Duke University School of Law

Investigating N.C.'s role in CIA renditions

Faculty, students examine state’s ties to apprehension, detention, and transport of terror suspects to be tortured outside the U.S.
Entering the public domain (finally)

Center for the Study of the Public Domain celebrates expiration of copyright for Safety Last! and other works from 1923.
Wintersession

Short courses taught by leading practitioners and Duke Law faculty, January 5-9.

Features

Clinical Professor Ryke Longest

Longest advocates preservation of nation’s visual character as chair of Scenic America

Femi Cadmus

Cadmus discusses her leadership of AALL, her career, and challenges facing law librarianship and legal education

James Boyle

Boyle on the 50th anniversary of Hardin’s “The tragedy of the commons:” The ‘commons of the mind’ must be preserved

Faculty Scholarship

Mitu Gulati
Targeted Subordination of Official Sector Debt
Banking & Finance Law Review (with Lee C. Buchheit)
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Laurence R. Helfer
Customary International Law: An Instrument Choice Perspective
Michigan Journal of International Law (with Ingrid Wuerth)
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David F. Levi
Evaluating Judges and Judicial Institutions: Reorienting the Perspective
Duke Law Journal Online (with others)
More from the Duke Law Scholarship Repository
James D. Cox
Corporate Darwinism: Disciplining Managers in a World with Weak Shareholder Litigation
North Carolina Law Review (with Randall S. Thomas)
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Jonathan B. Wiener
Environmental Regulation Going Retro: Learning Foresight from Hindsight
Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law (with Daniel L. Ribeiro)
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In The News

Frakes and co-author argue that hiring more examiners would make patent system more efficient

Garrett on Tesla’s corporate governance: “A board has an independent duty to the company, not to management or even the CEO”

Bolch Judicial Institute garners praise for compilation of guidelines and best practices on new class action rule

Dunlap discusses past instances of presidential engagement with and pre-emptive pardons in military criminal cases

Garrett: Giving big banks “probation” after criminal wrongdoing make consequences of later violations more serious

The New York Times

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UpcomingatDuke Law

1L Required Event: Interviewing: Crafting Your Narrative Jan 8 12:30 PM

Advanced Business Networking for International Lawyers: Understanding American Legal Culture Jan 10 12:30 PM · Global · Lecture/Talk

Navigating the Path to Patent Practice Jan 10 12:30 PM

Transactional Law Competition Board Jan 12 7:30 AM · Competition/Contest

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» Center for the Study of the Public Domain celebrates expiration of copyright for Safety Last! and other works from 1923.
» Short courses taught by leading practitioners and Duke Law faculty, January 5-9.
» Faculty, students examine state’s ties to apprehension, detention, and transport of terror suspects to be tortured outside the U.S.