RALEIGH, N.C. – Volume 92 of the North Carolina Law Review features two scholarly articles penned by Campbell Law faculty. Assistant Professor Amos Jones authored The “Old” Black Corporate Bar: Durham’s Wall Street, 1898-1971, while Practitioner in Residence Matt Sawchak authored Refining Per Se Unfair Trade Practices.
Jones’s article analyzes the existence, expansion, prosperity, and influence of Durham’s “black corporate bar” from the early 1900s through the midcentury. Campbell Law graduates Devone Punter (L ’13) and Walker Douglas (L ’14) both assisted Jones with the piece.
Sawchak’s article explores the notion of “per se unfair trade practices” and the confusion that sometimes arises from this concept. Several Campbell Law graduates and current students contributed research to Sawchak’s piece, including Emma Cullen (L ’14), Scottie Beth Forbes, Lauren Fussell, Katie Green (L ’14), Kathleen O’Malley, Kenzie Rakes (L ’13), Lauren Suber, Jamie Thomas, Lauren Travers, Chris Waivers (L ’14), and Robert Weston (L ’14).
Both articles are available via the North Carolina Law Review website at http://www.nclawreview.org/.
Jones teaches and writes in the areas of civil rights, religious freedom, legal ethics and contracts, focusing on contemporary conflicts resulting from competing liberties enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. A vigorous public advocate, Jones has advised Republic of Georgia scholar-practitioners on liberty provisions of the constitution framed after that country’s Rose Revolution of 2003, and delivered expert testimony at an oversight hearing in Washington, D.C., on the most effective ways to improve enforcement of D.C.’s Human Rights Act of 1978. Before coming to Campbell Law, Jones practiced in the international trade and commercial litigation groups of Bryan Cave LLP in Washington, D.C. Prior to entering the legal profession, he was a journalist for Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers in Georgia, Kentucky, New York, and North Carolina.
Jones graduated with honors in political science from Emory University, where he was a Harry S. Truman Scholar and a National Merit Scholar, earned his Master of Science from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he served as an executive editor of both the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal and the Harvard Human Rights Journal and was President of Direct Action. While at Harvard, he was awarded a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship, on which he spent his first year out of law school as a visiting scholar in the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at Australia’s University of Melbourne.
Sawchak is the first Practitioner in Residence at Campbell Law. Business North Carolina magazine has profiled Sawchak twice as the top antitrust lawyer in North Carolina. He has been certified as a specialist in appellate practice by the North Carolina State Bar. He is also described as a leading lawyer in Benchmark Litigation, Benchmark Appellate, Best Lawyers in America, SuperLawyers and Chambers USA. As one of his many scholarly and professional activities, he serves as an editor of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Journal. North Carolina SuperLawyers recently named Sawchak to its annual Top 10 list of leading North Carolina Lawyers.
Sawchak graduated with honors from Harvard University, where he was a National Merit Scholar. He earned his J.D. with honors and his LL.M. from Duke Law School. He was the editor-in-chief of the Duke Law Journal. Sawchak clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas when Justice Thomas served on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before his judicial clerkship, he clerked in the office of the Solicitor General of the United States.
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