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In December and January, Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord explored First Amendment issues in radio and television news interviews across the country, including an interview on WUNC's The State of Things about free speech and license plates. He also authored the article, "Government Speech and North Carolina's 'Choose Life' License Plate," published Dec. 21 by Jurist, the web-based legal news service.

Published December 19 by the Stanford Law Review Online, the article details "potentially disastrous consequences" of two pieces of federal legislation pending in Congress related to the Internet and intellectual property law.

Elon Law Professor Peter Hoffman's article, "Law Schools and the Changing Face of Practice," was recently published in the New York Law School Law Review.

Elon Law professor David Levine discussed his recent article, Transparency Soup: ACTA and the Failure of Black Box Lawmaking, at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in Washington, DC, January 7.

Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord authored the article, “Government Speech and North Carolina’s ‘Choose Life” License Plate,” published Dec. 21 by Jurist, the web-based legal news service.

In November, Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord gave presentations at law schools in Mississippi and Virginia and participated in a debate in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Presenting at the University of Dayton School of Law on Nov. 17 through the school's faculty colloquium series, Elon Law professor Michael L. Rich detailed why and how criminal law informants should be better protected.

On Nov. 18, Elon Law professor David Levine presented, "The Social Layer of Freedom of Information Law" at the 2011 symposium of the North Carolina Law Review.

Elon Law professor Henry Gabriel, a United States delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, recently represented the U.S. at a commission meeting on electronic commerce at the United Nations Center in Vienna, Austria. He also represented the U.S. at two symposia in Rome and delivered presentations in Washington, D.C. and Beijing, China.