Kenneth S. Broun
Visiting Professor of Law
Kenneth S. Broun is the Henry Brandis Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of North Carolina School of Law. He is teaching Evidence at Duke Law School in the fall 2011 semester.
Prior to joining the UNC law faculty in 1968, Broun practiced law at Jenner and Block in Chicago and taught law at Loyola University. He was director of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy from 1976 to 1979. He served as dean of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law from 1979 to 1987; as counsel at Petree Stockton in Raleigh from 1988 to 1989; and as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in 1991. He served on the NITA board from 1980 through 2005.
Broun has been coordinator and faculty member of the Trial Advocacy Training Programs, Black Lawyers Association of South Africa since 1986. He was a member of the Federal Rules Advisory Committee from 1993 through 1999 and now serves as a consultant to that committee.
Broun has written and co-authored numerous books, including: various editions of McCormick on Evidence; Evidence: Cases and Materials (with Robert P. Mosteller and Paul C. Giannelli); Black Lawyers White Courts: Soul Of South African Law; Problems in Evidence, 5th (with Kenneth S. Broun, Robert P. Mosteller and Paul C. Giannelli); Black Letter on Evidence, 3rd Ed. (Black Letter Outline Series) (with Walker J. Blakey); and Brandis & Broun on North Carolina Evidence, now in its sixth edition.
Broun served as mayor of the Town of Chapel Hill from 1991 to 1995.
