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Professor Jay Smith Awarded the Education Law Association’s Steinhilber Award

Professor Jay Smith is one of six historians honored with the Education Law Association’s Steinhilber Award for the best legal brief of the year.  Dr. Smith, along with UNC alum Taylor Branch and others, collaborated in writing a Supreme Court amicus brief challenging the NCAA’s conception of amateurism in the case of NCAA v. Shawne Alston. By unanimous decision in that case, the Court ruled that the NCAA is not entitled to restrict athletes from profiting from the use of their images and likenesses.

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*Though the History Department uses the name Pauli Murray Hall for our building, on official maps you will find it as Hamilton Hall. Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton’s intellectually dishonest historical and archival work promoted white supremacy. In contrast, Pauli Murray marshaled unassailable evidence and analysis in the service of racial and gender equality. In July 2020, all of the departments housed in the building agreed to adopt the name Pauli Murray Hall in place of Hamilton Hall. An official request with the Chancellor is pending. For more information, please see here.
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