Regent Law News

Regent University School of Law Professor Bruce N. Cameron has filed an amicus brief in Patterson v. Walgreen Co. in support of the employee. He and alumnus Blaine Hutchinson (JD '18) published an article about the case last year, Thinking Slow About Abercrombie & Fitch: Straightening Out the Judicial Confusion in the Lower Courts (forthcoming Pepperdine Law Review). "In Abercrombie & Fitch, the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally changed the way that Title VII religious accommodation cases are litigated and evaluated." Their article explains these changes and suggests an altered proof framework for plaintiffs seeking an accommodation. Professor Cameron is the Reed Larson Professor of Labor Law at Regent University School of Law and a staff attorney at the National Right to Work Foundation. Blaine Hutchinson currently works as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Robert Jones of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Nevada. You can read mo

Regent University School of Law Alumnus Kim Shaftner, MD, JD, was recently elected elected as a Fellow in the American College of Legal Medicine. Dr. Shaftner has had a truly amazing career. He practiced medicine for twenty-four years, including in the Navy and in private practice, before enrolling in the JD program at Regent. He has held the position of Physician Attorney at Knott & Boyle, PLLC in Raleigh-Durham since 2009. Dr. Shaftner also serves as an adjunct professor of law at Regent, where he teaches Health Care Law. You can read more about Dr. Shaftner here: http://www.knottboyle.com/ourfirm/shaftner/. Congratulations, Dr. Shaftner! We continue to be extremely proud of the outstanding achievements of our alumni as they continue to change the world for Christ.

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (March 1, 2019) ― Hundreds gathered inside Robertson Hall’s Moot Courtroom for the installation service of Regent University’s new dean of the School of Law, the Honorable Mark Martin. Having stepped down as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina a day earlier, Martin brings a wealth of judicial and leadership experience to his new position. Martin served North Carolina for more than 26 years as a judge, including 20-plus years on the state’s Supreme Court. In 1992, at age 29, Martin became the youngest superior court judge in the modern era. Just two years later, at 31 years old, Martin became the youngest judge in the history of the N.C. Court of Appeals. In 1998, as a 35-year-old, Martin was elected as the youngest Justice in the history of the Supreme Court of N.C., becoming Chief Justice on September 1, 2014. Regent’s Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Gerson Moreno-Riaño, served as host for the installation service. He call