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Five law professors were named to endowed professorships as of March 1, 1999.
They are:
* Louis D. Bilionis, Samuel Ashe distinguished professor of constitutional
law;
* John O. Calmore, Reef C. Ivey II research professor of law;
* Michael L. Corrado, Arch T. Allen distinguished professor of law;
* Marion Crain, Paul Eaton professor of law; and
* Ronald C. Link, Dan K. Moore distinguished professor of law.
Bilionis
Bilionis joined the faculty in 1988 and teaches courses in
constitutional law and criminal law. His scholarly work focuses on the
intersection of the Constitution and the criminal law, in particular on the
constitutional implications of capital punishment.
Bilionis has taken part in a number of constitutional cases in the U.S.
Supreme Court and in other federal and state courts, including several cases
that have expanded the rights of citizens under the N.C. Constitution.
His community involvement includes board and committee membership in the
American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina.
As a Morehead scholar, Bilionis was editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel and
graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Carolina in 1979. He graduated from Harvard Law
School magna cum laude in 1982.
The Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professorship in Constitutional Law was
established in 1996 by Thomas Ashe Lockhart, the sixth-generation grandson of
the eminent jurist, governor, attorney and co-founder of the University.
Calmore
A member of the law school faculty since 1997, Calmore teaches courses
on antidiscrimination law, critical race theory and torts. He served on the
search committee for the dean of the School of Information and Library Science.
A former Legal Services attorney, Calmore serves on the American Bar
Association Commission on Homelessness and Poverty and the board of the
National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium. He chairs the board of the
New World Foundation.
His recent publications include "A Call to Context: The Professional
Challenges of Cause Lawyering at the Intersection of Race, Space, and Poverty"
in the Fordham Law Review, as well as other publications and presentations
addressing social justice, multicultural democracy and fair housing.
Prior to coming to Carolina, Calmore taught at Loyola Law School in Los
Angeles where he was a W. Joseph Ford Fellow and professor.
From 1990 to 1992, he was a program officer in the Rights and Social Justice
Program of the Ford Foundation, where he undertook grantmaking and developed
programs to advance minority rights and opportunities.
Calmore received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1971.
Lumberton native Reef Challance Ivey II, a 1968 law school graduate,
established the research professorship to recognize the excellence of mid-level
faculty members who are establishing outstanding reputations as scholars and
teachers. Ivey, a partner in The Sanford Holshouser Law Firm in Raleigh, is
co-owner of the weight loss program Nutri/System.
Corrado
Corrado, who joined the faculty in 1988, teaches comparative law,
criminal law, and philosophy of law and legal ethics. Since 1996, he has been
law school associate dean for faculty.
Along with editing the Journal of Law and Philosophy and a series of books on
comparative law, Corrado co-directs the Carolina Workshops on Law and
Philosophy. He argues prisoner's civil rights cases in the Fourth Circuit Court
of Appeals.
Corrado's scholarly work involves issues of criminal responsibility and
responsibility generally, including new issues raised by egalitarian writers.
In 1995, he published Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law.
Significant journal articles include "Is There an Act Requirement in the
Criminal Law?" in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review (1994) and
"Automatism and the Theory of Action," in the Emory Law Review (1990).
Corrado earned a J.D. with honors at the University of Chicago in 1984 and a
Ph.D. in philosophy at Brown University in 1968.
A crusader for improved public schools, 1897 alumnus Arch T. Allen was a
teacher, principal and superintendent of schools in several N.C. towns for 20
years. Subsequently, he worked at the State Office of Public Instruction for 17
years, serving as state superintendent from 1923 until his death in 1934.
The Arch T. Allen Distinguished Professorship in Law was established in 1991
by Allen's son, Arch T. Allen Jr., and his grandchildren, Arch T. Allen III and
Reveley Allen Moore.
Crain
Crain, who came to Carolina in 1995, teaches courses in employment,
labor, family and criminal law and sex equality.
Her publications address labor law, often from a feminist perspective. She
recently co-authored the tenth edition of Labor Relations Law: Cases and
Materials and the teachers' manual for the textbook.
Crain chairs the Section on Labor and Employment Law of the American
Association of Law Schools.
In 1992, she testified on women and unions before a subcommittee of the U.S.
Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. She was named professor of the
year at West Virginia University College of Law in 1988.
Crain received her J.D. from the UCLA School of Law in 1983 after receiving an
undergraduate degree in social work from Cornell University.
The late Aria Eaton established the Paul B. Eaton Professorship in Law in 1976
in honor of her husband. Eaton, a 1917 alumnus, attended Georgetown University
Law School. He founded Eaton, Bell, Hunt & Seltzer, the largest patent
attorney firm in the Southeast. Both Eatons were pilots and instrumental in the
establishment of Charlotte's Douglass Municipal Airport.
Link
A faculty member since 1971, Link served as acting dean of the law
school from January 1988 to June 1989 and associate dean for academic affairs
from 1982 to 1984.
He has been a member of the Faculty Athletic Committee and the Faculty Council
and chaired the search committee for associate provost in 1988.
Link is an expert on estate planning and fiduciary law. He has contributed
journal articles on American developments in the right to die and
confidentiality issues in representing the elderly and has spoken to groups
here and in England, including this year's meetings of the American College of
Trust and Estate Counsel and the Association of American Law Schools.
In 1977, Link received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine from Gov. James B. Hunt
Jr. for service on the Trusts Drafting Committee.
He is an advisor to the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of
Property and served as an advisor for the Uniform Law Commissioners Revised
Principal and Income Act.
Link earned his law degree at the University of Illinois in 1965 where he was
the associate editor of the University of Illinois Law Forum. He has a master's
degree in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.
The Dan K. Moore Professorship in Jurisprudence and Ethics was established in
1989 through gifts of family, friends and corporations in honor of the former
governor and associate justice of the N.C. Supreme Court.
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