This policy document affirms the UNC School of Law's commitment to academic freedom as essential to its educational mission, supporting faculty and students in freely pursuing teaching, research, scholarship, and public service without unreasonable restraint.
This document outlines the comprehensive academic standards, policies, and requirements governing UNC School of Law, including academic integrity rules, AI‑use policies, graduation and credit requirements, grading systems, attendance expectations, enrollment regulations, exam procedures, and processes for appeals, exclusions, transfers, and student complaints. It serves as the authoritative guide for J.D. students regarding all academic expectations from matriculation through graduation.
This policy document describes the University of North Carolina School of Law’s curriculum structure, instructional procedures, course management practices, examination expectations, grading procedures, and related faculty responsibilities. Its purpose is to guide consistent academic and instructional administration across the Law School.
This document establishes the procedures and standards governing how the UNC School of Law hires, reappoints, promotes, and grants tenure to faculty members, including the roles of the Appointments Committee, the Promotion and Tenure Committee, and the full professors in those processes.
This policy document describes the core responsibilities of the full-time faculty at the University of North Carolina School of Law and establishes procedures for faculty governance and faculty meetings. It also sets rules for voting, notice, quorum, and faculty recommendations related to appointment, reappointment, promotion, and tenure.
This policy affirms the UNC School of Law's commitment to free inquiry and expression, outlining both the broad protections for controversial or unpopular speech and the specific limits on expression that are not protected.
This policy document affirms the UNC School of Law’s commitment to equal opportunity and compliance with UNC’s prohibitions on unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. It also directs inquiries about non-discrimination policies to the University Compliance Office.
This Policy is intended to document requirements and expectations of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (“University”) School of Law (“SOL”) regarding workloads of SOL Faculty, as defined below. The Policy incorporates and reflects policies documented in the SOL’s Faculty Manual.
The overarching purpose of post-tenure review at the School of Law is to serve as an additional means of fostering the School's mission of educational excellence, including its goal of providing high-quality instruction to its students and contributing to the development of the law through scholarship and service. In order to achieve this purpose, the review process should assist individual faculty members in their ongoing professional development.