Welcome to the Constitutional Rights & Responsibilites Section

Section News & Notes 2012 Constitutional Rights & Responsibilities Section Annual Meeting/CLE (Joint CLE with Juvenile Justice and Education Sections) Mark your calendar: April 27, 2012, NC Bar Center, Cary, NC "The North Carolina Constitution Explained" The Bar Association has released a guide to the North Carolina Constitution, titled The North Carolina Constitution Explained. The book is available in soft cover and in ebook format. Sample pages can be viewed at the links above. Join/Renew your Constitutional Rights & Responsibilities Section membership, today!

The Constitutional Rights & Responsibilites Section is a forum for attorneys in all practice areas interested in issues relating to constitutional law. One of the section's goals is to increase public awareness of the Constitution.

The section, with currently 156 members, sponsors CLE programs and services; provides members with a substantive newsletter; and helps mold the association's legislative agenda for presentation to the N.C. General Assembly. The newsletter, the Constitutionalist, offers an index of its articles and CLE topics.

The Constitutional Rights & Responsibilites Section's website includes the following information:

Join/Renew - contains an online application form for joining this section.

Calendar - contains a listing of Section Council meeting dates, Section Annual meeting dates, and other Section-related events dates, locations, times, and event descriptions.

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) - contains section-specific Continuing Legal Education (CLE) information including upcoming programs and publications when available.

ListManager – is a communication tool that offers its members the opportunity to post suggestions, comments or questions to a large number of people at the same time.

Newsletters - contains the section's newsletters.

Leadership - contains information from the section's leadership including the section officers, section council, committee chairs, and meeting minutes when available.

Resources - contains section-specific legal resources including access to Casemaker / PJI, online links / references, publications (e.g., forms, brochures, booklets, etc.), articles, legislative issues, and other information when available.

Governance - contains the Constitutional Rights & Responsibilites section's governing documents including the purpose statement and bylaws.

NCBA - Information about the North Carolina Bar Association's leaders, staff contacts, map/driving tools, and links to other sections, divisions as well as NCBA's home page.