RALEIGH, N.C. – Campbell Law Assistant Professor Lisa Lukasik’s scholarly work was recently cited by the partial dissent in Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy Charter School, et al v. Cleveland County Board of Education, a decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Lukasik’s article, “Deconstructing a Decade of Charter School Funding Litigation: An Argument for Reform,” was published in the North Carolina Law Review in 2012.
Lukasik’s article is available via this link, while the case is accessible here.
“I am grateful for the support Campbell Law affords to its faculty to develop meaningful scholarship with practical value to the profession,” said Lukasik. “I am also thankful for the effective research assistance of Campbell Law alumna, Laura Beacham, in developing this article. We’re delighted to have been recognized in Judge Hunter’s opinion.“
Lukasik is a frequent presenter at school law conferences. This year alone she has presented at the North Carolina Council for Exceptional Children’s annual conference, the UNC School of Government’s annual School Attorney’s Conference and the 64th Annual Conference on Exceptional Children. In addition to teaching at Campbell Law, Lukasik serves as a State Hearing Review Officer in special education administrative appeals following appointment by the State Board of Education in August 2013.
Lukasik earned her undergraduate degree with honors from Washington University in St. Louis, where she graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her law degree with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, where she graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif. Her recent scholarship on public school law appears in the North Carolina Law Review and the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law.
Prior to Campbell Law, Lukasik served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, practiced education law at Tharrington Smith LLP, and clerked for the Honorable Willis P. Whichard, former dean of Campbell Law, on the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
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