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Black History Month: Honoring the excellence of Duke Law's Black alumni

This year, Duke Law celebrates Black History Month by honoring the courage, wisdom, and accomplishments of our school's Black alumni.

Charles testifies before House committee on voting rights legislation

The election law expert appeared virtually at a House Committee on House Administration hearing on the For the People Act of 2021.

Boughton wins five NC Press Association writing awards

Boughton, who handles communications for the Wilson Center at Duke Law, won for work done in her previous job as a reporter for NC Policy Watch.

GFMC report urges SEC to require transparency on threats from climate, racism, inequality

New report asks the SEC to ensure companies disclose risks from environmental, social, and governance factors.

Exoneree Curtis Flowers talks about his six murder trials and long fight for freedom

Abram '81 and Maxwell '14 were part of the defense team for Flowers, whose conviction was reversed by the Supreme Court in 2019.

Levy testifies at House subcommittee hearing on expanding federal courts of appeal

Levy, an expert in judicial administration and federal courts, appeared virtually before the hearing, which was titled “The Need for New Lower Court Judgeships, 30 Years in the Making.”

Richman op-ed in WSJ proposes middleware to give consumers greater control

The software would reduce "the oversize power of Twitter, Facebook and Google in controlling political discourse."

Love and the law: For faculty couples, it's all in a day's work

Duke Law has more than a dozen married couples on the faculty. Two of them share their stories.

Black History Month: Honoring the excellence of Duke Law's Black alumni

Charles testifies before House committee on voting rights legislation

Boughton wins five NC Press Association writing awards

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Notable & Quotable

February 22, 2021

“We’ve just had real changeover in the last administration, and we’re about to see it again. These kinds of personnel changes have huge effects on the courts."

– Professor Marin Levy in The New York Times

The New York Times

February 21, 2021

"It's not just symbolic to add a cabinet-level science adviser, and I'm sure that there will be impacts beyond forensic science that are felt in our criminal system."

– Professor Brandon Garrett in Law360

Law360

February 20, 2021

“We were fully prepared to go to the Supreme Court by nightfall. We had paper filed and ready.”

– Professor Emeritus Walter Dellinger in The New Yorker

The New Yorker

February 18, 2021

"The SEC ... is in a very uncomfortable position. There are so many larger questions about market structure and the financial markets that the SEC has tried to avoid dealing with and getting involved in for a long time. And it feels like it's all kind of coming to a head now."

– Professor Elisabeth de Fontenay on Yahoo! Finance

Yahoo! Finance

February 18, 2021

"The wise decision made early on to 'go big' on public funding for production should incentivize firms to rapidly transfer even 'crown jewel' knowledge to the fullest extent possible."

– Professor Arti Rai in USA Today

USA Today

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