Regent Law News

On Saturday, January 21, the Virginia Bar Association (VBA) inaugurated its statewide representatives for their 2017 term. Dean Michael Hernandez Regent University School of Law (LAW) Dean Michael Hernandez was among those new leaders as he accepted his appointment as a representative by the Board of Governors of the VBA. Hernandez will represent law schools on the VBA board for a minimum of a one-year term. He is the first Regent LAW faculty member to be appointed to this distinction. “It is an honor to serve as the sole law school representative on the Board of Governors and a privilege to be a part of this accomplished group of prominent attorneys.  I am excited to work with the other Board members to build on and continue the standard of excellence that the VBA has upheld since it was founded in 1888,” said Hernandez. “The other members of the Board of Governors are the most accomplished lawyers in Virginia, and the Board is collegial and committed to the h...

Regent University's School of Law Faculty members willingly share their knowledge and expertise beyond the classroom to spark scholarly debate and advance the practice of law. Their latest endeavors include the following. Law Library Assistant Director Marie Summerlin Hamm’s Book Review " Stop Telling and Start Showing: Show, Don't Tell: Legal Writing for the Real World by Adam Lamparello & Megan E. Boyd ," was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: LSN: Book Reviews (Sub-Topic) LSN: Practice of Law Librarianship (Topic) RCRN: Writing Across the Curriculum (Topic) Rhetoric Educator: Communication, Composition, Rhetoric, & Writing eJournal.  She also did a review of The Complete Legal Writer (Carolina Academic Press), published in 108 Law Lib. J. 660 (Fall 2016).  The book, written by a couple of legal writing professors at UNC, explains their unique “genre discovery” approach to teaching legal writing.  The authors were so pleas...

Regent University's School of Law Faculty members willingly share their knowledge and expertise beyond the classroom to spark scholarly debate and advance the practice of law. Their latest endeavors include the following. Associate Professor Brad Jacob made three separate presentations at the CLS national conference with Associate Dean Natt Gantt . Professor Jacob also spoke at Federalist Society law student chapters at the University of Chicago, IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law, and the University of Baltimore School of Law on topics including religious liberty and the 17th Amendment (two separate topics).  To read some of his constitutional law scholarship, download Will the Real Constitutional Originalist Please Stand Up? and Back to Basics: Constitutional Meaning and 'Tradition' . In addition, Professor Jacob preached in Chapel at Grove City and Patrick Henry Colleges and gave a campus lecture at Wheaton College regarding the Supreme Court.  To read some of Profes...

It all started eight years ago with a videotaped lecture he gave to prospective law students. Don’t Talk to the Police ” – his lecture on the Fifth Amendment—talk dozens of times before. Regent University School of Law professor James Duane had given his “ Professor James Duane. “I’d been doing this thing for years, but I’d never taped any of them,” said Duane. But this time, he made an exception: He invited his current students to join in on the lecture. And when a few students couldn’t make it to the class in real-time, he put it on Regent’s website and sent it to 40-some students via email. A week later, he received a phone call from the head of the university’s IT department. “She said, ‘Jim, we’ve got a problem over here,” said Duane. The video had attracted such a high volume of viewers that the school’s server was unable to handle it. Duane agreed to release t...