. Seven volumes in the run recorded here, measuring 26 to 31 centimeters, with 1974 the date the catalog gives. Readers following the law school in those years will find its news here.

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Talk to first year law students at the opening of the Law School, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Coates, Albert, 1896-1989 · 1974

Albert Coates addressed the entering class at the University of North Carolina School of Law on August 26, 1974, and his talk is preserved as a photocopy of the typescript. Coates lived from 1896 to 1989 and founded the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill. The law school and the university are the subjects.

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Self-study report : Law School.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1973

Report the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill prepared for the Accreditation Committee of the American Bar Association, dated 1973. The title is taken from page 1. Topics include law schools and the accreditation of the Chapel Hill school, placing the volume with the university's own record of its professional programs.

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The Law School : (from September, 1968, to October, 1969)

Phillips, Dickson · 1969 · Published for the School of Law by the University of North Carolina Press

Dickson Phillips reports on the University of North Carolina School of Law for the period from September 1968 to October 1969. Reprinted from the North Carolina Law Review, volume 48, number 2, December 1969, and published for the School of Law by the University of North Carolina Press.

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The School of Law.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1965

Announcements of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the annual bulletin setting out the curriculum. Recorded here from 1965 and issued in volumes with illustrations. It concerns law school curricula in North Carolina, a serial that tracks how legal education at Chapel Hill was organized year by year.

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Some thoughts on training for the public service and related matters growing out of law school classrooms and working with officials on the job

Coates, Albert, 1896-1989 · 1965 · Law School of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill

Albert Coates sets down thoughts on training for the public service drawn from law school classrooms and from work with officials on the job. Issued in 1965 by the Law School of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the piece covers the civil service in North Carolina, for state politics and government, and for the university's Institute of Government.

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University of North Carolina School of Law ... graduates.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1965 · University of North Carolina

Directories of graduating classes at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law, issued by the university and aimed at employers hiring new lawyers. Three volumes with illustrations and portraits, 18 to 25 centimeters, the run recorded here beginning in 1965.

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You can make the law school better : here's how

Law Alumni Association of U.N.C.; Law Foundation of U.N.C., Inc. · 1965 · Law Alumni Association and Law Foundation of U.N.C., Inc

An appeal to graduates from the Law Alumni Association and the Law Foundation of U.N.C., printed at Chapel Hill in 1965 under a caption title on page 1. It deals with the appropriations and expenditures of the University of North Carolina School of Law, so the how of the title concerns money for the school.

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Handbook and directory.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law. Law Student Association · 1964

Handbook and directory issued in 1964 by the Law Student Association at the School of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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University of North Carolina Law Library manual.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Law Library · 1964 · University of North Carolina Law Library

Fifteen page users' manual for the Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the library in 1964, 22 centimeters.

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Law Library manual, University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). School of Law. Library Committee; University of North Carolina (1793-1962). School of Law. Law Student Association; University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Law Library · 1955 · University of North Carolina Law Library

A manual for the Law Library at the University of North Carolina, issued in Chapel Hill in 1955 by the Law Library with the School of Law Library Committee and the Law Student Association. It concerns handbooks and manuals for law libraries in Chapel Hill, a guide for students finding their way through legal collections.

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Proposed constitution of the Law School Association

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). School of Law. Law School Association · 1953

Draft constitution for the Law School Association at the University of North Carolina School of Law, prepared at Chapel Hill in 1953 by a committee that included John Sanders and Hurshell Keener. The title is taken from the first leaf. It is unclear whether the constitution was adopted.

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School of Law of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill records, 1923-2005.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law · 1923

School of Law records at Chapel Hill, 1923 to 2005, approximately 37,800 items in 87 linear feet, University Archives at UNC, collection 40046. Topics include admission and the arrival of African American students, accreditation with the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools, the law library, school buildings, clinical programs, placement work, and the school during the Second World War.

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Law school of the University of North Carolina

Manning, John, 1830-1899 · 1893 · University of North Carolina Law School

John Manning's account of the law school at the University of North Carolina, printed at Chapel Hill in 1893, giving a short history of the school, the courses then taught and what it cost to attend. Topics include the study and teaching of law at Chapel Hill, the curricula of the university and its School of Law.

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University Law School

Battle, William H. (William Horn), 1802-1879; Edwards, Broughton & Co · 1878 · Edwards, Broughton & Co.

A statement of the law school at the University of North Carolina, issued about 1878 over the name of William Horn Battle, the judge who taught law at Chapel Hill, and printed at Raleigh by Edwards, Broughton and Company. The work deals with the study and teaching of law and with the university's curricula, so it lays out the course offered to law students.

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Cry U.N.C.L.L. : Law Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Law Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Cry U.N.C.L.L. carried news of the law library at UNC Chapel Hill, its title drawn from the library's initials. The subtitle varies across the run, and from September 1993 it reads as the newsletter of the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library. Volumes measure 25 to 32 centimeters.

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Handbook and directory.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law. Student Bar Association

Handbook and directory of the Student Bar Association at the School of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Search the index for UNC School of Law →

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In the chronology

  1. The university begins a course in national and constitutional law for seniors Beginning in 1837 the university offered seniors a course in national and constitutional law in the second session of their last year, taught by President David L. Swain, who kept teaching it after the law department opened in 1845. In 1841-42 Swain also met a small class of seniors reading Blackstone, Ruffin W. Tomlinson among them. People: David L. Swain Internet Archive: Fannie Memory Farmer, "Legal Education in North Carolina, 1820-1860", North Carolina Historical Review 28 (1951), p. 282
  2. William H. Battle opens a law school at Chapel Hill After moving to Chapel Hill in 1843, Judge William H. Battle began teaching law in his office, a two-room building in his yard. His notice in the Raleigh Register of July 7, 1843 set the school to open on July 15, "at the University," at $100 for a course of twelve months or more or $10 a month. He became the university's professor of law in 1845. Internet Archive: Fannie Memory Farmer, "Legal Education in North Carolina, 1820-1860", North Carolina Historical Review 28 (1951), p. 282 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 31, 1994, p. 3
  3. Samuel F. Phillips opens a law practice in Chapel Hill Phillips, who had grown up in Chapel Hill after his family moved there in 1826, studied law under President David L. Swain and in the new university law school, then began practising in Chapel Hill when he came of age in 1845. People: David L. Swain NCpedia: Phillips, Samuel Field
  4. William Horn Battle becomes the university's professor of law After teaching law from his office in Chapel Hill, Battle was professor of law at the university by 1845, and the university began offering the bachelor of law degree. NCpedia: Law Schools
  5. The university's law department lists eleven students The university catalogue for 1847-1848 listed eleven law students, and that for 1854-1855 twelve. Most were shown rooming at "Miss Hillyard's," and the professor of law and the Independent Class were exempt from the ordinary college rules. People: William Horn Battle Internet Archive: Fannie Memory Farmer, "Legal Education in North Carolina, 1820-1860", North Carolina Historical Review 28 (1951), p. 283
  6. Samuel F. Phillips teaches in the university law school From 1854 to 1859 Phillips taught in the university law school at Chapel Hill. People: William Horn Battle NCpedia: Phillips, Samuel Field
  7. Samuel F. Phillips closes his law school and shares the office with Judge Battle Phillips, who had taught law in his Franklin Street office since 1854, closed the school, went back to practice, and shared the building with Judge William Horn Battle. People: William Horn Battle Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 107
  8. William Horn Battle returns to Chapel Hill to teach law Battle had left for Raleigh in 1868 when Reconstruction politics disrupted the university. When his law school reopened at Chapel Hill in January 1877, while his son Kemp was president, he returned as professor of law, and he taught until he resigned in January 1879, shortly before his death that March. People: Kemp Plummer Battle Catalogue of the Trustees, Faculty and Students of the University of North Carolina, 1876-77 (1877): faculty list and Law School (with Battle, History of the University, vol. II, pp. 126, 167-169) · Also: UNC Libraries: Slaves of Faculty and Townspeople
  9. Judge William H. Battle dies at Chapel Hill William Horn Battle, former justice of the state Supreme Court, compiler of Battle's Revisal and long the university's professor of law, died at the Chapel Hill home of his son, President Kemp P. Battle, aged 76. After a memorial service in the university chapel on March 16, students and townspeople escorted his body out of town; it lay in state in the rotunda in Raleigh, and he was buried in Oakwood Cemetery after services at Christ Church. People: Kemp Plummer Battle, Joseph Blount Cheshire The Chapel Hill Ledger, March 22, 1879, p. 2
  10. John Manning teaches law at the university Elected professor of law in 1881, John Manning taught at Chapel Hill while keeping a private practice, and law enrollment grew from seven students to eighty-seven by 1897-98. NCpedia: Manning, John, Jr.
  11. University trustees make the Law School a regular department The university trustees made the Law School a regular department on the same footing as the others. At the same meeting they authorized and funded a four-week summer course open to both sexes and adopted a plan to raise a library endowment. Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 3, 1894, p. 2
  12. The university elects Judge James MacRae professor of law After James E. Shepherd resigned the law professorship, the University of North Carolina elected Judge James MacRae, one of its alumni, Professor of Law. Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 24, 1899, p. 2
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  1. Walter Clark helps teach the university's Summer Law School Chief Justice Walter Clark assisted in the university's Summer Law School, which enrolled thirty-seven students. Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 709
  2. Margaret Berry becomes the first woman to graduate from UNC's law school Margaret Berry of the Hillsborough Berry family, who had finished her UNC undergraduate degree in 1913, graduated from the university's law school in 1915, the first woman to do so. That summer she passed the state bar examination, listed as Margaret Kollock Berry of Orange. UNC Wilson Library: Margaret Berry Street Papers, 1910-1930
  3. Oscar Efird organizes the Law School Association Law teacher Oscar Ogburn Efird turned the school's loose moot courts into appellate-style law clubs under a Law School Association. It faded after he left the next year. Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 64
  4. Murphey, Saunders and Manning halls are designed in the university's building office On the east side of the new south quadrangle, H. P. Alan Montgomery, architect in the university's building office under Thomas C. Atwood, laid out a smaller court of classroom buildings, with McKim, Mead and White as consulting architects: Murphey Hall for languages and literature, Saunders Hall (now Carolina Hall) for history and social science, and Manning Hall, with an Ionic portico and cupola, for the law school. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash, Thomas C. Atwood NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 53 · Also: UNC Names in Brick and Stone: Grimes Residence Hall; NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House nomination
  5. The law school moves to a three-year course with new entrance rules By the end of 1922 the law curriculum had become a three-year course of study with new admission requirements, part of Dean Lucius McGehee's effort to meet American Bar Association standards. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 246
  6. University trustees create the Thomas Ruffin Professorship of Law for Henry Groves Connor, who declines it In 1922 the trustees created the Thomas Ruffin Professorship of Law for federal judge Henry Groves Connor, who turned it down, as he had turned down a law professorship at the university in 1899. NCpedia: Connor, Henry Groves (Carolyn A. Wallace, 1979)
  7. University trustees name the new law building for John Manning At their June 13, 1922 meeting the university trustees approved naming the new law building for John Manning. The School of Law moved into Manning Hall before the fall 1923 semester. Names in Brick and Stone: Manning Hall
  8. Henry Groves Connor lectures in the university law school Federal judge Henry Groves Connor lectured in the University of North Carolina law school in the summer of 1923. He came back to Chapel Hill for the same purpose in 1924 and fell ill there. NCpedia: Connor, Henry Groves (Carolyn A. Wallace, 1979)
  9. Albert Coates joins the law faculty at Chapel Hill Coates, a university graduate with a Harvard law degree, joined the law faculty in 1923. The schools he ran for police officers and sheriffs grew into the Institute of Government. Carolina Story: Albert Coates (1896-1989), Gladys Hall Coates (1902-2002) and Coates Building · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 12, 1923, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 13, 1923, p. 1
  10. Law dean Lucius McGehee dies McGehee, dean since 1910 and the man who brought the casebook method to Chapel Hill, broke down weeks before the fall term and died in Richmond on Thursday, October 11, 1923, aged 55. Atwell C. McIntosh became acting dean, and the trustees gave his estate $2,000 for burial and debts. Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 272-273 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), October 25, 1923, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, October 18, 1923, p. 2
  11. Albert Coates revives the Law School Association Coates brought back Efird's association and used it to bring state supreme court justices, judges and lawyers to Manning Hall to lecture, to run moot courts across all three classes, and later to equip a model law office. People: Walter Clark Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 64
  12. Trustees adopt higher law school standards over Governor Morrison's objection At a four-hour meeting in the governor's office, attended by about half the trustees, 45 of them lawyers, Morrison argued against stiffer entrance rules, but a voice vote approved Chase's plans. The board put off naming a dean rather than accept Chase's out-of-state choice. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, William H. S. Burgwyn, John Sprunt Hill, Cameron Morrison Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 275-276
  13. George L. Clark joins the university law school to teach the late Dean McGehee's courses George L. Clark of the University of Cincinnati law faculty joined the university law school for the spring term of 1924, on leave from Cincinnati, to take the courses left by the late Lucius Polk McGehee, the News reported. The News (Chapel Hill), February 28, 1924, p. 5
  14. Trustees elect Merton L. Ferson dean of the law school Ferson, an Iowan who had been dean of the George Washington University law school and had lately taught at the University of Michigan, won with three times the votes of his nearest rival, ending months of resistance from trustees who wanted a North Carolinian. Covington has him as dean at Washington University in St. Louis. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 277-278 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1924, p. 1; The News (Chapel Hill), September 18, 1924, p. 1
  15. The Manning family gives the law school a portrait of John Manning Justice L. S. Adams of the state Supreme Court spoke in Manning Hall at the presentation to the University law school of a portrait of John Manning, whom the paper called the founder of the school. The portrait was the family's gift, and children and grandchildren came from Fayetteville, Durham and Raleigh. People: John Manning The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 13, 1924, p. 2
  16. Manning Hall is dedicated as the law school's new home Supreme court justices, superior court judges, lawyers and alumni, 200 or more, came for the dedication and lunched at the new Carolina Inn with John Sprunt Hill as host. People: John Sprunt Hill Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 281 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 29, 1925, p. 3
  17. Chase keeps Albert Coates with a raise and tenure After Coates collapsed from exhaustion in June 1926 and sent Chase a private resignation, Chase gave him a pay raise and tenure as professor of law, and Coates was teaching again that fall. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 75
  18. Susie Sharp enters the law school as the only woman in her class Sharp was the only woman among sixty first-year law students and met harassment in her early weeks. She later became the first woman superior court judge in North Carolina and chief justice of the state supreme court. Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 82
  19. Charles T. McCormick becomes dean of the law school Merton L. Ferson had left in 1926 for the Cincinnati deanship, and the man Chase hired to replace him backed out months before the fall term. Chase then named McCormick, on the faculty only a year. The trustees consented but not unanimously, and James A. Gray Jr. moved that they be consulted before the next dean was chosen. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 368-369
  20. First-year law students protest Coates's failing grades Coates failed fifteen of fifty-two students in personal property and gave seven more Es. Class leaders including Dan K. Moore pressed him to grade on a curve and talked of a boycott; he kept the grades but gave a new examination. People: Dan K. Moore Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 80
  21. A model law office and courtroom are fitted out in Manning Hall Through the Law School Association, Coates had lawyers around the state pay for a model courtroom and a practice law office stocked with real forms, so students could join theory to practice. Coates had put $2,600 of his own money into the office over four years. People: Albert Coates, Robert W. Madry Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 88 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 8, 1928, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 17, 1928, p. 1
  22. Coates holds a Law School Association conference on criminal justice About thirty lawyers, judges and state officials, including Attorney General D. G. Brummitt and Justices George W. Connor and Willis J. Brogden, met at the law school and split up sections of the American Law Institute model code to begin a new state code of criminal procedure. People: George Whitfield Connor Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 91 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 30, 1929, p. 1
  23. Charles S. Mangum Jr. stays on to do research in the UNC law school After finishing law school with the class of 1931, Charles S. Mangum Jr. stayed in Chapel Hill to do research in the university law school, the Daily Tar Heel reported that October. The Daily Tar Heel, October 4, 1931, p. 4
  24. UNC trustees require three years of college for admission to the law school After the longest debate of their meeting, the trustees raised the law school's entrance requirement from two years of college work to three, on the advice of President Graham and Dean McCormick, with an exception for able students who could not meet it. Senator Cameron Morrison led the opposition, saying the rule would bear hard on poor students. People: Frank Porter Graham, Cameron Morrison The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 12, 1931, p. 5
  25. Coates and law dean Van Hecke withdraw their resignations after meeting with President Graham That spring law dean Maurice T. Van Hecke had recommended that Coates stop teaching and work only for the Institute, and first Coates and then Van Hecke offered to resign. At a June 6 meeting in Graham's South Building office both stayed on: Coates got a fall leave and a second chance in the law school, and he agreed to stop presenting the law school or the university as the Institute's sponsor. People: Frank Porter Graham Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 136
  26. The Sons of the Revolution give the law school portraits of Justices Iredell and Moore The North Carolina Society, Sons of the Revolution, presented portraits of James Iredell and Alfred Moore, the state's two early justices of the United States Supreme Court, to the University of North Carolina law school. A. B. Andrews of Raleigh spoke on Iredell and Justice Heriot Clarkson of the state supreme court on Moore. People: Alfred Moore, Alexander Boyd Andrews Internet Archive: "Historical News", North Carolina Historical Review 11 (1934), p. 161 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 9, 1934, p. 1
  27. The UNC law school opens its 91st year with a record 130 students The University law school began its 91st year with 130 students, up from 124, the largest enrollment its records showed. All but nine were North Carolinians, and 73 held college degrees. The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 5, 1934, p. 4
  28. Graham refuses to move Albert Coates out of the law school In May 1935 Dean Van Hecke reported that Coates's teaching had failed again and, with the whole law faculty behind him, asked that Coates be freed from law school duties to run the Institute. Coates threatened to demand an academic trial; Graham declined the transfer and again refused Van Hecke's offer to resign, and Coates rejoined the law faculty in February 1936 and taught there for thirty years. People: Frank Porter Graham, R. B. House Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 165
  29. Henry P. Brandis Jr. joins the UNC law faculty After two state tax posts, Brandis, the Institute of Government's first full-time staff member, joined the university's law school faculty in 1940 as assistant professor of law, succeeding Donald W. Markham, and began teaching in the week of January 29. He became its dean in 1949 and a Graham Kenan Professor of Law in 1965, and retired in 1972. The Carolina Story: Henry P. Brandis, Jr. (1909-1989) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 2, 1940, p. 5
  30. University law professors agree to staff the reopening law school of the North Carolina College for Negroes The law school of the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham, suspended a week after its September 1939 opening because only one qualified student enrolled, was to reopen in September 1940 with University law professors M. T. Van Hecke, J. P. Dalzell, F. B. McCall and R. H. Wettach teaching until Black teachers could be recruited. Van Hecke said every effort would be made to give Black students the same opportunities for legal education as the University offered. People: Robert H. Wettach The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 12, 1940, p. 4
  31. Robert H. Wettach serves as dean of the UNC School of Law The trustees, meeting on June 7, 1941, made Wettach, on the law faculty since 1921, dean of the law school in place of M. T. Van Hecke, who stepped down to teach and write. Wettach, who also served as an assistant state attorney general, lived with his wife Alpha in the rented Nash house on South Boundary Street. People: Robert H. Wettach NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House, National Register nomination (OR2289), p. 19 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1941, p. 1
  32. The law school cuts its admission requirement to two years of college Dean Robert H. Wettach announced that for the duration of the war the University law school would admit students who had finished two years of college instead of three, and would take beginners in the summer session for the first time in several years, so that a student could finish in two calendar years before being called to service. People: Robert H. Wettach The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 27, 1942, p. 1
  33. F. O. Bowman returns to the Chapel Hill board of aldermen F. O. Bowman, an alderman from 1937 until his defeat in May 1945, accepted appointment to the seat left by R. H. Wettach, dean of the law school, who resigned in December 1945. He was sworn in at the board's February meeting. People: Robert H. Wettach The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 17, 1946, p. 1
  34. Henry Brandis becomes dean of the UNC law school Brandis, the Institute's first associate director, was promoted from professor of law to dean in 1949. Under him the law school and the Institute drew closer, with Institute staff teaching Coates's classes when he was away. People: Henry P. Brandis Jr. Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 218
  35. Black law students sue to enter UNC's Law School On October 25, 1949, Harold Epps and other law students at North Carolina College in Durham sued for admission to UNC's law school. A federal district court ruled against them on October 9, 1950, but the Fourth Circuit reversed on March 27, 1951, and the Supreme Court refused to hear the university's appeal on June 4, 1951. People: Floyd B. McKissick, Harvey E. Beech, J. Kenneth Lee UNC School of Law, Law School First: Lawsuits
  36. Dean Brandis handles the applications of Pauli Murray and three other Black students to the law school After the trustees left admissions to each professional school's dean, Brandis wrote Chancellor R. B. House about four Black applicants, Pauli Murray, J. Kenneth Lee, Harvey E. Beech and William C. Chance Jr., and on June 6 told Murray the school offered no graduate law courses. The UNC Libraries exhibit reads these letters as showing the law school resisting integration. People: Pauli Murray, R. B. House, J. Kenneth Lee, Harvey E. Beech UNC Libraries: Pauli Murray and UNC, 1951: Murray inquiry about law school admissions
  37. UNC Law School begins desegregation About a week after the Supreme Court refused on June 4, 1951, to review McKissick v. Carmichael, Black students registered for summer session at UNC's law school, the first African Americans to enroll at the university. UNC Law names them as Harvey E. Beech, James L. Lassiter, J. Kenneth Lee, Floyd B. McKissick and James R. Walker. People: Floyd B. McKissick, Harvey E. Beech, J. Kenneth Lee Chapel Hill Weekly (June 15, 1951): Negroes Enter University
  38. Harvey Beech and J. Kenneth Lee graduate from UNC's law school A year after they entered as the first Black students at UNC's law school, Harvey Beech and J. Kenneth Lee received their law degrees. UNC also lists James Robert Walker among the 1952 graduates. People: J. Kenneth Lee UNC Libraries: Harvey E. Beech Papers, 1939-2004 (#05465-z), finding aid
  39. Moses C. Burt Jr. is one of the first three Black students admitted to UNC law as first-year students Moses C. Burt Jr., son of Orange County farm agent Moses Burt and Ridge Road principal Alethea Burt, entered the UNC School of Law in fall 1955 as one of the first three African American students admitted straight into its first-year class. Three other Black students who enrolled that fall transferred from other programs. NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 17
  40. Henry E. Frye is admitted to the UNC law school Henry E. Frye of Greensboro, later the first Black member of the North Carolina legislature since Reconstruction, was admitted to the UNC School of Law in fall 1956. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 30, 1980, p. 2
  41. Daniel H. Pollitt joins the UNC law faculty Pollitt came to the UNC School of Law in 1957 as an associate professor of constitutional and labor law, after resigning from the University of Arkansas rather than sign an oath disavowing membership in the NAACP. UNC Libraries: Daniel H. Pollitt Papers, 1935-2009 (#05498), finding aid
  42. The law faculty and the Institute staff vote against merging the Institute into the law school When Albert Coates pressed again to fold the Institute of Government into the UNC law school, both the law faculty and the Institute's own staff voted the idea down. Assistant director John Sanders warned that the Institute's service work would be subordinated to the law school and its identity lost. People: Albert Coates, John L. Sanders Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 262
  43. Dickson Phillips joins the UNC law faculty After a decade of law practice in Laurinburg and Fayetteville, J. Dickson Phillips returned to the University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill as a lecturer and associate professor. He stayed on the faculty until 1978. Federal Judicial Center: Phillips, James Dickson, Jr. (Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges)
  44. Julius Chambers graduates first in his class from the UNC School of Law Chambers graduated first in his class from the University's School of Law in Chapel Hill in 1962. He went on to practice civil rights law in Charlotte. UNC-Chapel Hill: 225 years of Tar Heels, Julius Chambers · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 22, 1994, p. 2
  45. Law dean Henry Brandis Jr. turns down Albert Coates's last appeal for a merger Coates sent Dean Henry Brandis Jr. a pleading letter with thirty-nine pages of enclosures urging that the Institute become part of the law school. Brandis refused to reopen the question and said that once Coates returned to full-time teaching, Institute staff would no longer teach his courses, since their part had weakened the school's instruction. People: Henry P. Brandis Jr. Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 262-263
  46. Dickson Phillips serves as dean of the UNC School of Law Phillips led the law school for ten years. Enrollment nearly doubled, from 376 to 700, the school moved into the new Van Hecke-Wettach Hall in 1968, and he started the Holderness Moot Court program and widened the clinical courses. Kathrine R. Everett Law Library: Judge James Dickson Phillips, Jr., Professor and Dean of the Law School · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, December 5, 1973, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, March 20, 1974, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, January 31, 1978, p. 1
  47. The UNC law school dedicates an issue of the North Carolina Law Review to Albert Coates When Coates gave up full-time teaching in 1967, the law school marked it by dedicating the November 1967 North Carolina Law Review to him. That year the North Carolina Bar Association also gave him its John J. Parker award, and Governor Dan K. Moore presented him the North Carolina Award. People: Dan K. Moore Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 275 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 30, 1967, p. 5
  48. UNC's new law school building is finished on South Road The Van Hecke-Wettach building for the UNC School of Law, named for former deans Maurice T. Van Hecke and Robert H. Wettach, was completed across South Road in the summer of 1968, part of the decade's boom of modernist construction along that street. Classes began there that fall, and Chief Justice Earl Warren spoke at its dedication on May 3, 1969. NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 90 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 17, 1968, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, May 3, 1969, p. 1
  49. Albert Coates speaks at the law school graduation after teaching his last class Recovering from his stroke, Coates gave the law school's commencement address and told the graduates that they and he were leaving together, since he had taught his final class. It ended a law teaching career at Chapel Hill that began in 1923. Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 275
  50. The university's new law building is named Van Hecke-Wettach Hall The university named its 1968 law school building Van Hecke-Wettach Hall for two former deans, Maurice T. Van Hecke and Robert H. Wettach. The name was in use by the time the building opened for classes in the fall of 1968. The Carolina Story (museum.unc.edu): Van Hecke-Wettach Hall · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 17, 1968, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, May 3, 1969, p. 1
  51. The Faculty Council recommends steps to bring more Black students to UNC After six months of study, a Faculty Council committee chaired by law school dean J. Dickson Phillips recommended four steps that matched parts of the BSM's demands: a central effort to raise the share of Black students, a talent search, an experimental admissions program and Black assistant directors in student aid and admissions. Chancellor Sitterson later dated the Council's action December 6, 1968, and the report was issued on December 18. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 28, 1985, p. 8 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, January 7, 1969, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, February 4, 1969, p. 6
  52. Chief Justice Earl Warren dedicates the Van Hecke-Wettach law building U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren gave the main address at the dedication of the law school's Van Hecke-Wettach building, held on Fetzer Field with Dean J. Dickson Phillips presiding and President William Friday and Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson attending. The building, named for former deans Maurice T. Van Hecke and Robert H. Wettach, had been finished the summer before and opened for classes in fall 1968. People: James Dickson Phillips, William C. Friday, J. Carlyle Sitterson The Daily Tar Heel, May 4, 1969, p. 1
  53. Kenneth B. Spaulding is chosen chief justice of the UNC Law School Honor Court The Student Bar Association's Board of Governors approved law student Kenneth B. Spaulding, a Howard University honor graduate, as chief justice of the Law School Honor Court, which the Daily Tar Heel called the first time a Black man had held the post in the University's 176 years. The Daily Tar Heel, October 25, 1969, p. 1
  54. Joan Brannon becomes the second woman to edit the North Carolina Law Review Third-year law student Joan Brannon was named editor of the North Carolina Law Review after the summer resignation of the editor-designate, the second woman in the post after the 1965 editor. The Daily Tar Heel, September 29, 1970, p. 1
  55. UNC Law School enrollment reaches 626, ahead of its five-year plan The UNC Law School opened the 1970-71 year with 626 students, more than it had projected for 1972-73, as applications ran nearly double the year before. Dean J. Dickson Phillips Jr. said the school would hold total enrollment steady and raise admission standards. The Daily Tar Heel, March 24, 1971, p. 1
  56. Charles E. Daye joins the UNC School of Law as its first Black tenure-track professor Charles E. Daye, a Durham native, came to the UNC law faculty in 1972 from Covington & Burling as the school's first African American tenure-track professor. He taught torts, housing and community development and administrative advocacy, and advised the Black Law Students Association from 1972 until 2014. UNC School of Law: Professor Charles E. Daye Honored with Portrait Dedication · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 17, 1991, p. 3
  57. UNC offers a combined degree in law and city and regional planning The School of Law and the Department of City and Regional Planning began offering a combined program that let a student earn both the law degree and the planning degree in four years and a summer instead of five, to prepare lawyers for planning, housing, renewal and environmental agencies. People: James Dickson Phillips, John A. Parker The Daily Tar Heel, January 26, 1972, p. 4
  58. The law school's Student Bar Association holds a minority law day The Student Bar Association of the UNC School of Law brought minority students from across the state for a day on law school admission and the Black lawyer's role in the community. Panelists included attorneys Frank Ballance of Warrenton and Charles Becton of Chapel Hill, law professor Charles Daye and student body president Richard Epps. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), March 1973, p. 4
  59. The UNC law school declines a Hickory law firm's request for the names of students who signed an impeachment petition A Hickory firm wrote Dean J. Dickson Phillips asking for the names of law students who signed a petition for impeachment proceedings after the firing of Archibald Cox; the school said it would not comply, Phillips saying he did not have the information. The Student Bar Association posted the letter so students would know of the request. People: James Dickson Phillips The Daily Tar Heel, November 10, 1973, p. 4
  60. Dickson Phillips announces he will step down as dean of the UNC law school J. Dickson Phillips said he would leave the deanship at the end of the academic year after two five-year terms, having asked as early as April not to be considered for a third, and would stay on the faculty; Chancellor Taylor named a search committee for his successor. The Daily Tar Heel credited his deanship with substantial growth in enrollment and national standing. People: James Dickson Phillips, N. Ferebee Taylor The Daily Tar Heel, December 5, 1973, p. 1
  61. Chancellor Taylor names Robert G. Byrd dean of the Law School Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor appointed Professor Robert G. Byrd, a member of the law faculty since 1963, dean of the School of Law from July 1, succeeding J. Dickson Phillips, dean since 1964, who was returning to teaching. Taylor said he chose Byrd after interviewing every law faculty member and the two students on the selection committee. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, James Dickson Phillips The Daily Tar Heel, March 20, 1974, p. 1
  62. A Superior Court judge orders the UNC law faculty to open its meetings Superior Court Judge Edwin S. Preston, sitting in Hillsborough, issued a preliminary injunction requiring the UNC School of Law faculty to comply with the state's open meetings law, in a suit the Student Bar Association's Board of Governors and six students filed on April 6, 1976. The state attorney general's office appealed; the faculty held its first open meeting on September 9. The Daily Tar Heel, September 8, 1976, p. 1
  63. UNC law faculty, at its first open meeting, takes from students the power to name their committee members At its first meeting open to the public, the UNC School of Law faculty voted 19 to 7 to give Dean Robert Byrd, instead of the Student Bar Association's elected Board of Governors, the power to appoint student members of faculty committees. About 115 law students watched in silence after the dean refused to let them speak; the faculty also voted 17 to 4 to have a student-faculty committee study the question. The Daily Tar Heel, September 10, 1976, p. 1
  64. The N.C. Court of Appeals rules that UNC law faculty meetings must be open to the public The N.C. Court of Appeals, two judges to one, upheld a June 1976 Superior Court ruling that the UNC law school faculty is a governing body covered by the state's open meetings law and must meet in public. Law students had sued in April 1976 after Dean Robert G. Byrd turned the public away from a February 27, 1976 faculty meeting; Byrd said the faculty needed privacy to discuss admissions and rehiring, and the state's lawyers weighed an appeal to the state Supreme Court. The Daily Tar Heel, March 17, 1977, p. 1
  65. Filmmakers show a documentary on lesbian mothers at the UNC Law School More than 130 people saw In the Best Interests of the Children, a film about lesbian mothers and child custody, at the UNC Law School. Two of its makers, Elizabeth Stevens and Frances Reid of the Iris Feminist Collective, answered questions afterward. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), February 1978, p. 4
  66. The North Carolina Supreme Court rules UNC law faculty meetings are not subject to the open meetings law In a 6-1 decision written by Justice I. Beverly Lake, the North Carolina Supreme Court held that the UNC law school faculty was not a governing body under the state open meetings law, reversing two lower-court rulings that had opened its meetings since 1976. The Student Bar Association had sued after students were turned away from a Feb. 27, 1976 faculty meeting. People: I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly) Lake The Daily Tar Heel, January 11, 1978, p. 3
  67. Two white applicants sue UNC's law school, charging reverse discrimination Two white applicants denied admission to the UNC School of Law filed a $25,000 suit in the U.S. Middle District Court charging that less qualified minority students had been admitted in their place, a case observers likened to the Bakke case then before the U.S. Supreme Court. Named as defendants were President William C. Friday, Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, Dean Robert G. Byrd and former Dean J. Dickson Phillips. People: William C. Friday, N. Ferebee Taylor, James Dickson Phillips The Daily Tar Heel, April 7, 1978, p. 1
  68. The Black Student Movement asks to help defend the UNC law school's minority admissions The Black Student Movement and the Minority Law Student Association, joined by the North Carolina Black Student Coalition and the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers, asked U.S. District Judge Eugene Gordon to let them intervene on the University's side in the reverse-discrimination suit two white applicants had brought against the UNC School of Law. Their lawyer, Jim Fuller of Charlotte, argued that using race in admissions was the only effective remedy for the state's history of segregated legal education. The Daily Tar Heel, September 12, 1978, p. 1
  69. UNC's law school adopts an admissions policy following the Bakke decision The UNC law school adopted a policy, to apply to its next entering class, that reserved about 25 percent of places for applicants below its minimum grades-and-test-score threshold who showed other merits under nine criteria, among them leadership, overcoming disadvantage and race or ethnic origin, which under the Supreme Court's Bakke ruling could count but not decide. Admissions chairman Daniel Pollitt said a pending reverse-discrimination suit by two white applicants was not the cause, though it may have contributed. The Daily Tar Heel, December 7, 1978, p. 1
  70. The state settles a reverse-discrimination suit against the UNC law school The state agreed to pay $9,000 to two white applicants who had sued the UNC School of Law in 1978, claiming they were turned away to make room for less qualified Black applicants; the settlement was put before U.S. District Judge Eugene Gordon in Greensboro. The state conceded nothing, and Dean Robert Byrd said the school had already replaced its preference for culturally disadvantaged applicants with a policy weighing race among several factors for 25 places. The Daily Tar Heel, March 29, 1979, p. 2
  71. UNC law school reports Black students at 7 percent and two Black professors Richard Braddour, dean of minority affairs at the UNC School of Law, said only 7 percent of its students were Black, slightly fewer than a year earlier, and that two of about 30 law professors were Black. Black Law Student Association president Alan Rodgers urged recruiting at predominantly Black colleges outside North Carolina; the school held a Minority Law Day each fall. The Daily Tar Heel, April 25, 1984, p. 1
  72. Ronald Link becomes acting dean of the UNC School of Law The law school named Ronald Link, a former associate dean, acting dean after Dean Kenneth Broun took a two-year leave to practice law in Raleigh; the search for a permanent dean, begun in the spring, might end by July 1. The School of Medicine named Dr. Cheryl McCartney associate dean for student affairs, succeeding Dr. Mitchell Sorrow after 17 years. The Daily Tar Heel, December 4, 1987, p. 6
  73. The CIA calls off its recruiting visit to the UNC School of Law after a student fast CIA recruiters telephoned law dean Kenneth Broun to cancel their interviews at the School of Law and said they would not recruit on campus that semester, moving the interviews off campus. Donald Boulton, dean of student affairs, said the protests of the CIA Action Committee, some of whose members had fasted since February 9, played a part but that the University had not intervened; Chancellor Christopher Fordham had declined to bar the agency. The Daily Tar Heel, February 23, 1988, p. 1
  74. The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association holds its eleventh Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week, with Jeff Levi and Ben Schatz The week and a half of events, with 21 co-sponsors and about 900 people attending in all, began with an AIDS benefit dance on March 26 co-sponsored by the Unitas program. Ben Schatz of National Gay Rights Advocates spoke at the Law School on March 28, a religion forum on April 4 drew about 150, and on April 6 Jeff Levi, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, spoke to a new School of Public Health class on AIDS, to the Law School and to the association. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), April 1988, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 25, 1988, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, March 29, 1988, p. 3
  75. UNC School of Law establishes the Chancellor's Scholars Program The School of Law set up the Chancellor's Scholars Program to give full scholarships, through aid, tuition remission and research and teaching assistantships, to six entering law students a year, half from North Carolina, beginning in fall 1989, with up to four smaller awards. Acting dean Ronald Link said it took the place of the Morehead Fellowships in Law, which the Morehead Foundation ended in 1984; about 100 top applicants were invited to apply and 20 were to be interviewed on April 1. The Daily Tar Heel, March 3, 1989, p. 8
  76. Former Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor retires from the law faculty N. Ferebee Taylor, UNC's chancellor for eight years and a law professor since 1980, retired after 21 years at the University, keeping an office at the law school. People: N. Ferebee Taylor The Daily Tar Heel, August 26, 1991, p. 3
  77. Charles Daye is named Henry P. Brandeis Distinguished Professor of Law UNC named Charles Daye, a former president of the N.C. Association of Black Lawyers, Henry P. Brandeis Distinguished Professor of Law. The Daily Tar Heel said Daye, who joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1972, had been the first Black faculty member named a full professor; he left in 1981 to become dean of the N.C. Central University law school and returned in 1986. The Daily Tar Heel, October 17, 1991, p. 3
  78. Daniel Pollitt retires from the UNC law faculty Pollitt, by then a Kenan professor of law, retired from teaching in 1992 after more than 35 years at UNC. The Daily Tar Heel credited him with founding the North Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, opposing the Speaker Ban and helping to integrate the university. UNC Libraries: Daniel H. Pollitt Papers, 1935-2009 (#05498), finding aid · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 15, 1992, p. 1
  79. UNC trustees reject the design for an $8.8 million law school addition On July 24, 1992, the UNC Board of Trustees voted 6 to 3 against the design for an $8.8 million addition to the law school, a Jeffersonian building with columns and a dome, even though its buildings and grounds committee had approved it unanimously. Trustee Cressie Thigpen later said he voted no believing the state would pay and did not know the money was to come from an anonymous private donor. The Daily Tar Heel, August 24, 1992, p. 1
  80. A scholarship against anti-gay discrimination is endowed at the UNC School of Law By July 8, 1993 Chapel Hill writer David Jones had endowed the Alan Berman Scholarship at the UNC School of Law in memory of his partner of 17 years, a UNC alumnus and Durham lawyer, to support students working against discrimination toward gays and lesbians. The Daily Tar Heel called it the state's first such scholarship; it was to be first awarded in fall 1993. The Daily Tar Heel, July 8, 1993, p. 3
  81. UNC names its law library the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library At a rededication on September 9, two days before the 100th anniversary of her birth, the law school named its library for Kathrine R. Everett, a 1920 graduate whom the Daily Tar Heel described as the first woman to argue and win a case before the N.C. Supreme Court. Her bequest of about $2 million, which Dean Judith Wegner called the largest gift in the school's history, endows a professorship and the library. People: Kathrine R. Everett The Daily Tar Heel, September 10, 1993, p. 1
  82. UNC trustees approve a $500 annual fee for law students The UNC Board of Trustees voted unanimously on November 19 for a new $500 yearly fee for law students, raising in-state law tuition and fees to $2,012, to pay for supplies, library services and programs after the American Bar Association warned in its reaccreditation review that faculty salaries, the library and the building fell short. The fee went to the Board of Governors for final approval. The Daily Tar Heel, November 22, 1993, p. 3
  83. UNC's law school finishes a $1.4 million campaign for library resources Over the summer the law school completed a Bicentennial Campaign drive raising $1.4 million for library resources and technology, and the General Assembly's short session gave $1 million toward a planned $12 million addition, steps the school was to report to the American Bar Association, which had raised concerns about space, faculty pay and resources in its reaccreditation review. The Daily Tar Heel, August 30, 1994, p. 3
  84. UNC School of Law receives a Keck Foundation grant for a legal ethics program The W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles gave UNC's School of Law $200,000 over three years, beginning in fall 1994, for an International Legal Ethics Program directed by clinical professor Walter Bennett Jr., linking students with lawyers and judges through oral histories. The Daily Tar Heel, August 26, 1994, p. 3
  85. UNC's School of Law founds the Center for Civil Rights with Julius Chambers as its first director The UNC School of Law established the Center for Civil Rights in Chapel Hill in 2001, with Julius Chambers as its first director, Dean Gene Nichol, and John Charles Boger as deputy director. The center worked on inequalities facing minority and low-income communities. UNC School of Law: Center for Civil Rights
  86. UNC School of Law dedicates a portrait of Charles E. Daye The law school held a virtual dedication for a commissioned portrait of Professor Emeritus Charles E. Daye by the Durham artist William Paul Thomas, attended by close to 300 people. The portrait hangs on the fifth floor of Van Hecke-Wettach Hall. UNC School of Law: Professor Charles E. Daye Honored with Portrait Dedication

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