Growing up, Professor Zaneta Robinson (JD ’03) had no idea she would one day use her love of hands-on learning to lead the Intellectual Property Law Clinic at Wake Forest Law. In fact, she didn’t know she would become a professor at all. But law […]
Despite the historical and current barriers faced by the queer community—a subject she has dedicated her research to—Wake Forest Law Professor Marie-Amélie George is an eternal optimist. “Law can only do so much, but when we look back on history, it offers a lot of […]
Wake Forest Law Professor Brenda Gibson never set out to become a teacher—especially not a professor of legal writing. Although she is a natural writer, she struggled through her first semester of legal writing in law school. “Legal writing is this very technical, almost mathematic […]
When I ask Professor Meghan Boone, a fourth-generation Floridian, whether she misses Florida, she smiles. “In February,” she says, while wearing her maroon sweater. But any other time of year, she’s content. Winston-Salem is home now that her family is within an hour and a […]
In addition to being attorneys and teaching at a world-class university, Wake Forest Law Professors Meghan Boone, Marie-Amélie George, and Brenda Gibson all have one thing in common: they all got tenure this year. However, that’s where their similarities end. Professor Boone, for example, attended […]
In 2021, Wake Forest Law launched its Accountable Prosecutor Project, a research arm of the Foundation for Prosecutorial Accountability. The Project’s purpose is to research the current landscape of prosecutor accountability mechanisms as well as ways to improve prosecutor transparency and connection with communities. Since […]
Wake Forest Law Associate Professor, and leading expert in constitutional law and reproductive rights, shares her expert opinion about the overturning of Roe v. Wade in this guest-writer piece. Note: The opinions expressed in this piece are not representative of the opinions of Wake Forest […]
Professor Sarah Morath is an expert on legal writing pedagogy who also teaches and publishes on a wide range of topics related to environmental law, food law and policy, agriculture, and natural resources law, among other subjects. Her scholarly contributions to the field of legal […]
Since 1989, the National Registry of Exonerations has tracked more than 2,800 exonerations in the United States — 129 of them recorded just last year. Together, these cases have resulted in individuals collectively losing more than 25,000 years of their lives to wrongful imprisonment. In […]