Professor Deborah Weissman has been named to an endowed professorship, the Reef C. Ivey, II Distiguished Professor of Law, which is awarded to a "faculty member of senior rank...[with] experience in the practice of law [who] shall have developed an outstanding accomplishment as a teacher, scholar, and practitioner or jurist, with preference given to a person in corporate or international law." Professor Weissman teaches domestic violence law, civil lawyering process, and a new imigration/human rights policy clinic. Shewas the 2005-06 recipient of the UNC Pro Bono Faculty of the Year Award. Weissman served as exeutive director of Legal Services of North Carolina, 1996-98. She joined the faculty of the UNC School of Law in 1998. [Click here to read the full article from "Carolina Law Alumni News",Fall edition.]