Forever Learning with Duke Law
Your intellectual and professional development doesn’t end when you graduate. Discover programs and resources for alumni to gain knowledge, develop new skills, and find a community of lifelong learners.
Welcome to Forever Learning with Duke Law School! Please enjoy exclusive access to recorded programs and panels presented by Duke Law faculty and alumni.
Negotiation Workshop for Duke Alumni
This program is organized and sponsored by Duke Law School and the Duke Alumni Forever Learning Institute; Duke Alumni Careers is a co-sponsor.
Monday, September 13 & Monday, November 1
Negotiation is a critical business and life skill that we all use daily. Yet many of us are uncomfortable in this environment, and may even work to avoid negotiating if we can. In this interactive two-hour workshop taught by Duke Law professor Casey Thomson, we will explore the basic skills and techniques used by experienced negotiators. As we walk through the stages of the negotiation process, you will learn how to improve outcomes while maintaining positive relationships. Participants will also have the opportunity to practice their skills in small group exercises. By the end of the workshop, you should be empowered with a toolkit that will help you approach your next negotiation with confidence! This workshop will be offered twice. Please register for only one session.
Click here to register
Bootcamp 2021: Basic Training for Lawyers
This program is organized and sponsored by the NYC Bar. The virtual two-day event will be held on September 30th from 8:30 am - 1:15 pm and October 5th from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm. The lineup includes:
Thursday, September 30
Keynote — Carroll Welch, Carroll Welch Consulting – Career and Executive Coaching
Job Search: Finding Your First Job in the New Normal with Brian Farkas and a panel of attorneys who faced their own job searches outside of "traditional" on-campus recruitment after graduating in 2020.
Setting Yourself Up for Success with a panel of professional development attorneys
Careers in a Post-COVID World with a panel of attorneys from key practice areas
Tuesday, October 5
BarTalks – Building Your Successful Career with sessions on Preparing for Your Character & Fitness Application/Interview and Self-Care is Critical to Your Success
Career Conversations: a virtual networking opportunity to move from table to table to meet with attorneys from different practice areas.
Registration is now open, and you can access the brochure’s online version here.
Leveraging Your Personal and Professional Experiences to Join a Board of Directors
Have you ever considered joining a board of directors for a non-profit organization or a professional association? Perhaps you have considered how the experience might allow you to network, expand your own business, or volunteer in a significant, unique way. In this program, speakers will share their experiences (both personal and professional) serving on various boards. Hosted by the Law Alumni Association’s Board of Directors, this panel included Duke Law alumni who have served on different boards.
Panelists:
Diana Allen J.D.’97, Vice President and General Counsel and Secretary, ChannelAdvisor Corporation
Michelle Park Chiu J.D.'06, LL.M.'06, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Mark DiOrio J.D.’88, Managing Director and General Counsel, Bulfinch Companies, Inc.
Corey Lee J.D.’04, Partner, Jones Day
Geoff Krouse J.D.’97, (Moderator), Assistant Dean for Alumni and Development, Duke Law School
View program transcript.
When we ask alumni to share feedback on the types of local Duke Law events they would most like to see, our most common request is for programs featuring the Law School’s outstanding faculty. The goal of the program is to invite alumni to “come back to Law School” for a night. We hope these events will provide alumni with unique opportunities for lifelong learning and engagement with Duke Law.
James Boyle
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law
Theft: A History of Music
In this Duke Law Livestream, Professor James Boyle will present some of his research on creativity, and in particular on the history of music. In this case, the research led to an unusual publication – a comic book called Theft: A History of Music (with Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Duke Law ’97). You can download it here. In this informal session, Professor Boyle will explain the choice of format, and give musical and visual explanations of the conclusions they came to about creativity, culture and the role that law has to play in it all.
Deborah A. DeMott
David F. Cavers Professor of Law
Looking Beyond the Easel
Should a visual artist share in the gain when a collector sells a work for more than its purchase price? Artists based in major art-market jurisdictions—with the exception of the United States and China—now have statutory resale or royalty rights (typically capped at a relatively low amount). Debates over resale rights have been shaped by often-unstated assumptions about the creation of works of art, their critical and historical assessment, and their reception in art markets that ignore the roles of institutions in defining artistic achievement, instead treating outcomes as the necessary consequence of an immutable order. Distinct institutions can reinforce each others’ effects to the disadvantage of artists who are women; the vulnerability to error of interlocked institutions can assure that artists of merit remain in obscurity. Focusing as well on the context in which artists work encompasses the role that an artist’s family and life partners in particular in the artist’s ability to realize work. Although artists’ life partners are not co-authors of work, they make sustained contributions to the artist’s ability to work. As a consequence, a resale right should not terminate with the artist’s death.
Kate Evans
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Immigrant Rights Clinic
Program details coming soon
Nita A. Farahany
Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law
Professor of Philosophy
Program details coming soon.
Gina-Gail S. Fletcher
Professor of Law
The Rise of the Retail Investor
Historically, retail traders have not wielded significant influence in the financial markets. Recently, the tide has turned. Retail investors have steadily increased their footprint and today are responsible for approximately one-quarter of all trading in the markets. With the introduction of zero commission trading, greater numbers of everyday individuals are buy and selling stocks at previously unseen levels as trading becomes cheaper and more accessible. While this era of improved market democratization is laudable, it exposes tensions and fault lines in the functioning, regulation, and stability of the markets. As retail investors increase, questions arise as to the future of the markets, who the markets serve, and whether market accessibility can exist alongside efficiency, integrity, and stability. Using the recent GameStop frenzy to frame the discussion, this session will explore the pressing practical, policy, and regulatory ramifications that accompany the rise of the retail investor in the financial markets.
Brandon L. Garrett
L. Neil Williams, Jr. Professor of Law
Director, Wilson Center for Science and Justice
Program details coming soon
H. Timothy Lovelace
John Hope Franklin Research Scholar
Professor of Law
Civil Rights as Human Rights
Professor H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr. will preview his forthcoming book, "The World is on Our Side: the U.S. and the U.N. Race Convention." The United Nations Race Convention, the world's most comprehensive treaty on race, contains many provisions that mirror U.S. civil rights law and policy. This is not an accident. In 1964, as the U.N. was drafting the Race Convention, the U.S. was drafting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the primary drafters of the Race Convention were U.S. lawyers who also helped to draft the Civil Rights Act. Join Professor Lovelace for a discussion of how the U.S. civil rights movement influenced international human rights law--and the implications of this history for today's movements for racial justice.
James Boyle
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law
Theft: A History of Music
In this Duke Law Livestream, Professor James Boyle will present some of his research on creativity, and in particular on the history of music. In this case, the research led to an unusual publication – a comic book called Theft: A History of Music (with Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Duke Law ’97). You can download it here. In this informal session, Professor Boyle will explain the choice of format, and give musical and visual explanations of the conclusions they came to about creativity, culture and the role that law has to play in it all.
Deborah A. DeMott
David F. Cavers Professor of Law
Looking Beyond the Easel
Should a visual artist share in the gain when a collector sells a work for more than its purchase price? Artists based in major art-market jurisdictions—with the exception of the United States and China—now have statutory resale or royalty rights (typically capped at a relatively low amount). Debates over resale rights have been shaped by often-unstated assumptions about the creation of works of art, their critical and historical assessment, and their reception in art markets that ignore the roles of institutions in defining artistic achievement, instead treating outcomes as the necessary consequence of an immutable order. Distinct institutions can reinforce each others’ effects to the disadvantage of artists who are women; the vulnerability to error of interlocked institutions can assure that artists of merit remain in obscurity. Focusing as well on the context in which artists work encompasses the role that an artist’s family and life partners in particular in the artist’s ability to realize work. Although artists’ life partners are not co-authors of work, they make sustained contributions to the artist’s ability to work. As a consequence, a resale right should not terminate with the artist’s death.
Kate Evans
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Immigrant Rights Clinic
Program details coming soon
Nita A. Farahany
Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law
Professor of Philosophy
Program details coming soon.
Gina-Gail S. Fletcher
Professor of Law
The Rise of the Retail Investor
Historically, retail traders have not wielded significant influence in the financial markets. Recently, the tide has turned. Retail investors have steadily increased their footprint and today are responsible for approximately one-quarter of all trading in the markets. With the introduction of zero commission trading, greater numbers of everyday individuals are buy and selling stocks at previously unseen levels as trading becomes cheaper and more accessible. While this era of improved market democratization is laudable, it exposes tensions and fault lines in the functioning, regulation, and stability of the markets. As retail investors increase, questions arise as to the future of the markets, who the markets serve, and whether market accessibility can exist alongside efficiency, integrity, and stability. Using the recent GameStop frenzy to frame the discussion, this session will explore the pressing practical, policy, and regulatory ramifications that accompany the rise of the retail investor in the financial markets.
Brandon L. Garrett
L. Neil Williams, Jr. Professor of Law
Director, Wilson Center for Science and Justice
Program details coming soon
H. Timothy Lovelace
John Hope Franklin Research Scholar
Professor of Law
Civil Rights as Human Rights
Professor H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr. will preview his forthcoming book, "The World is on Our Side: the U.S. and the U.N. Race Convention." The United Nations Race Convention, the world's most comprehensive treaty on race, contains many provisions that mirror U.S. civil rights law and policy. This is not an accident. In 1964, as the U.N. was drafting the Race Convention, the U.S. was drafting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the primary drafters of the Race Convention were U.S. lawyers who also helped to draft the Civil Rights Act. Join Professor Lovelace for a discussion of how the U.S. civil rights movement influenced international human rights law--and the implications of this history for today's movements for racial justice.
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As we continue to think about new opportunities for virtual engagement, the alumni office is building a database of interested alumni speakers and topics. While we can’t guarantee that we’ll be able to feature every interested alumni speaker, the alumni office will be in touch as opportunities arise. Thanks in advance for your sharing your interest! If you have any questions, please contact alumni_office@law.duke.edu.