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- Article by Fletcher and Lovelace examines corporate racial responsibility and offers new recommendations for addressing inequities
- Lau says the state doesn't have enough resources for wrongful convictions as Buncombe County considers adding conviction integrity unit
- Farahany talks with the New York Times about new Colorado law that extends privacy protections to brain data
- LLM Spotlight: Maria Fernanda Silva ’24
- Garrett says court no-shows have gone down, the misdemeanor backlog has eased in new Harris County bail reform report
- Jenkins joins Sidebar podcast to discuss copyright's delicate balance of protecting both creators' and the public's rights
- Dellinger's new article "Body of Evidence" explores the criminalization of abortion and how technology is being used to enforce state bans
- Jenkins talks with the AP about the many ways artists can reinterpret creative works that enter the public domain
- Siegel's forthcoming book The Collective-Action Constitution presents new insights on the structure and purpose of the founding document
- Grimm discusses evidentiary rules and the new challenges AI presents on podcast A View from the Bench
- Forthcoming paper by Grunwald et al. analyzes the entire pool of private security officers and public law enforcement in Florida and explores the implications for policing
- Martin says injunction may have violated defendant's rights by stopping speech before it has been litigated
- Eric Pacifici '15 and his social media-driven firm SMB Law Group are highlighted in Forbes
- Sam Glasscock '83, long-serving Vice Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, to retire at end of year
- In MENALSA, Arab American students find community, support to enrich their law school experience
- Ted Edwards '94 T'91, commercial litigator, discusses his faith and teaching ministry in NC Lawyer Magazine
- Stansbury tells the BBC federal questions may arise from the prosecutor's legal theory in Trump criminal case
- Duke 100 Trailblazer: Nita Farahany JD/MA '04 PhD '06, a leading voice on neurotechnology and the right to cognitive liberty
- Some judges have too willingly accepted prosecutors' claims of AI evidence reliability, Garrett tells Bloomberg
- Seymour talks with Bloomberg Law about the "Texas Two-Step" legal tactic companies use to avoid liability
- Rai questions enforceability of Quanterix's claim of IP protection for Alzheimer's test
- Stansbury joins WRAL to explain what to expect as jury selection begins in Trump criminal trial
- Jenkins featured on CBS Sunday Morning explaining copyright law, the public domain, and artistic creation
- Ronnie Long calls AG Josh Stein to account for the state's conduct in wrongful convictions cases
- Anighya Crocker '24 writes on who should have power to curtail executive emergency powers for LENS essay series
- Casey Byrne ’26 prevails in Hardt Cup championship round
- Purdy's essay on British scholar Raymond Williams, proponent of a "radically democratic socialism," is featured in Dissent magazine
- Christopher Buccafusco receives 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award and Derrick Jeffries is named Distinguished Staff Member
- Buell and Miller write for Slate that Jack Smith must clearly inform the public of the facts in the election subversion case against Donald Trump
- Garrett talks with Bloomberg Law on the use of "black box" AI evidence in court
- Ashe-Card, James ’96 elected to NALP Board of Directors
- Jenkins talks to the Washington Post about the trademark fight over Momofuku's “chili crunch” condiment
- Jenkins comments to Bloomberg on the battle between copyright holders and AI companies over data used to train chatbots
- Grimm discusses the rise in threats toward judges and whether they should speak out in Bloomberg Law
- Alan LeBlang ’24 chosen for FASPE Ethics Fellowship
- Ryan Stoa '11, an environmental, natural resources, and cannabis law scholar, will join the LSU Law faculty
- Zelenak comments on whether athletic scholarships may be taxed as income
- Chief Justice John Roberts honors Sandra Day O’Connor during Bolch Prize ceremony
- Casey Witte '24 analyzes whether drug cartels should be designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations for LENS essay series
- Farahany keynotes Science and Technology Week at Illinois State University
- Purdy's essay on British scholar Raymond Williams, proponent of a "radically democratic socialism," is featured in Dissent magazine
- New article co-authored by Root Martinez arguing for stronger self-regulation of the legal profession is featured in The Regulatory Review
- Duke 100 Trailblazer: Crystal Grant, director of the Children's Law Clinic
- Watch: Grant's Child Advocacy Lab brings medical and law students together to enhance skills for interdisciplinary practice
- Revkin argues for urgent revision of ineffective accountability and reconciliation mechanisms
- Root Martinez discusses her clerkship experience and the legal skills she gained
- Haagen doesn't see a return to large-scale sports betting scandals, says players' activity is easier to monitor with legal online gambling
- First Amendment Clinic files brief in appeal of two Asheville reporters convicted of trespassing while covering police actions
- Blocher writes on the relationship between press freedom, violence, and public discourse
- Katherine French '25 analyzes international law on the use of force for hostage rescue for LENS Essay Series
- Farahany joins NPR's On Point to discuss the new wave of brain-computer interface technology in consumer wearables
- Coleman describes the foundation of Title IX sports as "a legal house of cards"
- Schwarcz: Appeals court ruling raises the stakes for trusts that issue securities backed by high-risk consumer debt
- Mock Trial Board reaches semi-finals, wins individual awards at February competitions
- Alaska Law Review’s Juneau visit engages local leaders, community on topics for upcoming issue
- Buell: Prosecutors are targeting crypto crime under mail and wire fraud laws as securities debate drags on
- Root Martinez is lead author on consultation paper for OECD meeting on assessing corporate anticorruption compliance
- 1Ls join GAL program to advocate for abused, neglected children in Durham
- Is the Constitution obsolete? Powell argues that it is not in commentary for the North State Journal
- Powell's new book introduces readers to American law and legal argument
- Fine '11 featured in PBS docuseries
- Swartz and Moore write for NC Newsline on the need for a new approach to transporting people in behavioral health crises for evaluation
- Scholarship mash-ups promote interdisciplinary collaboration, build community among faculty
- Martinez tells Bloomberg Law that judges' Israel trip, if properly disclosed, likely doesn't violate the code of conduct for federal judges
- Coleman, Greene, Martinez, Ryo awarded distinguished professorships by Duke
- Willinger: Fourth Circuit rulings on three Second Amendment cases will help shape the post-Bruen landscape
- Buell tells the NY Times that Trump's lawyers may take advantage of Judge Aileen Cannon's lack of experience in complex criminal litigation
- Willinger's "Missing Pieces: Gaps in the Record of Early American Decisional Law" posted on Legal Theory Blog
- Deepfakes v. Democracy: Farahany discusses the impact of AI on elections on Preet Bharara's Stay Tuned podcast
- New York legislation based on Schwarcz's “Sovereign Debt Restructuring: A Model-Law Approach” discussed as solution for indebted countries
- Rai tells Bloomberg Law drugmaker Teva's legal strategy risks little while gaining it 30 months
- Coleman tells The News & Observer: "They never, ever had any probable cause" to suspect Amerson in 1999 death
- Howard Dudley, exonerated by Wrongful Convictions Clinic in 2016, appears on CBS's 60 Minutes
- Levy comments to Bloomberg Law on new Judicial Conference policy that would randomly assign lawsuits
- Meyer speaks in Qatar on the trend of countries imposing tariffs and regulations on the production of goods elsewhere
- Farahany calls on Congress to adopt "a nuanced, risk-based framework" toward TikTok and other social platforms
- John Macy ’22 to clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito
- Donovan Stone ’20 to clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
- Griffin Baker '21 serving as Weil's 14th Lend-A-Lawyer in Dallas
- Wrongful Convictions Clinic secures 11th exoneration: Quincy Amerson is free after 23 years
- Serena Agaba Rwejuna '13 discusses her career journey and the best advice she got as a young lawyer
- Cox talks with Resources Radio podcast about the SEC's new climate disclosure rule and its impact for companies and investors
- Students get immersion in international law during Cutler Fellows weekend
- Environmental Law and Policy Clinic advocates reducing single-use plastics in government purchasing
- Cole Horton '25 writes LENS essay on whether using military force against Mexican drug cartels would violate international law
- First Circuit quotes Blocher's "Originalism-by-Analogy and Second Amendment Adjudication," affirming district court decision on RI's large capacity magazine ban
- Bryan Stevenson relies on Inclusive Juries Project report in testimony during Racial Justice Act hearings
- Rai tells Bloomberg Law "perhaps too creative" lawyers are generating litigation in drugmaker's fight to preserve monopoly
- Qiao writes for Nikkei Asia on how the Chinese government can reassure international investors in the wake of Evergrande's collapse
- DeMott discusses ALI’s history and some of its most influential projects on podcast Reasonably Speaking
- Farahany discusses who is accountable if an AI chatbot aids in commission of a crime on Preet Bharara's Stay Tuned podcast
- Children’s Law and Criminal Defense Clinics team up to advocate for fairer sentencing
- Immigrant Rights Clinic provides relief from deportation for 16 clients
- Ward says Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI raises larger questions about governance of emerging technologies
- Willinger discusses Supreme Court arguments over the federal bump stock ban on Bloomberg Law Podcast
- Schmalbeck coauthors op-ed for The Hill on the $80 billion infusion that is revitalizing the IRS
- Civil Justice Clinic's lawsuit over poor living conditions at JFK Towers is featured on WRAL
- Raskin moderates panel at Fuqua on the role of corporate leadership in energy transformation
- Willinger talks to Roll Call about today's oral arguments on whether bump stocks can be banned
- Grimm discusses how changes to rules of evidence can improve fairness in court on Order in the Court
- Lemos's Judicial Decision-Making coursebook mentioned in NY Times column "The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law"
- Revkin to speak on expert panel on Conflict, Climate, and Displacement at Duke in DC on Friday
- Duke Law Vis Moot Team wins Ninth London Pre-Moot competition
- Christopher Richardson '07, U.S. diplomat turned immigration attorney, profiled as one of 12 Black Leaders to Know in South Carolina
- Lovelace to co-present CLE on Tuesday analyzing the Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and UNC
- Benjamin interviewed by Faculti on the impact of Scalia's campaign against using legislative history in statutory interpretation
- Blocher to discuss works in progress at University of Houston Law Center
- Grimm co-presents at webinar on judicial standing orders and the use of AI in federal district courts
- Article by Grimm et al. on AI disclosure requirements is cited in dismissal of appeal containing AI-generated fake case citations
- Haagen to speak at Mississippi Law symposium on Friday on emerging issues in sports law around college athletics
- Garrett says racial disparities in Houston's pretrial jail rates for misdemeanors "vanished" after implementing bail reform
- Wilson Center releases ShotSpotter evaluations as Durham considers bringing back gunfire detection system
- ESQ gives 1L students pivotal starting point for careers in corporate law
- Garrett comments on constitutional questions raised by the use of genetic genealogy to ID murder suspect
- Casey Witte ’24 prevails in final round of the 2024 Dean’s Cup
- Grunwald's scholarship on "Wandering Officers" cited as reform advocates warn new police complaint database is unlikely to stop misconduct
- Jones, Martinez awarded Documentary Studies grant to support oral history project
- Jones and Martinez receive grant to conduct an oral history project documenting Professor Jerome Culp’s life, work, and impact
- Benjamin in leadership role on $5 million SMART Hub research center
- Ortiz, Hassan, Kennedy, and Merrill win Transactional Law Competition
- Siegel's "The Wages of Crying Roe" is published in the Journal of American Constitutional History
- Coleman and Coward write that the legal community must speak out on bias and inequality both outside the judicial system and within it
- Schwarcz testifies on international letters of credit and demand guarantees, credit agreements under New York law, in major UK insolvency case
- International couples pursuing LLM degrees together at Duke Law School
- Grimm predicts uptick in litigation if Supreme Court overturns Chevron, says judges may need experts on technical matters
- Highlights of the Duke Immigrant and Refugee Project fall pro bono projects
- Lau and Finholt discuss whether Gov. Cooper might grant clemency to youth offenders before he leaves office
- Satana Deberry '94 discusses her tenure as Durham County DA and bid for the NC attorney general's office
- Cox tells Bloomberg the question of whether crypto is a security is still not settled as law firm faces suit over advice
- Candace Carroll '74, a pioneering San Diego attorney and “one of our most talented and accomplished alumni,” dies at 79
- Blocher points to the Supreme Court's "ill-defined" new methodology as the cause of current unpredictability in Second Amendment rulings
- Farahany among academics slated to speak at House roundtable on AI's impact on labor, elections, education, health
- Lau and Ronnie Long appear on CNN to discuss Long's racially charged wrongful conviction
- A president's power to change gun policy directly is limited without Congress, Willinger says
- Miller's article "Text, History, and Tradition: What the Seventh Amendment Can Teach Us About the Second" cited in Hawaii Supreme Court decision
- Colorado Solicitor General Shannon Stevenson '02 argues before Supreme Court in case challenging Trump's ballot eligibility
- Robert Chang JD/MA ’92 delivers inaugural Jerome M. Culp, Jr. Critical Theory Lecture
- Justice Olena Kibenko from the Ukraine Supreme Court discusses the challenges of operating a court during wartime
- People on the Move - February 2024
- Dellinger, Hoffman and other experts warn of the risks of using mental health apps during Data Privacy Day at Duke
- Blocher to speak on "America and the Right to Possess Firearms" in Ruth Pauley Lecture in Southern Pines
- Dahlia Lithwick reflects on a 25-year career covering the Supreme Court in visit to Duke Law
- Revkin and research team awarded £1.5 million for research on civilian harm in Iraq and Gaza
- Christopher Schroeder to address class of 2024 at Convocation
- Willinger tells The Trace the Mexican government presents "an uncommonly strong argument" in lawsuit against U.S. gunmakers
- Willinger talks with NPR about the Repository of Historical Gun Laws, a 2,000-law database in high demand after Bruen
- On new podcast Order in the Court, Grimm discusses federal rules and rulemaking with Judge Robin Rosenberg JD/MA '89
- Willinger comments on federal judge's ruling that banning guns in post offices is unconstitutional
- Trapping a river of trash: clinic works to clean up waterways
- Judge Robin Rosenberg JD/MA '89 is co-recipient of Florida Distinguished Federal Judicial Service Award
- Brandon Myers '13, senior product counsel at Uber, named to Modern Counsel's 35 Under 35 list for 2024
- Meredith French Reedy '09 named Charlotte Business Journal Women in Business honoree
- Frank Rudy Cooper '95 awarded AALS Minority Section's C. Clyde Ferguson Award
- Robert Chang JD/MA '92 delivers the inaugural Jerome M. Culp, Jr. Critical Theory Lecture
- Blocher talks with NPR about the origins of the Second Amendment defense
- Beskind secures $2.25 million settlement from the city of Durham for the estate of woman killed in police chase
- Miller explains for Bloomberg how the Bruen ruling changed Second Amendment interpretation
- Listen: Farahany featured on NPR's TED Radio Hour on the impact of brain-reading technology on mental freedom
- Immigrant Rights Clinic secures permanent relief for deported veterans
- Rai tells Bloomberg drugmaker Eli Lilly had a “relatively weak" case against Novo Nordisk patent challenge
- Brewster's "A New Global Corporate Regulatory Power? Market Entry as the Basis for Prescriptive Jurisdiction" published in University of Chicago Legal Forum
- Benjamin says Trump's threat to revoke the FCC license of networks that didn't cover his Iowa speech could have "real-world consequences" in chilling speech
- Rai receives grant to study the effect of large patent portfolios on competition, pricing, standardization, and innovation
- Madison Dunbar '24 presents at U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin discusses career, the Constitution, and the fight to uphold democracy
- Adler discusses his scholarship, intellectual development with the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics
- Lovelace to be featured in Jan. 26 roundtable of scholars discussing books in progress at Carolina Law
- Civil Justice Clinic, Maginnis Howard file suit for violations at Durham’s JFK Towers
- Glymph discusses her priorities as president of the American Historical Association
- Article co-authored by Nowlin JD/MA '92 lays out a practical approach to transdisciplinary doctoral training in the sustainability sciences
- Listen: Blocher joins NPR's Throughline to discuss the history, interpretation, and implementation of the Second Amendment
- Duke Center on Law & Technology launches RAILS initiative
- Benjamin is co-PI on SMART Hub, a new Spectrum Innovation Center seeking to transform use and management of the wireless spectrum
- Grimm to Bloomberg: Judges are facing "unimaginable stress" in politically charged environment
- Qiao's "Finance Against Law: The Case of China" cited in the 2023 Report to Congress of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
- Brewster's "Enabling ESG Responsibility: Focusing on the Corporate Enterprise" reprinted in the Georgetown Corporate Practice Commentator
- Lau: The magnitude of misconduct in Ronnie Long's wrongful conviction is still coming to light, decades later
- Chandler Cole '25 urges reform of Feres Doctrine limits on U.S. servicemembers' rights to sue for injury
- Grimm calls for a coordinated defense of the judiciary by bar associations as judges face threats to personal safety
- Buchanan and Krouse assume new roles in alumni engagement
- Lau tells NBC "prosecutors engaged in an active campaign" to keep Ronnie Long in prison despite exculpatory evidence
- People on the Move – January 2024
- Lau tells New York Times that Ronnie Long fought not only to prove his own innocence, but to restore his family's good name
- James Pearce JD/LLM '11 argues on behalf of special counsel Jack Smith in Trump immunity claim
- Nicole Ligon '16 writes in op-ed that restricting hate speech will not stop it
- Articles by Brewster and Root Martinez selected by the Environmental Law Institute as two of the year's best academic works addressing environmental problems
- New class on understanding conservative legal thought modeled on Young's work at Duke Law
- First-generation students find community, shared identity in student organizations 1GP, First Class
- Paper by Profs. Brewster & Helfer on transnational asset recovery cited in Transparency International corruption report
- Writing for TechDirt, Boyle calls ChatGPT 2023's "Unperson of the Year"
- Schwarcz's article "Reexamining Enron’s Regulatory Consequences" is discussed in The Regulatory Review
- Purdy writes for The Atlantic on how to rebuild public trust in American democracy
- Miller reviews the limits and disappointments of current measures for health care quality in Cato Institute's Regulation
- Duke University kicks off Centennial Celebration
- Meyer article "The National Security Consequences of the Major Questions Doctrine" cited
- Scholarship by Blocher, Miller, Powell and Carberry '21 cited in District Court opinion on California firearms laws
- Mickey, Minnie, Tigger, landmark works of literature, film, and music now in the public domain
- Exonerated Wrongful Convictions Clinic client Ronnie Long receives $25 million settlement
- Buell comments on possible fallout of SCOTUS decision to take case of Jan. 6 rioter
- Jenkins advises creators to use 1928 Mickey Mouse freely but heed trademark and copyright law
- Stansbury discusses the impact of Trump's federal and state cases on the presidential campaign and election
- Jenkins tells Marketplace that Disney drew from the public domain in creating some of its own hits
- Jenkins joins NPR's Morning Edition to discuss notable works that just entered the public domain
- Jenkins talks with Variety about works free for use, including Tigger, Cole Porter's Let's Do It, and "the big one" - Mickey Mouse
- Jenkins explains to the BBC the "deeply symbolic and long awaited" arrival of early Mickey and Minnie Mouse characters in the public domain
- Watch: Jenkins, appearing on CBS News, says releasing creative works from copyright protection begets more creativity
- Jenkins to the LA Times: Many of the cultural struggles depicted in the books, film, music of 1928 are relevant today
- Article by Schmalbeck and Zelenak examining areas of intersection between federal tax laws and college sports is cited