For months professors at UNC battled the Board of Governors to save the law school’s Center for Civil Rights – the fight went on and on with former Dean Gene Nichol and current Dean Martin Brinkley both heaping praise on the Center for its lawsuits.

In the end the Board won – but then an ironic thing happened: It turned out there should never have been a war because it was against state law for the UNC Center to be filing lawsuits. It was an odd last chapter: According to the North Carolina State Bar for over a decade, under the Deans, the law school had been violating the law.