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Elisabeth de Fontenay, emerging scholar of corporate law, finance, and financial institutions, joins governing faculty
Elisabeth de Fontenay will join the Duke Law governing faculty on July 1 as an associate professor of law. She comes to Duke from Harvard Law School where she has served as a Climenko Fellow and lecturer in law since 2011.
Duke Law News
- Zelenak discusses new book, "Learning to Love Form 1040" The Michael Smerconish Program
- Bryant '14 discusses being the first African American DLJ editor-in-chief On Being a Black Lawyer
- Gala, Justin Miller Awards, and class gift kick off 2013 graduation weekend
- Roche '13 wins "Philosopher's Way" 15k trail run Chapel Hill News
- Appellate Litigation Clinic students prevail in Fourth Circuit
Faculty in the News
- Dunlap: Obama's new drone policy might be too restrictive Wall Street Journal
- Dunlap says new drone policy "risks inviting terrorists to surround themselves with civilians" Politico
- DeMott analyzes Buffett essay in online symposium Concurring Opinions
- Schmalbeck explains tax exemption process PBS Newshour
- Zelenak on tax havens: "You don’t really have to keep money offshore to keep it offshore" Marketplace
Recent Scholarship
- Laurence R. Helfer
International Courts as Agents of Legal Change: Evidence from LGBT Rights in Europe, 68 International Organization (forthcoming, 2014) (with Erik Voeten) - Laurence R. Helfer
The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice, (OUP forthcoming 2014) (with Karen J. Alter) - Steven L. Schwarcz
The Protection Puzzle: Is Insurance Systemically Risky? (with Daniel Schwarcz) - Steven L. Schwarcz
Rollover Risk: Ideating a US Debt Default - Steven L. Schwarcz
Special - Purpose Entities in National Finance
Recent Activities
- Professor Richman participated in a panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute titled "Big Health: Consolidation and Competition Under the Affordable Care Act" on March 1. (March 01, 2013) » More
- Professor Baxter delivered a presentation to the Seoul National University School of Law on "Dilemmas of Modern Banking Regulation," on Sept. 22. (September 22, 2012)
- Professor Finkelman presented "How a Railroad Lawyer Became the Great Emancipator: Lincoln and the Constitutional Limits on Emancipation," at the University of Illinois, Springfield. This was the Holtz Memorial Lecture, the opening keynote presentation for the Wepner Symposium on the Lincoln Legacy and Contemporary Scholarship on Oct. 19. (October 19, 2012)
