Events

WLSA is proud to host Professor Sara Beale as part of the Faculty Tea Series. Professor Beale teaches first year criminal law and upper-class courses in criminal justice policy and federal criminal law. Since her appointment by Chief Justice Rehnquist in 2004, she has served as the Reporter for the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules, which drafts the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. She has argued before the Supreme Court on six occasions, representing the United States and as appointed counsel for an indigent defendant. She clerked for Judge Wade H. McCree Jr. on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and served in the Office of Legal Counsel and the Office of the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice before coming to Duke in 1979. Since space is limited, please RSVP to Amy Rublin at amy.rublin@duke.edu.