Five Carolina Law faculty members were recently recognized with awards for their demonstrated excellence in teaching, scholarship and service.

Beth S. Posner ’97 & Alexa Z. Chew

2022 Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction, UNC-Chapel Hill

Selected from more than 800 nominations, the 25 winners of the 2022 UNC Teaching Awards include UNC School of Law Professors Alexa Z. Chew and Beth S. Posner ’97. The awards acknowledge the University’s commitment to outstanding teaching and mentoring for graduate and undergraduate students.

Associate Professor Beth Posner.
Beth Posner, Associate Professor at UNC School of Law.
Associate Professor Alexa Chew.
Alexa Chew, Associate Professor at UNC School of Law.
Allison Constance with the Pro Bono & Public Service Opportunities Emerging Leader Award
Allison Constance ’09, Director of Pro Bono Initiatives and Adjunct Professor of Law at UNC School of Law.

Allison Constance ’09

2022 AALS Section on Pro Bono & Public Service Opportunities Emerging Leader Award

Association of American Law Schools

The awards are hosted by several sections of the association organized around various academic disciplines and topics of interest.

Clinical Professor of Law, Craig Smith, Assistant Dean for Legal Writing and Academic Success.
Craig Smith, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Assistant Dean for the Writing and Learning Resources Center, and Clinical Professor of Law at at UNC School of Law.

Craig T. Smith

2022 Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing

Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD), Legal Writing Institute (LWI)

The Thomas F. Blackwell Award is presented annually to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to improve the field of legal writing by demonstrating (1) an ability to nurture and motivate students to excellence; (2) a willingness to help other legal writing educators improve their teaching skills or their legal writing programs; and (3) an ability to create and integrate new ideas for teaching and motivating legal writing educators and students.

Professor Jeff Hirsch
Jeff Hirsch is a Geneva Yeargan Rand Distinguished Professor of Law at UNC School of Law.

Jeffrey M. Hirsch

Paul Stephen Miller Memorial Award

The Paul Stephen Miller Memorial Award is presented annually to a scholar who has demonstrated outstanding academic and public contributions to the field of labor and employment Law. The award is presented by the Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law (COSELL).