Upcoming Conferences

 

April 03, 2020

March 19, 2020

March 18, 2020

March 17, 2020

March 06, 2020

  • Mar 6
    Whiskey in the Courtroom 8:00 AM • Law School 3041

    Sponsored by the Duke Law Center for Criminal Justice & Professional Responsibility and the NC Office of Indigent Defense Services. For more information, please contact Marlyn Dail at marlyn.dail@law.duke.edu.

February 29, 2020

February 28, 2020

February 14, 2020

February 07, 2020

February 01, 2020

  • Feb 1
    Annual ESQ Career Symposium 8:00 AM • JB Duke Hotel

    ESQ is a professional networking symposium held by the Business Law Society, in conjunction with the Career & Professional Development Center and the Alumni & Development Office. The event gives all Duke Law students an opportunity to meet alumni, attorneys, and accomplished practitioners in a range of businesses, entrepreneurial ventures, and practice areas including corporate law. For more information, please contact a BLS rep at businesslawsociety@law.duke.edu.

January 31, 2020

  • Jan 31
    Annual ESQ Career Symposium 4:30 PM • Law School 3rd Floor Loggia

    ESQ is a professional networking symposium held by the Business Law Society, in conjunction with the Career & Professional Development Center and the Alumni & Development Office. The event gives all Duke Law students an opportunity to meet alumni, attorneys, and accomplished practitioners in a range of businesses, entrepreneurial ventures, and practice areas including corporate law. For more information, please contact a BLS rep at businesslawsociety@law.duke.edu.

January 17, 2020

December 12, 2019

  • Dec 12
    Judicial Administration Roundtable 7:30 AM • Law School 3000

    This is the BJI's second Judicial Administration/Judicial Process Roundtable. Like the first, held in December 2018, this event aims to bring together top scholars in the field to share works-in-progress on important questions of court design, procedure, and judicial decision-making. (By invitation only.) Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Intitute at Duke Law. For more information, visit our website or e-mail us at judicialstudies@law.duke.edu.

November 17, 2019

November 16, 2019

November 15, 2019

November 14, 2019

November 08, 2019

  • Nov 8
    Civil Litigation Conference 8:00 AM • Washington Duke Inn

    This conference will be a planning meeting for a larger conference to be held in the fall of 2020 on Civil Litigation. It will be a follow-up to the influential 2010 Duke Conference on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which focused in particular on discovery, pleadings, and dispositive motions. The plan is for the 2020 conference to focus on similar inquiries, but widening the lens to include civil procedure in state courts. (By invitation only.) Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law. For more information, visit our website or e-mail us at judicialstudies@law.duke.edu.

November 02, 2019

November 01, 2019

October 11, 2019

  • Oct 11
    Advisors Meeting: Eyewitness Memory and Evidence 8:00 AM • Law School 3000

    By invitation only. Sponsored by Professor Brandon Garrett and Arnold Ventures. For more information please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.
  • Oct 11
    41st Annual Duke Estate Planning Conference 7:00 AM • Law School 3041

    This two-day conference consists of a series of lecture sessions designed to examine in detail current developments in the estate and gift tax field; strengthen the practitioner's knowledge and application of estate planning techniques to a multitude of diverse and complex problems; and to provide a forum for the discussion of important estate planning problems and their solutions. Sessions will be led by a group of conference faculty members comprised of estate planning and tax practitioners and legal scholars. Faculty members have been selected for their knowledge of the subjects, presentation skills, and ability to communicate. Sponsored by Duke Law School and the Duke University Estate Planning Council. For more information, please contact Rachel Ferebee at depc@law.duke.edu Website: sites.duke.edu/depc/.

October 10, 2019

  • Oct 10
    41st Annual Duke Estate Planning Conference 7:00 AM • Law School 3041

    This two-day conference consists of a series of lecture sessions designed to examine in detail current developments in the estate and gift tax field; strengthen the practitioner's knowledge and application of estate planning techniques to a multitude of diverse and complex problems; and to provide a forum for the discussion of important estate planning problems and their solutions. Sessions will be led by a group of conference faculty members comprised of estate planning and tax practitioners and legal scholars. Faculty members have been selected for their knowledge of the subjects, presentation skills, and ability to communicate. Sponsored by Duke Law School and the Duke University Estate Planning Council. For more information, please contact Rachel Ferebee at depc@law.duke.edu Website: sites.duke.edu/depc/.

September 27, 2019

September 06, 2019

  • Sep 6
    Fees, Fines & Bail: Addressing the Destitution Pipeline 9:00 AM • Law School 3000

    This conference will focus on problems concerning court fees, fines, and bail, and potential judicial responses. Along with the Bolch Judicial Institute, professors Brandon Garrett, Sara Greene, and Marin Levy are organizing the program, which will bring judges and scholars together to examine what reforms are working and what more should be done. (By invitation only.) Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School. For more information, please contact Lora Beth Farmer at lora.farmer@law.duke.edu.

September 05, 2019

  • Sep 5
    Fees, Fines & Bail: Addressing the Destitution Pipeline 9:00 AM • Washington Duke Inn

    This conference will focus on problems concerning court fees, fines, and bail, and potential judicial responses. Along with the Bolch Judicial Institute, professors Brandon Garrett, Sara Greene, and Marin Levy are organizing the program, which will bring judges and scholars together to examine what reforms are working and what more should be done. (By invitation only.) Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School. For more information, please contact Lora Beth Farmer at lora.farmer@law.duke.edu.

Conference Highlights

Criminal Justice Policy Symposium
The first Criminal Justice Policy Symposium, sponsored by the Duke Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility and the Duke Law Innocence Project, was designed to raise awareness about current problems and propose solutions for the future. Panel discussions about policy changes with exonerees highlighted the event.

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