News

2007

• Lunchtime panel explores the significance of the first guilty plea by a Guantanamo detainee, March 28
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• Professor Christopher Schroeder comments on the "showdown" between Democratic lawmakers and the president over whether senior White House aides will testify about the firing of eight U.S. attorneys
  » Congressional Quarterly
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky comments on the administration's argument that if the president has broad discretion to appoint U.S. attorneys, he also has the power to fire them for any reason » Slate
• Professor Scott Silliman discusses who is liable for harm when service from private military contractors results in injury or death » WUNC
• Professor James Cox comments on a move by the SEC that allows financial institutions to "manipulate" investor purchases in the auction-rate market » Bloomberg.com
• Professor James Boyle asks, "in matters of intellectual property, who is the trespasser and who is the greedy landowner?" » Financial Times
• Professor Catherine Fisk comments on the practice of imposing employment bans on whistle-blowers when settling termination suits » USA Today
• Professors Walter Dellinger and Christopher Schroeder review congressional authority - beyond the power of the purse - to change the course of the Iraq war
  » The New York Times
• Even taking into account different interpretations of the Second Amendment, Professor Erwin Chemerinsky says that an appeals court was wrong in striking down the District of Columbia's ban on handguns
  » Washington Post
• Duke Law Professor Stuart Benjamin comments on the FCC's attempts to gain authority to regulate violence on broadcast and basic cable networks » more
• Duke Law students get tips on dealing with difficult people in the workplace as part of the Career and Professional Development Center's "Fundamentals of Professionalism & Leadership" series » Herald Sun
• Professor James Cox says that SEC seems to be making a historic shift away from investor interests
  » The New York Times
• Professor Jerome Reichman calls for public funding and oversight of clinical trials, saying drug companies rarely compare how well new and cheaper products do against existing drugs » The News & Observer
• Eleventh annual PILF Auction & Gala raises record amount for summer public interest fellowships
  » The Chronicle
• Dr. Robert Hunt, senior economist with the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia explores "The Geography of Innovation in the U.S." on Mar. 7, as part of "The Information Ecology" lecture series » more
• "Synthetic Biology: The Intellectual Property Puzzle" - Workshop, March 2-3 » more
• Duke Law Drama Society presents "The Laramie Project," March 1-3 » more
• Yale scholar Reva Siegel delivers annual Currie Lecture, March 1 » more
• Following a ruling that denies Guantanamo detainees access to federal courts to challenge their detentions, Professor Erwin Chemerinsky calls for the Supreme Court to hear their appeal on an expedited basis » Boston Globe
• Faith, Politics and the Law:  Former head of White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives speaks at Law School Feb. 27 » more
• Professors Joost Pauwelyn and Barak Richman comment on international process intended to keep conflict diamonds out of mainstream markets
  » Los Angeles Times
• Ten years after its passage, Professor Doriane Coleman reflects on the educational significance of a federal law prohibiting female circumcision » Boston Globe
• The Program in Public Law presents "The Battle of New London:  Understanding the Kelo Case," Feb. 26 » more
• The Intellectual Property & Cyberlaw Society hosts 6th Annual 'Hot Topics' Symposium February 23 » more
• PILF Auction & Gala set for February 24 » more
• Professor Joel Fleishman urges new era of accountability in philanthropy » more
• Intellectual Property & Cyberlaw Society hosts 6th annual "Hot Topics" Symposium, Feb. 23 » more
• Professor Scott Silliman takes part in roundtable discussion on free speech and the military » WUNC
• Judge Gerald Tjoflat'57 lectures, receives Federalist Society honors, Feb. 22 » more
• Duke Law Journal’s 37th annual Administrative Law Conference: Regulating Food » more
• Fifth Annual Duke Law ESQ Career Symposium highlights career opportunities » more
• Court TV anchor and former prosecutor Jack Ford criticizes the "certainty" with which media outlets reported events in coverage of Duke lacrosse case
  » Herald Sun
• Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz to deliver annual Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property, Feb. 16 » more
• DBA Leadership Committee presents inaugural symposium on leadership, Jan. 19 » more
• The Center for International and Comparative Law presents a lunchtime talk on "Happiness and the Law" by world-renowned economist Bruno Frey, Feb. 14
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• Duke Law Professor James Boyle reacts to Steve Jobs' call for media companies to curb digital rights protections for music downloads » NPR
• Professor Robinson O. Everett questions whether Durham DA Mike Nifong was obligated by the North Carolina evidence rules to fully disclose DNA test results to defense lawyers in the Duke lacrosse case
  » Herald Sun
• The Program in Public Law presents Feb. 12 panel discussion on the legal issues surrounding the Military Commissions Act of 2006 » more
• Professor Walter Dellinger tells the Senate Judiciary Committee that Congress can "validly limit the presidential use of force" » The New York Times
• Panel examines role of prosecutor and press in high-profile cases » more
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky challenges U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' assertion that the Constitution does not guarantee habeas corpus
  » San Francisco Chronicle
• Court TV anchor Jack Ford discusses media coverage of Duke lacrosse case » more
• Duke Law professors take part in Feb. 7 NCBA program on separation of powers » more
• The Duke Law Leadership Experience:  Symposium highlights elements of leadership and professionalism
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• Professor Clark Havighurst reflects on antitrust cases pending before the Supreme Court » National Law Journal
• Professor Walter Dellinger to testify before Senate Judiciary Committee on "Exercising Congress's Constitutional Power to End a War" » more
• Professors Thomas Metzloff, James Coleman, and Visiting Professor Michael Tigar discuss state bar ethics charges against DA Mike Nifong, and the role of the press in trying high profile cases » The News & Observer
• Law & Contemporary Problems presents 2007 Symposium: "Odious Debts and State Corruption," Jan. 26 » more
• Duke constitutional scholars say Congress has power to limit Iraq troop increase more
• The Career and Professional Development Center at Duke Law School will host February workshop on dealing with conflict and difficult people » The New York Times
• Adam Doverspike '09 and Justin Outling '08 are among 24 North Carolina students selected for spring internships with state agencies » more
• Program in Public Law hosts Jan. 25 discussion on "Trying Cases in the Media: The Role of Prosecutor and Press" » more
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky calls for openness in Los Angeles police disciplinary proceedings
  » Los Angeles Times
• Professors Barak Richman and Joost Pauwelyn critique the Kimberley Process, an international initiative aimed at keeping "blood diamonds" out of mainstream distribution » The News & Observer
• Constitutional Scholar Sanford Levinson calls for a national conversation on "Our Undemocratic Constitution"» more
• Professor Joel Fleishman discusses his new book, "The Foundation: A Great American Secret" » more
• Duke University celebrates legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., January 12-16 » Commemoration
• Provost names Federal Judge David Levi as the next Dean of Duke Law School » more
• Professor Donald Horowitz elected to head American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy » more
• Reflecting on Enron, Professor Steven Schwarcz says that in an age of increasing financial complexity, "the disclosure paradigm [alone] has become an anachronism" » The New Yorker
• Professor Neil Vidmar takes part in on-air roundtable discussion about jury behavior » The State of Things
• The Program in Public Law launches spring semester Jan. 10 with a lunch-time talk by constitutional scholar Sanford Levinson » more

2006

• Marathon run benefits Loan Assistance Repayment Program» more
• Professor James Cox says an SEC proposal to give corporate managers more flexibility in assessing internal financial controls may weaken investor protection
  » Businessweek.com
• The Duke Endowment donates additional $2 million for Law Library renovations » more
• Professor Jonathan Wiener elected to lead Society for Risk Analysis » more
• Professor Scott Silliman says ACLU lawsuit against Defense Secretary Rumsfeld over torture of detainees faces an uphill battle » The Christian Science Monitor
• Professor Donald Horowitz says the Bush administration should seize the opportunity to change the course in Iraq with the creation of an "undivided federal Iraq," limited regional authority, and a new agreement for distributing oil revenue among Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis » The Wall Street Journal (subscribers)
• Professor Christopher Schroeder takes part in Annenberg Center debate on the "use and abuse" of presidential signing statements » Justice Talking
• Duke trustees approve new joint degree programs
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• Professor James Cox comments on a controversial report that recommends rolling back corporate regulation and SEC powers » Washington Post
• Professor Neil Siegel says the Supreme Court’s ruling in two cases on race-conscious school assignment plans could mark the final legacy of Brown v. Board of Education » Newsweek
• Duke Law team runs Charlotte Marathon to benefit public interest legal work Dec. 9 » more
• Duke Law Journal focuses on Hurricane Katrina for the 37th Annual Administrative Law Issue » more
• Professor Scott Silliman participates in an ABA roundtable discussion on detaining and prosecuting terrorists » C-Span
• Professor Barak Richman says the conflict diamond industry is difficult to regulate legally, responding to a new industry certification process » more
• Professors James Coleman and Mitu Gulati argue that large law firms' failure to provide mentoring and good assignments, not law school grades, help explain why minority associates are less likely to make partner than their white counterparts » The New York Times
• Professor Neil Siegel says that two cases on race-conscious school assignment plans that will come before the Supreme Court December 4 "could be the final chapter in the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education." » more
• Professor James Cox comments on the proposed merger of the NASD and the NYSE to form single regulatory body » Los Angeles Times
• Professor James Boyle is called one of "the world's clearest thinkers on the impact of the internet"
  » The Times
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky joins a group of top constitutional scholars asking the First Circuit to consider a challenge to the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy » U.S. Newswire
• Duke Law School's LL.M program offers an international perspective » South China Morning Post (.pdf)
• Professor Neil Siegel says that two cases on race-conscious school assignment plans that will come before the Supreme Court December 4 "could be the final chapter in the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education." » more
• Professors Curtis Bradley and Madeline Morris appointed to Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law » more
• Duke tax experts Lawrence Zelenak and Alan Weinberg explain significance of an IRS lien filed against the property of a Durham lawyer » Herald-Sun
• Professor Scott Silliman argues that the U.S. is aggressively working to regain its status as a world leader on human rights issues » Public Radio International
• Responding to a speech on markets by new Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Professor James Cox says that in order for markets to be attractive, they must be trustworthy » Marketplace
• John Bellinger III, legal adviser to the secretary of state, explores transatlantic differences in approach to international law and institutions » more
• Duke Law community celebrates Judge Robinson Everett’s support of LENS » more
• Charlie Rose ’68 to speak at Law School’s hooding ceremony » more
• Siegel Lecturer Carl Schneider argues that informed consent has failed » more
• Professor James Coleman petitions Gov. Mike Easley to grant clemency for death row inmate Guy LeGrande who, Coleman argued, is mentally ill » The Herald-Sun
• The Shakespeare Chronicles: Professor James Boyle pens a literary thriller » more
• Lou Michels '85 discusses his challenge to the military's mandatory anthrax vaccination program November 20
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• Senior lecturing fellow Hans Linnartz '80 says that electorate is open to comprehensive immigration reform
  » The News & Observer
• Professor Donald Horowitz appointed to Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion
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• Professor Stuart Benjamin comments on the FCC's reversal of a March ruling regarding charges of indecency
  » Los Angeles Times
• John Bellinger III, legal advisor to the secretary of state, examines transatlantic approaches to international law and institutions Nov. 15 » more
• University of Michigan Professor Carl Schneider delivers sixth annual Siegel Lecture in Ethics Nov. 14 » more
• "Practical Politics and the Law" lecture series explores investing with a political twist Nov. 13 » more
• USC Law Professor Mary Dudziak presents the Duke Law Journal’s Fall Lecture, “Working Toward Democracy: Thurgood Marshall and the Constitution of Kenya,” Nov. 10 » more
• Professors Robinson Everett and Scott Silliman discuss the recall to active duty of a retired soldier for possible court martial » The News & Observer
• Professor James Cox says that last year's decline in SEC enforcement cases is directly related to budget cuts in the Commission’s enforcement arm
  » The Washington Post
• Duke community mourns loss of Maja Kolb '07 » more
• Former Fed Chair Paul Volcker and colleagues discuss their investigation of the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program
  » The Chronicle
• Professor Neil Vidmar, principal author of an amicus brief in Philip Morris USA v. Mayola Williams, says juries behave rationally when making punitive damage awards
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• Professor James Cox criticizes proposals to scale back provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, calling them unnecessary and "an escalation of the culture war against regulation" » The New York Times
• Professor Suli Zhu, dean of Peking University School of Law, delivers fifth annual Bernstein Lecture in International and Comparative Law Nov. 2 » more
• Associate Dean for Public Interest and Pro Bono Carol Spruill makes it her mission to educate law students to help those who are truly in need
  » Washington Daily News
• Professor Scott Silliman calls the increasing criticism made by military members a relatively new phenomenon resulting from an increasingly unpopular war » ABC News
• Join Professor Erwin Chemerinsky for a conversation with Dean Bartlett about leadership, legal education, and her scholarship and influences » more
• Duke Law School celebrates sixth annual International Week » schedule (.pdf)
• Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum fall symposium focuses on children's environmental health Oct. 27
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• Duke's Center for International and Comparative Law presents "International Programs and the Law: Investigating the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program," featuring Paul Volcker, Oct. 27 » more
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky calls for federal judges to "stand up to Congress and the president" and declare unconstitutional key provisions of the Military Justice Act of 2006 » San Diego Union Tribune
• Professor James Cox says that an unusual jump in trades of Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. stock could signal insider trading » BusinessWeek.com
• Professor James Coleman comments on the conduct of the district attorney in the Duke lacrosse case » The New York Times
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky comments on the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a case in which Boy Scouts were denied the use of a public marina because of the Scouts' ban on atheists and gays » The Washington Post
• Professor Justin Hughes of Cardozo Law School delivers the "Information Ecology" Fall 2006 lecture Oct. 23
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• Rockingham County v. Luten Bridge Co.: Professor Barak Richman finds a wealth of North Carolina history in a classic contracts case » WUNC
• Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination: Duke hosts groundbreaking symposium on workplace appearance standards Oct. 20 » more
• Senior Lecturing Fellow Kathryn Bradley discusses the rights of unwed fathers in adoptions » The News & Observer
• Peter Galbraith, author of The End of Iraq, speaks at Duke Law School Oct. 18 » more
• Professor James Cox says that allegations that Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn spied on HP directors and journalists will spark calls for tighter privacy laws » The Sunday Times
• Community Enterprise Clinic conference educates non-profit managers about social enterprise options and strategies » more
• Duke Law Leadership Retreat focuses on professional development » more
• Professor Catherine Fisk comments on a National Labor Relations Board ruling that says nurses running hospital shifts are management employees and ineligible for union membership » The Plain Dealer
• Associate Dean Carol Spruill wins Duke's Diversity Award » more
• Dean Kenneth Starr '73 praises Chief Justice John Roberts and speaks of key cases on the Supreme Court's docket as part of the Law School's "Practical Politics and the Law" series » Herald Sun
• Congress' approval of the new detainee legislation does not guarantee that it “will pass constitutional muster before the Supreme Court,” says Professor Scott Silliman » The Boston Globe
• Professor Walter Dellinger comments on the Supreme Court’s new term » The Christian Science Monitor
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky says The Public Expression of Religion Act recently passed by the House of Representatives is meant to prevent challenges to unconstitutional government actions advancing religion
  » Washington Post
• Professor James Boyle writes about his interest in the much-hyped arrival of the "long tail" economy » Financial Times
• Duke's Center for International and Comparative Law hosts panel discussion on patents, international trade agreements, and access to essential medicines in developing countries » more
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky named University Scholar/Teacher of the Year » more
• Dean Kenneth Starr '73 will speak on his experiences at the intersection of law and politics on October 2, as part of the Law School's "Practical Politics and the Law" series » more
• Professor James Cox testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee September 26 on the issue of insider trading » more
• Duke law professors discuss compromise on detainee legislation reached between the White House and Senate Republicans in light of the Supreme Court's Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision
  • Professor Neil Siegel in » The News & Observer
  • Professor Scott Silliman on » Morning Edition
  • Professor Walter Dellinger on » Weekend Edition
• Professor Christopher Schroeder comments on the tension between individual rights and national security in times of external threat » Herald-Sun
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky calls for Congress to adopt laws to protect reporters who keep their sources confidential » Orlando Sentinel
• Professor James Cox calls a retired judge's prompt to dismiss the CEO of Bristol-Myers Squib "a new standard" for independent corporate monitors
  » The New York Times
• Dean Katharine T. Bartlett to receive Equal Justice Works award for nurturing an outstanding spirit of public service at Duke Law School » more
• Professor Richard Schmalbeck comments on GlaxoSmithKline's record $3.1 billion settlement with the IRS » The News & Observer
• Professor James Cox says a change in leadership at Bristol-Meyers shows that prosecutors are willing to put the pressure on companies engaged in wrongdoing
  » Washington Post
• Duke law faculty comment on the president's plan for trying terrorism suspects:
  • Professor Madeline Morris in » Durham Herald-Sun
  • Professor Scott Silliman on » Talk of the Nation
  • Professor Erwin Chemerinsky » The Star-Ledger
• In an essay in the German weekly, Die Zeit, Professor Jedediah Purdy reflects on Sept. 11 and its impact on foreign policy » more
• The Program in Public Law presents "Constitution Day: The Constitution and the War on Terror," September 18 » more
• Professor Walter Dellinger joins former top U.S. Justice Department officials in a letter to the Bush administration urging the revision of its corporate fraud policy aimed at compelling cooperation from potential defendants » Bloomberg.com
• Professor Ralf Michaels questions the genuineness of Albert Gonzales' recent request for a review of anti-terror law » The News & Observer
• Faculty panel previews new Supreme Court term » more
• Professor Jim Cox comments on Prudential Financial Inc.'s $600 million settlement to the SEC, one of the last arising from the 2003 mutual fund scandal
  » Washington Post
• The president's bill on military commissions still violates the Constitution, says Professor Madeline Morris, director of the Guantanamo Defense Clinic » more
• Professor Arti Rai comments on the iPod lawsuit settlement » NPR
• Program in Public Law panel considers presidential signing statements » more
• Professor James Coleman addresses issue of diversity in law school admissions, saying that lawyers should reflect the population » Contra Costa Times
• Dean Katharine Bartlett delivers convocation address to Duke graduate and professional students » more
• Professor Scott Silliman comments on the conviction of former CIA contractor David Passaro » Washington Post
• Faculty discuss new Supreme Court term, August 28
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• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky lauds Judge Ann Digg's Taylor's injunction against domestic warrantless surveillance » Slate.com
• Professor Jim Cox calls "stunning" allegations that a tech company's executives created fictitious employees to manipulate stock options » Los Angeles Times
• LEAD Week: Duke Law Welcomes the Class of 2009
• Professor James Boyle challenges society's bias against open systems, open networks, and non-proprietary production » Financial Times
• Professor Scott Silliman comments on the increasing number of law students interested in national security related issues » The New York Observer
• The Program in Public Law launches academic year with Aug. 21 panel on presidential signing statements » more
• Duke Law Annual Fund sets fund-raising record » more
• Professor Scott Silliman discusses former CIA contractor David Passaro » NPR
• Duke Law hosts August 11 meeting of North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission » more
• Duke Law Professors respond to ABA Task Force report on signing statements:
  • Professor Curtis Bradley » Boston Globe
  • Professor Walter Dellinger » The New York Times
  • Professors Christopher Schroeder and Walter Dellinger join response of OLC veterans » More
• Duke Law students fight for the rights of suspected terrorists through the Guantanamo Defense Clinic, headed by Professor Madeline Morris » Duke Magazine
• Professor Doriane Coleman comments on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s consideration of whether to include "altitude rooms" on its list of of prohibited methods
  » The New York Times
  » Center for Sports Law & Policy Position Paper (pdf)
• Professor Jedediah Purdy takes part in on-air discussion of whether and when law should lead social change or follow social custom » WUNC
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky discusses his cases and career in "Tar Heel of the Week" profile » The News & Observer
• The shift from analog to digital signals in broadcasting will have broad effects, says Professor Stuart Benjamin » CNN.com
• Professor Sara Beale comments on how convening a new grand jury to investigate charges of steroid abuse against Barry Bonds might benefit the prosecution's case » San Francisco Chronicle
• Professor Madeline Morris testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding the ratification of the U.S. - U.K. extradition treaty » More
• Professor Scott Silliman testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and how Congress should respond to the ruling » More
• Professor William Reppy weighs in on the issue of pets as property » St. Petersburg Times
• Professor Neil Vidmar discusses tort reform proposals currently before Congress, among them the establishment of medical courts » WUNC
• Professor Jedediah Purdy discusses the intersection of two trends: declining birth rates and the retirement of the baby boomer generation » WUNC
• Professor James Cox says indictments could come soon in investigation of stock-options scandal » San Francisco Chronicle
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky comments on the clarity of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ writing as demonstrated by his first-term opinions » The New York Times
• Professor Scott Silliman testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and options for trying Guantanamo detainees » More
• Professor James Cox says that in order for analysts to determine whether the markets have overreacted to the stock-options scandal, they will need to go beyond identifying which company will be investigated next
  » Bloomberg News
• Duke Law Professors comment on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo military commissions » Special Feature
• Professor Scott Silliman advocates the use of courts-martial for trying Guantanamo detainees » The News & Observer
• Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science Neil Siegel also comments on Justice Kennedy's new prominence » Washington Post
• Professor Francis McGovern says that the low number of lawsuits filed against Merck’s Fosamax is evidence that trial lawyers have become more cautious about the number and quality of cases they take on » Los Angeles Times
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky comments on the new prominence of Justice Anthony Kennedy as the Supreme Court's "swing" voter, and the records of new justices Roberts and Alito in their inaugural term » San Francisco Chronicle
• Professor Walter Dellinger has a Supreme Court conversation at "The Breakfast Table" » Slate.com
• Professor James Cox testifies before Congressional subcommittee considering reforms for the conduct of securities class actions » Congressional Testimony
• At a Senate commmittee hearing, Professor Neil Vidmar criticized a bill that would move medical malpractice claims into special health courts and impose damage caps in liability suits
  » Durham Herald-Sun
  » Senate Testimony
• Judge Robinson O. Everett is inducted into the North Carolina Bar Association's Hall of Fame » More
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky says that closing the Guantanamo detention center should not mean “that detainees get even less in the way of procedural protection” » The Boston Globe
• In the newly released "Law and Class in America," edited by Professors Paul Carrington and Trina Jones, leading legal scholars reflect on whether recent legal reforms are exacerbating class differences in this country » More
• Professor James Boyle cautions that the new Internet Safety Act, which is intended to curb child pornography on the Internet, could also limit content that is not pornographic » New York Times
• Professor Jedediah Purdy's essay, "The New Biopolitics" launches new journal » Democracy
• Scott Silliman says that America's failure to charge Guantanamo detainees has made other countries reluctant to incarcerate them, should the prison be closed » New York Times
• Clinical Professor Carolyn McAllaster weighs in on the legal implications of “bug chasing,” a phenomenon among a subculture of gay men who actively seek to contract HIV » asap
• Professor Barak Richman receives 2006-2007 Provost Common Fund Award, an interdisciplinary research grant » more
• Professor Joost Pauwelyn receives 2005 Paul Guggenheim Prize » more
• Professor Professor James Boyle cautions that the new Internet Safety Act, which is intended to curb child pornography on the Internet, could also limit content that is not pornographic » New York Times
• Professor Jedediah Purdy's essay, "The New Biopolitics" launches new journal » Democracy
• Scott Silliman says that America's failure to charge Guantanamo detainees has made other countries reluctant to incarcerate them, should the prison be closed » New York Times
• Professor James Boyle warns against the WIPO's proposal to extend intellectual property rights for broadcasters and to webcasting, saying the focus should be on "rules of conduct, not rights over content" » Financial Times
• Professor James Cox says that though gains from the 2003 mutual fund scandal were more significant; option backdating has done more to "erode public confidence" » Newsday
• Recent suicides of three Guantanamo detainees may endanger U.S. alliances in the war on terror, says Professor Scott Silliman » Bloomberg.com
• Professor Neil Siegel cautions against amendments to the Constitution that "narrow its promises of liberty and equality" » The News & Observer
• Duke Law staffers honored with Duke Blueprint awards
• Professor Scott Silliman, executive director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, tells The Washington Post that direct comparisons between Vietnam's My Lai and civilian killings in Haditha, Iraq are misinformed
• Writing in the Durham Herald-Sun, Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Political Science Erwin Chemerinsky says that by denying free speech protection to government whistleblowers, the Supreme Court has also denied “the right of people to know”
• Brainerd Currie Professor of Law James Cox tells The News & Observer that it would be irresponsible for Durham officials to approve a deal with Rice Financial Products Co., a company embroiled in a California bribery scandal
• On NPR's "Morning Edition," Dean and A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law Katharine Bartlett comments on how judges are handling requests by divorced parents to relocate with children when the other parent objects
• On CNN's "Live Today," Professor and Director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security Scott Silliman discusses the military’s investigation into the deaths of civilians in Haditha, Iraq (transcript)
• Brainerd Currie Professor of Law James Cox tells Bloomberg that the recent investigation of U.S. companies suspected of backdating stock options is the "biggest pervasive financial scandal in capital markets" since the 2003 mutual-fund scandal
• On NPR's "On the Media," William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law James Boyle argues that copyright holders have ushered in a "permissions culture"' that ignores the laws governing fair use
• Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Political Science Erwin Chemerinsky tells The News & Observer that a bill requiring students enrolling in any of North Carolina's 16 public universities to get fingerprinted is "likely to face opposition"
• WUNC highlights Duke Law's Animal Law Clinic
• DELPF symposium yields practical design principles for regional eco-system based ocean management (.pdf)
• Professor Stuart Benjamin comments on the legal and strategic considerations telecommunications companies must weigh when deciding whether to comply with federal government requests for consumer data on NPR's "All Things Considered"
• Professor and Executive Director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security Scott Silliman discusses on NPR's "Morning Edition" the government’s claim to state secrets privilege in a case brought by a German citizen who alleges he was abducted in Europe
• Class of 2006: Celebrating Community and Leadership
  • 2006 Justin Miller Award winners
     
  • A graduation story: St. Petersburg Times highlights Adedayo Banwo's journey to Duke Law's hooding ceremony
     
  • Duke commencement speaker John Hope Franklin urges the class of 2006 to"put people first"
     
• Writing in The Charlotte Observer, Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Political Science Erwin Chemerinsky warns of the threat unilateral actions by the Bush administration pose to individual liberties
• Children's Education Law Clinic defends constitutional rights of students to take part in immigration protests
• Professors David Lange and Laura Underkuffler receive distinguished professorships
• William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law James Boyle comments in The New York Times on whether viewers who skip television commercials violate an implicit contract between broadcaster and viewer
• Writing in The Los Angeles Times with two other legal experts, Alston & Bird Professor of Law Erwin Chemerinsky discusses the state of Los Angeles Police Department reform
• Duke Law team places in top ten and wins “Best Brief” at ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law
• Ian Millhiser ’06 to receive 2006 Burton Award for Legal Achievement
• Two Duke faculty committees, including one headed by Professor James Coleman Jr., release reports on the men's lacrosse team behavior and student judicial policies and practices
  • Report of the Lacrosse Ad Hoc Review Committee
  • Report on student judicial process and practices
• Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Political Science Erwin Chemerinsky discusses the legal implications of single-faith prison programs in The Washington Post
• Katharine Bartlett announces she will step down as dean, effective June 30, 2007
• Duke Law scholars are featured guests on WUNC's "The State of Things":
  • Professor Jedediah Purdy talks about his work as a property law scholar and his books, "Being America" and "For Common Things"
  • Professor James Boyle discusses "Bound by Law?" the comic book that demystifies intellectual property law as it pertains to documentary film
• Jesse-Galen Beardsworth ’06 receives Fulbright-Garcia Robles Grant
• 2006 class gift will double, thanks to a group of Duke Law donors
• Brandon Neal '08 wins 2006 Hardt Cup Moot Court Competition
• Professor James Boyle receives DBA Distinguished Teaching Award
• Duke President Richard Brodhead comments on indictments in lacrosse case
• Professor James Coleman leads internal investigation of lacrosse team conduct
• Commenting to The Christian Science Monitor on the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, Charles Lowndes Professor of Law Sara Beale says that it is unclear how significant a role a defendant has to play in a crime to justify a death sentence
• The Washington Post profiles Assistant Professor Jedediah Purdy
• The Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security and the Program in Public Law co-sponsor conference on "U.S. National Security Strategy: Finding the Right Balance," April 20-21
• Duke Law professors lead University's review of issues stemming from allegations of sexual assault against members of lacrosse team
• Professor Paul Haagen discusses faculty review of disciplinary procedures
• Harry R. Chadwick Sr. Professor of Law Robert Mosteller comments to The New York Times on a trend toward increased disclosure of evidence between prosecutors and defense attorneys in criminal cases
• Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy publishes its inaugural issue
• The journal of Law and Contemporary Problems hosts
  April 7 conference on animal law
• A recent empirical study by Professor James Salzman finds that the practice of "wetland mitigation banking" leads to loss of urban services
• Program in Public Law sponsors March 30 talk by Duke alumnus Eric Rothschild, one of the lawyers who successfully challenged the inclusion of intelligent design in the Dover, Pa., schools' science curriculum
• Professor Scott Silliman tells Forbes that should the Supreme Court reject the president's plan to convene military trials for suspected terrorist Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the limit could affect other areas of presidential authority
• Duke Law team selected to participate in ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law
• Brainerd Currie Professor of Law James Cox tells The News & Observer that Durham officials should be wary of doing business with a California financial company involved in a bribery scandal
• Writing in The Environmental Forum, Perkins Professor of Law and Environmental Policy Jonathan Wiener says that in comparing U.S. and EU approaches to environmental protection, the interesting question is not who is 'ahead', but why they sometimes select different risks to worry about most
• In the Washington Post, Harry R. Chadwick Sr. Professor of Law Robert Mosteller comments on the ethical implications of coaching witnesses in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial
• Writing in The Wall Street Journal, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Donald Horowitz cautions that the current Iraqi political stalemate, which is impeding formation of an inclusive government, may help fuel sectarian violence in Iraq
• Duke Law Journal hosts 36th Annual Administrative Law Conference, "Administrative Law and Emergency Management: Katrina and Beyond," March 24
• Professor James Coleman, who chairs the ABA's "Death Penalty Project," explains the ABA's call for a death penalty moratorium in certain states on NPR's "Weekend Edition"
• Professor Arti Rai tells Minnesota Public Radio's "Marketplace" that a new patent case before the Supreme Court will raise the question of whether abstract ideas can be patented
• Term limits for Supreme Court justices discussed in Reforming the Court, co-edited by Professor Paul Carrington
• Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Political Science Erwin Chemerinsky reacts to South Dakota abortion ban at Bloomberg.com
• Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies Christopher Schroeder and Professor Scott Silliman, executive director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security take part in Duke panel on "Iraq, torture, and domestic spying: What's the right strategy in the war on terrorism?"
• William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law James Boyle's groundbreaking book, Shamans, Software, and Spleens, inspires Stanford Law School symposium
• AIDS Legal Project co-sponsors March 10th town hall meeting on "Medicare Part D and its Impact on the HIV Community"
• 10th Annual PILF Auction & Gala raises record amount for summer public interest fellowships
• Duke Law and Technology Review's iBlawg provides forum for cutting-edge discussion of latest developments in technology law
• Writing in the Financial Times, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law James Boyle measures the progress of the cultural environmentalist movement
• Papers from Program in Public Law spring workshop on "Delegating Sovereignty: Constitutional and Political Perspectives" available online
• On March 2, Duke Law Professors Christopher Schroeder and Scott Silliman take part in Sanford Institute panel on "Iraq, torture and domestic spying: What's the right strategy in the war on terrorism?"
• Professor Scott Silliman, Executive Director of the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security, reacts to new photos of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison
• Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Alston & Bird Professor Erwin Chemerinsky says that the L.A. Police Commission's decision to conceal the identity of officers involved in shootings undermines police accountability
• Brainerd Currie Professor Jim Cox tells The Washington Post that the New York Stock Exchange is losing ground to its electronic rivals
• Professor Scott Silliman, Executive Director of the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security, discusses private contractors and the CIA on WUNC's "The State of Things"
• Professor James Coleman leads development of Duke's tough new drug testing policy for student athletes
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• The Intellectual Property & Cyberlaw Society hosts 5th Annual 'Hot Topics' Symposium February 17
• Richard and Marcy Horvitz Professor of Law Curtis Bradley tells the Durham Herald-Sun that the president's post-9/11 surveillance practices may be unconstitutional
• Duke Law team wins National Moot Court Competition
• Duke Law School honors late Professor Jerome Culp with February 13 panel on "Reflections on the Pursuit of Racial Justice."
• Pulitzer Prize winning Supreme Court correspondent Linda Greenhouse takes part in the Program in Public Law’s "Great Lives in the Law" series February 13
• Duke Law's Innocence Project instrumental in police's re-investigation of the near-fatal beating of a Winston-Salem woman » The Case
• Richard and Marcy Horvitz Professor of Law Curtis Bradley tells NPR that administration officials have taken his work out of context in citing it in support of wireless domestic surveillance
• Former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar delivers lecture on "Policy in Petroleum-Dependent Economies" Monday, February 6
• Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Political Science Erwin Chemerinsky tells The New York Times that Justice Alito could have the decisive vote in important cases before the Court this term
• Writing in Durham Herald-Sun, Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Political Science Erwin Chemerinsky urges Senate democrats to filibuster the confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court
• Professor of the Practice of Law James E. Coleman Jr. takes part in debate on affirmative action as equal opportunity or unfair advantage
• Durham Herald-Sun covers Duke Law panel discussion on private military contractors and the law of war
• Richard and Marcy Horvitz Professor of Law Curtis Bradley and Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law Walter Dellinger, along with 12 other prominent constitutional experts, write an open letter to Congress challenging the president's position on warrantless surveillance
• Registration opens for Legal Strategy for Young Lawyers, a CLE program for Duke Law alumni '95-'05 - March 8-10
• Registration opens for the Global Capital Market Center's 2006 Directors' Education Institute, March 15-17
• The International Law Society and the Human Rights Initiative hosts panel discussion on “Private Military Contractors and the Law of War” Monday, January 23
• Professor of Economics Koleman Strumpf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill delivers "The Information Ecology" Spring 2006 lecture Monday, January 23
• Duke Law celebrates legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., January 13-22
• Alexander Capron, director of ethics, trade, human rights, and health law at the World Health Organization, delivers fifth annual Rabbi Seymour Siegel Lecture in Ethics on January 19
• Alexander Capron, director of ethics, trade, human rights, and health law at the World Health Organization, delivers fifth annual Rabbi Seymour Siegel Lecture in Ethics on January 19
• On January 17 the Federalist Society presents a lunchtime talk by Brigham Young University Professor Lynn Wardle '74 on the role of Roe v. Wade in the confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito
• Professors Erwin Chemerinsky and Neil Siegel comment on Alito nomination
• The AIDS Legal Project, headed by Clinical Professor Carolyn McAllaster, turns 10
• • Herald-Sun editorial
• Danish Ambassador Friis Arne Peterson speaks at the Law School on January 12, offering a European perspective on the terrorist threat and the war in Iraq
• Writing in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Alston & Bird Professor of Law Erwin Chemerinsky challenges the Bush administration's contention that national security justifies violations of civil liberties
• Professor Madeline Morris, director of the Guantanamo Defense Clinic and adviser to the chief defense counsel for the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, comments to The Washington Post on the administration's move to have all detainee habeas corpus petitions dismissed
• Professor Neil Siegel discusses Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's record on NPR's "Talk of the Nation"

2005

• Professor Francis McGovern, the court approved administrator of the SEC's restitution fund, comments to The New York Times on the distribution of $440 million over tainted Wall Street research during the technology boom (registration required)
• Writing in the San Diego Union Tribune, Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Political Science Erwin Chemerinsky comments on the Bush administration's claim that warrantless surveillance was necessary after 9/11
• Writing in the Wall Street Journal on December 14, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Donald Horowitz warns of a possible constitutional crisis in post-election Iraq
• Professor Scott Silliman, executive director of Duke's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, writes in a Herald-Sun op ed that the United States must condemn all acts of cruel, human or degrading treatment or punishment, as well as torture, at home and abroad
• Save the date! The 10th Annual Duke Law Public Interest Law Foundation Auction will be held February 25, 2006 at Duke's Nasher Museum of Art
• Alston & Bird Professor of Law Erwin Chemerinsky writes in The Newark Star Ledger of the importance of competent trial counsel in capital cases
• Clinical Professor of Law Jane Wettach, director of the Children's Education Law Clinic, writes in Raleigh's News and Observer that year-long school suspensions in response to students' fights do more harm than good
• In ASIL Insight Professor Joost Pauwelyn calls for a comprehensive political settlement in the long-running dispute between the U.S. and Canada over softwood lumber
• Law Library receives Nixon letter to Judge John Sirica claiming executive privilege
• Duke Law students victorious at Regional Moot Court Competition in Richmond, VA
• Former U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda, David Rawson, talks about dealing "diplomatically" with genocide
• Sirica and Nixon: Program in Public Law event on November 21 revisits the confrontation between Judge John Sirica and President Richard Nixon '37 over executive privilege
• Guantanamo Defense Clinic involves students in defense of Guantanamo Bay detainees
• Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic assists taxpayers with IRS disputes
• Professor Eric A. Posner delivers Duke Law Journal Fall Lecture November 11
• Upcoming symposium to explore issues of "Distributive Injustice in American Health Care"
• Former U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda, David Rawson, talks about dealing "diplomatically" with genocide
• Charles S. Murphy Professor of law and Professor of Public Policy Studies Christopher Schroeder argues that senatorial requests for information pertaining to Harriet Miers' White House service could have been selectively accommodated without violating "executive privilege"
• Professor William Van Alstyne to deliver the Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture on November 14, on "Clashing Visions of a Living Constitution"
• Laura Petelle '04 establishes unique practice that includes client housecalls
• The Program in Public Law sponsors October 31 talk by Brandt Goldstein, author of Storming the Court, the story of the suit filed by law students and human rights lawyers to free Haitian refugees held on Guantanamo by the American military in the early 1990s
• Intellectual property scholar P. Bernt Hugenholtz compares authors' rights regimes and Creative Commons, two systems that protect the public domain
• Professor Neil Siegel calls for bipartisan consensus that Supreme Court nominees must answer senators' questions about their views on important legal issues in order to earn confirmation
• Duke Law celebrates International Week October 24-28
• Practical Politics and the Law: New Program in Public Law series offers students insight into political process
• The Center for the Study of the Public Domain's lecture series on "The Information Ecology" presents Professor P. Bernt Hugenholtz of the University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law October 24, discussing systems that emphasize the rights and freedoms of creators.
• Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno takes part in the Program in Public Law's "Great Lives in the Law" series
• Community Enterprise Clinic helps North Carolina non-profit lender compete for $40 million in federal economic development funds
• Professor Scott Silliman, executive director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, reviews the scope of existing military authority to assist in disaster relief
• William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law James Boyle argues against extending international intellectual property rights to webcasters in Financial Times column.
• Professor Emeritus of Law, Melvin Shimm, dies at age 79
• The Center for the Study of the Public Domain presents September 22 lecture by Professor Eric von Hippel of MIT on "Democratizing Innovation and Norms-based Intellectual Property Rights"
• Stuffed! Duke Law lead effort to fill 18-wheeler with aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina
• "The Global War on Terrorism: Taking Stock" Participants are Professors:
  Scott Silliman: executive director of the Center for Law Ethics and National Security,
  Bruce Jentlesen: professor of public policy studies and middle east foreign policy expert,
  Chris Schroeder: director of the Program in Public Law.
  Room 3041, September 28, 2005 at 12:15
• Student "Stuff the Truck" Donations Drive set for Tuesday, September 13
• Dean Katharine Bartlett's update to the community
• Brainerd Currie Professor of Law James Cox talks with the News and Observer about investor reactions to an increasing number of investigations by the SEC.
• Law faculty pay tribute to the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist
  - Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law Walter Dellinger
  - Professor Neil Siegel
• Program in Public Law launches academic year with a consideration of Justice O'Connor's legacy
• Computing Services, Educational Technologies, and the Law Library are demystified during Duke Law School Information Services Week, September 12-15, 2005
• William Neal Reynolds Emeritus Professor of Law Clark C. Havighurst argues against damage caps as a way to approach medical liability reform
• Steven Naclerio '71 and Autumn Floyd '04 offer suggestions for discouraging frivolous lawsuits
• Student-led Guardian ad Litem Program wins N.C. Bar award
• Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law Walter Dellinger says senators should go beyond a review of old policy memos for insights into the thinking of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts
• Duke Law School welcomes the class of 2008
• Duke Law Journals Lead with open access to scholarship
• Heather Holloway '05 wins national award for outstanding work with Children's Education Law Clinic
• Duke Law School's Community Enterprise Clinic Mounts Conference on Social Enterprise June 1
• Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law Walter Dellinger says senators should go beyond a review of old policy memos for insights into the thinking of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts
• In a News and Observer opinion editorial, Professor Neil Siegel calls for the president to nominate a moderate conservative to the Supreme Court--for the sake of the country and his legacy
• Duke Law celebrates Class of 2005 at Annual Hooding Ceremony
• 2005 Justin Miller Award winners announced
• Following the Supreme Court's decision on medical marijuana, Professor Neil Siegel calls on Congress and the president to allow ill individuals to possess small amounts of the drug for medicinal purposes
• Duke Law alumni J. Alexander Tanford '76 and Kenneth Starr '73 prevail as the Supreme Court strikes down trade barriers against the direct sale of wine
• Duke Law adds Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky calls for the enactment of federal shield laws to allow reporters to protect the confidentiality of their sources
• Top national security experts gather at Duke for "Strategies for the War on Terrorism: Taking Stock"
• Duke Law Celebrates the Class of 2005: The Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III to deliver commencement address
• Alston & Bird Professor of Law Erwin Chemerinsky is named one of the Top 20 Legal Thinkers in America in Legal Affairs poll
• John Adams '62, founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, to receive honorary degree from Duke University on May 15
• Program in Public Law conference focuses on Supreme Court Reform
• Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law Robert Mosteller wins DBA Distinguished Teaching Award
• Chris Baird '05 wins award for excellence in legal writing
• Duke Law team wins the 2005 Sidley-IIEL WTO Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C.
• The Law & Contemporary Problems editorial board hosts April 8 conference at Duke Law School: The Impact of Behavioral Genetics on Criminal Law
• Center on Law Ethics and National Security and Program and Public Law presents Strategies for the War on Terrorism: Taking Stock
• Reunion Weekend 2005, April 15-17, 2005
• The Program in Public Law presents Reforming The Supreme Court?
• The Sports and Entertainment Law Society presents April 6th address by Reed Hundt, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
• Duke Law Professor Christopher Schroeder to take part in April 5th panel The Terri Schiavo Case: Continuing the Conversation.
• The Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society will hold its Fourth Annual "Hot Topics" in Intellectual Property Law Symposium on April 1 at the Law School
• The Duke Endowment gives nearly $15 million to Duke University, including $2 million for renovations to the Duke Law School library
• Michael Scharf '88 nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
• Professor Pamela Samuelson of the University of California at Berkeley delivers the Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property
• Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Ayalon speaks about "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East"
• Public Interest Law Foundation Auction Mar. 4 features travel, art, tickets to top sporting events, and more, all to help students working in public interest positions this summer
• Columbia Law Professor William Simon delivers annual Siegel Lecture in Ethics Mar. 3 at Duke Law School
• Sports attorney David Feher '84 talks about "Fans and Professional Athletes: The Pacers/Pistons Incident and Its implications for Professional Sports" Mar. 3 at 3:30 p.m. in room 4047 of the Law School
• Duke Law Journal hosts thirty-fifth annual Administrative Law Conference Feb. 25: The Role of the Internet in Agency Decisionmaking
• Liz Kuniholm '80 helps AIDS Legal Endowment Fund meet goal
• Duke Law Professor Arti Rai speaks about "Open Source" biology and the role of law in Feb. 17 Information Ecology Series lecture, sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain
• Great Lives in the Law presents Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A “Lady” Who Led the Fight for Gender Equity
• Meeting the Threat: A Symposium on Counter-Terrorism, sponsored by the Program in Public Law
• Community Enterprise Clinic students assist nonprofit stockholder advocate to fight predatory lending
• Students trek to N.C. hills for annual Public Interest Retreat Feb. 4-5
• Business Law Society brings together law students, alumni, and friends Feb. 11 in third annual career symposium, "Esq."
• Duke Law Professors Erwin Chemerinsky and Neil Siegel say that the United States Supreme Court has created confusion as to how sentencing is to be done in the future
• Patrick Guerriero, President of the Log Cabin Republicans, headlines Jan. 27 discussion "Gay and Republican? Making Space for Diversity in Conservative Politics"
• Schedule of events Jan. 17-23 celebrating John Hope Franklin's 90th birthday includes photography exhibit, panel discussion, and jubilee performance
• Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain announces winners of Arts Project Moving Image Contest at special screening Jan. 14 at Duke Law School, live webcast will be available

2004

• Television personality Bob Barker donates $1 million to Duke Law School for Animal Law study (more)
• Criminal procedure expert Nancy J. King examines federal appellate review of sentencing in annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture at Duke Law School (more)
• Living History: Great Lives in the Law features renowned historian and James B. Duke Professor Emeritus John Hope Franklin, in conversation with Duke Law Professor Walter Dellinger (more)
• President Bush should bridge the divide, nominate a moderate jurist to the U.S. Supreme Court, says Duke Law Professor Neil Siegel (more)
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commissoner Sudeen Kelly and other policy makers, practitioners, and legal scholars discuss issues at the intersection of environmental regulation, energy, and economics at conference sponsored by Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum (more)
• Sara Sun Beale, Charles B. Lowndes Professor of Law, has been appointed reporter to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules (more)
• AIDS Legal Project Director Carolyn McAllaster reflects on the changing face and challenges of AIDS, marking Dec. 1 World AIDS Day (more)
• Student volunteers in Duke Law School's Innocence Project, advised by Jim Coleman, undertake six-month re-investigation of Winston Salem, N.C. assault case (more)
• Thou Shalt Not? Yonat Shimron of the Raleigh News & Observer examines Van Orden v. Perry, a Ten Commandments case to be argued by Duke Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky before the U.S. Supreme Court this term (more)
• WTO Condemnation of U.S. Ban on Internet gambling pits free trade against moral values, says Duke Law Professor Joost Pauwelyn (more)
• Duke Law Professor Jonathan Wiener and Fuqua School of Business Professor Laura Kornish on stopping the next flu pandemic: the vaccine shell game (more)
• International law scholars Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks deliver Duke Law Journal Fall Lecture Nov. 18, entitled How to Influence States: Socialization and International Human Rights Law (more)
• Honor Week Nov. 15-19 features presentations by Duke Law Professor and N.C. State Rep. Deborah Ross, Author David Callahan, and Duke Professor Bruce Payne (PDF)
• Walter Dellinger prepares for oral argument before U.S. Supreme Court with Nov. 19 moot at Duke Law School (more)
• Duke Law Professors Walter Dellinger, Erwin Chemerinsky, and Neil Siegel offer post-election analysis (more)
• Duke Law Professor Carolyn McAllaster looks back on Greensboro Massacre as important reminder of the need to protect civil liberties (more)
• Criminal practice and procedure expert Nancy King to deliver Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture Nov. 16 at Duke Law School (more)
• Duke Law Professor Deborah DeMott testifies as expert witness in Walt Disney Company case (more)
• Michigan Law Professor Carl Schneider speaks about legal career choices Nov. 8 at Duke Law School (more)
• Duke Law Professor Walter Dellinger defends the Electoral College (more)
• James Love, director of the Consumer Project on Technology, speaks about A New Trade Framework for Global Healthcare Research and Development as Information Ecology Series continues Nov. 4 (more)
• Duke Law Professor Neil Siegel urges voters to consider the future of the Supreme Court (more)
• Duke Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky looks at possible election legal challenges (more)
• Third Annual Bernstein Lecturer Chibli Mallat examines patterns in emerging constitutions (more)
• Children's Education Law Clinic experience leads Luke Lantta '04 into fellowship; Duke Law clinics launch new websites (more)
• Chief defense counsel for the "enemy combatant" detainees being held at Guantanamo Naval Base Will A. Gunn speaks at Duke Law School (more)
• Duke Law School Information Services Week highlights the role of the Law Library, Computing Services and Educational Technologies in the law school community (pdf)
• Duke Law School hosts second annual Workshop of the German Law Journal (more)
• Sports and Entertainment Law Society hosts Oct. 29 panel discussion examining labor issues in professional sports at Duke Law School (more)
• Duke Law Professor Robinson O. Everett lauded for professionalism; Everett Criminal Law Symposium Oct. 22 examines modern criminal law for the civil law practitioner (more)
• Professor Curtis Bradley to join Duke Law faculty (more)
• Fourth Annual International Week Oct. 18-22 features faculty debate, cultural extravaganza, and food festival (pdf)
• A growing law school stays small: Dean Katharine Bartlett discusses new initiatives at Duke Law School (more)
• Duke Law faculty integral to new Center for the Study of Public Genomics at Duke (more); fellowship opportunity available (more)
• Duke Law Professor Neil Siegel: Upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term could include historic rulings (more)
• Justice Stephen Breyer should recuse himself from ruling on constitutionality of federal sentencing guidelines, Duke Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky says (more)
• ACLU President Nadine Strossen in conversation with Duke Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky Sept. 30 at Duke Law School (more)
• Faculty Lives in Public Service: Jim Coleman shares his stories (more)
• Islamic law expert Chibli Mallat speaks about Constitutions for the 21st Century: Emerging patterns-the EU, Iraq, Afghanistan in third annual Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture in International and Comparative Law Sept. 28 at Duke Law School (more)
• Professor Scott Silliman discusses troubling questions in interrogating terrorists (from Duke Magazine) (more)
• Duke Bar Association named top law school student government by American Bar Association (more)
• Orientation 2004: Wrongly imprisoned, Darryl Hunt tells first-year students to "Do what's just" (more)
• William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law James Boyle is one of four regular columnists for the Financial Times online-edition's New Economy Policy Forum (more)
• Community Enterprise Clinic receives grant from Racial Justice Collaborative (more)
• Enhancing the classroom with technology: Professor Tom Metzloff produces court-case documentaries to enrich legal instruction and learning (more)
• Business Executive Stanley A. Star and the Star Family Foundation will give $3 million to Duke Law School in support of building and renovation projects (more)
• Director of Computing Services Ken Hirsh receives National Computing Services-Special Interest Section Distinguished Service Award named in his honor (more)
• Director Jane Wettach announces gift to Children's Education Law Clinic from Toys "R" Us (more)
• The Duke Blueprint to LEAD charts the way for new student orientation Aug. 16-20 (PDF)
• The Economist discusses a proposal by Duke Law Professor Arti Rai and others for an open-source approach to invent drugs to fight tropical diseases (more)
• Community Enterprise Clinic Director Andrew Foster reports second-year success (more)
• Professor Robinson Everett receives North Carolina Bar Association's highest award (more)
• Special seminars, alumni reception and tour of World Bank highlight Summer Passport Series for joint-degree students (PDF)
• Professor Scott Silliman, director of Duke's Center for Law, Ethics and National Security, comments on prison abuse at Abu Ghraib (more)
• Professors Jim Coleman and Theresa Newman work to right wrongful convictions (more)
• Brown v. Board gains are being undone, says Professor Charles Clotfelter, author of the new book After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation (more)
• Law Professors Steven Schwarcz, Jonathan Wiener and Lawrence Zelenak earn distinguished professorships (more)
• Five graduating students receive Justin Miller Awards (more)
• The Arts Project at Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain hosts conference on how law constructs and constrains culture and launches 2-minute moving image contest
• U.S. Solicitor Theodore Olson advises 307 law graduates on professional success - and failure - at 2004 commencement ceremony (more)
• Professor Deborah Rhode of Stanford Law School takes on tort reform in third annual Siegel Memorial Lecture (more)
• Global Capital Markets Center hosts third annual conference on corporate governance (more)
• Students gain hands-on legal experience helping others in Southern Justice Spring Break Mission Trip (more)
• U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson to address law graduates (more)
• Gala, Justin Miller Awards headline week of graduation activities for Class of 2004 (PDF)
• Duke Law scholarly journals publish new works addressing criminal and constitutional law and science, technology and the law (more)
• Professors Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk recruited to Duke Law (more)
• Distinguished environmental law scholar James Salzman, noted author Jedediah Purdy, and U.S. Supreme Court clerk Neil Siegel will join the Duke Law School faculty (more)
• Duke Law welcomes back alumni and friends for Reunion Weekend 2004 (more)
• Duke Law School Center on Law, Ethics and National Security hosts major conference on U.S.-Canadian Relations Apr. 15-16 (more)
• Public Law Conference Apr. 16-17 to recognize scholarship of Professor William Van Alstyne (more)
• Dean Katharine T. Bartlett interviews Julie Goodridge, plaintiff in the Massachusettes same-sex marriage case, in Apr. 13 event (PDF)
• Nominations sought for Justin Miller Awards honoring outstanding graduating students (more)
• Duke Law Library holds fourth annual Faculty Authors Reception Apr. 8 (more)
• The Arts Project at Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, in association with the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, sponsors Apr. 2 conference on how law constructs and constrains culture (more)
• Duke Law Journal sponsors thirty-third annual Administrative Law Conference Apr. 2 (more)
• Business Law Society brings together students, alumni, practitioners for second annual Business Law Career Symposium Apr. 2 (more)
• Legal ethics and gender discrimination scholar Deborah Rhode delivers Mar. 31 Rabbi Seymour Siegel Memorial Lecture in Medical-Legal Ethics (more)
• Duke Law Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society hosts Mar. 26 Hot Topics in Intellectual Property Law Symposium (CLE credit available) (more)
• Duke Law Students Dimitri Varmazis '04 and Sebastian Kielmanovich '04 receive competitive North Carolina public interest law fellowships (more)
• Jonathan Krause '04 wins 2004 Dean's Cup Moot Court Competition (more)
• Duke Law School hosts Seminar for Federal Judges ( more)
• Duke Law community mourns the death of Professor Jerome Culp (more)
• SEC Selects Duke Law professor Francis McGovern to distribute $400M to aggrieved investors (more)
• The Honorable Richard Goldstone delivers Mar. 1 Great Lives in the Law lecture (more)
• Public Interest Law Foundation hosts annual Auction and Gala Feb. 27 and launches new website featuring Duke Law apparel for sale to raise money for summer public interest employment (more)
• Judaic Themes in American Law lunch discussion Feb. 26 features prominent scholar, Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson (more)
• Duke Law students take second place in WTO Moot Court Competition (more)
• Science and technology policy expert Lewis Branscomb delivers Feb. 19 Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property Law (more)
• Students take a break from job interviews and studying to participate in the second annual Student Leadership Retreat for organization leaders (more)
• Charles Ogletree, documentary film highlight Duke's 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration (more)

2003

• Duke Law Professor Joost Pauwelyn examines Iraqi reconstruction projects and the World Trade Organization, of which he was formerly a legal officer (more)
• Richard H. Brodhead named ninth president of Duke University (more)
• American Bar Association President Dennis Archer calls on students to be healers in Great Lives in the Law talk at Duke Law (more)
• Constitutional law scholar Robert Nagel discusses diversity and the practice of interest assessment in Currie Memorial Lecture at Duke Law School (more)
• Duke University professor and noted journalist William Raspberry leads lively community discussion of race and racism in inaugural Jean E. and Christine P. Mills Conversation Series talk at Duke Law School (more)
• Student-organized environmental law symposium brings leaders in environmental policy to Duke Law School (more)
• The Society for Risk Analysis presents its prestigious Young Risk Analyst Award to Duke Law Professor and Director of the Duke Center for Environmental Solutions Jonathan Wiener (more)
• Duke Law community hosts celebration at Duke Children's Hospital holiday party (more)
• Duke Law Professor Paul Haagen chairs Duke University's Student-Athlete Counseling Committee (more)
• Faculty Lives in Public Service lunch discussion Nov. 24 features Duke Law Professor Neil Vidmar (more)
• The website of the Program in Public Law now covers the U.S. Supreme Court and other public law issues online (more)
• In a Duke Magazine Campus Forum, intellectual-property expert and Duke Law Professor James Boyle calls for freer access to information and ideas ( more)
• Harvard Law Professor William W. Fisher III delivers Nov. 21 talk onAlternative Compensation Systems for Digital Entertainment (more)
• Environmental law expert and professor of law Jim Salzman gives Nov. 20 talk on Creating Markets for Ecosystem Services: Notes from the Field ( PDF)
• Steven Shavell, Harvard Law School professor, delivers Fairness Versus Welfare Lecture Nov. 20 (more)
• Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum Hosts Natural Resources Policy Symposium Nov. 14. (more)
• Duke Law alumnus Amos Mills '72 launches conversation series on race with Nov. 4 talk by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and Knight Professor of Communications and Journalism William J. Raspberry (more)
• Robert F. Nagel, Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado School of Law, will give the Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture Nov. 13 (more)
• Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, delivers Information Ecology Lecture Nov. 10 (more)
• Michael Ashley Stein, William and Mary Associate Professor of Law, gives Duke Law Journal fall lecture Nov. 6 (more)
• American Bar Association President Dennis Archer delivers Great Lives in the Law lecture Nov. 3 (more)
• Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law publishes summer 2003 volume Comparisons and Connections: A Symposium in Memory of Herbert Bernstein (more)
• Donald Francis Donovan, international law expert, delivers Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law fall lecture Oct. 24 (more)
• More than 150 of Duke Law School's alumni volunteer leaders convened at the School Oct. 10-11 for Leadership Weekend (more)
• Duke Women's Initiative: Study finds progress for women, but equity remains elusive (more)
• Third Annual International Week Sept. 14-20 shines spotlight on Duke Law's international programs (more)
• Phillip Allen '97 begins six-city book tour to promote first novel, Play Money. (more)
• Vik Patel '05 leads by example (PDF)
• Now What? Duke Law Professors Scott Silliman and Michael Byers discuss rationale for conflict in Iraq, consider world wide consequences (PDF)
• Wired In: Stuart Benjamin joins the Duke Law Faculty; pursues intersection of law and technology (PDF)
• Professor Richard Epstein (Oct. 2nd, 9am) reflects on antidiscrimination laws since his book Forbidden Grounds (more)
• The Center for the Study of the Public Domain is starting a lecture series on "The Information Ecology"; Duke Law Professor James Boyle will deliver the inaugural lecture at 4pm on Sept. 19 (more)
• Christian Joerges, a professor at the European University Institute, will deliver the second annual Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture in International and Comparative Law at noon on Sept. 16 (more)
• A class of 203 JD students arrived on campus the week of Aug. 18, participating in a host of orientation events and beginning their classes (more)
• Allyson Duncan ’75 was confirmed in July as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (more)
• Law professionals from across the country recently paid tribute to Duke Law Professor Robinson Everett ’59 for his five decades of distinguished service to the legal profession (more)
• Duke Law alumnus Bruce Elvin '93 accepts position as Assistant Dean for Career Services (more)
• Veteran fund-raiser and administrator Tom Hadzor of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center to become Law School’s Associate Dean for External Relations (more)
• Faculty members, student research assistants, gather to discuss recent projects (more)
• James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Wins 2003 World Technology Award for Law for his work on theory and practice of protecting the "intellectual ecology" of the public domain (more)
• Duke Law relocates July 6 - Aug. 5 Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law from Hong Kong to Fukuoka, Japan (more)
• Assistant Dean for Career Services Bob Smith returned to the legal consulting field after nine years at Duke Law School (more)
• CALI conference draws hundreds to Law School from June 19-21 for high-level technology discussions (more)
• 271 Duke Law students were awarded hoods, degrees at May 10 ceremony (more)
• Stephen Wallenstein, executive director of the Global Capital Markets Center and professor of the practice of law, business and finance, will participate in a June 4 panel on corporate governance and cleaning up corporate abuses (more)
• International Meeting of the Board of Visitors, International Alumni Reunion and Summer Institute in Transnational Law headline Geneva program of activities July 17-20 (more)
• Professor of Law, Environmental Policy and Public Policy Studies Jonathan Wiener convened a May 11-12 conference at Duke on the topic of his new book, Reconstructing Climate Policy (more)
• Four graduating JD students recently were named winners of the 2003 Justin Miller Awards (more)
• Richard Danner named Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Law Library and Information Technology Research Professor (more)
• Associate Dean for External Relations Linda Steckley to leave Duke Law in June for The Brookings Institution (more)
• Duke Law celebrates recent faculty books in April 15 ceremony as Professor of Law Laura Underkuffler wins Dean's Prize for faculty scholarship (more)
• Duke Law hosted a major sports law and policy conference April 14: Challenges and Opportunities for Professional Sports in the 21st Century (more)
• Duke Law's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security hosted April 10-11 conference on Confronting Iraq: Legal and Policy Considerations (more)|( Duke News story)
• Duke Law hosted an international law and economics conference April 4-6 on International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime (more)
• ABA president-elect Dennis Archer to address Class of 2003 at commencement ceremony on May 10 (more)
• Three Duke Law moot court teams shine in recent competitions. One team takes a national championship. (more)
• James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Donald Horowitz led an April 8 presentation on constitutional issues and ethnic conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq (more)
• New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer spoke at Duke on April 23 (more)
• Students Mayur Patel '04 and Ronce Almond '03 challenged Professors Scott Silliman, pictured, and Michael Byers in the International Law Society's Great Debate on April 7 about the war in Iraq (more)
• Duke Law celebrates faculty authors in April 15 event (more)
• Professor of Law Laura Underkuffler receives the 2003 Distinguished Teaching Award at the Donuts with the Deans breakfast reception on April 2 (more)
• Duke Law hosts first international law and economics conference Apr. 4-6 on International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime (more)
• The Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor discussed her youth, education and place on the U.S. Supreme Court in a visit to Duke Law School on March 18 as part of the Great Lives in the Law series (more)
• Duke Law welcomes alumni back for Reunion Weekend 2003, April 11-13 (more)
• International Law Society, in conjunction with the Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society, hosts Apr. 3 panel discussion on The TRIPS Agreement: Balancing Incentive for Innovation with Access to Medicines (more)
• The FCC will hold a public hearing March 31 from 12:30 to 5 p.m. at Duke Law School on media concentration (more)
• Mirah Horowitz ’00, a former clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, returned to Duke Law on March 27 with advice for students interested in becoming clerks (more)
• Faculty Lives in Public Service lunch discussion Mar. 25 features Professor Carolyn McAllaster, founding director of the AIDS Legal Assistance Project at Duke Law (more)
• Community Economic Development Law Clinic at Duke hosts conference on affordable housing and economic development (more)
• Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society and The Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke lead Second Annual Hot Topics in IP Law Symposium (more)
• Women’s History Month programs unite students, faculty, alumni (more)
• The honorable >Sandra Day O’Connor discussed her youth, education and place on the U.S. Supreme Court in a visit to Duke Law School on March 18 as part of the Great Lives in the Law series. (more)
• The FCC will hold a public hearing March 31 from 12:30 to 5 p.m. at Duke Law School on media concentration (more)
• Private Censorship and Perfect Choice: The Future of the Internet? Second Annual Duke Magazine Forum Mar. 28 to feature Duke Law Professor James Boyle in conversation with UNC Law Professor Adrienne Davis (more)
• Professor Michael Byers leads Mar. 26 discussion at the John Hope Franklin Center: What Coalition? The New Unilateralism in International Affairs
• Faculty Lives in Public Service lunch discussion Mar. 25 features Professor Carolyn McAllaster, founding director of the AIDS Legal Assistance Project at Duke Law (more)
• Students from Duke Law, Duke Med come together to lead Mar. 22 Dedicated to Durham community service project (more)
• Duke Law Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society, in conjunction with the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke, hosts Mar. 21 Hot Topics in Copyright and Patent Law Symposium (CLE credit available) (more)
• Champion of school vouchers Clint Bolick and Duke Law Professor Laura Underkuffler tackled the debate over school vouchers on March 5 (more)
• Professor Scott Silliman and Duke Law students comment to WRAL-TV on March 3 about methods of interrogation used on a top al-Qaeda official ( video, courtesy of WRAL)
• A Duke Law Moot Court team sweeps through regional rounds and will advance to the national final rounds of the ABA's National Appellate Advocacy Competition, to be held in Chicago from April 3 to 5 (more)
• Bertis Downs, general counsel of R.E.M., discussed legal and business challenges to the music industry in a March 3 talk at Duke Law (more)
• President-Elect of the N.C. Bar Association Allyson Duncan '75 to discuss American "enemy combatants" on March 17 (more)
• Record-breaking PILF auction raises almost $30,000 for Public Interest Fellowships (more)
• Institute for Justice founder Clint Bolick and Duke Law Professor Laura Underkuffler debate pros and cons of school vouchers on Mar. 5 (more)
• Francis E. McGovern, a Duke professor of law generally recognized as the top expert in the field of mass torts, has been presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators. (more)
• Duke Law team wins regional round in Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (more)
• Looking Like the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment Cases in Perspective: a Mar. 4 discussion at Duke Law led by Peter Irons, professor of political science at UC-San Diego, and UNC Law Professor Eric Muller (more)
• What are you waiting for? Duke Law Drama Society performs Waiting for Godot Feb. 28 and Mar. 1 (more)
• Jack Valenti, president and chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), will visit Duke Law School on Monday, Feb. 24 to present the third annual Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property. (more)
• Professor James Cox says America should look to the past to develop an economic stimulus plan ( more)
• Professor Jeff Powell’s book on the President’s powers leads to symposium (more)
• Christopher Mills '04 emerged as the winner of the 2003 Dean's Cup Moot Court Competition (more)
• Business Law Society brings together students, alumni, leading business practitioners for day-long event Feb. 22 (more)
• Dr. Leon Kass, chair of the President's Commission on Bioethics, presents Feb. 4 Siegel Memorial Lecture: Preventing a Brave New World: Why We Should Ban Human Cloning (more)
• Professor Neil Vidmar leads one-of-a-kind study of jury room interactions (more)
• Faculty Lives in Public Service lunch discussion Feb. 6 features Professor James Boyle, leading scholar in intellectual property and cyberlaw and co-director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke (more)
• Fourth Circuit Judge Diana Gribbon Motz visits Duke Law Feb. 5 (more)
• Judge David Sentelle of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Roger Gregory of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and Magistrate Judge Brent McKnight lead group judging annual Dean's Cup Moot Court Competition Feb. 3-7 (more)
• ABA technology expert shares practical wisdom with Duke Law students (more)
• The Duke Law website launches a new look designed to increase communication about the activity of the Duke Law community (more)
• Independent documentary filmmaker Louis Massiah screens film at Duke Law on Jan. 24 (more)
• Faculty Lives in Public Service lunch discussion Jan. 16 features Andrew Foster, director of the Duke Community Economic Development Law Clinic (more)
• Ken Starr '73 leads Jan. 13 discussion of his new book, First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life (more)
• Harvard Law Professor Lani Guinier leads Jan. 19 lunch discussion at Duke Law (more)
• Duke Law team of third-year students Jackie Sumer, Dhamian Blue and Meg Turner wins regional stage of National Moot Court Competition (more)
• New educational series for students kicks off with Jan. 21 session focusing on use of technology in legal practice (more)
• Many forces led to Columbine and to general rise in childhood emotional dysfunction, says senior lecturing fellow Doriane Coleman (more)
• Ken Starr '73 to lead Jan. 13 discussion of his new book, First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life (more)

2002

• Justice Anthony M. Kennedy offers Duke Law students, faculty insight into workings of U.S. Supreme Court (more)
• Two Duke Law alumni argue first amendment case before U.S. Supreme Court (more)
• Law School Helps Students, Families Endure Ice Storm (more)
• Erwin Chemerinsky, visiting professor, speaks as part of the "Faculty Lives in Public Service" lecture series (more)
• Panel including Raymond Price, Philip Lacovara, Ole Holsti and Edward Nixon discusses legacy of Richard M. Nixon (L '37) (more)
• Harvard Law’s Janet Halley Speaks at 36th Annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture (more)
• Duke Law honored 92 students on Nov. 5 at Public Interest Summer Employment Recognition Day, highlighting their public sector work last summer (more)
• Jeff Powell awarded 2002 University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award (more)
• Panel to discuss legacy of Richard M. Nixon (L'37), November 14, 2002 (more)
• Janet Halley to give Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture November 7, 2002 (more)
• Distinguished Lecture by Ambassador James Joseph, Cultural Extravaganza and Food Fiesta Highlight International Week October 27 - November 2 (more)
• Julius Chambers, noted civil rights litigator and educator, discusses his life's work as part of Program in Public Law series (more)
• Duke Law and Roscoe Pound Institute Symposium Examined Consumer Arbitration (more)
• SEC's Harvey Pitt Offers Steps to Restore Market Integrity in Speech Sponsored by Duke Global Capital Markets Center ( more)
• Global Capital Markets Center to Launch Directors’ Education Institute at Duke - October 21-23 (more)
• More than 150 of Duke Law School's alumni volunteer leaders convened at the School Oct. 11-12 for Leadership Weekend (more)
• More than 30 Duke Law students take a 24-hour break from job interviews and studying on the weekend of Oct. 4-5 to participate in the inaugural Student Leadership Retreat for organization leaders (more)
• The Duke Law Private Adjudication Center Co-Sponsors Symposium on Mandatory Arbitration - October 4-5 (more)
• Students gain first-hand experience with the criminal justice system through The Innocence Project, examining evidence of the innocent being convicted and jailed, particularly in capital cases (more)
• Faculty members, students, researchers, government officials, and members of the biotech community partake in symposium on the Commercialization of Human Genomics: Consequences for Science and Humanity (more)
• Duke Law founds first ever university center to study public domain and the intellectual "commons" (more)
• Duke Law Professors Speak on September 11 Legal Issues (more)
• Professor Dr. Hein D. Kötz delivers inaugural Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture in International and Comparative Law (more)
• First year curriculum includes innovative multi-media Contracts course delivered via DVD-ROM (more)
• Christopher Schroeder, Charles S. Murphy professor of law and professor of public policy, comments on the biggest reorganization of government since the days of FDR, and on the tension between individual liberty and security, in the July-August issue of Duke Magazine. (more)