The list below groups faculty members according to their areas of teaching and research interests. The list will provide guidance in selecting upper-level courses and in identifying faculty with whom to consult on a number of issues, including the selection of law journal note topics, the supervision of independent study projects, and the identification of law firms with relevant practice areas.
- Business, Commercial, and Tax Law
- International and Comparative Law
- Constitutional and Administrative Law
- Intellectual Property, Science, and Technology
- Health Law and Policy
- Environmental Law and Policy
- Civil and Criminal Procedure, Dispute Resolution, and Evidence
- The Legal Profession
- Clinical Courses (including skills courses except for writing courses)
- Other Upper-Class Courses/Faculty
- First-Year Courses
| Business, Commercial, and Tax Law | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| James Cox | Business Associations; Securities Regulation; Governance, Responsibility and Crime in the Public Corporation |
| Deborah DeMott | Advanced Issues in Agency Law; Business Associations; Corporate Finance; Issues in Corporate Representation |
| Andrew Foster | Community Economic Development Law; Community Enterprise Law Clinic |
| Barak Richman | Antitrust |
| Richard Schmalbeck | Federal Income Taxation; Quantitative Methods; The Non-Profit Sector |
| Steven Schwarcz | Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy; Principles of Commercial and Bankruptcy Law; Structuring Commercial and Financial Transactions |
| John Weistart | Athletics and Antitrust; Commercial Transactions; Contracts; Strategies in Commercial Transactions |
| Lawrence Zelenak | Corporate Taxation; Federal Income Taxation; Tax Policy |
| Other Key Duke Faculty | |
| Wesley Cohen | Intellectual Capital and Competitive Strategy (Fuqua) |
| John Graham | Corporate Restructuring (Fuqua) |
| Andrew Widmark | Real Estate Entrepreneurship (Fuqua) |
| Rebecca Zarutskie | Venture Capital and Private Equity (Fuqua) |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Jeff Coyne | Corporate Reorganization |
| Ogden Lewis | Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy |
| Martin Lybecker | Financial Holding Companies Law; Financial Services Law |
| Walter Nunnallee | Corporate Taxation; Partnership Taxation |
| Nancy Shaw | Estate and Gift Taxation, Estate Planning; Trusts and Estates |
| Charles Verrill | International Business Transactions |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Contracts |
| Labor and Employment |
| Related Dual Degrees |
| Master of Business Administration |
| International and Comparative Law | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Curtis Bradley | Public International Law, U.S. Foreign Relations Law |
| Michael Bradley | International Investment Law |
| Rachel Brewster | International Trade Law, International Relations Theory. |
| Paul Carrington | Transnational Dispute Resolution |
| George Christie | Comparative Legal Reasoning |
| Martin Golding | Jewish Law |
| Lawrence Helfer | International Human Rights and International Law |
| Donald Horowitz | Comparative Constitutional Design; Comparative Public Law and Policy: Ethnic Group Relations |
| Jennifer Jenkins | Intellectual Property, Public Domain, and Free Speech |
| Thomas Metzloff | Distinctive Aspects of U.S. Law |
| Ralf Michaels | Comparative Law: Western Legal Traditions; Conflict of Laws; Private Law Beyond the State |
| Jonathan Wiener | International & Comparative Environmental Law and Risk Regulation |
| Ernest Young | Foreign Relations Law |
| Current Issues in Comparative Law; Law and Globalization | |
|---|---|
| Madeline Morris | International Criminal Law; International Human Rights; Public International Law; The Enforcement of International Human Rights: International Criminal Law |
| Jonathan Ocko | Chinese Company and Security Law; Chinese Law and Society; Chinese Legal History |
| Jerome Reichman | International Intellectual Property |
| James Salzman | International Environmental Law |
| Scott Silliman | National Security Law |
| Jonathan Wiener | Climate Change and the Law; Risk Regulation in the US, Europe & Beyond; Global Property Regimes |
| Other Key Duke Faculty | |
| Ebrahim Moosa | Islamic Law and Culture |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Kristina Alayan | International Research Methods |
| Charles Verrill | International Business Transactions |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Business/Commercial Law |
| Constitutional Law |
| Environmental Law |
| Possible Dual Degrees |
| LL.M. in International Law |
| M.A. in political science |
| Constitutional and Administrative Law | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Stuart Benjamin | Administrative Law; First Amendment; Telecommunications |
| James Boyle | Constitution in Cyberspace |
| Curtis Bradley | Foreign Affairs Law; Public International Law; National Security |
| Charles Clotfelter | Race and Education |
| Doriane Lambelet- Coleman | Writ of Certiorari |
| Walter Dellinger | Advanced Constitutional Law; The Rehnquist Court |
| Donald Horowitz | Comparative Constitutional Design |
| Trina Jones | Employment Discrimination; Race and the Law |
| Carolyn McAllaster | AIDS Law; AIDS Legal Assistance Project |
| Jefferson H. Powell | Powell Constitutional Law; Constitutional Law II; Theological Dimensions of Law and Politics |
| Jedediah Purdy | Property and the Constitutional Order |
| Christopher Schroeder | Administrative Law; Advanced Constitutional Law; The Congress; Comparative Constitutional Law; Constitutional Law |
| Neil Siegel | Constitutional Law; Federal Courts Seminar: State Sovereign Immunity and Section Five |
| Scott Silliman | Military Justice; National Security Law |
| Jane Wettach | Education Law; Childrens Education Law Clinic Other Key Duke Faculty |
| Ernest Young | Constitutional Law; Federal Courts; Reading Group in Constitutional Theory |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Ted Kaufman | The Congress; The Congress: Government, Business, and the Global Economy |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Criminal Law and Procedure |
| Related Dual Degrees |
| MA in History |
| MA in Political Science |
| Master of Public Policy |
| Intellectual Property, Science, and Technology | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Stuart Benjamin | Property Rights versus the Commons in High Technology; Telecommunications Law |
| James Boyle | Constitution in Cyberspace; Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property, Public Domain and Free Speech |
| David Lange | Entertainment Law; Independent Feature Film Production, Finance, and Distribution; Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property, Public Domain, and Free Speech; Telecommunications Law; Trademark Law and Unfair Competition |
| Arti Rai | Intellectual Property Rights and the Biopharmaceutical Industry; Patent Law and Policy |
| Jerome Reichman | Copyright Law; Intellectual Property; International Intellectual Property |
| Other Key Duke Faculty |
| Allen Buchanan (philosopher/Sanford) |
| Wes Cohen (economist/Fuqua) |
| Robert Cook-Deegan (genomics, law and policy/MD) |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Lauren Dame | Bioethics; Genetics and the Law |
| Kenneth Sibley | Patent Law |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Environmental Law |
| Possible Dual Degrees |
| Master of Environmental Management |
| Master of Public Policy |
| MS/MA in Engineering |
| Health Law and Policy | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Carolyn McAllaster | AIDS Law |
| Arti Rai | Intellectual Property Rights and the Biopharmaceutical Industry |
| Barak Richman | Health Care Law and Policy |
| Related Dual Degrees |
| M.D. |
| Environmental Law and Policy | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Jedediah Purdy | Property; Property and the Constitutional Order |
| James Salzman | Environmental Law; International Environmental Law; Natural Resources Law |
| Christopher Schroeder | Environmental Law; The Origins of Environmental Legislation |
| Jonathan Wiener | Environmental Law; Global Property Regimes; Mass Torts; Risk Regulation |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Stephen Roady | Coastal Law and Policy; Environmental Litigation; Environmental Litigation Outplacement |
| Related Dual Degrees |
| Master of Environmental Management |
| Master of Forestry |
| Master of Public Policy |
| Civil and Criminal Procedure, Dispute Resolution, and Evidence | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Sara Beale | Criminal Law; Federal Criminal Law |
| Paul Carrington | Civil Procedure; Transnational Dispute Resolution |
| James Coleman | Criminal Law; Negotiation; Wrongful Convictions |
| Diane Dimond | Negotiation |
| Lisa Kern Griffin | Evidence; Criminal Procedure |
| Trina Jones | Civil Procedure |
| Francis McGovern | Dispute Resolution; Legal Strategy |
| Thomas Metzloff | Civil Procedure |
| Theresa Newman | Wrongful Convictions |
| Neil Vidmar | Contemporary Jury; Negotiation; Psychology of Litigation; Social Science Evidence in Law; World Jury Systems: A Comparative Perspective |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Donald Beskind | Evidence; Trial Practice |
| Sally Johnson | Forensic Psychiatry |
| Stephen Roady | Environmental Litigation; Environmental Litigation Outplacement |
| The Legal Profession | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Katharine Bartlett | Readings in Ethics |
| Paul Carrington | The American Legal Profession in Historical Perspective |
| George Christie | Readings in Ethics |
| James Coleman | Readings in Ethics |
| Deborah DeMott | Issues in Corporate Representation |
| Andrew Foster | Ethics and the Law of Lawyering (transactional) |
| Paul Haagen | American Legal History |
| Jefferson H. Powell | The Culture of American Law; Readings in Ethics |
| Jedediah Purdy | Readings in Ethics |
| Christopher Schroeder | Readings in Ethics |
| Other Key Duke Faculty | |
| Karla Holloway | Readings in Ethics |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Charles Holton | Ethics and the Law of Lawyering (litigation) |
| Alice Mine | Ethics in Action |
| Allison Rice | Ethics and the Law of Lawyering |
| Clinical Courses | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Brenda Berlin | Childrens Education Law Clinic |
| James Coleman | Death Penalty Clinic; Wrongful Convictions |
| Richard Danner | Legislation |
| Diane Dimond | Negotiation |
| Andrew Foster | Community Enterprise Law Clinic |
| Carolyn McAllaster | AIDS Legal Assistance Project |
| Francis McGovern | Legal Strategy |
| Madeline Morris | Guantanamo Defense Clinic |
| Theresa Newman | Wrongful Convictions |
| Allison Rice | AIDS Legal Assistance Project |
| Nancy Shaw | Estate and Tax Planning |
| Carol Spruill | Poverty Law |
| Neil Vidmar | Negotiation |
| John Weistart | Strategies in Commercial Transactions |
| Jane Wettach | Childrens Education Law Clinic |
| Other Key Duke Faculty | |
| George Gopen | Advanced Writing Tutorials |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Robert Beason | Negotiation |
| Charles Becton | Trial Practice |
| Donald Beskind | Trial Practice |
| J. Donald Cowan | Trial Practice |
| Rene Stemple-Ellis | Ellis Negotiation |
| James Fuller | Trial Practice |
| Sandra Johnson | Trial Practice |
| Ogden Lewis | Legal Strategy |
| Thomas Maher | Trial Practice |
| William Mills | Trial Practice |
| Stephen Roady | Environmental Litigation Outplacement |
| Kenneth Sibley | Patent Claim Drafting |
| Other Upper-Class Courses/Faculty | |
|---|---|
| Doriane Lambelet-Coleman | Children and the Law |
| Jane Wettach | Education Law |
| First Year Courses | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Civil Procedure | Paul Carrington, Trina Jones, Thomas Metzloff |
| Constitutional Law | H. Jefferson Powell, Christopher Schroeder, Neil Siegel, Ernest A. Young |
| Contracts | Katharine Bartlett, Paul Haagen, H. Jefferson Powell, Jerome Reichman, Barak Richman, James Salzman, John Weistart |
| Criminal Law | Sara Sun Beale, James Coleman, Lisa Kern Griffin |
| Property | Jedediah Purdy, William Reppy, James Salzman, Jonathan Wiener |
| Torts | James Boyle, George Christie, Deborah DeMott, Doriane Lambelet Coleman |
| Legal Analysis, Research and Writing | |
| Kristina Alayan | Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—research |
| Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—writing | |
| Jane Bahnson | Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—research |
| Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—writing | |
| Jennifer L. Behrens | Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing —research |
| Diane Dimond | Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—writing |
| Melanie Dunshee | Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—research |
| Kelly Leong | Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—research |
| Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—writing | |
| Marguerite Most | Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—research |
| Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—writing | |
| Jo Ann Ragazzo | Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—writing |
| Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—writing | |
| Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—writing | |
| Laura Scott | Legal Analysis, Research, & Writing—research |
