Impact Beyond the Classroom

Ten Carolina Law students spent their fall break in Sylva providing free legal services to small business owners in rural western North Carolina. Nine clients left with something they might not otherwise have had access to: real legal guidance and a written record of it.

The North Carolina Banking Institute Journal started in a broom closet with a metal file cabinet and some floppy discs. Thirty years later, it reaches 300 law schools, firms and financial institutions across the country and gives away $100,000 in scholarships every year.

Carolina Law students didn't just read about the challenges veterans face after leaving the military. They went to Asheville to see them firsthand.

Carolina Law students brought the voices of incarcerated women to the United Nations last October, presenting testimony before delegates, mission representatives and human rights experts on behalf of a formerly incarcerated advocate they had spent months preparing to support.

In 2008, Carolina Law professor Don Hornstein had an idea: what if insurers invested in preventing storm damage before it happened? Seventeen years later, that idea became a $600 million bond and one of the largest gatherings on climate resilience and insurance finance ever held at a U.S. university.