Judith Welch Wegner

Judith Welch Wegner
Name:Judith Welch Wegner
Title:Burton Craige Professor of Law
Education:J.D. (Order of the Coif), University of California at Los Angeles (1976)
B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa), University of Wisconsin at Madison (1972)

Professor Wegner is a long-time member of the Carolina Law faculty. Wegner served as dean of the School of Law from 1989 to 1999, after serving for eight years as a member of the faculty and for two years as associate dean. She recently completed a research leave as Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and has been principal investigator on the Foundation's major study on legal education, part of its "Program on Preparation for the Professions." Following graduation from law school, Wegner served as law clerk to United States District Judge Warren J. Ferguson (then of the Central District of California and later of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals). Wegner then was an attorney-adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel and an appellate attorney in the Lands and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice. She also was special assistant to United States Secretary of Education Shirley M. Hufstedler. She visited at the College of Law, University of Iowa before joining the UNC-Chapel Hill law faculty in 1981. She has taught and written in the areas of legal education, land use, property law, state and local government law, and the rights of disabled persons. Wegner was president of American legal education's learned society, the Association of American Law Schools, in 1995, and also served on the national executive committee of The Order of the Coif. Wegner has served as chair of the faculty for UNC-Chapel Hill and as chair of the UNC (System) Faculty Assembly.

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Citation: Educating Lawyers, 13 AALL SPECTRUM 20 (Feb. 2009).
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Citation: Legal Education, in THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EDUCATION (Elsevier; Oxford, forthcoming 2009).
Publication Type:Book Chapter
Citation: Reconceiving Professionalism, ___ ACAD. MED.___ (forthcoming).
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Citation:RETHINKING "THINKING LIKE A LAWYER": AMERICAN LEGAL EDUCATION FOR A NEW CENTURY (Wegner) (forthcoming 2008).
Publication Type:Book
Link: KF272 .E38 2007
Citation:EDUCATING LAWYERS: PREPARATION FOR THE PROFESSION OF LAW (Sullivan, Colby, Wegner, Bond, Shulman) (Jossey-Bass 2007).
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Citation: Difficult Dialogues: The View from Chapel Hill, ACADEME, July-Aug. 2006.
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Citation: Discussion Guide, Difficult Dialogues on "Personal Faith and Conscience: When, Where, How and Whom Can We Speak Our Minds on a Public University Campus? (September 2006) Graduate Education at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: A Preliminary Report (March 2006)
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Citation: Faculty Work at the University of North Carolina: A Preliminary Report (March 2006).
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Citation: Graduate Education at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: A Preliminary Report (March 2006).
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Link: KF4600.A7 M35 2006
Citation:STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN A FEDERAL SYSTEM (with D. Mandelker et al.) (Lexis Publishing 6th ed. 2006) (also teachers' manual and blog on state and local government law; designated senior editor (2007).
Publication Type:Book
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Contact Information

Phone:919.962.4113
Fax:919.962.1277
E-Mail:jwegner@email.unc.edu
Office:5074 Van Hecke-Wettach Hall

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