If you’ve been following the redistricting hearing being held in North Carolina this week, you may have noticed that the hearing is being held at Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law in downtown Raleigh. The above image is from a screenshot of The News & Observer’s website that includes a series of photos from the courtroom as the hearing opened yesterday. 

Here are five things to know about the courtroom at our law school, which The News & Observer described as “airy” (courtesy of the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law):

1. Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law is one of only a handful in the country that has a working court within its facilities. 
2. Our law school is home to the North Carolina Business Court - Raleigh Division, a specialized forum of the N.C. State Courts’ Trial Division.
3. Most of the cases that meet in the N.C. Business Court involve complex and significant issues of corporate and commercial law in the state that are assigned by the Chief Justice of the N.C. Supreme Court to a special superior court judge who oversees resolution of all matters in the case. 
4. The courtroom includes three large flat screen monitors to display motions, briefs and other documents, as well as wireless technology and video conference capabilities. 
5. The on-site courtroom serves as a learning laboratory for our law students, allowing them to observe a working North Carolina Superior Court and to see attorneys put concepts into practice. 

And one final thing to note about the above image that features the three judges who are presiding over the redistricting hearing: The man in the middle is Wake County Judge Paul R. Ridgeway, a 1986 graduate of Campbell’s law school. 

Source: Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law