Upcoming Conferences

 

May 31, 2019

May 30, 2019

May 29, 2019

March 23, 2019

  • Mar 23
    Second Annual Duke/UNC Animal Law Symposium 8:00 AM • Law School 3041

    We are excited to announce our Second Annual Duke/UNC Animal Law Symposium. More information coming soon. Sponsored by the Duke Law Animal Legal Defense Fund Chapter, Bob Barker, and the UNC Animal Legal Defense Fund Chapter. For more information please contact Leigh Markowitz at Leigh.Markowitz@duke.edu.

March 22, 2019

  • Mar 22
    The Legal Frameworks of Work After the End of Employment 9:00 AM • TBD

    This symposium will explore how the law of work does or should respond to the changing shape of work relationships in the contemporary economy. Three major phenomena will be explored. First: As the platform economy enables millions to provide services through an entity that disclaims any legal responsibility for the conditions of employment, how should law respond? Second: How should labor or employment law address the rapid spread of automation, which in the most futuristic sense threaten or promise to eliminate work? Third: global migrations of peoples and capital in a regulatory frame that renders migrant workers extremely vulnerable and aggregated capital apparently invincible, have generated historically unprecedented levels of inequality while political forces have galvanized nationalist backlash against some of the most vulnerable workers. What soft-law or hard law regulatory frameworks are developing to empower workers? Sponsored by Law & Contemporary Problems. For more information, please contact Will Sowers at wps9@duke.edu.

March 20, 2019

  • Mar 20
    Ten Years from the Bottom: A Reflection on the Financial Crisis and its Lasting Impact 8:30 AM • Fuqua School of Business Geneen Auditorium

    Many of today's university students were too young to be impacted by the financial crisis directly; to them, the crisis is but a faint memory. Considering the stock market has recovered all of its losses and then some - and now ranks as the second longest bull market in history - these students may fairly wonder why the crisis is so important and worthy of study. But, as mentioned above, the effects of the crisis remain everywhere around us. Therefore, we will be hosting a one-day conference on March 20th, 2019, that will invite scholars and prominent professionals to campus to reflect upon the impact of the crisis across multiple dimensions. Sponsored by the Global Financial Markets Center. For more information, please contact Courtney Smith at Courtney.smith@law.duke.edu.

March 15, 2019

  • Mar 15
    Empirical Patent Law Conference 8:00 AM • Law School 3000

    This will be a 1-day small workshop with 6 presenters of empirical working papers about patent law and policy, with each presentation having an assigned discussant. For further information, please contact Bonnie Millis at bonnie.millis@law.duke.edu.

March 02, 2019

  • Mar 2
    Reconstruction 7:00 AM • Law School 3041

    Reconstruction will be a multidisciplinary conference held at Duke Law School. This conference will critically reexamine the Reconstruction period, the Reconstruction Amendments, and the post-Reconstruction period - a span of history and legal change that set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement - and will evaluate the ways in which our contemporary and political and legal structure are shaped by the failures and successes of the Reconstruction project. Sponsored by CLRP. For more information, please email clrp@law.duke.edu.

March 01, 2019

  • Mar 1
    Reconstruction 7:00 AM • Law School 3041

    Reconstruction will be a multidisciplinary conference held at Duke Law School. This conference will critically reexamine the Reconstruction period, the Reconstruction Amendments, and the post-Reconstruction period - a span of history and legal change that set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement - and will evaluate the ways in which our contemporary and political and legal structure are shaped by the failures and successes of the Reconstruction project. Sponsored by CLRP. For more information, please email clrp@law.duke.edu.

February 23, 2019

February 22, 2019

February 14, 2019

February 13, 2019

February 12, 2019

February 11, 2019

February 09, 2019

  • Feb 9
    ESQ 9:00 AM • Law School Third Floor Mezzanine

    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. Sponsored by the Business Law Society. For more information, please contact Danielle Bembry at dlb65@duke.edu.

February 08, 2019

  • Feb 8
    ESQ 4:30 PM • Law School 3041

    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. Sponsored by the Business Law Society. For more information, please contact Danielle Bembry at dlb65@duke.edu.
  • Feb 8
    Financial Markets Bootcamp 1:00 PM • Law School 4042

    Many Duke Law graduates go on to careers in the financial services industry. During their careers, these lawyers will encounter myriad financial products with varying degrees of complexity. Those demonstrating an understanding of the mechanics, pricing, and risk of various financial products will be in a better position to succeed and advance their career than many of their peers. This bootcamp - free of charge to students - will provide students with an overview of fixed income and equity markets and the products that trade in them. Students will not be expected to have any previous experience in these areas, although those students who have taken one or more of Duke Law's finance/banking courses may get more out of the bootcamp. The bootcamp will be held on 1/18, 1/25, and 2/1 from 1 - 3:30 pm. Sponsored by Global Financial Markets Center. For more information, please contact Lee Reiners at reiners@law.duke.edu, or RSVP at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CNZDV9S.
  • Feb 8
    Duke Law Journal 49th Annual Administrative Law Symposium 8:00 AM • Law School 3041

    Duke Law Journal's 49th Annual Administrative Law Symposium. Details to come. Sponsored by Duke Law Journal. For more information, please contact Sam Howe at samuel.howe@samuel.howe@lawnet.duke.edu.

February 01, 2019

  • Feb 1
    Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium 12:30 PM • Law School 3041

    Please join the Sports & Entertainment Law Society's annual Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium, featuring panels of guest speakers discussing some of the greatest challenges and most exciting opportunities in sports and entertainment law. Sponsored by SELS. For more information, please contact Jonathan Schwartz at Jonathan.A.Schwartz@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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