Events

The Bolch Judicial Institute is mobilizing the legal profession to defend judges and the judiciary from a growing wave of unfair and inappropriate attacks that threaten judicial independence and diminish public faith in our judicial system. Along with a committee of bar leaders, the Institute will host a Defending the Judiciary conference to discuss the challenges facing the judiciary and what bar leaders should do to address the problems. Topics to be explored include confronting online threats and disinformation; legislative efforts to protect judges' safety; and what judges and lawyers can do to defend judges and protect judicial independence. Attendance at this event is by invitation only. If you are interested in attending or would like more information, please contact the Bolch Judicial Institute bolchjudicialinstitute@law.duke.edu.

Please join the Duke Environmental Law and Policy forum for our annual symposium. This year, our topic is North Carolina's Coastal Area Management Act, which is celebrating its 50th birthday. We will hear from speakers on the history of CAMA, coastal management in North Carolina, the economics of coastal resilience, and community and ecological adaptation in coastal communities. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Please email Lauryn Khaw (lek37@duke.edu) with questions.

The Bolch Judicial Institute is mobilizing the legal profession to defend judges and the judiciary from a growing wave of unfair and inappropriate attacks that threaten judicial independence and diminish public faith in our judicial system. Along with a committee of bar leaders, the Institute will host a Defending the Judiciary conference to discuss the challenges facing the judiciary and what bar leaders should do to address the problems. Topics to be explored include confronting online threats and disinformation; legislative efforts to protect judges' safety; and what judges and lawyers can do to defend judges and protect judicial independence. Attendance at this event is by invitation only. If you are interested in attending or would like more information, please contact the Bolch Judicial Institute bolchjudicialinstitute@law.duke.edu.

By invitation only. A vast literature now exists on the ethical status of non-human animals (for short, "animals"). This conference, "Animals and Equality," will focus on the role of animals in broadly egalitarian ethical views. Other work on animals and broad egalitarianism also falls within the scope of the conference (for example, analyzing the questions that animal well-being poses for egalitarianism among humans). More information is available on the conference website. This conference is organized by the Duke Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy (CLEPP) and co-sponsored by CLEPP and the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program. For more information, please contact Leanna Doty (leanna.doty@law.duke.edu).

By invitation only. A vast literature now exists on the ethical status of non-human animals (for short, "animals"). This conference, "Animals and Equality," will focus on the role of animals in broadly egalitarian ethical views. Other work on animals and broad egalitarianism also falls within the scope of the conference (for example, analyzing the questions that animal well-being poses for egalitarianism among humans). More information is available on the conference website. This conference is organized by the Duke Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy (CLEPP) and co-sponsored by CLEPP and the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program. For more information, please contact Leanna Doty (leanna.doty@law.duke.edu).

Sponsored by Professor Bobby Bishop. For more information, please contact Bobbi Pabon at bobbi.pabon@duke.edu.

Registration is required in advance to attend. More information will be forthcoming. Sponsored by the Center for Law, Race and Policy. For questions, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at amanda.gonzalez@duke.edu.

Registration is required in advance to attend. More information will be forthcoming. Sponsored by the Center for Law, Race and Policy. For questions, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at amanda.gonzalez@duke.edu.

Registration is required in advance to attend. More information will be forthcoming. Sponsored by the Center for Law, Race and Policy. For questions, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at amanda.gonzalez@duke.edu.

Registration is required in advance to attend. More information will be forthcoming. Sponsored by the Center for Law, Race and Policy. For questions, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at amanda.gonzalez@duke.edu.

Registration is required in advance to attend. More information will be forthcoming. Sponsored by the Center for Law, Race and Policy. For questions, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at amanda.gonzalez@duke.edu.

Registration is required in advance to attend. More information will be forthcoming. Sponsored by the Center for Law, Race and Policy. For questions, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at amanda.gonzalez@duke.edu.

This event is by invitation only. Sponsored by the Duke Center for Firearms Law. For more information, contact Taylor Clark at taylor.clark@law.duke.edu.

Details will be forthcoming. Sponsored by Professor Michael D. Frakes. For any questions, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at amanda.gonzalez@law.duke.edu.

This event is by invitation only. Sponsored by the Duke Center for Firearms Law. For more information, contact Taylor Clark at taylor.clark@law.duke.edu.

Details will be forthcoming. Sponsored by Professor Michael D. Frakes. For any questions, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at amanda.gonzalez@law.duke.edu.

This conference brings together Legal Aid of North Carolina's incoming summer intern class to receive substantive legal and professional skills training to prepare them for assignments handling poverty law cases across the state. By invitation only. Sponsored by the Office of Public Interest & Pro Bono. For more information, please contact D.J. Dore at dj.dore@law.duke.edu.

This conference brings together Legal Aid of North Carolina's incoming summer intern class to receive substantive legal and professional skills training to prepare them for assignments handling poverty law cases across the state. By invitation only. Sponsored by the Office of Public Interest & Pro Bono. For more information, please contact D.J. Dore at dj.dore@law.duke.edu.

This event is by invitation only. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. For more information, please contact Marlyn Dail at marlyn.dail@law.duke.edu

This event is by invitation only. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. For more information, please contact Marlyn Dail at marlyn.dail@law.duke.edu

This event is by invitation only. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. For more information, contact Marlyn Dail at marlyn.dail@law.duke.edu.

This event is by invitation only. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. For more information, contact Marlyn Dail at marlyn.dail@law.duke.edu.

Join the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy for a day of panels responding to the work of Professor Catherine Smith on children's equal protection claims. Speakers include children's rights litigators at Our Children's Trust and GLAD, as well as academics focused on environmental litigation, LGBT rights, and constitutional law. Sponsored by DJCLPP. For more information, please contact Sarah Claypoole at skc39@duke.edu.

Join us for the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund's 2024 Spring Symposium. The Symposium will feature panelists substantially connected to the fields of animal rights, law, and industry. Please RSVP here by February 29th: https://forms.gle/3xByx6KTdLMARViS7. Sponsored by the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund. Please contact Jeremy Sharp at jeremy.sharp@duke.edu for more details or questions.

Please join us for Duke Law Journal's 54th Annual Administrative Law Symposium. The theme of this year's Symposium is "On Democracy in the Administrative State." Breakfast and lunch will provided on a first come, first served basis. You can register to attend the Symposium via the form here: https://forms.gle/3U1N9dxRyHE31DuPA. Sponsored by Duke Law Journal. For more information, please contact Andrea Pillai at alr105@duke.edu.

Join us for the 29th Annual LENS Conference at the Duke Law School. Sponsored by the Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security. Visit our website at https://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2024/ to view the agenda and register for the conference. Registration is required to attend. For more information, please email Amanda Gonzalez at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

Join us for the 29th Annual LENS Conference at the Duke Law School. Sponsored by the Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security. Visit our website at https://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2024/ to view the agenda and register for the conference. Registration is required to attend. For more information, please email Amanda Gonzalez at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by the Center for Law, Ethics and National Security. For more information, please email Amanda Gonzalez at lensbox@duke.edu.

In this symposium, judges, lawyers, and community members will consider what judges can and should do to address structural racism and bias both in and out of the courtroom. We will hear from speakers on topics including the criminalization of poverty and racial discrimination in jury selection. Sessions will address both racial equity in legal doctrine and collaborative efforts to build an inclusive culture in the legal system. Speakers will share insights into navigating ethical obligations and facing the backlash against racial equity initiatives. Judges will discuss diversity in the legal profession and share practical tools for guarding against the influence of bias. Sponsored by NC CRED, Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility, Inclusive Juries Project, Wilson Center for Science and Justice, and many more co-sponsors listed on the event website. For more information and registration, please visit our website link below. For questions, contact Marlyn Dail at marlyn.dail@law.duke.edu.

First presented in 2002, ESQ is an annual professional networking symposium held in early-February by the Business Law Society in conjunction with the Career & Professional Development Center and the Alumni & Development Office. The event gives 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 Jack Bergantino at jack.bergantino@duke.edu.

Twenty-first century technologies, in particular the apps we use on our mobile devices, combined with the lack of effective, privacy protective laws in our information economy, create risks for data related to our health. Duke's Data Privacy Day 2024 event, "Beyond HIPAA: Mental Health Apps, Health Data, and Privacy" will address the vast category of health information that is not covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the urgent need for privacy law and policy to regulate the commercial collection and use of this data. Visit our website, https://duke.is/dpd-2024, for agenda and speaker information. Sponsored by The Kenan Institute for Ethics and Duke Law. Co-sponsored by Sanford School of Public Policy and Science and Society. For more information, contact Jolynn Dellinger at jdellinger@law.duke.edu or David Hoffman at david.hoffman@duke.edu.

Judging Forensic Science: The Wilson Center for Science and Justice and the Bolch Judicial Institute are sponsoring a conference on expert evidence in criminal cases. This conference is by invitation only. For more information, please contact Stella Kreilkamp at stella.kreilkamp@duke.edu.

We are pleased to invite you to the CLC Inaugural Convening, Organizing for Democracy and Liberation: The Right to Learn, The Right to Teach, The Right to Thrive. Please visit our website for registration information and the current agenda. https://racelaw.duke.edu/critical-legal-collective-inaugural-convening/ Sponsored by the Center on Law, Race, and Policy and co-sponsored by the Critical (Legal) Collective. For more information, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at amanda.gonzalez@duke.edu.

We are pleased to invite you to the CLC Inaugural Convening, Organizing for Democracy and Liberation: The Right to Learn, The Right to Teach, The Right to Thrive. Please visit our website for registration information and the current agenda. https://racelaw.duke.edu/critical-legal-collective-inaugural-convening/ Sponsored by the Center on Law, Race, and Policy and co-sponsored by the Critical (Legal) Collective. For more information, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at amanda.gonzalez@duke.edu.

We are pleased to invite you to the CLC Inaugural Convening, Organizing for Democracy and Liberation: The Right to Learn, The Right to Teach, The Right to Thrive. Please visit our website for registration information and the current agenda. https://racelaw.duke.edu/critical-legal-collective-inaugural-convening/ Sponsored by the Center on Law, Race, and Policy and co-sponsored by the Critical (Legal) Collective. For more information, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at amanda.gonzalez@duke.edu.

Join us for the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum's 2023 Fall Symposium: Celebrating 50 Years of the Endangered Species Act. The Symposium will feature four exciting speakers, including lawyers, academics, and a conservation-focused photographer. Lunch will be served. RSVP is required at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9Hxrrx8CmF6oF1JqGp6zKq7-V8sN…. For more information, please contact delpf@law.duke.edu.

Please join us for a unique event at Duke on the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, a historic law that directs $52 billion in government spending to spur computer chip manufacturing and R&D in the United States. The event will feature experts from across the country and from all over Duke, including the Deans of Fuqua, Sanford, and Pratt along with Professor Ronnie Chatterji, who led implementation of the CHIPS Act in the Biden Administration before returning to Duke this fall. Space is limited and registration is required. Register for the conference here: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5ASZsBdEGyQzpDo Sponsored by the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law and Duke Fuqua School of Business. For more information, please contact Leanna Doty at leanna.doty@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by Duke Law, NCCU Law, UNC Law and Emancipate NC. For more information, please contact Jyren Dillard at jyren.dillard@law.duke.edu.

This two-day virtual 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 Estate Planning Committee. For more information visit: https://sites.duke.edu/depc/. If you have any questions or would like to subscribe to our emails, please contact us at depc@law.duke.edu.

This two-day virtual 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 Estate Planning Committee. For more information visit: https://sites.duke.edu/depc/. If you have any questions or would like to subscribe to our emails, please contact us at depc@law.duke.edu.

The workshop is intended to give scholars engaging in empirical and experimental studies of IP a chance to receive feedback on their work at an early stage in their research. Attendance is by invitation only. Sponsored by Duke Law School and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. For more information, please contact Leanna Doty (leanna.doty@law.duke.edu).

The workshop is intended to give scholars engaging in empirical and experimental studies of IP a chance to receive feedback on their work at an early stage in their research. Attendance is by invitation only. Sponsored by Duke Law School and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. For more information, please contact Leanna Doty (leanna.doty@law.duke.edu).

Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law. For more information contact Lora Beth Farmer at lora.farmer@law.duke.edu

Duke Law School will host the annual Culp/Emerging Scholars conferences in Spring 2023. Attendance is by invitation only. Sponsored by the Duke Law Center on Law, Race, and Policy and The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School. For more information, please contact Leanna Doty at leanna.doty@law.duke.edu.

Duke Law School will host the annual Culp/Emerging Scholars conferences in Spring 2023. Attendance is by invitation only. Sponsored by the Duke Law Center on Law, Race, and Policy and The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School. For more information, please contact Leanna Doty at leanna.doty@law.duke.edu.

Duke Law School will host the annual Culp/Emerging Scholars conferences in Spring 2023. Attendance is by invitation only. Sponsored by the Duke Law Center on Law, Race, and Policy and The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School. For more information, please contact Leanna Doty at leanna.doty@law.duke.edu.

Join us for the 9th Annual Whiskey in the Courtroom: Evolving Trends in Forensic Science. Forensic science experts and attorneys who have litigated cases involving complex scientific evidence will present on a range of topics to help attorneys understand the latest trends in forensic evidence, limitations to this evidence, and legal challenges that can be made. This year the program will have a special focus on DNA Evidence. The program is open to criminal defense attorneys and investigators and will offer 6.25 CLE hours. Registration is required. Please visit the event website for more information. Sponsored by the Duke Law Center for Criminal Justice & Professional Responsibility, NC Office of Indigent Defense Services and Wilson Center for Science and Justice. For more information, please contact Marlyn Dail at marlyn.dail@law.duke.edu.

The 28th Annual National Security Law Conference will be held on February 24-25, 2023, at Duke Law School. Learn updates on a variety of issues and hear candid discussions about challenges and potential solutions from experts in government, the military, agencies, and the civilian sector. Please visit our website (https://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2023/) for more information. Sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. For questions, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

The 28th Annual National Security Law Conference will be held on February 24-25, 2023, at Duke Law School. Learn updates on a variety of issues and hear candid discussions about challenges and potential solutions from experts in government, the military, agencies, and the civilian sector. Please visit our website (https://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2023/) for more information. Sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. For questions, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

LENS will host a panel on "Careers in National Security Law featuring RADM Melissa Bert, Judge Advocate General, U.S. Coast Guard; Mr. Phillip Carter, Senior Director, Public Sector Legal, Salesforce; Ms. Michele Pearce, Of Counsel, Covington & Burling; and Ms. Genelle Francis, Assistant General Counsel, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. For more information, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

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 first year students an opportunity to meet over 60 attorneys and alumni from diverse practice areas and markets. The event will include a keynote address, networking breakout rooms, and a social hour. For more information, please contact Katie Retzbach at kathryn.retzbach@duke.edu.

Twenty-first century technologies, surveillance, our data economy, and the lack of effective privacy protective laws create a post-Dobbs landscape rife with privacy challenges and harms. Our Data Privacy Day 2023 event will explore these issues. Visit our website, https://techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/dpdad/, for agenda and speaker information. Sponsored by The Kenan Institute for Ethics and Duke Law. Co-sponsored by Sanford School of Public Policy and Science and Society. For more information, contact Jolynn Dellinger at jdellinger@law.duke.edu or David Hoffman at david.hoffman@duke.edu.

The Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum's 2022 Symposium is in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Act remains integral to preserving water quality for human health and recreation, and for the health and productivity of aquatic ecosystems intimately tied to our communities. Three multi-disciplinary panels of leaders from private, public, and non-profit sectors will discuss the value of clean water, how far the CWA's protections extend, and how the 50-year-old statute addresses emerging issues. The symposium will advance expert discussions on the CWA while still engaging all community members in our collective interest in clean water. Sponsored by the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum and the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Clinic. For more information, please contact Nate Schumacher at nathan.schumacher@duke.edu. Link for pre-registration: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_efeS14Y814Mqj8a

Please join Alaska Law Review and the University of Alaska-Anchorage Justice Center for our 2022 symposium on Alaska & the Environment. The in-person event will occur from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. AKDT (12:30 p.m. EDT to 4:30 p.m. EDT) at the University of Alaska-Anchorage Consortium Library, Room 301. Virtual attendees will receive a link for the live-stream after registering at the link below. The symposium will feature a keynote address from Elizabeth Saagulik Hensley of the NANA Regional Corporation in addition to two panels on wildlife and fishing issues and land management and partnerships. A full description of the event and schedule are available at: https://alr.law.duke.edu/symposium/2022-symposium/. Please register at the following link: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1R1WAqG2QWW2H0W. This event is open to the public. Attorney attendees are eligible for three CLE credits from the Alaska State Bar. If you have any questions regarding the event or CLE credit, please reach out to Flora Lipsky at flora.lipsky@duke.edu. Sponsored by Alaska Law Review and the University of Alaska-Anchorage Justice Center.

This two-day virtual 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 Estate Planning Committee. For more information visit: https://sites.duke.edu/depc/. If you have any questions or would like to subscribe to our emails, please contact us at depc@law.duke.edu.

This two-day virtual 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 Estate Planning Committee. For more information visit: https://sites.duke.edu/depc/. If you have any questions or would like to subscribe to our emails, please contact us at depc@law.duke.edu.

Details will be forthcoming. Sponsored by Professor Michael D. Frakes. For any questions, please contact Amanda Gonzalez at amanda.gonzalez@law.duke.edu.

Part of the SELS Symposium. What do Dua Lipa, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, The Weeknd, and Ed Sheeran have in common? They have all been sued for copying melodies from other songs. Professor Jennifer Jenkins will unpack some of the legal complexities involved in such cases, and Damien Riehl will offer an innovative solution. Riehl is the co-founder of "All The Music," a project machine-generating 400 billion melodies with the goal of helping songwriters avoid unjust "you stole my melody" copyright-infringement suits. The project raises some fascinating issues, including the copyrightability of machine-generated works. Sponsored by the Sports and Entertainment Law Society and the Intellectual Property Law Society. Co-sponsored by DBA. The event is free and open to all. Lunch will be available grab-and-go after the program. For those who can't attend in person, the event will be livestreamed starting at 12:30 p.m. For more information, contact Abigail Badway (abigail.badway@duke.edu).

Join us for the 8th Annual Whiskey in the Courtroom: Evolving Trends in Forensic Science. Forensic science experts and attorneys who have litigated cases involving complex scientific evidence will present on a range of topics designed to help attorneys understand the latest trends in forensic evidence, limitations to this evidence, and legal challenges that can be made. This years focus is on firearms evidence. The program is open to criminal defense attorneys and investigators and is expected to offer 6.25 CLE hours. Sponsored by the Duke Law Center for Criminal Justice & Professional Responsibility, NC Office of Indigent Defense Services and Wilson Center for Science and Justice. For more information, please contact Marlyn Dail at marlyn.dail@law.duke.edu.

Speakers include the Honorable Jeh Johnson, General Phil Breedlove, USAF (Ret.), General Larry Spencer, USAF (Ret.), Mr. Dean Cheng and Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel for the U.S. Coast Guard RADM Melissa Bert as well as Director of Operations and International Law for the U.S. Air Force Brig Gen. Gail Crawford and Prof. Mike Newton from Vanderbilt University.
Sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. The full conference agenda can be found at https://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2022/. For more information please email Amanda Gonzalez at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

Speakers include the Honorable Jeh Johnson, General Phil Breedlove, USAF (Ret.), General Larry Spencer, USAF (Ret.), Mr. Dean Cheng and Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel for the U.S. Coast Guard RADM Melissa Bert as well as Director of Operations and International Law for the U.S. Air Force Brig Gen. Gail Crawford and Prof. Mike Newton from Vanderbilt University.
Sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. The full conference agenda can be found at https://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2022/. For more information please email Amanda Gonzalez at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by the Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security (LENS). For more information please contact Amanda Gonzalez at amanda.gonzalez@duke.edu.

This event will take place virtually. Please register at https://bit.ly/3ulQ49O. Sponsored by Duke Law Journal. For more information, please contact Jessica Poggi at jessica.poggi@duke.edu.

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.

Join us virtually for this week-long celebration of research including an exciting array of faculty lectures and panel discussions; graduate student, trainee, and postdoctoral fellow flash talks; and special guest speakers presenting the Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, Distinguished Lecture and Daubechies Lecture 2022.

Join the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum for its Fall Symposium, Trends in Natural Resources Law. This Fall's Symposium will focus on Native American and Tribal Land across the United States and the roles litigation, regulation, and innovation. Given the present circumstances, the Symposium will have a hybrid format. Those outside of the Duke Community are welcome to join the Symposium virtually via zoom. Sponsored by DELPF. For more information here: https://delpf.law.duke.edu/fall-2021-symposium/ If you are interested in attending, please register in advance for this meeting at: https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMucuytrzIjH9MjFQriBEvrqu4ESe1DP…

The Duke Center on Law & Technology invites you to the 2021 Duke Law Tech Lab Demo Day. Duke Law Tech Lab's early-stage legal tech companies with a mission to increase access to justice will pitch their business to the audience and judges. Vote for your favorite; monetary prizes are given to the audience favorite and the judges' top ranked teams. Learn more about the companies here: https://dukelawtechlab.com/2021-cohort/. Register here: https://duke.zoom.us/webinar/register/1716295767207/WN_LryFePI8ScSz2kra… This event is sponsored by the Duke Center on Law & Tech, Latham & Watkins, LexisNexis, & Travelers. For more information, contact Kelli Raker at kelli.raker@law.duke.edu.

The next decennial redistricting cycle will have profound implications for the course of our nation over the next decade. Redistricting and American Democracy will be a timely opportunity for scholars, practitioners, and advocates to take stock of the current legal and political landscape, preview the current redistricting process in North Carolina and around the country, and discuss the path forward for redistricting reforms. It will also be an opportunity for Duke students and the broader public to learn about how redistricting will impact them-and what they can do about it.
This conference will include a combination of virtual and hybrid (in-person plus virtual) events, designated in the title of each session. The general public may register and participate virtually in all conference events. Attendance at in-person events is limited to individuals with a Duke ID plus invited guests. Register at: https://polis.duke.edu/redistricting/ If you have questions about the conference format or your attendance, please contact Meg Bittle at meg.bittle@duke.edu.

This Keynote is part of the "Redistricting and American Democracy" conference. In recent years, the legal landscape of redistricting has shifted dramatically as landmark cases involving racial and partisan gerrymandering have been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. As a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, James Andrew Wynn has become one of the nation's leading jurists and legal thinkers on questions of redistricting and redistricting reform. Judge Wynn will share his thoughts on why the Supreme Court's recent redistricting decision of Rucho v. Common Cause is a stark example of judicial activism. Moderated by Kerry Abrams, James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke Dean of the School of Law. Register at: https://polis.duke.edu/redistricting/ The general public may register and participate virtually in all conference events. Attendance at in-person events is limited to individuals with a Duke ID plus invited guests. For more information, please contact Meg Bittle at meg.bittle@duke.edu.

The next decennial redistricting cycle will have profound implications for the course of our nation over the next decade. Redistricting and American Democracy will be a timely opportunity for scholars, practitioners, and advocates to take stock of the current legal and political landscape, preview the current redistricting process in North Carolina and around the country, and discuss the path forward for redistricting reforms. It will also be an opportunity for Duke students and the broader public to learn about how redistricting will impact them-and what they can do about it.
This conference will include a combination of virtual and hybrid (in-person plus virtual) events, designated in the title of each session. The general public may register and participate virtually in all conference events. Attendance at in-person events is limited to individuals with a Duke ID plus invited guests. Register at: https://polis.duke.edu/redistricting/ If you have questions about the conference format or your attendance, please contact Meg Bittle at meg.bittle@duke.edu.

Please join the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy (DJCLPP) to discuss the legal doctrine of qualified immunity. We will begin with a moderated panel before splitting into small groups to discuss with our symposium authors. We hope to demystify this doctrine, to talk about positives and negatives presented by various suggested policies, to think creatively about how to reform or maintain elements of this legal doctrine, and to discuss the role of constitutional law in our everyday lives. Sponsored by DJCLPP. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Garmai Gorlorwulu (gjg12@duke.edu). Zoom ID here: 946 9625 5899

Duke SELS annual symposium. Featuring Speakers in the Sports and Entertainment Law fields. Sponsored by SELS. Please contact Shira Levine at shira.levine@duke.edu for more information. Link to come.

Duke SELS annual symposium. Featuring Speakers in the Sports and Entertainment Law fields. Sponsored by SELS. Please contact Shira Levine at shira.levine@duke.edu for more information. Link to come.

Dr. Missy Cummings will discuss Developments in Drones and Autonomous Systems and Ms. Patricia Lee Refo, President of the American Bar Association, will join a panel on Ethics and the National Security Law Practitioner. Sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. The full conference agenda and the link to register for the webinar can be found at https://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2021/. For more information please email Isabel Fox at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

Speakers include former Defense Sec. General Jim Mattis , Ms. Michèle Flournoy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, as well as
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force General CQ Brown, Jr. Sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. The full conference agenda and the link to register for the webinar can be found at https://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2021/. For more information please email Isabel Fox at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

Prof. Dunlap will moderate an event presented via Zoom entitled "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Warfighting: A Dialogue" featuring Prof. Rebecca Crootof, University of Richmond School of Law; member, Center for New American Security's Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security and BG Pat Huston, USA, JAGC, Assistant Judge Advocate General for Military Law and Operations. Although this is a kickoff event for the 26th Annual LENS Conference, conference registration is required. The full conference agenda and the link to register for the webinar can be found at https://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2021/. Sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. For more information please email Isabel Fox at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

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 Business Law Society. Student registration is open at https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5tEVfRcRy0EKx1z. For more information, please contact Samson Goriola at samson.goriola@duke.edu.

Duke Law Journal's 51st Annual Administrative Law Symposium. The Symposium will feature keynote addresses from Judge Jeffrey Sutton and Professor Thomas Merrill, and three panels discussing Chevron Deference's theory and politics, application, and future reforms. Please see https://dlj.law.duke.edu/admin-law-symposium-2/ for a detailed agenda. To acquire Zoom link, please RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/duke-law-journal-administrative-law-sympos…. Sponsored by the Duke Law Journal. For more information, please contact Becki Thompson at Becki.thompson@duke.edu.

Fundamentals of the Scientific Process: From Formulating the Research Question to Study Design and Data Collection
Although the phases of the research cycle are perceived as basic and untroubled in today's competitive and complex research word, day to day research practices have shown potential for common misunderstandings, misinterpretations and data misuse. Duke faculty researchers and data experts invite you to review and discuss fundamentals of the scientific process, how to minimize the risk for error and questionable practices when formulating and refining research questions, converting them in testable hypotheses for study design, converting raw data to analytic data sets, data analysis and drawing study conclusions.

This event is part of the research week. Please register in advance at this link. You will receive the joining link in the morning of the event: https://dukeresearchweek.vfairs.com/en/registration

Joining virtually in celebration of Duke faculty and students' novel research accomplishments, Duke Research Week 2021 is a week-long program of 12 events beginning January 25 with a panel discussion on how Duke's surveillance testing has kept campus safe during COVID-19. Topics such as voting in the presidential election, new tools for researchers, and the technologies, inventions, and novel ideas that illustrate the breadth of Duke research will also be covered.

Since we cannot offer lunch virtually, two $100 vouchers will be awarded each day to participating attendees of lunchtime webinar events. Recipients will be chosen from a random raffle contest.

Register to join at dukeresearchweek.vfairs.com.

Please contact the Office of Research at research-office@duke.edu with any questions or concerns.

Sponsored by Law & Contemporary Problems. For more information please contact Isabel Fox at Isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Please join the Duke Law Energy Society at the Duke University Energy Conference featuring keynote presentations, moderated discussions, and networking with industry experts. This year's theme is "Upheaval and Resilience." We invite energy professionals, students, and thought leaders to join us to reflect on the disruptions that the energy sector has encountered in recent months - and to learn from individuals, companies, and institutions who have responded to these changes with resilience. The Conference will cover disruptions from COVID-19 as well as the accelerating pace of climate change. Sponsored by Duke Energy Initiative. To register and for more information, please follow this link: https://energy.duke.edu/events/1111-duke-university-energy-conference

Please join the Duke Law Energy Society at SPARK, the premier event to attend for advancing your career in the energy industry. Duke undergraduate and graduate students of all disciplines will have the opportunity to network with professionals in the energy industry to learn about roles in tech, consulting, policy, finance, marketing, research, and beyond. It's okay if you're not sure about your future career path - SPARK is the perfect chance to explore new opportunities. This event will feature a diverse array of organizations based in a variety of locales. Here are some of the companies and organizations who are excited to join us at SPARK: White & Case Cadmus FERC Portland General Electric Rocky Mountain Institute Schneider Electric Vestas and more! Sponsored by Duke Energy Initiative. To register and for more information, please follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spark-career-event-tickets-117560754381

Sponsored by Duke and Berkeley Law Schools. This workshop features academic papers on issues such as ESG investing, sustainability, nonprofits and hybrid legal forms, and more generally business law and society/development. For more information, please email Ofer Eldar at eldar@law.duke.edu

The Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum's 2020 Symposium will present a discussion on timely topics in environmental law and policy. The symposium will cover the topics of COVID-19 and the environmental impacts from the pandemic, environmental racism, and the 50-year anniversiary of the EPA. Please register at the following link: https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvc--hrTgsGdJ4Wgaxr6GKGDNyAbaA9… Sponsored By: Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum For more information, please contact Victoria Rose at var14@duke.edu.

Join the Alaska Law Review for its biannual symposium! As we approach one of the most important elections in our lifetime, come learn about pressing election law issues in Alaska and in the nation through an Alaskan lens. Topics will include ballot initiative in Alaska and the recent U.S. Supreme Court Case, Thompson v. Hebdon. To register, please visit: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7UTlp3nnxky8ZZr. Co-sponsored by the Alaska Law Review and the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center. For questions or more information, please contact Ryan Kuchinski at ryan.kuchinski@duke.edu or the Alaska Law Review editorial team at alr@law.duke.edu.

Duke Center for Firearms Law will host its annual symposium this fall in partnership with The Northwestern University Law Review. The symposium-the Second Amendment's Next Chapter-will explore the future of the Second Amendment. It has been over a decade since the Supreme Court decided a significant Second Amendment case and, with the new addition of Justice Kavanaugh to the bench, and another justice soon to join, the Court could be ready to start a new chapter for the right to keep and bear arms. This symposium will examine, among other topics, the Second Amendment's role in private and public spaces, the socio-political environment, and urban gun violence. The keynote address will be given by U.S. Senator Chris Murphy. Event will be held via Zoom Webinar. For more information and to register: https://northwesternlawreview.org/symposium/2020-symposium-the-second-a…

This four day virtual 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 the Office of Gift Planning. For details on registration cost, schedule and speakers, please visit https://sites.duke.edu/depc/ or contact Rachel Greeson at rachel.greeson@law.duke.edu

This four day virtual 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 the Office of Gift Planning. For details on registration cost, schedule and speakers, please visit https://sites.duke.edu/depc/ or contact Rachel Greeson at rachel.greeson@law.duke.edu

This four day virtual 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 the Office of Gift Planning. For details on registration cost, schedule and speakers, please visit https://sites.duke.edu/depc/ or contact Rachel Greeson at rachel.greeson@law.duke.edu

This four day virtual 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 the Office of Gift Planning. For details on registration cost, schedule and speakers, please visit https://sites.duke.edu/depc/ or contact Rachel Greeson at rachel.greeson@law.duke.edu

Sponsored by Professor Mat McCubbins, for more information please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by Professor Mat McCubbins, for more information please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by Professor Mat McCubbins, for more information please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by Professor Mat McCubbins, for more information please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by Professor Mat McCubbins, for more information please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by Professor Mat McCubbins, for more information please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by Professor Mat McCubbins, for more information please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by Professor Mat McCubbins, for more information please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Please join us for an online event with a distinguished group of speakers from our Black community at Duke. Faculty scholars will discuss the background, dimensions and impact of racism and racist policies and structures, and students and staff will share their perspectives and insights. We will also discuss actionable steps to move forward. This will be a first step to fully engage all members of our community to consider new ways to advance Duke's goals toward achieving racial justice and equity.

Sponsored by the Office for Institutional Equity and the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement

Registration is required for this online event. If you do not have a Zoom account on duke.zoom.us using your netID[at]duke.edu, you must create an account before registering. Please go to duke.zoom.us and create an account using your netID[at]duke.edu. Then, when registering for the event, it is critical that you use your netID[at]duke.edu email address rather than an alias (e.g., firstname.lastname[at]duke.edu).

This event is for Duke faculty, staff, and students only. It is not open to the public.

Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute. For more information, please contact Kristin Triebel at kristin.triebel@law.duke.edu.

By invitation Only. Zoom link will be sent to participants. Sponsored by Professor Michael Frakes. For more information, please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu

One day prelaw conference for undergraduates which seeks to prepare students from diverse backgrounds for law school. Sponsored by the Office of Diversity Initiatives, in conjunction with the North Carolina Bar Association Minorities in the Profession Committee. For more information, please contact Ebony Bryant at bryant@law.duke.edu.

Please join the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy for the 25th Anniversary Symposium. To commemorate this final edition, the contributions are entirely in-house to celebrate the contributions Duke Law School's professors have made to the fields of gender, racial, and class scholarship.

Professor Kate Bartlett, the founder of the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, will present her work on the evolution of gender in the law over the past 25 years. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy. For more information, please contact Anna Ellement at asv17@duke.edu.

Please join the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy for the 25th Anniversary Symposium. To commemorate this final edition, the contributions are entirely in-house to celebrate the contributions Duke Law School's professors have made to the fields of gender, racial, and class scholarship. Professor Margaret Lemos will moderate a panel on gender and the constitution which features professors Sara Beale, Joseph Blocher, Darrell Miller, and Neil Siegel. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy. For more information, please contact Anna Ellement at asv17@duke.edu.

Please join the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy for the 25th Anniversary Symposium. To commemorate this final edition, the contributions are entirely in-house to celebrate the contributions Duke Law School's professors have made to the fields of gender, racial, and class scholarship.
Professor Elisabeth de Fontenay will moderate a panel on gender in the workplace which features professors Rachel Brewster, Sara Sternberg Greene, Trina Jones, Ernest Young. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy. For more information, please contact Anna Ellement at asv17@duke.edu.

Duke Law's Sports and Entertainment Law Society is hosting a conference on the Future of College Sports on March 6th and 7th, headlined by ESPN Analyst Jay Bilas (L'92), Congressman Mark Walker (NC) and NBA Hall of Famer David Robinson. The conference will take place at Fuqua School of Business the evening before and morning of the Duke-UNC game, and will bring together leading reformers, business leaders, lawyers, and politicians for a series of conversations about college athletics reform. Further details and free registration can be found at www.dukesportsconference.com. All guests are welcome to attend. Questions can be directed to Zack Flagel at zachary.flagel@duke.edu.

Duke Law's Sports and Entertainment Law Society is hosting a conference on the Future of College Sports on March 6th and 7th, headlined by ESPN Analyst Jay Bilas (L'92), Congressman Mark Walker (NC) and NBA Hall of Famer David Robinson. The conference will take place at Fuqua School of Business the evening before and morning of the Duke-UNC game, and will bring together leading reformers, business leaders, lawyers, and politicians for a series of conversations about college athletics reform. Further details and free registration can be found at www.dukesportsconference.com. All guests are welcome to attend. Questions can be directed to Zack Flagel at zachary.flagel@duke.edu.

Join us for the 6th Annual Whiskey in the Courtroom: Evolving Trends in Forensic Science. Forensic science experts and attorneys who have litigated cases involving complex scientific evidence will present on a range of topics designed to help attorneys understand the latest trends in forensic evidence, limitations to this evidence, and legal challenges that can be made. This year the program will have a special focus on Digital Evidence. The program is open to criminal defense attorneys and investigators and offers 6.25 CLE hours including 1 hour of technology credit. Sponsored by the Duke Law Center for Criminal Justice & Professional Responsibility, Duke Law Center for Science & Justice and the NC Office of Indigent Defense Services. Registration is required. For more information, please contact Marlyn Dail at marlyn.dail@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by The Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security. The conference agenda and registration link is found at https://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2020/, and a description is found at https://sites.duke.edu/lawfire/2020/01/10/dont-miss-out-register-now-fo…. For more information please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

The Duke China-U.S. Summit (DCUS) centers around the theme of "Beyond 2020: China-U.S. Relations in the New Decade". As China-U.S. relations enter a new era of rising tensions and complications, DCUS 2020 seeks to engage experts, commentators and professionals across industries to discuss emerging opportunities for China and the U.S. to maintain a constructive relationship. A discourse addressing novel issues between the two countries in trade, business, academics, technologies and environment, we seek to explore how China and the U.S. can develop a mutually beneficial relationship in the beginning of an exciting new decade. Established in 2014, DCUS is the largest conference on China at Duke University. Every year, the Summit hosts hundreds of attendees and leading voices from academia, politics, and business on China and China-U.S. Relations. The Summit is organized by a committee of students from various communities at Duke. More details about DCUS 2020 is on our official website: https://www.dcus2020.org/index.html. RSVP: https://events.duke.edu/dcus2020. Sponsored by Chinese Student Association. For more information, please contact Alex Xiao at zx51@duke.edu.

Sponsored by The Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security. The conference agenda and registration link is found at https://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2020/, and a description is found at https://sites.duke.edu/lawfire/2020/01/10/dont-miss-out-register-now-fo…. For more information please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Originally the primary mode of agency policymaking, adjudication has for decades taken a backseat to rulemaking. All the while, some of the largest and most important government programs-Social Security, immigration, veterans' benefits, and patents-continue to be administered through adjudication. The new landscape of administrative adjudication is ripe for sustained scholarly and policymaking inquiry. Sponsored by the Duke Law Journal. For more information, please contact Chelsea Kapes at cnk16@duke.edu.

The Duke Law Women Law Students Association (WLSA) is hosting an Open House for young women who are considering - or have ANY interest in - legal careers. The day includes a mock class, a tour of the law school, a moot court presentation, and lunch with current students. There will also be a presentation from Admissions and Financial Aid, a diversity roundtable, a panel about student life and experiential learning, and a panel on different career opportunities available to people with J.D.s. The goal of the Open House is to increase access to the law school and help young women explore the question: "Could law school be right for me?" The Open House will take place at Duke Law School in Durham and will run from the morning through lunch time. Sponsored by the Women Law Students Association and the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. For more information, please contact Christine Mullen at christine.mullen@duke.edu.

The Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law will be holding a symposium on the topic of National Security and Trade Law. Our speakers and moderators include Jennifer Hillman, former World Trade Organization Appellate Body member; Chad Bown, cohost of the podcast Trade Talks; Kathleen Claussen (University of Miami Law School); Scott Lincicome (White & Case); Tim Meyer (Vanderbilt University Law School); Ben Heath (New York University); Simon Lester (Cato Institute); Elizabeth Trujillo (University of Houston Law School); and Rachel Brewster (Duke University Law School). The panels will be on National Security and Domestic Trade Law, National Security and International Trade Law, and Current Issues and A Way Forward. A continental breakfast and refreshments will be provided. Breakfast and registration will begin at 8:15 a.m. Sponsored by the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law. For more information please contact Natalie Pita at natalie.pita@duke.edu or Sean Cheatle at sean.cheatle@duke.edu.

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.

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.

This one-day conference will explore how advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have created enormous opportunity to exchange information and enhance our lives, while challenging our rights to keep our personal information private. The day features four discussions with leaders in technology, law and policy. Sponsored by Sanford School of Public Policy, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University Science & Society, Duke OIT, Duke Law & Tech Society, Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security, Duke Program in American Grand Strategy , Duke Center on Law & Tech, and The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. For more information and to RSVP, visit dukedataprivacyday.weebly.com or contact Quiana Tyson at qmm@duke.edu.

Welcome to the 10th Annual Duke Sports and Entertainment Law Symposium sponsored by Greenberg Traurig. This year, the theme is "Athlete and Artist Rights in the Evolving Sports, Entertainment, and Music Industries." To register for free, please go to: http://dukelawselssymposium.mystrikingly.com/. By registering, you will have a printed name tag and priority for lunch. Walk ups will be accepted. Attire is casual. Sponsored by the Sports & Entertainment Law Society. For more information, please contact Zack Flagel at zachary.flagel@lawnet.duke.edu or Kaitlin Ray at kaitlin.m.ray@lawnet.duke.edu. We look forward to seeing you there!

This is the Bolch Judicial Intitute'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.

The 2019 Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI) Summit, the nation's premier appellate educational event, will be held in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School. For more information, visit our website at https://judicialstudies.duke.edu/ajei/ajei-2019/ or e-mail us at judicialstudies@law.duke.edu.

The 2019 Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI) Summit, the nation's premier appellate educational event, will be held in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School. For more information, visit our website at https://judicialstudies.duke.edu/ajei/ajei-2019/ or e-mail us at judicialstudies@law.duke.edu.

The 2019 Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI) Summit, the nation's premier appellate educational event, will be held in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School. For more information, visit our website at https://judicialstudies.duke.edu/ajei/ajei-2019/ or e-mail us at judicialstudies@law.duke.edu.

The 2019 Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI) Summit, the nation's premier appellate educational event, will be held in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School. For more information, visit our website at https://judicialstudies.duke.edu/ajei/ajei-2019/ or e-mail us at judicialstudies@law.duke.edu.

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.

The focus of this year's Center on Law, Economics, and Public Policy (CLEPP) conference is how animal well-being should be incorporated into the normative frameworks of welfare economics. The standard frameworks (namely cost-benefit analysis and social welfare functions) focus exclusively on the well-being (usually, the preferences) of human persons. However, it is increasingly recognized by philosophers, and in wider social discourse, that non-human animals (or at least a subset thereof) also have ethical standing. Conference participants include leading researchers from philosophy and economics. A full participant list, schedule, and directions are available on the conference website. Duke faculty, staff, and graduate or professional students are welcome to attend all or part of the conference, as are those with an academic affiliation elsewhere. Sponsored by the Center on Law, Economics, and Public Policy. For more information, please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu

Sponsored by Professor Trina Jones. For more information, please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu

Sponsored by Professor Trina Jones. For more information, please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu

The focus of this year's Center on Law, Economics, and Public Policy (CLEPP) conference is how animal well-being should be incorporated into the normative frameworks of welfare economics. The standard frameworks (namely cost-benefit analysis and social welfare functions) focus exclusively on the well-being (usually, the preferences) of human persons. However, it is increasingly recognized by philosophers, and in wider social discourse, that non-human animals (or at least a subset thereof) also have ethical standing. Conference participants include leading researchers from philosophy and economics. A full participant list, schedule, and directions are available on the conference website. Duke faculty, staff, and graduate or professional students are welcome to attend all or part of the conference, as are those with an academic affiliation elsewhere. Sponsored by the Center on Law, Economics, and Public Policy. For more information, please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu

By invitation only. Sponsored by Professor Brandon Garrett and Arnold Ventures. For more information please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

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/.

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/.

For information on the schedule of events for the fall symposium, please visit: https://lcp.law.duke.edu/gun-rights/. Sponsored by the Center for Firearms Law. For more information, please contact Allison Rackley at allison.rackley@law.duke.edu.

Please join us for a guest speaker event on Friday, 9/13/19 from 3-4 pm in Zener (Soc/Psy 130) followed by a reception in the P&N gathering space (Soc/Psy 239) from 4-4:30 pm.

Gerd Gigerenzer, Ph.D., Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

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.

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.

Research design for causal inference is at the heart of a "credibility revolution" in empirical research. We will cover the design of true randomized experiments and contrast them to natural or quasi-experiments and to pure observational studies, where part of the sample is treated in some way, a remainder is a control group, but the researcher controls neither the assignment of cases to treatment and control groups nor administration of the treatment. We will assess the causal inferences one can draw from a research design, threats to valid inference, and research designs that can mitigate those threats. Sponsored by Duke Law, Northwestern Law, and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. For more information, please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Research design for causal inference is at the heart of a "credibility revolution" in empirical research. We will cover the design of true randomized experiments and contrast them to natural or quasi-experiments and to pure observational studies, where part of the sample is treated in some way, a remainder is a control group, but the researcher controls neither the assignment of cases to treatment and control groups nor administration of the treatment. We will assess the causal inferences one can draw from a research design, threats to valid inference, and research designs that can mitigate those threats. Sponsored by Duke Law, Northwestern Law, and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. For more information, please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Research design for causal inference is at the heart of a "credibility revolution" in empirical research. We will cover the design of true randomized experiments and contrast them to natural or quasi-experiments and to pure observational studies, where part of the sample is treated in some way, a remainder is a control group, but the researcher controls neither the assignment of cases to treatment and control groups nor administration of the treatment. We will assess the causal inferences one can draw from a research design, threats to valid inference, and research designs that can mitigate those threats. Sponsored by Duke Law, Northwestern Law, and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. For more information, please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Research design for causal inference is at the heart of a "credibility revolution" in empirical research. We will cover the design of true randomized experiments and contrast them to natural or quasi-experiments and to pure observational studies, where part of the sample is treated in some way, a remainder is a control group, but the researcher controls neither the assignment of cases to treatment and control groups nor administration of the treatment. We will assess the causal inferences one can draw from a research design, threats to valid inference, and research designs that can mitigate those threats. Sponsored by Duke Law, Northwestern Law, and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. For more information, please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

Research design for causal inference is at the heart of a "credibility revolution" in empirical research. We will cover the design of true randomized experiments and contrast them to natural or quasi-experiments and to pure observational studies, where part of the sample is treated in some way, a remainder is a control group, but the researcher controls neither the assignment of cases to treatment and control groups nor administration of the treatment. We will assess the causal inferences one can draw from a research design, threats to valid inference, and research designs that can mitigate those threats. Sponsored by Duke Law, Northwestern Law, and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. For more information, please contact Isabel Fox at isabel.fox@law.duke.edu.

The Bolch Judicial Institute will hold a two day conference on evaluating the 2015 Rule 26 Discovery-Proportionality Amendments and Bolch-Duke Guidelines and Best Practices. By invitation only. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School. To register and for more information, visit our website at
https://judicialstudies.duke.edu/proportionality-conference-2019/ or e-mail us at judicialstudies@law.duke.edu.

The Bolch Judicial Institute will hold a two day conference on evaluating the 2015 Rule 26 Discovery-Proportionality Amendments and Bolch-Duke Guidelines and Best Practices. By invitation only. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School. To register and for more information, visit our website at
https://judicialstudies.duke.edu/proportionality-conference-2019/ or e-mail us at judicialstudies@law.duke.edu.

The Bolch Judicial Institute will be hosting an invite-only course on law and technology. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute. For more information please contact Kristin Triebel at kristin.triebel@law.duke.edu.

The Bolch Judicial Institute will be hosting an invite-only course on law and technology. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute. For more information please contact Kristin Triebel at kristin.triebel@law.duke.edu.

The Bolch Judicial Institute will be hosting an invite-only course on law and technology. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute. For more information please contact Kristin Triebel at kristin.triebel@law.duke.edu.

By invitation only. Presented by Professors Rachel Brewster and Jayne Huckerby. Sponsored by the Center for International and Comparative Law. For more information, please contact Balfour Smith at bsmith@law.duke.edu.

By invitation only. Presented by Professors Rachel Brewster and Jayne Huckerby. Sponsored by the Center for International and Comparative Law. For more information, please contact Balfour Smith at bsmith@law.duke.edu.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's China Intellectual Property (IP) Road Show is a free, one-day program that brings together experts from the U.S. government, academics, IP attorneys, and local business people to share their insights on China and IP issues that will benefit U.S. IP right holders. It includes key participation from the USPTO's China Team, a group of China IP experts who work nationwide to help U.S. businesses and inventors understand how to obtain and enforce IP rights in China.

Speakers at the road shows include IP attorneys with decades experience in helping US companies protect and enforce their IP rights in China. The Road Shows have also enjoyed excellent support from Congressional members as well including Representative John Culberson in the Houston area who spoke at the China IP Road Show in Houston and the Honorable Danny Davis representing the Seventh Congressional District in Chicago who spoke at the Chicago Road Show. Other notable speakers include several federal judges with knowledge and experience in presiding over IP cases involving Chinese companies. Each road show also features a panel discussion focusing on local business interests with representatives from local and regional companies who provide their experience on protecting/enforcing their IP rights in China.

We are excited to announce the 2019 Duke/UNC/NCCU Animal Law & Policy Symposium. This year's symposium will center around the theme of companion animals and social justice, and will feature speakers from the Humane Society of the United States, Best Friends Animal Society, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and Vets to Vets United. Registration is now open for this event. You can register and find the event agenda here: https://events.law.unc.edu/calendar/event.aspx?cid=2707. Sponsored by the Animal Legal defense Fund, the Duke Law Animal Legal Defense Fund Chapter, the UNC Law Animal Legal Defense Fund Chapter and the NCCU Law Animal Law Society. For more information please contact Leigh Markowitz at Leigh.Markowitz@duke.edu.

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.

Many of today's 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 its losses and then some, students may fairly wonder why the crisis is so important and worthy of study. But the effects of the crisis remain everywhere around us. Therefore, we will be hosting a one-day conference on March 20th that will invite scholars and prominent professionals to campus to reflect upon the impact of the crisis across multiple dimensions. The conference will be capped by a conversation between David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group and Alan Schwartz, executive chairman of Guggenheim Partners LLC and former CEO of Bear Stearns. Check out the conference website for more info and to RSVP: https://sites.law.duke.edu/tenyears/. Sponsored by the Global Financial Markets Center. For more information, please contact Professor Reiners at reiners@law.duke.edu.

This will be a 1-day small workshop (organized by Michael Frakes - Duke University and Melissa Wasserman - University of Texas) with 6 presenters of empirical working papers about patent law and policy, with each presentation having an assigned discussant. Sponsored by Duke Law's Center for Innovation Policy. For further information, please contact Bonnie Millis at bonnie.millis@law.duke.edu.

Hear the voices of grassroots leaders addressing disaster preparedness and relief, and join a discussion across disciplines on lessons and next steps at the 2019 Environmental Justice Symposium. The event includes a community tour, dinner, and panel on Friday, and a keynote, panel, and group discussions on Saturday. The event is free but registration is required. Presented by the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and the Duke Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program with support from the Duke Office of Faculty Advancement. Co-sponsored by Bennett College, the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the Environmental Law Clinic at Columbia Law School, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Vermont Law School. For more information, please visit law.duke.edu/conferences/2019/ejsymposium or contact Claire Hermann at claire.hermann@law.duke.edu.

Hear the voices of grassroots leaders addressing disaster preparedness and relief, and join a discussion across disciplines on lessons and next steps at the 2019 Environmental Justice Symposium. The event includes a community tour, dinner, and panel on Friday, and a keynote, panel, and group discussions on Saturday. The event is free but registration is required. Presented by the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and the Duke Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program with support from the Duke Office of Faculty Advancement. Co-sponsored by Bennett College, the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the Environmental Law Clinic at Columbia Law School, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Vermont Law School. For more information, please visit law.duke.edu/conferences/2019/ejsymposium or contact Claire Hermann at claire.hermann@law.duke.edu.

The interface between business and government is growing in importance as an increasing number legislative and regulatory proposals seek to affect the contours of markets, innovation, and competition. One of the main mechanisms that firms, unions, and other interest groups use to influence public policy is lobbying. This conference examines recent advances in research to understand how political influence is exerted by these groups, the mechanisms by which it creates and alters public policy, and how these public policy outcomes affect markets. This will precede a sister conference on related topics in lobbying to be held at Princeton University in early May 2019. Sponsored by the Center for Institutional & Organizational Performance and The Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative. This is a closed event. For more information please visit https://law.duke.edu/ciop/conferences/2019/DukeLobbying/ or contact Marlyn Dail at marlyn.dail@law.duke.edu.

Duke Law's Center on Law, Race, and Politics and the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project of the University of Michigan will host a conference entitled "Reconstruction." This conference will critically reexamine the 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 its failures and successes. For more information, and to register, please visit: law.duke.edu/clrp/conference/reconstruction. Sponsored by CLRP and the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project. For more information, please email clrp@law.duke.edu.

Duke Law's Center on Law, Race, and Politics and the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project of the University of Michigan will host a conference entitled "Reconstruction." This conference will critically reexamine the 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 its failures and successes. For more information, and to register, please visit: law.duke.edu/clrp/conference/reconstruction. Sponsored by CLRP and the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project. For more information, please email clrp@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by LENS. For more information, please contact Isabel Fox at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by LENS. For more information, please contact Isabel Fox at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV - mostly stigmatized minorities - began before doctors had even settled on a name for the disease. Punishing Disease looks at how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal law and investigates the consequences of inflicting penalties on people living with disease. Trevor Hoppe's new book explores these questions and the further implications of the police power used against diseases like hepatitis and meningitis. Along with Allison Rice from Duke's HIV/AIDS Policy Clinic, who was instrumental in changing North Carolina's HIV criminalization laws, and Robert Suttle from the Sero Project, we will discuss the dangers of punitive and coercive responses to illness in our society and how to design a system that respects the individual while fighting the disease. Sponsored by the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy Symposium 2019 - "Legislating Relationships: Individual Rights in Context." For more information, please contact Gabrielle Goodrow at gmg19@duke.edu.

In the 21st century, family creation often involves many more stakeholders than the nuclear family. Particularly in the area of International Child Adoption (ICA), family creation is a cross-border enterprise that implicates local, national, and global politics and conflicts. In his latest article, published in our Spring 2019 issue, Shani King traces the strengths and infirmities of past and present ICA frameworks and the different national goals embodied in each, and posits that ICA and immigration law should not be thought of as discrete issues, but indeed as two sides of the same coin, embodying the same national stressors and overarching goals. Dean Kerry Abrams and Prof. Kathryn Bradley will analyze King's article using their own expertise in immigration law, family creation law, and children's rights and invite discussion on the creation of a compassionate ICA framework that supports the rights of the child in an increasingly globalized world. Sponsored by the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy Symposium 2019 - "Legislating Relationships: Individual Rights in Context." For more information, please contact Gabrielle Goodrow at gmg19@duke.edu.

What is the reality of bringing a Title VII claim against your current employer? What are the current protections provided by the statute, and what should plaintiffs be aware of? Hannah Taylor's new article, published in our Spring 2018 Issue, examines these questions and offers a new approach to dispute resolution to discourage retaliation and promote a continued employee relationship. In conversation with Thomas Colclough, the Director of the Raleigh Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, and Chris Brook, Legal Director of NC ACLU, we will explore the implications of this new framework and how careful litigation can help create supportive and accepting workplaces for all. Sponsored by the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy Symposium 2019 - "Legislating Relationships: Individual Rights in Context." For more information, please contact Gabrielle Goodrow at gmg19@duke.edu.

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 a BLS rep at businesslawsociety@law.duke.edu.

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 a BLS rep at businesslawsociety@law.duke.edu.

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.

Duke Law Journal will hold its 49th annual Administrative Law Symposium, on the topic of "Deregulatory Games." Each panel will focus on distinctive strategies and elements shaping the pursuit of, and grounds for resistance to, deregulatory efforts taken by the Trump administration. Professors William Buzbee of Georgetown Law, Caroline Cecot of Antonin Scalia Law School, Robert Glicksman and Emily Hammond of George Washington University Law, Thomas McGarity and Wendy Wagner of University of Texas Law, and Sidney Shapiro of Wake Forest Law will present their work, with commentary by Duke Law Professors Adler, Benjamin, Lemos, Rai, and Schroeder. Celebrated Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein will deliver keynote remarks. Sponsored by DLJ. For more information, please contact Sam Howe at samuel.howe@lawnet.duke.edu.

Please join us for the Sports & Entertainment Law Society's 9th Annual Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium, featuring discussions of some of the greatest challenges and most exciting opportunities in sports and entertainment law. This year, panels include a conversation with Chief Counsel of ESPN Diane Morse '90; conflicts in sports agenting featuring panelists from Wasserman Agency and Creative Artists Agency; entertainment transactions from script to screen featuring representatives from FilmNation and O'Melveny & Myers; and the effects of the #MeToo movement on both sports and entertainment featuring speakers from The Bloom Firm and Duke Athletics. View the agenda at https://law.duke.edu/calendar/sports%26entertainment.pdf. Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by Steptoe & Johnson, Winston & Strawn and the Sports & Entertainment Law Society. For more information, please contact Jonathan.A.Schwartz@duke.edu.

Duke Law School and the Center for Adoption Policy will be hosting a conference to discuss current topics in foster care, including the Family First Prevent Services Act of 2018, advocates working with children and families separated at the US border during 2018, the Opioid Crisis, and a focus on NC Foster Care. More information can be found at the conference website (https://law.duke.edu/conferences/2018/adoptionlaw/). To register, please go to https://events.duke.edu/silent-victims18, registration required for head count. The registration fee is $35 and free to the Duke Community. A continental breakfast and bagged lunch will be provided. We will also offer CLE credit hours. Registration will close on November 14 at 5pm. If you have any questions, please email Bonnie.Millis@law.duke.edu.

This is an invitation only event. Sponsored by Professor Brandon Garrett. For more information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at victoria.zellefrow@law.duke.edu.

The Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum's annual symposium will focus on Sustainable Urban Development, from issues of city infrastructure, mass transit, and increasing walkability, to macro-scale discussions of how to make our cities more resilient to the threat of climate change. The epicenter of the discussion will be the Triangle area, as well as the roles Durham and Duke can play in shaping how the Triangle grows and develops over the coming years. Speakers will include the local planners, state lawmakers, and advocates central to these processes. For more information, please contact Summer Quintana at summer.quintana@lawnet.duke.edu.

The Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum's annual symposium will focus on Sustainable Urban Development, from issues of city infrastructure, mass transit, and increasing walkability, to macro-scale discussions of how to make our cities more resilient to the threat of climate change. The epicenter of the discussion will be the Triangle area, as well as the roles Durham and Duke can play in shaping how the Triangle grows and develops over the coming years. Speakers will include the local planners, state lawmakers, and advocates central to these processes. For more information, please contact Summer Quintana, summer.quintana@lawnet.duke.edu

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; to 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 visit https://sites.duke.edu/depc/or please contact Rachel Ferebee at depc@law.duke.edu.

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; to 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 visit https://sites.duke.edu/depc/or please contact Rachel Ferebee at depc@law.duke.edu.

The Duke Center on Law & Tech, the Duke Law & Technology Society, and Seal Software will host some of the nation's most innovative law students at a Legal A.I. Showdown, giving teams from these schools a chance to build their own A.I. tools to analyze legal contracts. Seal Software will provide the A.I. tools, the sample contracts, as well as hands-on training and support. Each team's task will be to pick a subject of interest (M&A, Brexit, Data Privacy, etc.) and to train the A.I. application to analyze the contracts for relevant content. No previous technical training required!!! This is a fantastic opportunity for law students to learn about the inner-working of A.I. and to start thinking about how A.I. can be used in the law firm and beyond! Hosted at the Duke I & E Bullpen at 215 Morris St, Suite 300. Sponsored by the Duke Center on Law & Tech, the Law & Tech Society, and Seal Software. For more information, please contact Kelli Raker at kelli.raker@law.duke.edu or Rohit Jayawardhan at rohit.jayawardhan@lawnet.duke.edu.

Sponsored by the Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy. For more information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at clepp@law.duke.edu.

By invitation only. Sponsored by the Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy. For more information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at clepp@law.duke.edu.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being employed in the private sector to optimize production processes, pricing, and other business functions. But apart from national security and law enforcement, productive uses in the public sector have received less attention, despite recognition that the administrative state's foremost challenges include efficient processing of ever-increasing amounts of data, and adapting to new information over time. The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law, the Center on Law & Technology, Duke Science & Society, and the Rethinking Regulation Program at the Kenan Institute of Ethics are holding a joint conference to explore promising uses of AI and the challenges they pose in administering diverse governmental functions involving science, technology, health and intellectual property. For more information and to register visit http://bit.ly/2D7RiHB or contact Balfour Smith or Carol Abken at innovationpolicy@law.duke.edu.

The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law and the Federal Circuit Bar Association present a one-day program focusing on important patent issues affecting the protection of cutting-edge technology. The program will provide 7 hours of CLE credit. Sessions: "Women in IP Breakfast"; "The Impact of Recent Section 101 Patent Eligibility Cases on U.S. Innovation"; "Hot Topics in PTAB Proceedings"; "Moderated Discussion with The Honorable Todd M. Hughes, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit"; "Supreme Court Review of Federal Circuit Decisions"; "A View from the Bench" (judges discuss effective advocacy and brief writing); and, "Diversity in Courts, Agencies, Corporations and Law Firms." More information and to register: http://bit.ly/2oN4kGg. Law School contacts: Balfour Smith or Carol Abken at innovationpolicy@law.duke.edu.

Join us for a major symposium on the history of American universities and the legacies of slavery, which provides an occasion to reflect on the meaning of monuments, racism, white supremacy, the history of the South, and their meaning for the present. It is convening some of the nation's leading scholars of history, law, economics, art history, and sociology whose voices have been central to the current debate.

Join us for a major symposium on the history of American universities and the legacies of slavery, which provides an occasion to reflect on the meaning of monuments, racism, white supremacy, the history of the South, and their meaning for the present. It is convening some of the nation's leading scholars of history, law, economics, art history, and sociology whose voices have been central to the current debate.

Co-sponsored by the Duke Law Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility and Indigent Defense Services. For more information please contact Sarah Holsapple at sarah.holsapple@law.duke.edu or visit https://law.duke.edu/ccjpr/symposium2018/.

Please join both Duke's and UNC's Student Animal Legal Defense Fund chapters for a morning of speakers discussing pertinent issues in animal law, including topics especially relevant to North Carolina. Sponsored by Duke and UNC's Student Animal Legal Defense Funds, and Bob Barker. In order to RSVP for the event please register at the following link: https://events.law.unc.edu/calendar/event.aspx?cid=2679. For more information, please contact Leigh Markowitz at Leigh.Markowitz@duke.edu.

Free. Advanced registration required. Principles of academic freedom and free speech are central to a university's identity, but they are not simple. Some argue these values are unnecessarily invoked to defend actions that gratuitously target and harm students, faculty, and other members of university communities. Others respond that such perceived harms are inevitable if universities are to maintain their commitments to free inquiry and debate. The purpose of the Provost's Forum is to explore these issues in a deeper and more constructive way. Duke University's Mission Statement reaffirms its foundational commitment to promoting "an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry," which encompasses academic freedom, free speech, and freedom of assembly. But the range and application of those principles raise hard questions. Over the course of the day sessions will explore topics such as "Academic Freedom and the Mission of the University," "Civil Discourse Across Divides," and "Assembly, Protest, and Shared Spaces." Sponsored by the Office of the Provost. For a full schedule and registration please visit https://provost.duke.edu/. For more information, please contact Stephanie Lowd at Stephanie.Lowd@duke.edu with inquiries.

Duke's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) will hold its annual national security conference on February 23-24, 2018 at Duke Law School. The 2018 LENS conference is titled "Complexity and Security: The Role of the Law?" A full conference schedule is available at https://law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2018/. Registration is open for the conference. Sponsored by LENS. For more information, please contact Carol Abken and Victoria Zellefrow at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

Duke's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) will hold its annual national security conference on February 23-24, 2018 at Duke Law School. The 2018 LENS conference is titled "Complexity and Security: The Role of the Law?" A full conference schedule is available at https://law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2018/. Registration is open for the conference. Sponsored by LENS. For more information, please contact Carol Abken and Victoria Zellefrow at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

This event features a screening of the film Requiem for a Running Back and a number of talks on head trauma in football. The screening will take place on Friday evening in the theater at the Nasher Museum of Art and the talks will follow on Saturday afternoon at the Duke Law School. Co-sponsored by the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke University & School of Medicine, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS) and the Center for Sports Law and Policy. For more information please contact Sarah Holsapple at sarah.holsapple@law.duke.edu.

The Duke Law Journal's 48th Annual Administrative Law Symposium, "Exit and the Administrative State," will engage with conceptual and structural challenges presented by theorizing exit and analyze exit in specific substantive contexts. Professors Jim Salzman & J.B. Ruhl, Sarah Light, Hannah Wiseman & Jim Rossi, Curtis Bradley, and Guy-Uriel Charles will present; Professors Mark Seidenfeld, Stuart Benjamin, Alex Klass, Jean Galbraith, and Joseph Blocher will serve as commentators; and Latham & Watkins partner and University of Michigan Law School professor Steve Croley, who served as FERC's general counsel from 2014 to 2017, will deliver the keynote remarks. Sponsored by DLJ. For more information, please contact Patrick Bradley at patrick.c.bradley@duke.edu.

Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy's Annual Symposium: Women and Diversity in the Workplace. Sponsored by DJGLP. For more information, please contact Matthew Lang at matthew.lang@duke.edu.

Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy's Annual Symposium: Women and Diversity in the Workplace. Sponsored by DJGLP. For more information, please contact Matthew Lang at matthew.lang@duke.edu.

Please join us for our annual symposium! This year's topic will be "Gender in the Workplace" and will feature panels on Sexual Orientation (February 12th) and Women in the Legal Profession (February 13th). The panels will feature speakers from Lambda Legal (litigators of Obergefell and Hively), the EEOC, scholars, and more! Lunch will be provided on both days. Co-sponsored by DJGLP and OUTLaw. For more information, please contact Matthew Lang at matthew.lang@duke.edu.

Please join us for our annual symposium! This year's topic will be "Gender in the Workplace" and will feature panels on Sexual Orientation (February 12th) and Women in the Legal Profession (February 13th). The panels will feature speakers from Lambda Legal (litigators of Obergefell and Hively), the EEOC, scholars, and more! Lunch will be provided on both days. Co-sponsored by DJGLP and OUTLaw. Please contact Matthew.lang@duke.edu for more information.

Duke Law School's Sports Entertainment and Law Society (SELS) and Duke Fuqua School of Business' Media Entertainment and Sports Club (MES) cordially invite you to attend Duke Exchange, a symposium featuring panel discussions from business and legal professionals on the evolving entertainment and sports industries. Lunch will be provided. For more information please contact Daniel Weissman at dew21@duke.edu. To register, please visit http://www.eventbrite.com/o/duke-law-school-and-fuqua-school-of-busines….

Please join the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Clinic for its first annual Environmental Justice Symposium, focusing on access to water and sanitation in underserved communities. Programming will include a morning panel discussion with participants from across the U.S. who are addressing barriers to clean water and sanitation services in their regions, followed by afternoon break-out discussions where participants will focus on regulatory, engineering, and relationship-building opportunities in affected communities. Please visit: http://bit.ly/2mipFWu to view an agenda and RSVP, and contact Claire Hermann at claire.hermann@law.duke.edu for more information.

ESQ is a phenomenal way to kick off your 1L internship hunt, practice your networking skills, and get a hard start networking for OCI. The symposium is a great combination of break-out panels and formal and informal networking time. Sponsored by the Business Law Society. For more information, please contact Aseda Ghartey-Tagoe at essie.ghartey.tagoe@duke.edu.

ESQ is a phenomenal way to kick off your 1L internship hunt, practice your networking skills, and get a hard start networking for OCI. The symposium is a great combination of break-out panels and formal and informal networking time. Sponsored by the Business Law Society. For more information, please contact Aseda Ghartey-Tagoe at essie.ghartey.tagoe@duke.edu.

The Founders to the Constitution never intended for it to be a fixed document. The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy is hosting its Spring Symposium and has invited 5 constitutional scholars to propose drafts of amendments to the Constitution. Topics range from mandating an independent AG to an outright ban on the death penalty. Professors Sachs, Lemos, Coleman, Miller, and Young will comment on the proposed amendments' validity, routes to enactment, and potential pitfalls. Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy. For more information, please contact Kevin Zhao at kevin.y.zhao@duke.edu.

Professors Bradley and Kunz will hold an Adoption Law Conference. More information will be available closer to the date. Sponsored by Professors Bradley and Kunz. For more information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at victoria.zellefrow@law.duke.edu.

DELPF's 2017 symposium will look at the major challenges the oceans currently face, ocean conservation success stories, and how law and new technologies are being used to change how we think about ocean conservation and governance. Three expert panels will discuss these themes, followed by three breakout sessions where students and other attendees will have a chance to work in small groups with experts to address three distinct ocean challenges. Each group will focus their discussion around a series of questions related to the specific ocean challenge. Finally, the experts leading the discussions will come together for one more panel to discuss general thoughts on the breakout sessions. The symposium will end with refreshments and a networking opportunity for panelists and students. Breakfast and lunch will be served. The 2017 symposium is being held in conjunction with the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Clinic's 10th anniversary celebration. Co-sponsored by DELPF and the Environmental Law & Policy Clinic. For registration, please see the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/J5F9T5D. For more information, please contact Teddy Wan at theodore.wan@lawnet.duke.edu.

Prof. McCubbins is hosting a Law and Courts Conference. The conference will be held in Gross Hall room 270 from 9 to 5pm on October 27th and 28th. The Political Science Department is co-sponsoring the conference with the Center for Democracy and The Rule of Law at Duke Law.

By invitation only. Sponsored by the Center for International & Comparative Law. For more information, please see https://law.duke.edu/news/duke-yale-foreign-relations-law-roundtable-0/ or contact Ali Prince at ali.prince@law.duke.edu.

Prof. McCubbins is hosting a Law and Courts Conference. The conference will be held in Gross Hall room 270 from 9 to 5pm on October 27th and 28th. The Political Science Department is co-sponsoring the conference with the Center for Democracy and The Rule of Law at Duke Law.

The Duke-South Africa Conference on Comparative Foreign Relations Law, which is being organized by Duke Law School and is being held at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, brings together leading experts from around the world to compare and contrast how nations structure their decision-making about foreign affairs and how they incorporate international law within their domestic legal systems. The topics to be discussed include the making and application of treaties and other international agreements; decisions to withdraw from international commitments; the domestic incorporation and application of customary International law and jus cogens norms, including with respect to issues relating to sovereign and foreign official immunity; and decisions to use military force and participate in collective security. The conference will utilize a roundtable discussion format, and participants will also visit South Africa's Constitutional Court. To facilitate the discussion, each participant is preparing a draft chapter that will be circulated prior to the conference. These chapters will ultimately be included in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Foreign Relations Law. For more information, please see https://law.duke.edu/news/duke-south-africa-conference/ or contact Ali Prince at ali.prince@law.duke.edu.

The Duke-South Africa Conference on Comparative Foreign Relations Law, which is being organized by Duke Law School and is being held at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, brings together leading experts from around the world to compare and contrast how nations structure their decision-making about foreign affairs and how they incorporate international law within their domestic legal systems. The topics to be discussed include the making and application of treaties and other international agreements; decisions to withdraw from international commitments; the domestic incorporation and application of customary International law and jus cogens norms, including with respect to issues relating to sovereign and foreign official immunity; and decisions to use military force and participate in collective security. The conference will utilize a roundtable discussion format, and participants will also visit South Africa's Constitutional Court. To facilitate the discussion, each participant is preparing a draft chapter that will be circulated prior to the conference. These chapters will ultimately be included in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Foreign Relations Law. For more information, please see https://law.duke.edu/news/duke-south-africa-conference/ or contact Ali Prince at ali.prince@law.duke.edu.

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 Alyssa Alegre at depc@law.duke.edu.

his 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.

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 Alyssa Alegre at depc@law.duke.edu.

Blockchain technology is growing into an integral part of the Internet's evolution. At its most basic level, blockchain is a publicly verifiable distributed-ledger of records. But this technology has the power to eliminate the need for transaction intermediaries such as banks. By providing a completely secure way to engage in commerce, blockchain technology is an innovative platform fueling the growth of global economies. BlockHack 2017 is centered on ways to integrate blockchain in both public and private sectors. This hackathon will allow promising young techies to work together while applying blockchain towards some of the world's biggest problems. To view the full agenda and to register, please visit: http://joinlincoln.org/events/2017/blockhack. Sponsored by the Duke Center on Law & Technology. For more information, please contact Jeff Ward at ward@law.duke.edu, Lee Reiners with the Global Financial Markets Center at reiners@law.duke.edu or John Fallone with The Lincoln Network at john@joinlincoln.org.

Blockchain technology is growing into an integral part of the Internet's evolution. At its most basic level, blockchain is a publicly verifiable distributed-ledger of records. But this technology has the power to eliminate the need for transaction intermediaries such as banks. By providing a completely secure way to engage in commerce, blockchain technology is an innovative platform fueling the growth of global economies. We will have panel discussions on blockchain implications ranging from finance to IoT to civic engagement. BlockHack 2017 is centered on ways to integrate blockchain in both public and private sectors. This hackathon will allow promising young techies to work together while applying blockchain towards some of the world's biggest problems. To view the full agenda and to register, please visit: http://joinlincoln.org/events/2017/blockhack. Sponsored by the Duke Center on Law & Technology. For more information, please contact Jeff Ward at ward@law.duke.edu, Lee Reiners with the Global Financial Markets Center at reiners@law.duke.edu or John Fallone with The Lincoln Network at john@joinlincoln.org.

The Kenan Institute for Ethics will host author, educator and environmentalist Bill McKibben at 5 p.m., Sept. 27 at Duke Divinity School's Goodson Chapel, where the renowned writer and activist will present the talk, "Climate Crisis/Climate Hope."The event is the first biannual Luce Lecture. Part of the Kenan Institute's programmatic focus "Ethics & Environmental Policy," it launches the Anthropocene Project, led by Norman Wirzba, a Senior Fellow at Kenan and Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Agrarian Studies, and Jedediah Purdy, the Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law.McKibben serves as the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change and was the first of a dozen books written by McKibben. He is a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty thousand rallies around the world.McKibben's presentation, a Q&A with Wirzba and Purdy, and the reception that follows are open to the public.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group, a case in which the petitioner argues that the most prominent U.S. Patent and Trademark Office process for analyzing the validity of granted patents "violates the Constitution by extinguishing private property rights through a non-Article III forum without a jury." This half-day conference will gather distinguished practitioners and legal scholars from a variety of perspectives to discuss potential implications of the case for patent law, for the administrative state, and for affected industries. The event is held at Duke in DC, 1201 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20004 and is free and open to the public; however, you must register to attend: http://bit.ly/2utYFX2. Sponsored by The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law, and funded through support from Google and InterDigital. More information, including the speakers, at: http://bit.ly/2tUHADT or contact Balfour Smith and Carol Abken at innovationpolicy@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by Professor McCubbins. For more information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at victoria.zellefrow@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by the Center for Law, Race and Politics. For more information, please contact Guy Charles at charles@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by Professor McCubbins. For more information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at victoria.zellefrow@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by the Center for Law, Race and Politics. For more information, please contact Guy Charles at charles@law.duke.edu.

The Culp Colloquium is named in honor of former Duke Law Professor Jerome McCristal Culp Jr. Professor Culp was recognized as a great mentor of junior faculty, in particular junior faculty of color, and the Colloquium is meant to advance that part of Professor Culp's legacy. Sponsored by Duke Law School, Office of the Provost, and Duke University Center for Law, Race, and Politics. Interested faculty should contact Professor Charles at charles@law.duke.edu.

The future of e-discovery will be more global in scope and increasingly dependent on advanced analytics and artificial intelligence. Join us in defining that future! The EDRM Spring Workshop is an opportunity to make your mark on the most important changes in e-discovery. The 2017 EDRM workshop will focus on creating guidance for technology assisted review (TAR). We also will discuss continuing projects and whether to launch new projects to develop a framework for broader-reaching data analytics and artificial intelligence and a code of conduct for cross-border e-discovery under GDPR. In addition, we'll hear from EDRM and Duke Law leaders on our exciting future at Duke Law. RSVP to EDRM@law.duke.edu is required. Sponsored by Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies. For more information contact EDRM@law.duke.edu.

The future of e-discovery will be more global in scope and increasingly dependent on advanced analytics and artificial intelligence. Join us in defining that future! The EDRM Spring Workshop is an opportunity to make your mark on the most important changes in e-discovery. The 2017 EDRM workshop will focus on creating guidance for technology assisted review (TAR). We also will discuss continuing projects and whether to launch new projects to develop a framework for broader-reaching data analytics and artificial intelligence and a code of conduct for cross-border e-discovery under GDPR. In addition, we'll hear from EDRM and Duke Law leaders on our exciting future at Duke Law.RSVP to EDRM@law.duke.edu is required. Sponsored by Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies. For more information contact EDRM@law.duke.edu.

The FCC is concluding the most complex auction in history, the culmination of a decade-long planning process for moving spectrum from broadcast to mobile broadband uses. The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law will hold a half-day conference that will identify lessons from this auction for spectrum policy, government disposition of assets (whether of spectrum or other resources), and the future of innovation policy generally. Speakers include: David Quinalty, Senate Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee; Lawrence Ausubel, Power Auctions and Univ. of Maryland; Jonathan Chaplin, New Street Research; Paul de Sa, Quadra Partners; Gary Epstein, former Chair of Incentive Auction Task Force, FCC; Karla Hoffman, George Mason Univ.; Allan Ingraham, Economists Inc.; Edward Lazarus, Tribune Media; Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Preston Padden, Boulder Thinking; Charla Rath, Verizon; Dorothy Robyn, former Commissioner at GSA; Gregory Rosston, Stanford Univ.; David Salant, Auction Technologies; Steve Sharkey, T-Mobile; and Ilya Segal, Stanford Univ. More information at: http://bit.ly/2nfSwgE. Register for the event at: http://bit.ly/2oRJT8o. The event will take place at Duke in DC, 1201 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC, 20004. For further information contact Carol Abken at carol.abken@law.duke.edu.

The Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy is sponsoring a conference, "New Scholarship on Population Ethics." Have you ever wondered what is the ethical status of individual decisions or governmental policies that change the membership of the human population? The aim of the conference is to present new scholarship in this vital area of research. A schedule and list of speakers can be found on the conference website. Sponsored by CLEPP. For further information contact, Victoria Zellefrow at CLEPP@law.duke.edu.

The Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy is sponsoring a conference, "New Scholarship on Population Ethics." Have you ever wondered what is the ethical status of individual decisions or governmental policies that change the membership of the human population? The aim of the conference is to present new scholarship in this vital area of research. A schedule and list of speakers can be found on the conference website. Sponsored by CLEPP. For further information contact, Victoria Zellefrow at CLEPP@law.duke.edu.

The Empirical Patent Law Conference is organized by Professor Michael Frakes and Professor Melissa Wasserman (Texas Law School). For more information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at victoria.zellefrow@law.duke.edu.

The conference is an international gathering of the leading contract theory specialists in the world. The topic is the question of how to optimally interpret of boilerplate or standard form financial contracts when they develop what we call "contractual black holes." Sponsored by Professor Mitu Gulati. For more information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at victoria.zellefrow@law.duke.edu.

The conference is an international gathering of the leading contract theory specialists in the world. The topic is the question of how to optimally interpret of boilerplate or standard form financial contracts when they develop what we call "contractual black holes." Sponsored by Professor Mitu Gulati. For more information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at victoria.zellefrow@law.duke.edu.

In a well-functioning legal system, competent lawyers will usually agree about the law. But when even the best lawyers and judges disagree, is there still any law for them to disagree about? This roundtable on 'Law and Theoretical Disagreement' brings together some of the nation's leading experts in law and philosophy to discuss this and related questions. Sponsored by Duke Law School. Interested faculty should contact Professor Sachs at sachs@law.duke.edu.

The American Constitution Society is excited to invite students to the Student National Convention, an annual gathering of top progressive-minded law students, faculty, attorneys, and guest speakers. Duke Law is proud to host the fourth annual student convention - the first in the eastern United States. All student attendees must be pre-registered to attend. Sponsored by the American Constitution Society. For more information, please contact Zach Newkirk at zachary.newkirk@duke.edu.

The American Constitution Society is excited to invite students to the Student National Convention, an annual gathering of top progressive-minded law students, faculty, attorneys, and guest speakers. Duke Law is proud to host the fourth annual student convention - the first in the eastern United States. All student attendees must be pre-registered to attend. Sponsored by the American Constitution Society. For more information, please contact Zach Newkirk at zachary.newkirk@duke.edu.

Government data and research point to a long decline in US corporate investment in upstream research. How pervasive is this trend across industries, technologies, and firms of different sizes? How does it compare with research spending by the federal government, universities, and companies abroad? Does it reflect less reliance on research, whoever performs it? Is it explained by capital market pressures, global competition, or other factors? Has it contributed to the slowdown in productivity growth? Are there other reasons policymakers should be concerned? If so, what policy levers should they look to-e.g., intellectual property, tax, government R&D spending, or antitrust enforcement? Duke in DC Conference Center, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20004. Sponsored by The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law. Join the live webcast at: http://bit.ly/2oClxQ2. More information and agenda at: http://bit.ly/2lywCjh. For more information, please contact Balfour Smith at bsmith@law.duke.edu.

The yearly Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum symposium gathers together experts in environmental law grouped around a different theme every year. This year's theme is the Paris Agreement, a ground-breaking international agreement to combat climate change. Sponsored by DELPF. For more information, please contact Joseph Lasher at joseph.lasher@lawnet.duke.edu.

Sponsored by the Duke Law Center for Criminal Justice & Professional Responsibility and North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services. For more information please contact Sarah Holsapple at sarah.holsapple@law.duke.edu.

Duke's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) will hold its annual national security conference on February 24-25 at Duke Law School. The 2017 LENS conference is titled "Cyber, Security & Surveillance: Truth & Consequences. To register for the conference or review the agenda, please visit: https://law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2017/. For more information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

Duke's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) will hold its annual national security conference on February 24-25 at Duke Law School. The 2017 LENS conference is titled "Cyber, Security & Surveillance: Truth & Consequences. To register for the conference or review the agenda, please visit: https://law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2017/. For more information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

Please join DBA in welcoming the parents and family members of our Duke Law students to Durham the weekend of February 17-19. We are excited for all of the activities we have planned for this year's Family Weekend and hope you will be able to share in that excitement. Details will be released as they are made available. Sponsored by DBA. For more information, please contact Rachel Ofori, DBA External Vice President, at rho3@duke.edu.

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 will provide students with an overview of fixed income and equity markets. 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. Sponsored by Global Financial Markets Center. For more information, contact Lee Reiners at reiners@law.duke.edu, or RSVP at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6Y6TKLM.

Please join the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy for "Voting Rights in Polarized America," a community-grounded dialogue on the impact of voting reforms in North Carolina and the role of courts in election law disputes across the country. Panelists will include practitioners and scholars currently working on voting rights issues, including several attorneys who participated in NAACP v. McCrory, which invalidated the NC legislature's 2013 omnibus voter ID bill as racially discriminatory. The Honorable Henry E. Frye, a champion of voting rights and the first African American Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, will give the keynote address. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Sponsored by DJCLPP. For more information, please contact David Friedman at daf18@duke.edu.

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 will provide students with an overview of fixed income and equity markets. 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. Sponsored by Global Financial Markets Center. For more information, contact Lee Reiners at reiners@law.duke.edu, or RSVP at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6Y6TKLM.

The Duke Forum for Law and Social Change invites all members of the Duke community to our annual symposium. This year's symposium is titled "Dividing Lines: Borders, Race, and Religion in America." Speakers include the Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law at UNC Chapel Hill Deborah M. Weissman, the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UNC Chapel Hill Frank Baumgartner, and Baylor Law Professor Laura Hernandez. Sponsored by DFLSC. For more information, please contact Melany Cruz Burgos at mmc55@duke.edu.

The Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy symposium will tackle the importance of considering intersecting gender, racial, and sexual identities while discussing the Black Lives Matter movement. The fourth and final panel of our four day series is entitled Black LGBTQI Lives Matter. Panelists include local activist Mandy Carter and Professor Sharon P. Holland of UNC Chapel Hill. Our moderator is Seth Pearson, L'16. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by the Duke Journal on Gender Law & Policy. For more information please contact Glenda Dieuveille at glenda.dieuveille@duke.edu.

The Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy symposium will tackle the importance of considering intersecting gender, racial, and sexual identities while discussing the Black Lives Matter movement. The third panel of our four day series is entitled Black Lives Matter in School. Panelists include local activist Dorothy Counts-Scoggins, Maurice Green of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and Ricky Watson Jr. of the Southern Coalition for Justice. Our moderator is Professor Jane Wettach. Lunch will be served. Co-sponsored by the Duke Journal on Gender Law & Policy and the Black Law Students Association. For more information please contact Glenda Dieuveille at glenda.dieuveille@duke.edu.

The Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy symposium will tackle the importance of considering intersecting gender, racial, and sexual identities while discussing the Black Lives Matter movement. The second panel of our four day series is entitled Black Lives Matter in Prison. Panelists include Professor James Coleman of Duke Law School and Umar Muhammad of the Southern Coalition for Justice. Our moderator is Professor Theresa Newman. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by the Duke Journal on Gender Law & Policy. For more information please contact Glenda Dieuveille at glenda.dieuveille@duke.edu.

The Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy symposium will tackle the importance of considering intersecting gender, racial, and sexual identities while discussing the Black Lives Matter movement. The four day series kicks off with a panel entitled Black Women and Girls' Lives Matter. Panelists include Professor Kimberly Lamm of Duke University , Professor Blair LM Kelley of NC State University, and Professor Adriane-Lentz Smith of Duke University. Our moderator is Professor Katharine Bartlett. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by the Duke Journal on Gender Law & Policy. For more information please contact Glenda Dieuveille at glenda.dieuveille@duke.edu.

ESQ formal programming begins on Saturday morning with our keynote speaker Kirkland Hicks '97, General Counsel of Lincoln Financial, followed by topical panel discussions. This year, the networking hour and lunch will be followed by a men's basketball game watch party at the brand new President's Suite at the football stadium. Students who attend the programming will have a chance to win tickets to Cameron to cheer on the Blue Devils in person! Sponsored by the Business Law Society. For more information, please contact Abigail Frisch at abigail.frisch@lawnet.duke.edu.

Kick off the 14th annual ESQ Career Symposium with an engaging panel discussion, "Diversity in Practice: Strengthening the Profession Through Diversity and Inclusion," followed by a networking reception in Star Commons. ESQ is a professional symposium that gives all Duke Law students the opportunity to learn about various careers in corporate law while networking with accomplished practitioners. Over 60 attorneys from a variety of law firms and in house organizations, geographic markets, and practice areas will be on campus. Students will build networking skills, make valuable connections with attorneys, and prepare for interviews (1L, 2L, and beyond) by enhancing their professional network. For more information on the diversity panel, please contact Julia DiPrete at julia.diprete@law.duke.edu. For more information on ESQ, please contact Abigail Frisch at abigail.frisch@lawnet.duke.edu.

The Duke Law Journal will be hosting its 47th Annual Administrative Law Symposium. The topic is "Exclusion, Inclusion, and the Law of the Administrative State." The symposium will evaluate what role administrative agencies play in applying laws of inclusion and exclusion in order to promote equality. In addition to presenting a number of viewpoints from prominent legal scholars from across the nation, the Symposium will host a keynote address from Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chief Commissioner Chai Feldblum. Sponsored by Duke Law Journal. For more information, please contact Zach Siegler at zachary.siegler@duke.edu.

Please join the Duke Sports and Entertainment Law Society for our 7th Annual Sports and Entertainment Law Symposium. The symposium will provide a meaningful opportunity for discussion and interaction among students, professors, legal practitioners, and industry leaders. The symposium offers panels covering a range of current topics in the world of sports and entertainment law, as well as opportunities to meet professionals in these fields. This year's panels include speakers addressing emerging virtual reality technology, Olympic drug testing and governance, issues of live events and music festivals, and social activism in professional sport. Lunch and a post-event reception will be provided. Sponsored by SELS, DBA, and GPSC. To register and view the detailed symposium schedule, please visit https://sites.duke.edu/selssymposium2017/home/. For more information, please contact SELS President Marcus Garcia at mag84@duke.edu.

The 11th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) will bring together scholars from law, economics, political science, psychology, policy analysis and other fields who are interested in the empirical analysis of law and legal institutions. Over one hundred papers and more than 30 posters on topics such as criminal law and policy, corporate governance, judicial decision-making, intellectual property and law and psychology, will be selected through a peer review process and will be presented at the conference. Papers will be presented in panels, with assigned commenters for each paper, and opportunities for audience discussion. Please register through SSRN via this link: https://hq.ssrn.com/login/pubSignInJoin.cfm?conflink=CELS-2016. Sponsored by Professor McCubbins. For more information, please contact mailto:cels2016@law.duke.edu.

The 11th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) will bring together scholars from law, economics, political science, psychology, policy analysis and other fields who are interested in the empirical analysis of law and legal institutions. Over one hundred papers and more than 30 posters on topics such as criminal law and policy, corporate governance, judicial decision-making, intellectual property and law and psychology, will be selected through a peer review process and will be presented at the conference. Papers will be presented in panels, with assigned commenters for each paper, and opportunities for audience discussion. Please register through SSRN via this link: https://hq.ssrn.com/login/pubSignInJoin.cfm?conflink=CELS-2016. Sponsored by Professor McCubbins. For more information, please contact mailto:cels2016@law.duke.edu.

The Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law (DJCIL) is hosting a symposium on the topic of Internationalizing the Conflict of Laws Restatement. The symposium will provide an opportunity to explore an array of topics such as Comparative Law and International Law in the New Restatement, International versus Interstate Conflicts, Family Law and Domestic Relations and several other topics. The symposium will feature all three reporters of the 3rd Restatement of the Conflict of Laws: Laura Little, Kermit Roosevelt III and Chris Whytock. Speakers will include Patrick Borchers, Hannah Buxbaum, Donald Earl Childress III, Ann Laquer Estin, Richard Fentiman, Professor Ralf Michaels, Horatia Muir Watt, Mathias Reimann, Linda Silberman, Symeon Symeonides, Louise Ellen Teitz, and Chris Whytock. If you are interested in attending the DJCIL Symposium please email djcilsymposium2016@gmail.com. Sponsored by DJCIL. For more information, please visit http://djcil.law.duke.edu/symposium/contact or contact John Epling at john.epling@duke.edu.

The Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law (DJCIL) is hosting a symposium on the topic of Internationalizing the Conflict of Laws Restatement. The symposium will provide an opportunity to explore an array of topics such as Comparative Law and International Law in the New Restatement, International versus Interstate Conflicts, Family Law and Domestic Relations and several other topics. The symposium will feature all three reporters of the 3rd Restatement of the Conflict of Laws: Laura Little, Kermit Roosevelt III and Chris Whytock. Speakers will include Patrick Borchers, Hannah Buxbaum, Donald Earl Childress III, Ann Laquer Estin, Richard Fentiman, Professor Ralf Michaels, Horatia Muir Watt, Mathias Reimann, Linda Silberman, Symeon Symeonides, Louise Ellen Teitz, and Chris Whytock. If you are interested in attending the DJCIL Symposium please email djcilsymposium2016@gmail.com. Sponsored by DJCIL. For more information, please visit http://djcil.law.duke.edu/symposium/contact or contact John Epling at john.epling@duke.edu.

The Environmental Health Scholars Program at Duke University is pleased to announce its 2016 Fall Forum, "Health and the Environment in North Carolina." The Forum will be held at the 21c Museum Hotel in downtown Durham (111 Corcoran Street, Durham). Topics to be covered include, Air Pollution and the Effects of the Clean Smokestacks Act; Risks of Coal Ash Ponds; and The Effect of CAFOs in North Carolina. Local and nationally recognized speakers will provide their views. For the full program please see: https://ehs.duke.edu/. The Forum's aims are to bring about changes in the environment, make new connections in the community as well as the political front, and make a change in the daily lives of North Carolina residents. Join us and be a part of this important initiative. There is no charge to attend for students, teachers/faculty members or government employees. A nominal attendance fee for the general public. Sponsored by the Environmental Health Scholars Program. Please register now at http://www.envscholars.duke.edu.

The Environmental Health Scholars Program at Duke University is pleased to announce its 2016 Fall Forum, "Health and the Environment in North Carolina." The Forum will be held at the 21c Museum Hotel in downtown Durham (111 Corcoran Street, Durham). Topics to be covered include, Air Pollution and the Effects of the Clean Smokestacks Act; Risks of Coal Ash Ponds; and The Effect of CAFOs in North Carolina. Local and nationally recognized speakers will provide their views. For the full program please see: https://ehs.duke.edu/. The Forum's aims are to bring about changes in the environment, make new connections in the community as well as the political front, and make a change in the daily lives of North Carolina residents. Join us and be a part of this important initiative. There is no charge to attend for students, teachers/faculty members or government employees. A nominal attendance fee for the general public. Sponsored by the Environmental Health Scholars Program. Please register now at http://www.envscholars.duke.edu.

Sponsored by the Duke Estate Planning Council. For more information, please contact Alyssa Alegre at 919-681-8030 or alyssa.alegre@duke.edu.

Sponsored by the Duke Estate Planning Council. For more information, please contact Alyssa Alegre at 919-681-8030 or alyssa.alegre@duke.edu.

This symposium will feature speakers from around the country highlighting the issues surrounding the legal implications on a very real aspect of everyday life--consumer credit. It will have four panels throughout the day with four speakers included in each panel. Sponsored by Law and Contemporary Problems. For more information, please contact Zach Siegel at zps@duke.edu

The legal industry is ripe for change but what will be that next big innovation? Join us to hear new ideas from Legal Tech innovators who will pitch their start-ups and Darwin Talks from thought-provoking experts who will share their ideas about where technology for law is heading. Get tickets here: http://evolvelawnow.com/event/duke-univ-school-of-law-durham-nc-legal-i…. Sponsored by the Duke Law Start-Up Ventures Clinic. For more information, please contact Jeff Ward at ward@law.duke.edu.

This is the first of two conferences on patent quality. The conferences are designed to examine the PTO's ongoing efforts on patent quality, to assess the progress of these efforts, and to explore next steps in the PTO's continuing efforts to ensure the highest quality for U.S. patents. For more information on this conference, contact Professor Colleen Chien at cchien@scu.edu or visit https://t.co/UqGC9DLZhn. Co-sponsored by the Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy and Santa Clara Law's High Tech Law Institute with the participation of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2016.

Sponsored by Human Capital Research Project. For more information, please contact Mary Hawkins at mary.hawkins@duke.edu.

Sponsored by Human Capital Research Project. For more information, please contact Mary Hawkins at mary.hawkins@duke.edu.

Sponsored by CLEPP. For more information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at victoria.zellefrow@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by CLEPP. For more information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at victoria.zellefrow@law.duke.edu.

The Entrepreneurship Education: Developing a Community of Practice conference will include panels of EE program leaders, graduates, venture investors and entrepreneurs, and breakout sessions on pedagogical issues, support systems (incubators, accelerators, finance, and IP rights), collaborations across academic units, and opportunities to develop a more robust evidence base for EE curricula. The program is being organized and sponsored by the Duke Law School Center for Innovation Policy, the Duke-wide Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, and the Fuqua School of Business Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation with support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the National Science Foundation's Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program. For more information, contact Stephen Merrill (stephen.merrill@law.duke.edu) or visit https://goo.gl/5LmP06.

Sponsored by the Law & Economics Society. More details to follow. For more information, please contact Sharaf Islam at sharaf.islam@lawnet.duke.edu.

While there is a vast literature on medieval Jewish and Islamic law, the histories of medieval Jewish and Muslim legal institutions received substantially less attention. A relative dearth of documentary sources and a privileged position given to prescriptive texts have led to a top-down approach that views courts predominantly from the perspective of the central political power and/or the legal tradition. This situation contrasts with the study of courts and the legal arena in Christian Europe where there has been a long tradition of studying legal institutions "from below," whether through the lens of dispute settlement, microhistory, or legal anthropology. This conference will attempt to bridge the gap between the study of legal culture and practice in medieval Europe and the Islamic world by bring together scholars of medieval Christian, Muslim, Jewish and secular legal institutions to think comparatively about the study of individuals and legal institutions "from below." In order to supply a comparative perspective, we will be joined by scholars who have tackled such questions in adjacent fields, from Late Antiquity to the Ottoman Empire. The talks will explore how individuals accessed legal institutions and maneuvered in the legal arena, how legal institutions catered to and were affected by litigants' participation, and to what extent viewing litigants as consumers is a fruitful model in Europe and across the Mediterranean.

The Duke Forum for Law and Social Change's annual symposium is focused on civil rights litigation and policing. Featured speakers include Professor Jim Coleman and Professor Neil Vidmar. Breakfast and lunch will be served; all are welcome to attend. Sponsored by DFLSC. For more information, please contact Kayla Robinson at kayla.robinson@lawnet.duke.edu.

The Duke Journal of Gender, Law & Policy's Symposium will discuss theories of sexuality, gender identity, and gender expression and the implications of the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. We welcome Dr. Melina Bell, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law at Washington & Lee University. She will present her paper "Gender Essentialism and American Law: Why and How to Sever the Connection." Professor Bell's primary research interests are in political philosophy, philosophy of law, and feminist philosophy. Her publications have focused on several different ways in which the basic structure of society, or particular domains within it, reflect hierarchies of social power that unduly restrict human freedom and opportunity and impede human flourishing. Lunch will be served. Co-sponsored by the Duke Journal on Gender Law & Policy and OUTLaw. For more information please contact Christine Kim at cik2@duke.edu.

The Duke Journal of Gender, Law & Policy's annual symposium will discuss theories of sexuality, gender identity, and gender expression and the implications of the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. Sponsored by the Duke Journal of Gender, Law & Policy. For more information please contact Christine Kim at cik2@duke.edu.

The Duke Journal of Gender, Law & Policy's Symposium will discuss theories of sexuality, gender identity, and gender expression and the implications of the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. We are excited to host Scott Skinner-Thompson, Acting Assistant Professor at NYU School of Law. His research focuses on privacy and anti-discrimination, with a particular focus on LGBTQ and HIV issues. His talk, "The Straight Faces of Same-Sex Marriage," will discuss impact litigation after Obergefell. His most recent article, "Outing Privacy," was published in the Northwestern University Law Review. Scott is the editor and contributing author of AIDS and the Law (Aspen, 5th ed., 2015), one of the leading resources in the field. His shorter commentary has appeared in Slate, The New Republic, and elsewhere. In 2014, he was selected as one of the Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40 by the National LGBT Bar Association. Lunch will be served. Co-sponsored by the Duke Journal on Gender Law & Policy and OUTLaw. For more information please contact Christine Kim at cik2@duke.edu.

The Duke Journal of Gender, Law & Policy's Symposium will discuss theories of sexuality, gender identity, and gender expression and the implications of the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. We welcome Ronald Turner, Alumnae Law Center Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. He will present his paper "Marriage Equality and Obergefell's Generational (Not Glucksberg's Traditional) Due Process Clause." He has authored and co-authored several books, including employment discrimination and torts casebooks, and has published more than 90 articles addressing labor and employment and constitutional law issues in academic journals. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. De Novo will be served. Co-sponsored by the Duke Journal on Gender Law & Policy and OUTLaw. For more information please contact Christine Kim at cik2@duke.edu.

Sponsored by the Center for Law, Ethics and National Security. For more information, please contact Charles Dunlap at dunlap@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by the Center for Law, Ethics and National Security. For more information, please contact Charles Dunlap at dunlap@law.duke.edu.

Please join the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy for its Spring 2016 symposium on the American Death Penalty After Glossip. The symposium, featuring several of the country's leading experts in the field, will assess the implications of the Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Glossip v. Gross, as well geographic disparities in the application of the death penalty and use of statistics in death penalty litigation. Sponsored by the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy, Quarles & Brady LLP, and the Eighth Amendment Project. For more information, please contact Matthew Sloan at matthew.sloan@duke.edu.

The Duke Law Journal will be hosting its 46th Annual Administrative Law Symposium. The topic is "Intellectual Property Exceptionalism in Administrative Law." The symposium will assess the impact and desirability of the PTO's growing authority over intellectual property. Sponsored by Duke Law Journal. For more information, please contact Seth Lowinger at seth.lowinger@duke.edu.

The Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum's annual symposium will be welcoming great speakers to discuss the current issues in water law. Sponsored by the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum. For more information please contact Kimberly Jachimek at Kimberly.jachimek@law.duke.edu.

The Business Law Society, in conjunction with the Career & Professional Development Center and the Alumni & Development Office, will host the Fourteenth Annual ESQ Career Symposium. This symposium is open to all law students. Attire for the event is business formal. More information available at http://sites.duke.edu/dbls/esq/. For more information, please contact Mitchell Brunson mitchell.brunson@duke.edu.

The Business Law Society, in conjunction with the Career & Professional Development Center and the Alumni & Development Office, will host the Fourteenth Annual ESQ Career Symposium. This symposium is open to all law students. Attire for the event is business formal. More information available at http://sites.duke.edu/dbls/esq/. For more information, please contact Mitchell Brunson at mitchell.brunson@duke.edu.

The American Constitution Society is excited to invite students to the Student National Convention, an annual gathering of top progressive-minded law students, faculty, attorneys, and guest speakers. Duke Law is proud to host the fourth annual student convention - the first in the eastern United States. All student attendees must be pre-registered to attend. Sponsored by the American Constitution Society. For more information, please contact Zach Newkirk at zachary.newkirk@duke.edu.

The American Constitution Society is excited to invite students to the Student National Convention, an annual gathering of top progressive-minded law students, faculty, attorneys, and guest speakers. Duke Law is proud to host the fourth annual student convention - the first in the eastern United States. All student attendees must be pre-registered to attend. Sponsored by the American Constitution Society. For more information, please contact Zach Newkirk at zachary.newkirk@duke.edu.

The symposium will provide a meaningful opportunity for discussion and interaction among students, professors, legal practitioners, and industry leaders. The symposium offers panels covering a range of current topics in the world of sports and entertainment law, as well as opportunities to meet professionals in these fields. This year's panels include speakers addressing music platforms and royalties, the digital age of sports and entertainment media, the legality of sports gambling and daily fantasy, and issues in sports and entertainment immigration. Sponsored by SELS and DBA. To register and view the detailed schedule, please visit http://sites.duke.edu/selssymposium2016. For more information, please contact Brittany Mills at brittany.mills@duke.edu or Ben Freeman at benjamin.freeman@duke.edu.

This roundtable convenes experts from various disciplines and backgrounds to discuss key questions, such as: What is old and what is new in the logic or practice of state-owned enterprises? Within SOEs, what conflicts exist between private interests and the good of the public? How do enterprises' global strategies vary with the degree of state-ownership? What tensions exist among the domestic and foreign policy goals that SOEs are intended to address - and do these tensions change as SOEs internationalize? Sponsored by the Center for International & Comparative Law. For more information, please see https://law.duke.edu/news/between-public-and-private-sectors-contempora… or contact Ali Prince at ali.prince@law.duke.edu. The event is open, but seating is limited and RSVP required by November 26 to Ali Prince.

This roundtable convenes experts from various disciplines and backgrounds to discuss key questions, such as: What is old and what is new in the logic or practice of state-owned enterprises? Within SOEs, what conflicts exist between private interests and the good of the public? How do enterprises' global strategies vary with the degree of state-ownership? What tensions exist among the domestic and foreign policy goals that SOEs are intended to address - and do these tensions change as SOEs internationalize? Sponsored by the Center for International & Comparative Law. For more information, please see https://law.duke.edu/news/between-public-and-private-sectors-contempora… or contact Ali Prince at ali.prince@law.duke.edu. The event is open, but seating is limited and RSVP required by November 26 to Ali Prince.

The Center on Law, Race and Politics and the Program in Public Law present this two-day conference, which will feature over 100 scholars, teachers, practitioners, and activists from across the country. Conference presenters will share their unique perspectives on inequality in the United States. The conference offers an opportunity for persons concerned about the persistent effects of systematic racism to reflect on the past and present as they contemplate future action. Registration required, space is limited. For a complete schedule and list of presenters, please visit the conference website. Sponsored by CLRP and PIPL. For more information, please contact Stephanie Lowd at Stephanie.Lowd@law.duke.edu.

The Center on Law, Race and Politics and the Program in Public Law present this two-day conference, which will feature over 100 scholars, teachers, practitioners, and activists from across the country. Conference presenters will share their unique perspectives on inequality in the United States. The conference offers an opportunity for persons concerned about the persistent effects of systematic racism to reflect on the past and present as they contemplate future action. Registration required, space is limited. For a complete schedule and list of presenters, please visit the conference website. Sponsored by the CLRP and PIPL. For more information, please contact Stephanie Lowd at Stephanie.Lowd@law.duke.edu.

Symposium hosted by the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law. At 12:30 p.m., Concepción Escobar Hernández, the International Law Commission's Special Rapporteur on Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction will give a speech on her work at the ILC. Lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Sponsored by DJCIL. For more information please contact Jeb Dennis (jsd27@duke.edu), Dom Lerario (dml34@duke.edu) or Annie Showalter (aes75@duke.edu).

Please join the Business Law Society for a symposium of leading legal and business authorities as they discuss their different perspectives on the complex and ever-evolving landscape of municipal restructurings - including a special focus on Puerto Rico. Sponsored by the Business Law Society. For more information contact Mitchell Brunson at mitchell.brunson@duke.edu.

The Global Health Law and Policy Symposium will feature keynote speaker Professor Benjamin Mason Meier, a Scholar at Georgetown Law School's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and a Faculty Fellow at UNC's Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease. The event will also feature two panel discussions on lessons from the recent Ebola outbreak and human rights issues in global health governance. Panelists include Dr. Chris Woods, Dr. Cameron Wolfe, Prof. Jerome Reichman, Dr. Michael Merson, Prof. Barak Richman, Michele Forzley, and Prof. Robert Cook-Deegan. Sponsored by Kilpatrick Townsend, the Duke Global Health Institute, Health Law Society, Human Rights Law Society, and International Law Society. For more information, please visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/GlobalHealthLawPolicy/ or contact Dani Glazer at dani.glazer@duke.edu.

Sponsored by the Program in Public Law. For more information please contact Sarah Holsapple at sarah.holsapple@law.duke.edu.

Sponsored by the Duke Estate Planning Council. For more information, please contact Alyssa Alegre at 919-681-8030 or alyssa.alegre@duke.edu.

IT directors from among the top 15 law schools in the US and from Cambridge in the UK are meeting at Duke Law to discuss issues, innovations and trends. Sponsored by Academic Technologies. For more information contact Wayne Miller at wayne.miller@law.duke.edu .

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 professionals and legal scholars. Faculty members have been selected for their knowledge of the subjects, presentation skills, and ability to communicate.

IT directors from among the top 15 law schools in the US and from Cambridge in the UK are meeting at Duke Law to discuss issues, innovations and trends. Sponsored by Academic Technologies. For more information contact Wayne Miller at wayne.miller@law.duke.edu .

Sponsored by the Duke Estate Planning Council. For more information, please contact Alyssa Alegre at 919-681-8030 or alyssa.alegre@duke.edu.

Duke Law School's Center for Innovation Policy is hosting a conference in Washington, D.C. at the offices of Venable LLP, looking at how the delivery of video programming is changing and the challenges this poses to content providers, service providers, regulators, and consumers. The conference brings together experts from the executive branch, Congress, and industry to address issues that are at the heart of innovation and policy. More information at https://goo.gl/2cGsPx. Sponsored by the Center for Innovation Policy. For more information, please contact Stephanie Lowd at stephanie.lowd@law.duke.edu.

Duke Law School's Center on Democracy and the Rule of Law and the Department of Political Science is hosting a conference exploring the cognitive foundations of our understanding of law and the politics that give rise to it. Sponsored by Professor McCubbins. Registration required: https://duke.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9zY3mhsAb0oKaKV. Space is limited. For more information, please contact Stephanie Lowd at stephanie.lowd@law.duke.edu.

Please join us for a conference on "Inequality and the Economic Analysis of Climate Change," organized by the Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy in collaboration with SCRiM Network. The conference will include papers and presentations by economists, philosophers, policy scholars, and lawyers on many aspects of the topic, such as: the effect of intra- and intergenerational inequality on the social cost of carbon or optimal mitigation pathways; the distributional effects of mitigation policies such as carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, or REDD; how current integrated assessment models (IAMs) such as RICE, FUND or PAGE take account of distributional concerns, and how IAMs can be refined to better do so; how equity concerns should influence disaster aid or other efforts to reduce the effects of global warming; altruism and equity; the choice between utilitarian and equity-regarding (e.g., "prioritarian") social welfare functions as the normative basis for evaluating climate policies; and the relation between equity and corrective justice (compensatory) considerations with respect to climate policy. Please note space is limited and registration (free) is required. For registration, please go to the conference webpage at https://law.duke.edu/laweconomicsandpublicpolicy/conferences/climatecha…. Sponsored by by the Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy in collaboration with SCRiM Network. For further information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at icc2015@law.duke.edu

Please join us for a conference on "Inequality and the Economic Analysis of Climate Change," organized by the Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy in collaboration with SCRiM Network. The conference will include papers and presentations by economists, philosophers, policy scholars, and lawyers on many aspects of the topic, such as: the effect of intra- and intergenerational inequality on the social cost of carbon or optimal mitigation pathways; the distributional effects of mitigation policies such as carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, or REDD; how current integrated assessment models (IAMs) such as RICE, FUND or PAGE take account of distributional concerns, and how IAMs can be refined to better do so; how equity concerns should influence disaster aid or other efforts to reduce the effects of global warming; altruism and equity; the choice between utilitarian and equity-regarding (e.g., "prioritarian") social welfare functions as the normative basis for evaluating climate policies; and the relation between equity and corrective justice (compensatory) considerations with respect to climate policy. Please note space is limited and registration (free) is required. For registration, please go to the conference webpage at https://law.duke.edu/laweconomicsandpublicpolicy/conferences/climatecha…. Sponsored by by the Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy in collaboration with SCRiM Network. For further information, please contact Victoria Zellefrow at icc2015@law.duke.edu

For more information, please contact Guy Charles at charles@law.duke.edu.

The United States Tax Court will hold a judicial conference in conjunction with the Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies. The Court's judicial conference will provide an opportunity for taxpayer representatives, government representatives, and members of the Court to discuss current topics relevant to Tax Court litigation. More information can be found at http://www.ustaxcourt.gov/2015_JudicialConference/Application.pdf. Please direct any questions to JudicialConference@ustaxcourt.gov.

For more information, please contact Guy Charles at charles@law.duke.edu.

The United States Tax Court will hold a judicial conference in conjunction with the Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies. The Court's judicial conference will provide an opportunity for taxpayer representatives, government representatives, and members of the Court to discuss current topics relevant to Tax Court litigation. More information can be found at http://www.ustaxcourt.gov/2015_JudicialConference/Application.pdf. Please direct any questions to JudicialConference@ustaxcourt.gov.

The United States Tax Court will hold a judicial conference in conjunction with the Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies. The Court's judicial conference will provide an opportunity for taxpayer representatives, government representatives, and members of the Court to discuss current topics relevant to Tax Court litigation. More information can be found at http://www.ustaxcourt.gov/2015_JudicialConference/Application.pdf. Please direct any questions to JudicialConference@ustaxcourt.gov.

The Carolinas Legal Research and Writing Colloquium is a biennial meeting of legal research and writing professors from law schools in North and South Carolina and elsewhere. The program will address various topics of interest in teaching lawyering skills, providing academic support to students, and administering legal research and writing programs. The event is sponsored by Duke Law's Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing Program. Please visit this link to view the agenda and to register for the colloquium: http://law.duke.edu/conference/2015/colloquium/. For more information, please contact Jeremy Mullem at mullem@law.duke.edu.

The climate regime has become complex. Several regional carbon markets have been started. Multiple international agreements and organizations now address greenhouse gas emissions. The current plans for the post-2020 regime call on each country to propose its own "intended nationally determined contribution" to the global effort. The workshop will discuss and debate how the new international regime should be designed to embrace and connect these diverse policies and measures. We will explore what we can learn about the design of the future international regime from the unfolding arrangements in regional efforts, how regional carbon markets can best be linked around the world, and how an international regime can best mobilize, and measure, efforts by countries or clubs/coalitions. Sponsored by Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, the Duke University Energy Initiative, and the Duke University School of Law. Please RSVP to Caroline Gorham at caroline.gorham@duke.edu.

Roundtable by invitation only. For more information, please contact Stephanie Lowd at Stephanie.Lowd@law.duke.edu.

Roundtable by invitation only. For more information, please contact Stephanie Lowd at Stephanie.Lowd@law.duke.edu.

We cordially invite you to join renowned international scholars and top professionals in private equity, law, government policy, venture capital, corporate strategy, banking and technology to discuss the changing flow of investment funds into and out of China, and the new opportunities and risks involved. Leaders from, CIC, Tencent, Fosun, Shenzhen Capital Group, BYD, The Carlyle Group, MOFCOM and top international law firms will gather to share their perspectives on what it takes to succeed in making strategic investments into and out of China. With China's "new normal" policies aimed at altering the balance between the government and the market, will Chinese companies seeking acquisitions abroad be helped or hurt? What new opportunities will be created for those seeking to invest into China? Speakers will include John M. de Figueiredo, Edward and Ellen Marie Schwarzman Professor of Law and Professor of Strategy and Economics, and Duke Law alumni Gao Xiqing '86, former head of China's sovereign wealth fund, and Li Xioming '90, the Head of China Practice at White & Case LLP. Sponsored by Duke Kunshan University, Duke's Fuqua School of Business and Duke Law School. For more information, visit the event web page (https://dku.edu.cn/dukeiff2015/) or contact DKU_Fuqua_Finance_Conf@duke.edu.

Criminal justice symposium co-sponsored by Duke Law Innocence Project and North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services. Featuring experts on selected forensic science topics. Sponsored by the Duke Law Center for Criminal Justice & Professional Responsibility and North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services. Registration is now closed. For more information please contact Alexandra Schlight at Alexandra.Schlight@duke.edu.

This Conference addresses ways the law can help slow the rising cost of healthcare. It will consist of four panels: "Who is to blame?," "How can the ACA be improved?," "What further regulations should exist?," and "How can we further incentivize innovation?." Physicians, the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC, and Professors from Duke Law, Fuqua School of Business, UNC Law, Berkeley Law and Brandeis will staff these panels. The keynote address will be given by Stuart Altman of Brandeis University. The Conference will culminate in an interview of author David Goldhill by Duke Law's Barak Richman. Sponsored by Duke Law and Economics Society and Duke Health Law Society. For more information, please contact Kyle Jaep at kyle.jaep@lawnet.duke.edu.

For more information, please contact Charles Dunlap at dunlap@law.duke.edu.

For more information, please contact Charles Dunlap at dunlap@law.duke.edu.

Please join us for Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy's annual Symposium. Tom Lininger of the University of Oregon will present his paper on the ethics of firearm prohibitions for those convicted of domestic violence offenses. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by DJGLP. For more information, please contact Ann Orsini at amo23@duke.edu.

Please join us for Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy's annual Symposium. Lauren Sampson, Sarah Chappell, Talley Wood, Joline Doedens, and Christine Kim, all current and incoming board members of the DJGLP, will be presenting their notes on a variety of domestic violence topics. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by DJGLP. For more information, please contact Ann Orsini at amo23@duke.edu.

Please join us for Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy's annual Symposium. Lynn Beller of Columbia University will be presenting her paper on removing children from victims of domestic violence. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by the DJGLP. For more information, please contact Ann Orsini at amo23@duke.edu.

The Duke Forum for Law and Social Change's annual symposium is focused on mental health and the law. Featured speakers include James Jones (Louis D. Brandeis School of Law Professor), Allison Robertson (Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke), and Jeffrey Swanson (Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke). Breakfast and lunch will be served; all are welcome to attend. Sponsored by DFLSC. For more information, please contact Sarah Krajewski at sarah.krajewski@duke.edu.

In Halliburton v. Erica P. John Fund, the Court upheld the Fraud On The Market presumption of reliance for securities fraud cases but chose to allow defendants to rebut the presumption at the class certification stage of a class action proceeding. The Halliburton holding, along with other sweeping securities rulings from the high Court in recent years reflects an ever more uncertain landscape for securities lawsuits. The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy's 2015 symposium will discuss the coherence of fraud on the market as a body of law, the practical implications of the Court's decision in Halliburton, and alternative enforcement mechanisms for securities fraud. Find more information at http://djclpp.law.duke.edu/symposium/. Sponsored by the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy. For more information, please contact Mariana Estévez at mariana.estevez@duke.edu.

The Duke Law Journal will be hosting its 45th Annual Administrative Law Symposium, "Is the Appointments Process Broken?: Insights from Practice, Process, and Theory." The symposium will feature articles and discussions by academics, practitioners, and other commentators on the current state of appointments in the U.S. amidst a changing legal landscape. Focus points will include the Supreme Court's recent "Noel Canning" decision, the significant limitations to filibusters of presidential nominees, and other matters. For more information please contact Bill O'Connell at william.o.connell@duke.edu.

Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum invites you to our 25th Anniversary Symposium "Carrots and Sticks." Following breakfast and coffee at 9:00 a.m., the symposium will begin with two academic panels on US food policy and food labeling. A BBQ lunch, catered by The Pit, will be served at 12:30 p.m. followed by our Keynote Address by Congresswoman Chellie Pingree of Maine. Representative Pingree was recently recognized as being one of the most innovative women in food by Food & Wine Magazine. The afternoon has one academic panel on food distribution systems followed by a producer panel that includes some of the Triangle's finest food producers including Watt's Grocery, Chapel Hill Creamery, Green Button Farm and Firsthand Food. Sponsored by DELPF. For more information on the program, panelists, and the day's schedule please visit our website at http://delpf.law.duke.edu/symposium/, and please contact Sean Fitzpatrick at sean.fitzpatrick@duke.edu with any questions or concerns. We hope to see you there!

The Fifth Annual Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium will provide meaningful opportunity for discussion and interaction among Duke students, visiting professors, legal practitioners, and industry leaders. Panels and speakers will once again focus on recent legal developments in the sports and entertainment industries. The event offers attendees panel discussions covering a range of current topics in the world of sports and entertainment law and the opportunity to meet professionals in these fields. To register, visit: http://duke.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3WZj8XrXMBT6VGl. Sponsored by the Sports and Entertainment Law Society. For more information, please contact Veronica Badway at veronica.badway@duke.edu or Jake Unger at jacob.unger@lawnet.duke.edu or visit http://sites.duke.edu/fifthannualsportsandentertainmentlawsymposium/.

Sponsored by the Center for International & Comparative Law. By invite only. For more information, please contact Ali Prince at ali.prince@law.duke.edu.

Recent debates about Internet regulation in the U.S. have focused on the FCC's 2010 Open Internet order and its May 2014 NPRM, but longer-term questions about the regulation of broadband networks loom. What can and should the Internet be in 2020? What is the appropriate regulatory approach to take in the next few years, and how should it be implemented? What will all this mean for innovators, policymakers, and users? Join Duke Law School's Center for Innovation Policy on Friday, October 17, at the Keck Center in Washington, D.C., for this symposium, bringing together a small group of leading authorities for a discussion of these questions. Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee will begin the program, which will also include Paul de Sa, Sharon Gillett, Bill Lehr, Ruth Milkman, Jon Nuechterlein, Jon Sallet, Henning Schulzrinne, Howard Shelanski, Jim Speta, and Daniel Weitzner. More information and to register: http://law.duke.edu/innovationpolicy/internetregulation/.

This two day conference (OCTOBER 16 - 17, 2014) 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.Please contact Alyssa Alegre at 919-681-8030 or alyssa.alegre@duke.edu for more information.

The Alaska Law Review is holding its first-ever "in Alaska" symposium with speakers from the University of Alaska Anchorage, the University of Washington School of Law, the Wilderness Society, Oceana, and the Institute of the North. Panel discussions will include "Alaska Native Participating in the Territorial Governance of the North," "Managing the Multinational Development of the Arctic North," and "Regulatory Oversight of Alaska's Arctic Shores." The event will be held at the University of Alaska Anchorage in Library room 307. Sponsored by the Alaska Law Review, the UAA Justice Center, and the Arctic Law Section of the Alaska Bar. For more information, please contact Professor Metzloff at metzloff@law.duke.edu.

This two day conference (OCTOBER 16 - 17, 2014) 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.Please contact Alyssa Alegre at 919-681-8030 or alyssa.alegre@duke.edu for more information.

By invitation only. For more information, please contact Chastain Smith, 202-502-2367, Chastain_Smith@ao.uscourts.gov.

By invitation only. For more information, please contact Chastain Smith, 202-502-2367, Chastain_Smith@ao.uscourts.gov.

By invitation only. For more information, please contact Chastain Smith, 202-502-2367, Chastain_Smith@ao.uscourts.gov.

By invitation only. For more information, please contact Chastain Smith, 202-502-2367, Chastain_Smith@ao.uscourts.gov.

By invitation only. For more information, please contact Stephanie Lowd at stephanie.lowd@law.duke.edu.

By invitation only. For more information, please contact Stephanie Lowd at stephanie.lowd@law.duke.edu.

By invitation only. For more information, please contact Stephanie Lowd at stephanie.lowd@law.duke.edu.

For more information, please contact Stephanie Lowd at Stephanie.Lowd@law.duke.edu.

For more information, please contact Stephanie Lowd at Stephanie.Lowd@law.duke.edu.

For more information, please contact Briana Brake at briana.brake@law.duke.edu.

For more information, please contact Briana Brake at briana.brake@law.duke.edu.

The Law & Economics Society is excited to present the Fifth Annual Triangle L&E Conference - Rethinking Regulation and Reform: Behavioral Economics and the Regulatory State, which will be addressing issues at the intersection of behavioral economics and law with a special focus on the applications of decision science, choice architecture, and nudging to law, regulation, and policy. The Conference, a joint effort between Duke Law School, UNC Law, and the Fuqua School of Business, is a highly inter- and cross-disciplinary student initiative involving faculty and campus-based centers, programs, and affiliates from across the University. Conference will take place on Friday, April 11th from 8 AM - 6 PM at Hoch Auditorium. Please refer to our website for continued updates. For more information, please contact Shanna Lehrman at shanna.lehrman@duke.edu. See more at: http://calendar.duke.edu/events/show?fq=id%3ACAL-8a0870ef-44647b9d-0144…

The Law & Economics Society is excited to present the Fifth Annual Triangle Law & Economics Conference - Rethinking Regulation and Reform: Behavioral Economics and the Regulatory State, which will be addressing issues at the intersection of behavioral economics and law with a special focus on the applications of decision science, choice architecture, and nudging to law, regulation, and policy. The Conference will commence on Thursday, April 10th with a Welcome Reception at 4:30 PM at the Davis Meeting Room and Roof Terrace at the Fuqua School of Business. The Keynote Address, beginning at 5 PM at the Fuqua Geneen Auditorium, will be given by Eric Johnson, Norman Eig Professor of Business and the Director of the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School and a reception will follow at the Roof Terrace. Hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be served. Please refer to our website for continued updates. RSVP here: http://www.dibs.duke.edu/events/2014/04/1252-rethinking-regulation-and-…. For more information, please contact Shanna Lehrman at shanna.lehrman@duke.edu

For more information, please contact Ben Kahn at benjamin.kahn@duke.edu.

The Sixth Annual Duke Forum for Law and Social Change Symposium: The United States Role in International Human Rights. Presentation topics will range from an analysis of the recent Kiobel decision, American Exceptionalism, inter-country adoptions and trafficking, and more. For more information, please contact Casteel Borsay at casteel.scherger@duke.edu.

Please join the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy for our annual symposium: Current Issues in Sex Trafficking. For more information, please contact Hallie Fisher at hallie.fisher@lawnet.duke.edu.

This event is the primary 1L and employer networking event at Duke as the 1Ls contemplate their upcoming 2L law firm job search. In 2013, more than 30 organizations, 60+ lawyers and recruiting professionals and over 165 students participated in a high-energy & interactive evening. Blueprint offers a unique opportunity to establish meaningful connections with private sector decision-makers from around the country in advance of the Fall OCI recruiting season. To be held at the Durham Convention Center. For more information, please visit the Blueprint webpage, or contact Erin Biggerstaff (erin.biggerstaff@law.duke.edu) or Adriane Kyropoulos (adriane.kyropoulos@law.duke.edu).

Please join the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy for our annual symposium: Current Issues in Sex Trafficking. For more information, please contact Hallie Fisher at hallie.fisher@lawnet.duke.edu.

Please join the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy for our annual symposium: Current Issues in Sex Trafficking. For more information, please contact Hallie Fisher at hallie.fisher@lawnet.duke.edu.

The Center on Law, Ethics and National Security will host its 20th Annual Spring Conference at the Law School on Friday, February 28th and Saturday morning, March 1st. The theme of this year's conference is "LAWshaping in National Security, the Past, the Progress, and the Path Ahead." The conference will address a wide variety of subjects including surveillance, cyberwar, drones, the role of the courts in national security issues, sexual assault in the armed forces, civil-military relations, presidential power and national security, developments in international humanitarian law (law of armed conflict), ethical issues in national security law and much more. The conference agenda, registration information, and other materials may be found at http://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conferences/2014/program. For additional information please contact stephanie.lowd@law.duke.edu.

The Center on Law, Ethics and National Security will host its 20th Annual Spring Conference at the Law School on Friday, February 28th and Saturday morning, March 1st. The theme of this year's conference is "LAWshaping in National Security, the Past, the Progress, and the Path Ahead." The conference will address a wide variety of subjects including surveillance, cyberwar, drones, the role of the courts in national security issues, sexual assault in the armed forces, civil-military relations, presidential power and national security, developments in international humanitarian law (law of armed conflict), ethical issues in national security law and much more. The conference agenda, registration information, and other materials may be found at http://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conferences/2014/program. For additional information please contact stephanie.lowd@law.duke.edu.

The foundations of settled law are shifting as courts begin to apply administrative law doctrines to the rather insular world of tax administration. These developments present an ideal opportunity to reflect on the general validity and utility of both general administrative law principles and statutory commands of the APA. Is tax administration somehow fundamentally different from administration in other areas? Does what happens in tax call into question any important assumptions or practices in general administrative law? Are there reforms that might usefully be made, either in general administrative law rules or in tax administration? These are the questions for reflection as the Symposium takes administrative law to tax. For more information, please contact Devon Damiano at devon.damiano@lawnet.duke.edu. Registration at http://dlj.law.duke.edu.

DELPF plans to examine the development of American environmental justice law and policy in the twenty years since President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 12,898, which mandated that "each Federal agency shall make achieving environmental justice part of its mission." This symposium will explore domestic environmental justice issues as well as the idea of leakage of environmental harms from the United States to developing countries. That is, that the negative environmental externalities of the United States economy - those that inspired the American environmental justice movement - have shifted overseas. Examples of environmental leakage include the export of American electronic waste ("e-waste"), the United States' non-ratification of the Basel Convention, and climate justice realities arising from American carbon dioxide emissions. For more information, please contact Ben Kahn at benjamin.kahn@duke.edu.

The Supreme Court recently heard McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, and it may be poised to enact further changes to the campaign donation system. This presents a great opportunity to discuss issues related to the state of campaign finance and the possible need for reform after Citizens United. What is the identifiable role of big money in politics? How should we identify corruption in campaign finance? Should we bring back soft money? These are some of the questions we will be addressing during the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy's annual symposium. The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy Symposium will be held in the Sanford 223 Rhodes Conference Room for the morning panels and in Law 4047 for the afternoon panels. For more information, please contact Sudeep Paul at sudeep.paul@duke.edu or visit http://djclpp.law.duke.edu/symposium/.

Please join the Sports and Entertainment Law Society for our Fourth Annual Symposium as we discuss current legal issues in the sports and entertainment industries. Several attorneys, faculty members, agents, and legal advisers will serve as panelists, lead Q-and-A sessions, and foster academic debate. The symposium also offers students a venue to meet and network with professionals working in the types of careers they would like to pursue. For more information, please contact Abe Benavides at aab40@duke.edu or visit http://sites.duke.edu/dukelawsportsandentertainment/. To register, visit https://duke.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1GqwdypPeKDZiFD.

Annual symposium sponsored by the Duke Business Law Society and the Career and Professional Development Center. More than 40 senior alumni will be here to share their experiences, give candid advice, and interact informally with students during panel discussions and in small groups. This is a rare and valuable educational and networking opportunity for law students to learn about different possible career paths and get to know Duke Law alumni. This event will be webcast. For more information, contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

Annual symposium sponsored by the Duke Business Law Society and the Career and Professional Development Center. More than 40 senior alumni will be here to share their experiences, give candid advice, and interact informally with students during panel discussions and in small groups. This is a rare and valuable educational and networking opportunity for law students to learn about different possible career paths and get to know Duke Law alumni. This event will be webcast. For more information, contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

Using Theory to Inform Practice, Using Success to Inform PractitionersIn recent decades, research on organizational innovation has usefully helped business leaders guide their firms through changing market conditions. These lessons have helped companies survive the introduction of new technologies, navigate changing market environments, and rejuvenate old institutions into new markets. While consultants to nonprofits have encouraged community and philanthropic organizations to adopt these same lessons, very few have. This is especially true in the Jewish world, which remains dominated by institutions that have been criticized for pursuing costly strategies and out-of-date priorities. Nonetheless, there are some Jewish leaders and organizations that have injected dynamism into American Jewish life that follows the template of organizational innovation.This conference is designed to highlight the achievements of some of these organizations, understand their experiences within a common theoretical understanding of institutional renewal, and synthesize lessons for other Jewish organizations and communities who seek to rejuvenate Jewish life through creative organizations and organizational strategies.

How should we evaluate governmental policy in light of individual well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy will provide a comprehensive treatment of this large and important question. The Handbook is authored by an interdisciplinary and international group of economists, philosophers, psychologists and law professors. At the Duke conference, authors in Part I and II of the Handbook will present first drafts of their chapters. This conference is open to faculty and graduate or professional students at Duke or other universities. Further conference information can be found at http://law.duke.edu/laweconomicsandpublicpolicy/conferences/wellbeing/ Space is limited. Please contact Victoria Zellefrow (victoria.zellefrow@law.duke.edu) if you are interested in registering.

How should we evaluate governmental policy in light of individual well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy will provide a comprehensive treatment of this large and important question. The Handbook is authored by an interdisciplinary and international group of economists, philosophers, psychologists and law professors. At the Duke conference, authors in Part I and II of the Handbook will present first drafts of their chapters. This conference is open to faculty and graduate or professional students at Duke or other universities. Further conference information can be found at http://law.duke.edu/laweconomicsandpublicpolicy/conferences/wellbeing/ Space is limited. Please contact Victoria Zellefrow (victoria.zellefrow@law.duke.edu) if you are interested in registering.

The Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy brings together leading figures from the private sector, government, and academia to consider incentive systems for biopharmaceutical development at its inaugural conference. Hosted by Professors Stuart Benjamin and Arti Rai, the center co-directors, the daylong conference will be held on Nov. 22, 2013, at the National Academy of Sciences Building, Room NAS120, Washington, D.C. It is free and open to the public but registration is required due to space limitations. To register, visit http://law.duke.edu/innovationpolicy/newapproaches/. For more information, please contact Julie Moushon at InnovationPolicy@law.duke.edu.

What , precisely, is the legal evil of slavery? Adrienne Davis, the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History will examine this question and other aspects of slavery's intersection with law when she delivers Duke University's annual Robert R. Wilson Lecture. Professor Davis is visiting Duke Law during the fall 2013 semester from Washington University in St. Louis, where she is Vice Provost and the William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law. This event is free and open to the public. A light lunch will be available on a first-come, first served basis. For more information, please contact Sandie MacLachlan at sandra.maclachlan@law.duke.edu.

Investment in emerging markets has the potential to foster the growth and development of emerging economies, provide much needed capital and expertise in a variety of infrastructure arenas, and to promote increased cooperation and collaboration between countries and between public and private parties. Given the political risks and varying degrees of sophistication in emerging markets, the Symposium seeks to answer: (1) what is and what creates a ripe investment environment? and (2) what makes a transaction financeable? Through greater understanding of current challenges and proposed solutions, the Symposium hopes to inspire strategies for wise and sustainable investments in infrastructure development. For more information, please visit our website: http://djcil.law.duke.edu/symposium/ or please contact Erica Kassman at erica.kassman@lawnet.duke.edu.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Invitation only: Duke Law School and the International Committee of the Red Cross will sponsor a conference on contemporary issues in international humanitarian law that are of importance and concern for both the United States and Canada, including questions that impact the interoperability between the two countries. The workshop will include sessions on methodology and how to expand the interaction between the US and Canadian academic networks. For more information, please contact Charles Dunlap at dunlap@law.duke.edu.

Segment I of Fall 2013 On Campus Interviews will take place Monday, August 12 through Thursday, August 15. All interviews will be held at the Durham Hilton on Hillsborough Road. For more information, please contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

Segment I of Fall 2013 On Campus Interviews will take place Monday, August 12 through Thursday, August 15. All interviews will be held at the Durham Hilton on Hillsborough Road. For more information, please contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

Segment I of Fall 2013 On Campus Interviews will take place Monday, August 12 through Thursday, August 15. All interviews will be held at the Durham Hilton on Hillsborough Road. For more information, please contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

Segment I of Fall 2013 On Campus Interviews will take place Monday, August 12 through Thursday, August 15. All interviews will be held at the Durham Hilton on Hillsborough Road. For more information, please contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

Segment I of Fall 2013 On Campus Interviews will take place Monday, August 12 through Thursday, August 15. All interviews will be held at the Durham Hilton on Hillsborough Road. For more information, please contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines (including economics, philosophy, psychology, and law) to present current research about happiness. Presenters will include both external scholars and Duke faculty. The specific focus of the conference will be the normative relevance of happiness and its role in shaping public policy. The conference is co-sponsored by the Kenan Institute of Ethics "Rethinking Regulation" program. Registration required at https://duke.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0JrZTbXQlIoVba5 For more information, please contact Dawn Cronce at cronce@law.duke.edu.

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines (including economics, philosophy, psychology, and law) to present current research about happiness. Presenters will include both external scholars and Duke faculty. The specific focus of the conference will be the normative relevance of happiness and its role in shaping public policy. The conference is co-sponsored by the Kenan Institute of Ethics "Rethinking Regulation" program. Registration required at https://duke.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0JrZTbXQlIoVba5 For more information, please contact Dawn Cronce at cronce@law.duke.edu.

The Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies in association with the American Intellectual Property Law Association is holding a one-week intensive training program, which will address important developments in patent law. Designed for practicing lawyers and leaders whose work requires a deep understanding of the fast-moving area of patent law, this program focuses on practical strategies for navigating the new procedures set out in the America Invents Act. Participants also will develop a comprehensive understanding of the case law that is shaping patent and intellectual property litigation. The faculty includes Duke Law scholars, legislative and executive branch officials, experienced lawyers, and prominent United States judges -- a unique combination of knowledge, insight, and experience that distinguishes this accelerated learning program from traditional educational programs. For more information and to register, click on the title link.

The Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies in association with the American Intellectual Property Law Association is holding a one-week intensive training program, which will address important developments in patent law. Designed for practicing lawyers and leaders whose work requires a deep understanding of the fast-moving area of patent law, this program focuses on practical strategies for navigating the new procedures set out in the America Invents Act. Participants also will develop a comprehensive understanding of the case law that is shaping patent and intellectual property litigation. The faculty includes Duke Law scholars, legislative and executive branch officials, experienced lawyers, and prominent United States judges -- a unique combination of knowledge, insight, and experience that distinguishes this accelerated learning program from traditional educational programs. For more information and to register, click on the title link.

The Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies in association with the American Intellectual Property Law Association is holding a one-week intensive training program, which will address important developments in patent law. Designed for practicing lawyers and leaders whose work requires a deep understanding of the fast-moving area of patent law, this program focuses on practical strategies for navigating the new procedures set out in the America Invents Act. Participants also will develop a comprehensive understanding of the case law that is shaping patent and intellectual property litigation. The faculty includes Duke Law scholars, legislative and executive branch officials, experienced lawyers, and prominent United States judges -- a unique combination of knowledge, insight, and experience that distinguishes this accelerated learning program from traditional educational programs. For more information and to register, click on the title link.

The Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies in association with the American Intellectual Property Law Association is holding a one-week intensive training program, which will address important developments in patent law. Designed for practicing lawyers and leaders whose work requires a deep understanding of the fast-moving area of patent law, this program focuses on practical strategies for navigating the new procedures set out in the America Invents Act. Participants also will develop a comprehensive understanding of the case law that is shaping patent and intellectual property litigation. The faculty includes Duke Law scholars, legislative and executive branch officials, experienced lawyers, and prominent United States judges -- a unique combination of knowledge, insight, and experience that distinguishes this accelerated learning program from traditional educational programs. For more information and to register, click on the title link.

The Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies in association with the American Intellectual Property Law Association is holding a one-week intensive training program, which will address important developments in patent law. Designed for practicing lawyers and leaders whose work requires a deep understanding of the fast-moving area of patent law, this program focuses on practical strategies for navigating the new procedures set out in the America Invents Act. Participants also will develop a comprehensive understanding of the case law that is shaping patent and intellectual property litigation. The faculty includes Duke Law scholars, legislative and executive branch officials, experienced lawyers, and prominent United States judges -- a unique combination of knowledge, insight, and experience that distinguishes this accelerated learning program from traditional educational programs. For more information and to register, click on the title link.

Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel, Arlington,VA -This invitation-only conference builds on Judge John Heyburn's evaluation of and proposals improving the MDL process and Professor Francis McGovern's survey of experienced MDL lawyers. The conference is part of the Duke Conference: Bench-Bar-Academy Distinguished Lawyers' Series. The conference continues the ongoing interchange on improvements to the MDL process between the bench and bar.

Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel, Arlington,VA -This invitation-only conference builds on Judge John Heyburn's evaluation of and proposals improving the MDL process and Professor Francis McGovern's survey of experienced MDL lawyers. The conference is part of the Duke Conference: Bench-Bar-Academy Distinguished Lawyers' Series. The conference continues the ongoing interchange on improvements to the MDL process between the bench and bar.

By invitation only. For more information, please contact Gladys Bethea at gladys.bethea@law.duke.edu.

Washington Plaza Hotel, Washington DC - The conference critically examines the usefulness and effectiveness of "technology-assisted" review as a tool whose proponents assert will substantially reduce ediscovery costs. "Technology-assisted" review is also referred to sometimes as "predictive-coding" review or "computer-assisted" review. Its utility was challenged and upheld in Da Silva Moore (2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23350 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 24, 2012)), a decision rendered by Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck and confirmed by U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter (11 Civ. 1279 (ALC)(AJP)). Under the new technology, senior lawyers review a few thousand documents for relevancy and privilege, which provides information for artificial intelligence to do the same for the remainder of the electronically stored information in an iterative process, potentially substantially reducing the costs of manual review.

For more than 30 years, James Nickel has provided a clear voice on human rights and mentored students in human rights law and theory, jurisprudence, and political philosophy. In honor of his distinguished career and work, KIE will be hosting a conference on March 22-23. Panel topics include Morality to Law, Human Rights and Democracy, Global Justice and the Resource Curse, Linkage Arguments, and Human Rights and Dignity.

The Duke Law Innocence Project will be co-hosting a criminal justice symposium on Friday, March 22, 2013 with criminal justice organizations from Appalachian State, Campbell, Elon, and UNC. The theme of the symposium will be how students can better engage with community criminal justice organizations. It will take place at UNC and will include conversations with community leaders from across the state. Henderson Hill is confirmed to be the keynote speaker and, among others, UNC will be planning a panel on death penalty policy. Henderson Hill is the current Federal Public Defender of the Western District of North Carolina. He has also worked for the Federal Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and founded the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in 1995. He is very involved with community and criminal justice issues in North Carolina. For more information, please visit: http://sites.duke.edu/communitysymposium/.

For more than 30 years, James Nickel has provided a clear voice on human rights and mentored students in human rights law and theory, jurisprudence, and political philosophy. In honor of his distinguished career and work, KIE will be hosting a conference on March 22-23. Panel topics include Morality to Law, Human Rights and Democracy, Global Justice and the Resource Curse, Linkage Arguments, and Human Rights and Dignity.

The Duke Law Innocence Project will be co-hosting a criminal justice symposium on Friday, March 22, 2013 with criminal justice organizations from Appalachian State, Campbell, Elon, and UNC. The theme of the symposium will be how students can better engage with community criminal justice organizations. It will take place at UNC and will include conversations with community leaders from across the state. Henderson Hill is confirmed to be the keynote speaker and, among others, UNC will be planning a panel on death penalty policy. Henderson Hill is the current Federal Public Defender of the Western District of North Carolina. He has also worked for the Federal Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and founded the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in 1995. He is very involved with community and criminal justice issues in North Carolina. For more information, please visit: http://sites.duke.edu/communitysymposium/.

All 1Ls are cordially invited to attend the annual Blueprint for Professional Success Networking Event and Practice Area Expo taking place at the Durham Hilton, the signature networking event bringing together First Year Duke Law Students and prospective law firm employers. Learn about a wide array of practice areas and meet high-profile Duke Law School alumni from the public sector whose careers have spanned public service and law firm work. Please note: There will not be a Hardt Cup round taking place this night, so all 1Ls should plan to attend. For more information, please contact Joanna Bell at joanna.bell@law.duke.edu.

For more information, contact Scott Silliman at Silliman@law.duke.edu.

The primary goal of this instructional program is to promote civic competence and responsibility in elementary, middle and high school students. Students study materials relating to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the principles and development of constitutional democracy in the United States. High school classes may choose to culminate their study through participation in competitions styled as simulated congressional hearings. Sponsored by the Program in Public Law and the North Carolina Bar Association. For more information, please contact Dana Norvell at norvell@law.duke.edu.

For more information, contact Scott Silliman at Silliman@law.duke.edu.

The Journal of Gender Law & Policy is hosting its annual symposium on February 26th, 27th and 28th from 12:15-1:15 in Room 4055. This year's speakers will discuss a wide range of provocative topics including gay rights 20 years after Romer (Prof. Linda McClain, Boston University School of Law), preglimony and the rights and responsibilities of expecting parents (Candice Reder, Duke Law 2013), and domestic violence 20 years after the Violence Against Women Act (Prof. Deborah Weissman, UNC School of Law). Lunch will be provided. For more information, contact Serena Rwejuna at Serena.Rwejuna@duke.edu.

The Journal of Gender Law & Policy is hosting its annual symposium on February 26th, 27th and 28th from 12:15-1:15 in Room 4055. This year's speakers will discuss a wide range of provocative topics including gay rights 20 years after Romer (Prof. Linda McClain, Boston University School of Law), preglimony and the rights and responsibilities of expecting parents (Candice Reder, Duke Law 2013), and domestic violence 20 years after the Violence Against Women Act (Prof. Deborah Weissman, UNC School of Law). Lunch will be provided. For more information, contact Serena Rwejuna at Serena.Rwejuna@duke.edu.

The Journal of Gender Law & Policy is hosting its annual symposium on February 26th, 27th and 28th from 12:15-1:15 in Room 4055. This year's speakers will discuss a wide range of provocative topics including gay rights 20 years after Romer (Prof. Linda McClain, Boston University School of Law), preglimony and the rights and responsibilities of expecting parents (Candice Reder, Duke Law 2013), and domestic violence 20 years after the Violence Against Women Act (Prof. Deborah Weissman, UNC School of Law). Lunch will be provided. For more information, contact Serena Rwejuna at Serena.Rwejuna@duke.edu.

The symposium is a day-long event where authors and professionals interested in the subject of obesity prevention will come together and discuss legal mechanisms that can be used to address this issue. The symposium will also provide an opportunity for professionals looking to tackle this issue in the local community to participate in the panels and ideally implement some of the ideas and suggestions that will come out of the discussions. For more information, please contact Shamoor Anis at shamoor.anis@duke.edu.

Duke Law Journal's 43rd Annual Administrative Law Symposium will focus on the role of well-being analysis in administrative law. The day will begin will begin with a presentation by Professors John Bronsteen (Loyola Univ. Chicago School of Law), Christopher Buccafusco (IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law), and Jonathan Masur (University of Chicago Law), who coauthored an article titled "Well-Being Analysis vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis." Next, Professor Matthew Adler (Duke Law) will present his piece, titled "Happiness Surveys and Public Policy: What's the Use?" We will conclude with interdisciplinary panels discussing topics such as the reliability of hedonic data, the meaning of welfare, and the merits of cost-benefit analysis versus well-being analysis. Panel participants include: Carol Graham (Brookings Ins), Jennifer Hawkins (Duke Trent Center), Jennifer Nou (U. Chicago Law), Lisa Robinson (Harvard Kennedy School), Peter Ubel (Duke Sanford School), and Kip Viscusi (Vanderbilt Law). Please RSVP at the website for lunch.For more information, please contact Katie Ertmer at dukelj.eic@gmail.com

This day-long conference is co-sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Center for International and Comparative Law at Duke Law School, Women's and Sexuality Studies, and the Center for LGBT Life. Recent efforts to combat violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity have made remarkable progress internationally. But these efforts have also been met with resistance and backlashes in some countries. The rapid changes in the legal, political, social and cultural landscapes for LGBT individuals raise fundamental questions about the strategies that activists, lawyers and NGOs deploy to promote LGBT equality. The symposium will bring together a small group of leading scholars, activists and attorneys whose work focuses on LGBT issues in different parts of the world to share insights and experiences across the disciplinary and academic-practitioner divides.

The Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society presents the Eleventh Annual "Hot Topics in Intellectual Property" Symposium. Topics: TBD. Speaker information and registration will be updated on the IPCS website as it becomes available. Duke students and faculty are free. Lunch is provided for registered guests, with a reception following the event. This event will be webcast. For more information, please contact Seth Ascher at seth.ascher@duke.edu.

Annual symposium sponsored by the Duke Business Law Society and the Career and Professional Development Center. More than 40 senior alumni will be here to share their experiences, give candid advice, and interact informally with students during panel discussions and in small groups. This is a rare and valuable educational and networking opportunity for law students to learn about different possible career paths and get to know Duke Law alumni. For more information, contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

Annual symposium sponsored by the Duke Business Law Society and the Career and Professional Development Center. More than 40 senior alumni will be here to share their experiences, give candid advice, and interact informally with students during panel discussions and in small groups. This is a rare and valuable educational and networking opportunity for law students to learn about different possible career paths and get to know Duke Law alumni. For more information, contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.

The Sports and Entertainment Law Society would like to cordially invite you to our Third Annual Symposium entitled: "The Changing Economics of the Sports and Entertainment Industries." The symposium will offer an unprecedented opportunity to network with lawyers from top law firms (which is especially great for 1Ls as they move into the OCI process this summer!) and sports and entertainment companies. Panel topics include: NFL Concussion Litigation, Creating Value for Professional Sports Franchises, Monetization of College Sports, Copyright Reversion, and Handling Scandal. There will be breakfast at registration, lunch will be provided for all symposium participants, and a formal networking reception will follow the afternoon panels at 5PM. To register, please visit:https://duke.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eLkA6epLaQCAAIdFore more information, please visit http://sites.duke.edu/dukelawsportsandentertainment/ or contact Shelby Highstein at shelby.highstein@duke.edu.

This symposium will develop an in-depth discussion on the most appropriate communities, institutions, and constitutional frameworks needed to regulate migration policy. The symposium will explore the relationship between local, national, and international levels of government and policy-making bodies that are attempting to address the challenges of migration flows, immigration regulation and enforcement, and ideas of citizenship and national belonging.For more information, contact Andrew Hand at andrew.hand@duke.edu.

By invitation only. For more information, contact Sue Hinson at susan.hinson@law.duke.edu.

By invitation only. For more information, contact Sue Hinson at susan.hinson@law.duke.edu.

Location: Umstead Hotel (near Duke Law and the Raleigh-Durham International Airport) This two day conference addresses a party's conflicting disclosure and discovery obligations in cross-border litigation involving information that is protected under European Union privacy laws or similar laws of other countries. It will bring together federal judges, in-house counsel, and experienced lawyers to search for and identify real improvements in the law, including potential rule changes, legislation, or international compacts. More information can be found by clicking on the link or contact Ann Yandian at ann.yandian@law.duke.edu.

Location: Umstead Hotel (near Duke Law and the Raleigh-Durham International Airport) This two day conference addresses a party's conflicting disclosure and discovery obligations in cross-border litigation involving information that is protected under European Union privacy laws or similar laws of other countries. It will bring together federal judges, in-house counsel, and experienced lawyers to search for and identify real improvements in the law, including potential rule changes, legislation, or international compacts. More information can be found by clicking on the link or contact Ann Yandian at ann.yandian@law.duke.edu.

Our largest club event is our annual Duke MBA Health Care Conference, which brings students, business leaders, scientists, clinicians, academics, and policymakers together to discuss business and policy issues in the health sector. In addition, there will be a pre-conference event for sponsors on Tuesday, November 13th at The Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club.The theme of this year's conference is Global Health in Emerging Markets. Speakers and panelists will focus on global health care trends, specifically how these trends will affect the business landscape in various emerging markets. These trends include increasing access to care, improving quality and innovation, and reducing cost of care. Speakers and panelists will also address the impact of national government policies, as well as advocacy and awareness initiatives, on the health care industry. Sectors include providers, payers, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and non-profit organizations.

The Private International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law is hosting its conference at Duke Law School, together with the Center for International and Comparative Law and the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law. The conference topic goes to the field's foundation: What is Private International Law? For more information, please visit http://web.law.duke.edu/cicl/pilconference/index. If you would like to attend, please contact Ali Prince at ali.prince@law.duke.edu.

The Private International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law is hosting its conference at Duke Law School, together with the Center for International and Comparative Law and the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law. The conference topic goes to the field's foundation: What is Private International Law? For more information, please visit http://web.law.duke.edu/cicl/pilconference/index. If you would like to attend, please contact Ali Prince at ali.prince@law.duke.edu.

Location: Washington, D.C. This one day conference critically examines the usefulness and effectiveness of "technology-assisted" review as a tool whose proponents assert will substantially reduce ediscovery costs. It will bring together 60 senior-level practitioners sophisticated in ediscovery, industry experts, scholars, and federal judges in a collaborative environment aimed at informing and developing consensus positions that can guide policy-makers and decision-makers, including the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. More information can be found by clicking on the link or contact Ann Yandian at ann.yandian@law.duke.edu. (This event is full.)

The Equal Justice Works annual Conference and Career Fair is the largest public interest career fair in the country. The Conference and Career Fair provides access to job opportunities for law students; connects employers with talented attorneys and law students; and offers a multitude of skill-building and career advising sessions with experts from around the country. Interested students should register ASAP; if you have any questions, contact Stella Boswell at boswell@law.duke.edu.

The Equal Justice Works annual Conference and Career Fair is the largest public interest career fair in the country. The Conference and Career Fair provides access to job opportunities for law students; connects employers with talented attorneys and law students; and offers a multitude of skill-building and career advising sessions with experts from around the country. Interested students should register ASAP; if you have any questions, contact Stella Boswell at boswell@law.duke.edu.

This two day conference focuses on current developments in the estate and gift tax field, estate planning techniques, and will offer discussions and solutions to estate planning problems. Conference faculty members comprised of estate planning and tax practitioners and legal scholars will lead the sessions. More information can be found by clicking on the link. For more information, please contact Alyssa Alegre at alyssa.alegre@dev.duke.edu.

This two day conference focuses on current developments in the estate and gift tax field, estate planning techniques, and will offer discussions and solutions to estate planning problems. Conference faculty members comprised of estate planning and tax practitioners and legal scholars will lead the sessions. More information can be found by clicking on the link. For more information, please contact Alyssa Alegre at alyssa.alegre@dev.duke.edu.

Please plan to join us at the School of Law. We'll explore the latest trends in blog writing, design, networking and more. ($10 gets you lunch). For more information, please contact Anton Zuiker at anton.zuiker@duke.edu

HCA Auditorium at Fuqua - Chairman John Levi, President Jim Sandman, and the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation invite you to join them for two panels highlighting the importance of civil legal aid to the orderly functioning of our civil justice system: 9:00-10:30am: A panel of Distinguished Judges and Justices; and 10:45am -12:00pm: A panel on the Legal Aid Needs of Military Veterans. For more information, please contact Becky Fertig at fertigr@lsc.gov.

at Reynolds Auditorium -
Conservative politicians, academics and professionals will gather to articulate their vision for a conservative approach to environmental issues. Please join us for the 2012 Duke Environmental Law conference, co-sponsored by the Federalist Society.
Click on the event title for more information and to register. Watch live on ustream at:
http://www.ustream.tv/ucae.

Interviews to take place at the Hilton Hotel-Durham. For more information, contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

Interviews to take place at the Hilton Hotel-Durham. For more information, contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

Interviews to take place at the Hilton Hotel-Durham. For more information, contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

Interviews to take place at the Hilton Hotel-Durham. For more information, contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

This conference, organized by Professors John de Figueiredo and Arti Rai, is designed to explore advances in the academic literature at the intersection of social science, law, and doctrine that can meaningfully be applied to executive and judicial decision-making. The conference brings together the country's leading academic minds, influential federal judges, and respected policy-makers to engage in a discussion of topics that are of mutual interest to both the theory and practice of law. By integrating the three perspectives, the goal is to have practice better inform theory and theory better inform practice.
By invitation only.

Shortages of prescription drugs have increased five-fold since 2004. Virtually all hospitals report shortages and at least 15 deaths have been attributed to the lack of available drugs. Fuqua's HSM program presents a panel of industry experts, hospital administrators and Fuqua faculty discussing: With established markets and supply chains in place, why are there shortages? an unintended consequence of generic substitution? a result of ex-US outsourcing?
increasing scrutiny of manufacturing standards? What is the impact on patient care? How can the problem be fixed? What are the business opportunities? Panelists:
1) Lynn Eschenbacher, Pharma D, MBA, Assistant Director, Clinical Services, WakeMed Health & Hospitals; 2) Havi Glaser, JD, VP for Policy & Strategic Alliances for the Generic Pharmaceutical Association; 3) David Ridley, PhD, Assistant Professor, Fuqua School of Business; 4) Michael Waitzkin, JD, Senior Scholar, Fuqua School of Business. RSVP at: https://dukefuqua.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cUuPvhYT7sQQn52 or email hsm@fuqua.duke.edu

The first Criminal Justice Policy Symposium, sponsored by the Duke Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility and the Duke Law Innocence Project, will be an exciting two-day event designed to raise awareness about current problems and propose solutions for the future. Thursday night will be highlighted by the premiere of a documentary about wrongful convictions, followed by a panel discussion with exonerees. On Friday, Reverend William Barber will deliver the event's keynote address and lunch will be provided. Students may participate in a Leadership Conference during the morning, practitioners are invited to a CLE on preparing an MAR, and everyone will come together for panel discussions on relevant policy topics in the afternoon. Contact Information: Christian Kucab, crk20@duke.edu or Bill Rose at wrt4@duke.edu.

The Health Sector Management program at the Fuqua School of Business presents: HSM Symposia, "Health Care Reform in the Supreme Court." In a highly unusual action, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments concerning Health Care Reform legislation on three consecutive days: March 26, 27 and 28. Fuqua's HSM program presents a panel of policy analysts, lawyers and industry experts discussing:
- The arguments and the justices' reactions, how they relate to the future of "reform" and the role of government in the healthcare markets.
- The likely reactions of various stakeholders to potential outcomes. Panelists: 1. Donald Taylor, MPA, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Duke University. 2. Barak Richman, JD, PhD, Professor of Law, Duke University. 3. Carly Kelly, JD, Director, Healthcare Reform Practice, Avalere Health. 4. Michael Waitzkin, JD, Senior Scholar, Fuqua School of Business. RSVP Qualtrics Survey: https://dukefuqua.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cZpsjBcmN9Q8pa4

The Duke Sports and Entertainment Law Society (SELS) invites you to join us at our 2nd Annual Sports and Entertainment Law Symposium, The Business: Recent Developments and New Challenges in Sports, Entertainment and the Law. We have speakers coming from Skadden, Paul Weiss, O'Melveny, Dewey LeBoeuf, Shearman & Sterling, the Atlanta Hawks, MTV Networks, and Sony Music, among many others. Some of our featured panels will cover Collective Bargaining, Athletes' Right of Publicity, Structuring Complex Sports Transactions, Working with Talent in Sports & Entertainment, and Media & Entertainment Practice: In-House and Big Firm Perspectives. There will be a registration breakfast and a networking lunch, with a formal reception to follow. This event is sponsored by Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. To register for the symposium, please visit the link above. For more information, please contact Shelby Highstein at shelby.highstein@duke.edu.

For more information, contact Scott Silliman at Silliman@law.duke.edu.

The primary goal of this instructional program is to promote civic competence and responsibility in elementary, middle and high school students. Students study materials relating to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the principles and development of constitutional democracy in the United States. High school classes may choose to culminate their study through participation in competitions styled as simulated congressional hearings. Sponsored by the Program in Public Law and the North Carolina Bar Association. For more information, please contact Dana Norvell at norvell@law.duke.edu.

For more information, contact Scott Silliman at Silliman@law.duke.edu.

Calling all Law alumnae to join us for "Winning Women: Advocates, Educators and Athletes." Celebrate key milestones marking transitions for women in the life of the University, including Title IX, the establishment of Women's Studies and the Women's Center, the appointment of President Nan Keohane, the Women's Initiative, the 40th anniversary of Duke Women's Athletics, and the merging of the Woman's College with Trinity College. See featured speakers, programs, and workshops at http://dukealumni.com/alumni-communities/womens-programming/2012-womens…. For further information, please contact Anna Walker - walker@law.duke.edu.

Duke Law Journal's 42nd Annual Administrative Law Symposium will focus on several important topics in administrative law today. Selected from over 80 proposals, the seven panelists explore issues pressing upon legislators, agency and Executive Branch officials, and judges, such as the politicization of agencies, the judicial review challenges posed by shared regulatory authority, and the emphasis on reason-giving in rulemaking. The participants will use both historical and empirical analysis to describe the current administrative-law landscape and prescribe alternatives for its future.

Participants include Stavros Gadinis (UC Berkeley Law), Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. (University of Alabama School of Law), Thomas O. McGarity (University of Texas, Austin School of Law), Emily Hammond Meazell(University of Oklahoma Law), Jodi L. Short (Georgetown University Law Center), and Kathryn A. Watts (University of Washington School of Law).

This event will be webcast. For more information, contact Alexandra Costanza at akc24@duke.edu.

Calling all Law alumnae to join us for "Winning Women: Advocates, Educators and Athletes." Celebrate key milestones marking transitions for women in the life of the University, including Title IX, the establishment of Women's Studies and the Women's Center, the appointment of President Nan Keohane, the Women's Initiative, the 40th anniversary of Duke Women's Athletics, and the merging of the Woman's College with Trinity College. See featured speakers, programs, and workshops at http://dukealumni.com/alumni-communities/womens-programming/2012-womens…. For further information, please contact Anna Walker - walker@law.duke.edu.

The Journal of Gender Law & Policy is hosting its annual symposium. Kara Bitar, J.D. Candidate, Class of 2012, Duke Law School, and Special Projects Editor, Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, will be discussing the parental rights of rapists with the assistance of Professor Kathryn Bradley of Duke Law School. Lunch will be provided. For more information, contact Kara Bitar at Kara.Bitar@duke.edu.

Calling all Law alumnae to join us for "Winning Women: Advocates, Educators and Athletes." Celebrate key milestones marking transitions for women in the life of the University, including Title IX, the establishment of Women's Studies and the Women's Center, the appointment of President Nan Keohane, the Women's Initiative, the 40th anniversary of Duke Women's Athletics, and the merging of the Woman's College with Trinity College. See featured speakers, programs, and workshops at http://dukealumni.com/alumni-communities/womens-programming/2012-womens…. For further information, please contact Anna Walker - walker@law.duke.edu.

The Journal of Gender Law & Policy is hosting its annual symposium. Professor Joanne Belknap, Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, will be discussing phones and intimate partner violence. Professor Belknap received a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice and Criminology from Michigan State University in 1986. She has numerous scholarly publications, most of which involve violence against women and girls and female offenders, and is currently working on the fourth edition of her book, The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice. Lunch will be provided. For more information, contact Kara Bitar at Kara.Bitar@duke.edu.

The Journal of Gender Law & Policy is hosting its annual symposium on February 21st, 22nd, and 23rd. Each session will feature a guest author and we will be discussing how gender interacts with criminal law and policy. Lunch will be provided. Today Gloria Browne-Marshall, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), will be speaking about incarcerated women with HIV/AIDS. Professor Browne-Marshall is a former civil rights attorney who litigated cases for Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. She has spoken on issues of race and the Constitution before the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and in Accra, Ghana. For more information, contact Kara Bitar at Kara.Bitar@duke.edu.

Jim Sandman, President of the Legal Services Corporation, will be providing the keynote address for the 2nd annual "Careers in Service Symposium." All are invited and encouraged to attend; registration for the Symposium is not required. Mr. Sandman will draw on over 30 years of professional experience in both the public and private law sectors as he provides guidance on how to make service a part of one's legal career, regardless of one's chosen career path. Sponsored by the Office of Public Interest and Pro Bono and the Career and Professional Development Center. For additional information, please contact Laura Brockington in the Office of Public Interest and Pro Bono at brockington@law.duke.edu.

Duke Law faculty will present works in progress relating to custom and law. For more information, please contact Ali Prince at ali.prince@law.duke.edu.

Duke Law faculty will present works in progress relating to custom and law. For more information, please contact Ali Prince at ali.prince@law.duke.edu.

The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy's annual spring symposium will cover one of the most challenging topics currently affecting the legal community and, more broadly, society as a whole. The symposium will address a variety of questions concerning constitutional and public policy issues associated with state indebtedness and insolvency. For example, how will state insolvency affect the relationship between state and federal governments? What are some of the avenues states have used to stave off insolvency and what are the legal challenges that those avenues raise? Breakfast, lunch, and unlimited coffee will be provided! Sponsored by the Federalist Society; Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP; the Duke Economics Center for Teaching (EcoTeach); and the Duke Political Science Department. Please RSVP at our conference website. This event will be webcast. For more information, contact Sara Wexler at sara.wexler@duke.edu.

Annual symposium sponsored by the Duke Business Law Society and the Career and Professional Development Center. More than 40 senior alumni will be here to share their experiences, give candid advice, and interact informally with students during panel discussions and in small groups. This is a rare and valuable educational and networking opportunity for law students to learn about different possible career paths and get to know Duke Law alumni. For more information, contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

Annual symposium sponsored by the Duke Business Law Society and the Career and Professional Development Center. More than 40 senior alumni will be here to share their experiences, give candid advice, and interact informally with students during panel discussions and in small groups. This is a rare and valuable educational and networking opportunity for law students to learn about different possible career paths and get to know Duke Law alumni. This event will be webcast. For more information, contact the Career Center at careercenter@law.duke.edu.

The Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society presents the Eleventh Annual "Hot Topics in Intellectual Property" Symposium. This year's topics are "The America Invents Act: Effects on Business and Innovation" in the morning session and "Recent Developments in Patent Damages" in the afternoon. Speaker information will be updated on the IPCS website as it becomes available. Registration is open at http://www.dukeipcs.org. Duke students and faculty are free. Lunch is provided for registered guests, with a reception following the event. This event will be webcast. For more information, contact Daniela Juvani at djj14@duke.edu.

This year's theme explores how to ensure the environmental and economic benefits of a green economy are extended to communities that have been disproportionately burdened by our fossil-fuel based
economy. We hope you will join us in this important discussion! Please RSVP by January 22 by going to the link above. This event will be webcast. For more information, contact John Doyle at john.doyle@duke.edu.

The Duke International Security Conference (DISCon) is a collegiate Model UN conference hosted annually by the Duke International Relations Association. This year's conference will explore the changing nature of conflict in the Middle East. By invitation only. For more information, contact Stephanie Richards at stephanie.richards@duke.edu.

The Duke International Security Conference (DISCon) is a collegiate Model UN conference hosted annually by the Duke International Relations Association. This year's conference will explore the changing nature of conflict in the Middle East. By invitation only. For more information, contact Stephanie Richards at stephanie.richards@duke.edu.

The Duke International Security Conference (DISCon) is a collegiate Model UN conference hosted annually by the Duke International Relations Association. This year's conference will explore the changing nature of conflict in the Middle East. By invitation only. For more information, contact Stephanie Richards at stephanie.richards@duke.edu.

Invitation only. Please contact Professor Sam Buell at Buell@law.duke.edu.

The Equal Justice Works annual Conference and Career Fair is the largest public interest career fair in the country. The Conference and Career Fair provides access to job opportunities for law students; connects employers with talented attorneys and law students; and offers a multitude of skill-building and career advising sessions with experts from around the country. Interested students should register ASAP; if you have any questions, contact Stella Boswell at boswell@law.duke.edu.

The Equal Justice Works annual Conference and Career Fair is the largest public interest career fair in the country. The Conference and Career Fair provides access to job opportunities for law students; connects employers with talented attorneys and law students; and offers a multitude of skill-building and career advising sessions with experts from around the country. Interested students should register ASAP; if you have any questions, contact Stella Boswell at boswell@law.duke.edu.

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. The 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, teaching skills, and ability to communicate clearly. For more information, contact Alyssa Alegre at alyssa.alegre@dev.duke.edu.

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. The 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, teaching skills, and ability to communicate clearly. For more information, contact Alyssa Alegre at alyssa.alegre@dev.duke.edu.

The 2011 Duke-Harvard Foreign Relations Law Workshop, taking place at Harvard Law School, will discuss constitutional custom as it relates to the distribution of war authority between Congress and the President, a topic made particularly relevant by recent debate over U.S. military operations in Libya. The invitation-only workshop is held every year and is coordinated by Duke Law Professor Curtis Bradley and Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith. The topic for this year's workshop is connected to the Duke Custom and Law Project [http://www.law.duke.edu/news/story?id=6410&u=11]. For more information, please contact Curtis Bradley at cbradley@law.duke.edu.

Join us for the 14th annual Public Interest Retreat! Hear from an inspiring keynote speaker, learn about the upcoming Equal Justice Works Conference and Career Fair, and come get to know the community of Duke Law students devoted to public service. This year's Retreat will be held at Motorco Music Hall, 723 Rigsbee Avenue, Durham, followed by a dinner-and-drinks party to follow at Fullsteam Brewery. To sign up for the Retreat, register online. Stay tuned for more information. Sponsored by the Office of Public Interest and Pro Bono. For more information, contact Laura Brockington at brockington@law.duke.edu.

This one-day symposium brings together scholars in the humanities, interpretive social sciences, and management studies to collaboratively engage the urgent social, historical, and epistemological questions that have arisen in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Location: Franklin Humanities Institute "Garage" C105, Bay 4, 1st Floor, Smith Warehouse, Duke University. Co-sponsored by Marxism and Society and the journal Cultural Anthropology.

This all-day conference will showcase the interdisciplinary contributions of distinguished legal academics to the resolution of the present constitutional litigation over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The legal challenges focus primarily (although not exclusively) on the constitutionality of the minimum-coverage provision, popularly known as the "individual mandate." The general focus of the gathering will be on what legal academics, who are less constrained than other legal actors, are adding to the more traditional methods of legal argumentation that are being aired in the federal courts. For more information, contact Dana Norvell at norvell@law.duke.edu.

Symposium relating the work of Stanley Hauerwas to discrete areas of the law (including legal ethics, disability law, and health care law) and broader topics in political and legal theory (including public reason, law's violence, dissent, and liberalism) For more information, please contact Professor John Inazu at jinazu@wulaw.wustl.edu or Dana Norvell at norvell@law.duke.edu.

An interdisciplinary symposium on the challenges of crime definition and proof related to the modern federal criminal offenses of fraud, corruption, and obstruction. For these offenses, the core issue is neither the act done nor the harm caused but the defendant's thoughts and intentions. Thus, adjudicating these cases demands new levels of sophistication in conceptualizing the guilty mind. Participants will include experts in law, ethics, psychology, and neuroscience. The symposium is hosted by Duke Law professors Lisa Kern Griffin, Sara Sun Beale, and Samuel Buell. For more information contact, Shaunda Helm at slh43@duke.edu.

Have you ever entertained the idea of working in the sports industry, but don't know how to do it? Do you want to hear professional athletes, agents, and managers discuss if the law treats players worse than normal employees? Do you have any interest in representing athletes in America or abroad? Do you care about the future of digital media and its impact on the sports industry? The Sports and Entertainment Law Society will be hosting its first annual symposium. Our speakers come from all areas of sports law. Panelists include: former NBA team manager, NBA agent, NASCAR driver, financial planner to players in every professional league, former professional football player, the UFL's director of digital media, and Duke University's Assistant Director of Athletics for Compliance. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Jennifer Sanderson at jls67@duke.edu.

Panels of experts will examine issues relating to national security, including indefinite detention of terrorists, information security (e.g. WikiLeaks), armed drones, airport security, and the protection of privacy in the cyber era all illustrate the tensions between the needs of security in an era of asymmetrical threats and the preservation of civil liberties and other interests in a democratic society.
Sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security, the Center for International and Comparative Law, and the Program in Public Law. For more information, contact Scott Silliman at silliman@law.duke.edu.

Panels of experts will examine issues relating to national security, including indefinite detention of terrorists, information security (e.g. WikiLeaks), armed drones, airport security, and the protection of privacy in the cyber era which all illustrate the tensions between the needs of security in an era of asymmetrical threats and the preservation of civil liberties and other interests in a democratic society.
Sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security, the Center for International and Comparative Law, and the Program in Public Law. For more information, contact Scott Silliman at silliman@law.duke.edu.

A team of Duke Law research instructors will offer a half-day Research Refresher workshop series, reviewing some of the trickiest basics from LARW and adding some advanced topics and resources which are commonly encountered in law practice. You can plan to spend the day and see every session, or come only to those workshop topics which interest you the most. All sessions will take place in the Fite Room (Level 2 of the Library). For more information, contact Jane Bahnson at bahnson@law.duke.edu.

It's March, which means it's basketball season! Come learn about legal challenges in the international basketball industry. Duke Law's own Dr. Haagen and Duke Law alum and sports agent Mr. Joel Bell will discuss contract issues, in both a domestic and international setting. Co-sponsored by the
International Law Society and the Sports and Entertainment Law Society. Lunch will be provided. For more information, please contact Victor Ma at victor.ma@duke.edu or Amitesh Parikh at akp19@duke.edu.

Professor Jennifer Jenkins will give a presentation on current intellectualproperty issues in fashion law both from a domestic and international
perspective. Professor Reichman will provide additional insight and commentary. Co-sponsored by the International Law Society and the Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society. Lunch will be provided.
For more information, please contact Johanna Collins or Claire Fong at jrc30@duke.edu or cmf37@duke.edu.

The Office of Public Interest and Pro Bono, in conjunction with the Career & Professional Development Center, host the First Annual GPS (Government/Public Service) Career Symposium. This career symposium, dedicated to helping students chart the landscape of government and public interest career paths, is open to all law students. To RSVP for the event, please go to: http://survey.oit.duke.edu/ViewsFlash/servlet/viewsflash?cmd=page&polli…. For more information, please contact Laura Brockington at brockington@law.duke.edu, or stop by the Office of Public Interest and Pro Bono, Room 4050.

For more information, contact Scott Silliman at Silliman@law.duke.edu.

For more information, contact Scott Silliman at Silliman@law.duke.edu.

Duke Law Journal's 41st Annual Administrative Law Symposium, featuring Chairman Julius Genachowski of the FCC, will focus on the future of the Federal Communications Commission. The Symposium will explore the emerging administrative law and technological challenges facing the Internet and the allocation of spectrum, as well as the FCC's role in shaping the future. What should the FCC's role be? How should the Internet look in the future? And what challenges will be encountered along the way? The Symposium seeks to examine these important questions. This event will be webcast. For more information please contact Phil Rubin at phil.rubin@duke.edu.

Family Weekend is an opportunity for your family to visit Duke Law School and get a better idea of what law school is all about. Activities will include building tours, opportunities for parents to observe classes, and a Family Weekend Friday afternoon event in the Star Commons. The weekend's final event is the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) Auction & Gala at the Nasher Museum of Art on Saturday, February 19, featuring a live and silent auction. RSVP is required for your family members. For more information, contact Teresa Kim at tkschmittberger@gmail.com.

Agenda can be found by clicking on the title.
No registration necessary. For more information, please contact Lanta Wang at lanta.wang@duke.edu.

Family Weekend is an opportunity for your family to visit Duke Law School and get a better idea of what law school is all about. Activities will include building tours, opportunities for parents to observe classes, and a Family Weekend Friday afternoon event in the Star Commons. The weekend's final event is the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) Auction & Gala at the Nasher Museum of Art on Saturday, February 19, featuring a live and silent auction. RSVP is required for your family members. For more information, contact Teresa Kim at tkschmittberger@gmail.com.

The Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society presents the Tenth Annual "Hot Topics in Intellectual Property" Symposium. This year's topics are "The Future of Gene and Biotechnology Patents" in the morning session and "The Implications of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" in the afternoon. Morning keynote addresses will be given by Prof. Margo Bagley of UVA School of Law and Dr. Hans Sauer of the Biotechnology Industry Organization. The afternoon keynote will be given by Dr. Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa. Panel discussions with speakers from scientific, law, and public policy institutions nationwide will follow. Registration is open at http://www.dukeipcs.org. Duke students and faculty are free. Lunch is provided for registered guests, with a reception following the event. For more information, contact Ryan O'Quinn at ryan.oquinn@duke.edu.

Please join the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy on February 7, 8 and 9, 2011 (Monday through Wednesday), for its annual symposium. The 2011 symposium: The Changing Face of Families, will focus on the evolution of assisted reproductive technologies, and its effects on traditional legal notions of "marriage," "parent," and "family." The symposium will last from 12:15pm to 1:15pm each day at the Duke University School of Law, room 3037. No registration is necessary. This event will be webcast. For more information, please contact Lanta Wang at lanta.wang@duke.edu or visit http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/djglp.

Please join the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy on February 7, 8 and 9, 2011 (Monday through Wednesday), for its annual symposium. The 2011 symposium: The Changing Face of Families, will focus on the evolution of assisted reproductive technologies, and its effects on traditional legal notions of "marriage," "parent," and "family." The symposium will last from 12:15pm to 1:15pm each day at the Duke University School of Law, room 3037. No registration is necessary. This event will be webcast. For more information, please contact Lanta Wang at lanta.wang@duke.edu or visit http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/djglp.

Please join the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy on February 7, 8 and 9, 2011 (Monday through Wednesday), for its annual symposium. The 2011 symposium: The Changing Face of Families, will focus on the evolution of assisted reproductive technologies, and its effects on traditional legal notions of "marriage," "parent," and "family." The symposium will last from 12:15pm to 1:15pm each day at the Duke University School of Law, room 3037. No registration is necessary. This event will be webcast. For more information, please contact Lanta Wang at lanta.wang@duke.edu or visit http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/djglp.

Annual symposium sponsored by the Duke Business Law Society and the Career and Professional Development Center. More than 40 senior alumni will be here to share their experiences, give candid advice, and interact informally with students during panel discussions and in small groups. This is a rare and valuable educational and networking opportunity for law students to learn about different possible career paths and get to know Duke Law alumni. For more information, email Arie Eernisse at aeernisse@gmail.com, Drew Keaton at drew.keaton@gmail.com, or Jennifer Lan at Jennifer.lan@duke.edu. Register at www.tinyurl.com/ESQ2011.

Annual symposium sponsored by the Duke Business Law Society and the Career and Professional Development Center. More than 40 senior alumni will be here to share their experiences, give candid advice, and interact informally with students during panel discussions and in small groups. This is a rare and valuable educational and networking opportunity for law students to learn about different possible career paths and get to know Duke Law alumni. For more information, email Arie Eernisse at aeernisse@gmail.com, Drew Keaton at drew.keaton@gmail.com, or Jennifer Lan at Jennifer.lan@duke.edu. Register at www.tinyurl.com/ESQ2011.

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy's annual symposium will focus on judicial takings and the Fifth Amendment. This symposium will explore issues addressed in the Supreme Court's recent landmark case, Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Participants will include Bill Marshall (UNC Law School), Ernest Young (Duke Law), Nestor Davidson (Univ. of Colorado Law School), Richard Epstein (NYU Law), Stacey Dogan (BU School of Law), and Ilya Somin (George Mason School of Law) among others. The symposium was made possible with the generous support of the Program in Public Law. This event will be webcast. For more information, please contact Elizabeth Kim at elizabeth.kim@duke.edu.

Scholars across a broad range of disciplines--particularly law, political science and economics,will come together at this Roundtable event to think through the current and future challenges to democracy in fractured societies. Sessions will be held in 4044 from 8am-4:30pm. Lunch will be in the third floor mezzanine from 12:00 - 1:15 pm. For more information, please contact Erin Daniel at daniel@law.duke.edu.

Please join us for the 1st Annual Duke University School of Law: Women in the Law Conference!

Keynote address at 11am by Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Durham, '71.

The conference is a day-long event discussing the progress made towards gender equality in the legal profession and providing tools, solutions and advice to current law students on how to remedy the difficulties that remain. Through out the day, panels of current practitioners will explore how gender impacts communication skills, what innovators are doing now to create alternative careers, and developing awareness of what it takes to be happy in our professional and personal lives. Lunch will be provided by the Career Center at 12:30pm and a Diversity Cocktail Reception will follow at 3pm.
For more information, contact Bethany Lilly at bethany.lilly@duke.edu.

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The Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum presents its 2010-2011 symposium: "The EPA at 40." This multi-panel discussion on EPA's past and future is co-sponsored by the Nicholas School, Nicholas Institute, and Duke Law School. This event, which celebrates EPA's 40th birthday, brings experts together to discuss EPA's past successes and failures, and provide insight into where EPA is moving in the future . We are pleased to have former EPA Administrator, William K. Reilly, as a keynote speaker. For more information, contact Leah Shen (leah.shen@duke.edu) or Holly Sanders (holly.sanders@duke.edu).Agenda: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/delpf/symposium

Speakers: Profs. David Brady (Sociology), George Christie (Law), Michael Gillespie (Political Science), and Stanley Hauerwas (Divinity)

What is justice? Who determines what justice is and who has access to it? Can concepts of justice cross disciplinary lines? We are launching the Duke Graduate Student Working Group on Conceptualizing Justice with a series of speakers during the Spring 2011 semester, beginning with a panel that brings together scholars from a number of disciplines at Duke in order to answer broad questions about the nature and evolution of the concept of justice. Our aim is to stimulate discussion on the ways in which various disciplines and scholars encounter or engage with concepts of justice, whether explicitly or implicitly, in their work. This event is open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

During the three-day inaugural Wintersession, students will have the opportunity to take short courses and hear presentations from alumni and practitioners from around the country. Courses and presentations will be focused on professional skills and career development. Students are encouraged to take full advantage of the many programs available during Wintersession. Questions should be directed to Steve Rawson at rawson@law.duke.edu.

During the three-day inaugural Wintersession, students will have the opportunity to take short courses and hear presentations from alumni and practitioners from around the country. Courses and presentations will be focused on professional skills and career development. Students are encouraged to take full advantage of the many programs available during Wintersession. Questions should be directed to Steve Rawson at rawson@law.duke.edu.

During the three-day inaugural Wintersession, students will have the opportunity to take short courses and hear presentations from alumni and practitioners from around the country. Courses and presentations will be focused on professional skills and career development. Students are encouraged to take full advantage of the many programs available during Wintersession. Questions should be directed to Steve Rawson at rawson@law.duke.edu.

Members of the Barrister and Lanty L. Smith Donor Societies are invited to attend a private dinner with panelists from "The Global Credit Crunch: What's Next for Private Equity and Sovereign Funds?" panel discussion.

For information on the "The Global Credit Crunch" panel discussion, please see the calendar for details. http://bit.ly/e20zdl Or, you can link to the Law School web page at http://www.law.duke.edu. Contact the Events Office at events@law.duke.edu with questions.

NOTE: This event takes place at multiple locations, please consult symposium schedule (link below) for more information

This interdisciplinary symposium marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of W. E. B. Du Bois' /Black Reconstruction/. It aims to critically re-examine this seminal work and its enduring impact and legacy for how we understand slave emancipation and the meaning of freedom, citizenship, and democracy in U.S. history. We will hear from over 30 scholars--ranging from historians and political theorists to scholars of labor history and gender and diaspora studies--whose work has been shaped by Du Bois' powerful insights and who also find in the enduring legacy of Black Reconstruction much room for debate.

A detailed schedule and other information, including complete list of cosponsors, are available at the symposium website: http://duboissymposium.trinity.duke.edu/

DIRA and ICCSN present the Duke International Security Conference. DISC is a joint-cabinet crisis featuring seven committees (China, India, Japan, Pakistan, Russia, US, and the UN Security Council). We examine the impact of the rising powers of Asia on world politics. The conference will simulate the complex interactions of the emerging powers with existing regional powers and with each other while testing the ability of the UN Security Council to mitigate regional conflict. For more information, contact Drew Kostic at drewkostic@gmail.com.

DIRA and ICCSN present the Duke International Security Conference. DISC is a joint-cabinet crisis featuring seven committees (China, India, Japan, Pakistan, Russia, US, and the UN Security Council). We examine the impact of the rising powers of Asia on world politics. The conference will simulate the complex interactions of the emerging powers with existing regional powers and with each other while testing the ability of the UN Security Council to mitigate regional conflict. For more information, contact Drew Kostic at drewkostic@gmail.com.

DIRA and ICCSN present the Duke International Security Conference. DISC is a joint-cabinet crisis featuring seven committees (China, India, Japan, Pakistan, Russia, US, and the UN Security Council). We examine the impact of the rising powers of Asia on world politics. The conference will simulate the complex interactions of the emerging powers with existing regional powers and with each other while testing the ability of the UN Security Council to mitigate regional conflict. For more information, contact Drew Kostic at drewkostic@gmail.com.

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. The 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, teaching skills, and ability to communicate clearly.
For more information, contact Alyssa Alegre at alyssa.alegre@dev.duke.edu.

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. The 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, teaching skills, and ability to communicate clearly.
For more information, contact Alyssa Alegre at alyssa.alegre@dev.duke.edu.

In the aftermath of the recent health care reform and the dramatic changes the U.S. health care system is undergoing, this conference will provide a comprehensive examination of ADR in health care. The conference seeks to broaden the scope of disputes studied, and to offer multidisciplinary perspectives on the sources of disputes, the potential of ADR to address them, and the barriers obstructing the adoption and success of ADR in these settings. This event will be webcast. For more information and to register, please contact Madison Jones at LCPSymposium2010@gmail.com.

This event is jointly sponsored by the University of North Carolina School of Law, the Duke University School of Law and the Fuqua School of Business. Speakers will present their work in progress and provide feedback on early stage research. Speakers include: Andrew Chin, Tracy Lewis and Barak Richman. For more information, contact Sheilah Villalobos at villalobos@law.duke.edu.

"Drawing Lines: The Future of Redistricting in America" will look forward to the major issues in redistricting as America prepares to begin the 2010 Census. The symposium will feature a number of major election law scholars, political scientists, computer scientists, and state officials examining the major questions about this and future redistricting cycles. Among the subjects: Is it possible or desirable to have an apolitical redistricting process? How will open-source computer programs change redistricting debates? And what is the future of the majority-minority district?

The symposium will feature a lunchtime keynote speech by Heather Gerken of Yale Law School.

Event hosted by the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, and sponsored by the Program in Public Law and the American Constitution Society. For more information, contact Tobias Coleman at tobias.coleman@law.duke.edu.

Duke Law Journal's 40th Annual Administrative Law Symposium will focus on immigration law and adjudication. It will explore the rights of unauthorized migrants in the U.S. and how those rights are obliquely enforced. The symposium will also study the adjudicative competencies of immigration judges in light of the increased involvement of local and state authorities in the enforcement of immigration law. Finally, it will look at the effect of specialized judges in immigration cases and will examine concrete proposals for reforming the immigration adjudication system. Participants include Lawrence Baum (Ohio State University, Political Science Dept.), Jennifer Chacón (UC Irvine School of Law), Adam Cox (University of Chicago Law School), Stephen Legomsky (Washington University Law School), Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA Law School), Cristina Rodriguez (New York University School of Law), and Russell Wheeler (Brookings Institute).

Registration required. Registration closes at 11:59pm on January 31, 2010. The symposium will address issues relating to discrimination against Muslims and people perceived to be Muslim in the United States. The conference features panel presentations on the public perception of Islam and civil rights for Muslims in a post-9/11 world. The panels will be followed by simultaneous breakout sessions co-sponsored by the Duke Muslim Student Association, SALSA, and WLSA. The Honorable Mary Rose Oakar, President of Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, will give the keynote address during the luncheon, sponsored by WLSA & SOLIMENA. An afternoon tea reception following the conference is sponsored by SALSA. To register, please visit: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dflsc/symposium/registration. For more information or to register for the conference, please contact Stephanie Lam (Stephanie.Lam@law.duke.edu).

Speakers Courtney Powers and Mark Strasser will discuss Current Developments regarding the LGBT Community and the Law. Event is presented by the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy and OUTlaw. Lunch will be served. For more information, contact Gina Oderda at gina.oderda@googlemail.com.

Speakers Andrea Schneider and Heather Kolinsky will discuss Women in Non-Traditional Roles and Occupations. Event is presented by The Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy and WLSA. Lunch will be served. For more information, contact gina.oderda@googlemail.com.

Speakers Joseph Fischel and Lanta Wang will discuss Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence. Event is presented by The Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy and CAGV. Lunch will be served. For more information, contact Gina Oderda at Gina.Oderda@gmail.com.

Since Sept. 11, some of the most visible and challenging threats to international security have come from non-state actors. How can international humanitarian law respond, given that the Geneva Conventions and related documents were written from the post-World War II perspective of state-versus-state warfare? This symposium will address current and future developments regarding the detention and trial of persons suspected of terror related activity; targeting suspected militants and non-state actors and the use of force; and comparative trends in related legal developments. Presenters include professors from Free University Amsterdam, Tel Aviv University, Columbia University, and the University of Texas; a former U.S. Army Judge Advocate General colonel; and a former Clinton Administration State Department official and U.S. negotiator in the International Criminal Court summits in Rome, Italy. For more information, contact Andrew Crawford at andrew.crawford@duke.edu.

Overflow/Simulcast available in Room 3171 and 4049.

The Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum presents its 2009 symposium: "Next Generation Conservation: The Government's Role in Emerging Ecosystem Service Markets." This multi-panel discussion, co-sponsored by the Nicholas School, Nicholas Institute, and USDA, is intended to help leading government agencies develop policy for ecosystem service markets. For more information, contact Bradley Lerman (bradley.lerman@duke.edu) or Patrick Duggan (patrick.duggan@law.duke.edu).

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. The 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, teaching skills, and ability to communicate clearly.

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. The 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, teaching skills, and ability to communicate clearly.

This conference brings experts from around the world to examine a number of ways to examine legal issues from economic frameworks.

Leading scholars including George Christie (Duke Law School), Nicola Lacey (London School of Economics),
Ralf Michaels (Duke Law School), and Gerald Postema (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) to discuss William Twining's (University College London) new book "General Jurisprudence: Understanding Law from a Global Perspective." Registration is free but required. Sponsored by the Center for International & Comparative Law. For more information, contact Neylan Gurel at gurel@law.duke.edu.

The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, the Duke Law School, and the Harvard Law School cordially invite you to attend a one day conference examining climate change policy and the Clean Air Act.

This conference will focus on what role the Clean Air Act should play in both short and medium-term strategies to reduce greenhouse gases. This topic carries particular relevance in light of EPA's recent announcements that it will consider not only whether an endangerment finding for carbon dioxide is appropriate, but also whether to grant California's waiver request to impose its own limits on vehicle CO2 emissions, opening the door for other states to adopt the same standards.

Please join us for a practical discussion with a select group of the nation's leading air and climate experts.

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft and Judge Edwards of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit join academic experts in administrative law to discuss the characteristics and accomplishments of the administrative state under the Bush administration and the direction it should and/or will take under the Obama administration. RSVP at: http://survey.oit.duke.edu/ViewsFlash/servlet/viewsflash?cmd=page&polli…. For more information, contact Katherine Record at katherine.record@law.duke.edu.

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Conference examining how public health law and policy affect, and are affected by, issues of gender, race/ethnicity, and/or socioeconomic status. Voices from a variety of disciplines will shed light on the dynamic relationship between public health law and public health provision, with a particular focus on the gendered body. Please register at DJGLPPublichealth@gmail.com or see http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/djglp/. For more information, contact Eugenie Montague at eugenie.montague@law.duke.edu.

Symposium to discuss ways to reduce educational inequality in primary and secondary education, as well as potential for innovations in legal education. Sponsored by the Duke Forum for Law & Social Change. For more information, contact Monique McNellie at monique.mcnellie@law.duke.edu.

The Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society presents its eighth annual Hot Topics in Intellectual Property Symposium. The all-day event will focus on cutting-edge issues in intellectual property law, featuring speakers from the halls of Congress, the European Commission, industry, academia, and the practice of law. The issues to be discussed are ones thought to be high on the national and international agendas of the new Congress and the new Administration.
Carl Horton, chief IP counsel for General Electric, will give the keynote speech. For more information, contact Dennis O'Connor at dennis.oconnor@law.duke.edu.

Over the last 25 years, political scientists, economists, and legal scholars have created a large body of empirical work that focused on judicial decisionmaking. Most judges are either unaware of this literature or deem it badly mistaken, but others view it as a new tool for understanding how judges judge. This conference brings together judges and those who study them to discuss challenges in the field. For more information, contact Jonathan Williams at jonathan.williams@law.duke.edu.

The Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law will hold a symposium on the global impact of the local management of environmental resources. By looking at the property-related aspects of international environmental law, this Symposium hopes to explore development concerns and the impact of resource management systems on national economies. Panelists will present on the issues of greenhouse gas emissions, forests, and water. RSVP at http://survey.oit.duke.edu/ViewsFlash/servlet/viewsflash?cmd=page&polli…. For more information, contact Rachel Muchmore at rkmuchmore@gmail.com.

Duke Law co-sponsors a conference examining the determination of patentability given current legal doctrine and economic realities. Professor Arti Rai to participate as a panelist. Hosted by The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.