The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law

Join the Deep Tech initiative in partnership with the Duke Quantum Center and The Center for Innovation Policy and Law for an interdisciplinary forum introducing quantum science and technology at Duke. The event will bring together faculty, students, and experts to explore quantum computing, technical innovations, and policy implications shaping the field. Highlights include panels on applications across disciplines, governance and security considerations, and a student poster session showcasing emerging research. Whether you're curious about the basics or eager to connect with collaborators, this forum is a gateway to Duke's growing role in advancing quantum research and regional innovation.

The Trump Administration's threats to revoke broadcasters' licenses and President Trump's lawsuits against media companies implicate important, and contested, Supreme Court doctrines. Should these actions affect how courts and scholars analyze these First Amendment doctrines? This online event brings together leading First Amendment scholars Jack Balkin (Yale), Stuart Benjamin (Duke), Noah Feldman (Harvard), Genevieve Lakier (Chicago), and Tim Wu (Columbia) to examine whether the Trump Administration's actions affect how courts and scholars should analyze the First Amendment's application to the media. Register here: https://duke.is/1stam Sponsored by the Center for Innovation Policy. For more information, please contact Leanna Doty at leanna.doty@law.duke.edu.

The Supreme Court has just decided three major cases that will profoundly shape First Amendment limits on governments' ability to regulate social media, and First Amendment law more generally - NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice (involving Texas and Florida laws restricting social media companies' content moderation) and Murthy v. Missouri (addressing who may challenge government communications that allegedly compel content moderation). On July 9, the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law will host an online symposium with leading First Amendment experts to discuss the significance and implications of the Court's opinions in these cases.

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.

As U.S. universities continue to internationalize their campuses, they benefit greatly from increased connectivity with their counterpart institutions abroad. Cross border research collaborations have increased as have student and scholar exchanges. At the same time, as American universities become more globally engaged, they have encountered a broad array of new challenges at home stemming from growing national security concerns as well as concerns about protecting the integrity of the U.S. R&D system. Our panelists, Lora Weiss, Penn State Univ., and Kelvin Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma, have found themselves knee-deep in dealing with the various compliance issues and new regulations that have emerged as well as the impact of these issues on the innovation process itself. Our moderator, Denis Simon, the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law, will guide a discussion regarding how the performance of university research is being affected in both positive and negative ways. Sponsored by the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law; the Sanford Cyber Policy Program; the Duke Office of Research & Innovation; and, DQ, the Certificate in Digital Intelligence at Duke Science & Society. Registration required: https://bit.ly/3FJLnMI. For more information, please contact Balfour Smith (bsmith@law.duke.edu).