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Join our distinguished panel of experts for a discussion celebrating the 100th anniversary of The American Law Institute. ALI's mission is to clarify, modernize, and improve the law via scholarly publications and projects. Featuring: David F. Levi (Dean Emeritus, Duke Law) ALI President, Andrew Gold (Professor, Brooklyn Law; Duke JD'98) co-editor of The American Law Institute: A Centennial History, Deborah A. DeMott (Professor, Duke Law) Reporter, Restatement (Third) of Agency, Brandon L. Garrett (Professor, Duke Law) Associate Reporter, Principles of the Law, Policing.

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean and the Goodson Law Library.

Duke Law is made possible by each one of us joining together to support the current students, faculty and staff and to continue to provide one of the best legal educations in the country. When we come together, we truly have Strength in Numbers. https://law.duke.edu/alumni/dukestrong/

A JD/LLM student in the International and Comparative Law Program at Duke Law, Cassie Shapiro talks about what attracted her to the program, courses that impacted and informed her interests in international law, and her advice for students with similar career aspirations.

To learn more, visit https://law.duke.edu/apply/degreeprograms/jdllm/

Novel Justice is a book event series sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. We invite authors to discuss recently published criminal justice books and to engage in Q&A with faculty and students. Jeffrey Bellin is the Cabell Research Professor and Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Professor of Law at William and Mary Law School. His latest book, Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover, offers a novel, in-the-trenches perspective to explain the factors - historical, political, and institutional - that led to the current system of mass imprisonment in the United States. The book examines the causes and impacts of mass incarceration on both the political and criminal justice systems. Join us for a conversation and Q&A with Bellin about his work. Professor Brandon Garrett, Faculty Director of the Wilson Center, will moderate. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice, the Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility and Duke Law ACLU.

Please join us as Rebecca Tushnet, the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Law School, delivers the 2023 David L. Lange Lecture in Intellectual Property. After clerking for Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the Third Circuit and Associate Justice David H. Souter on the Supreme Court, Professor Tushnet practiced intellectual property law at Debevoise & Plimpton before beginning teaching. Her publications include "Worth a Thousand Words: The Images of Copyright Law" (Harvard L. Rev. 2012); "Gone in 60 Milliseconds: Trademark Law and Cognitive Science" (Texas L. Rev. 2008); and "Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It" (Yale L.J. 2004). Her work currently focuses on copyright, trademark and false advertising law. Her blog, at tushnet.blogspot.com, has been on the ABA's Blawg 100 list of top legal blogs for the past three years. Arti Rai introduces the speaker.

Our fifth and final #womenshistorymonth video packs a very special ending for 3L Amanda Joss! Here, she celebrates two of her mentors at Duke Law—Associate Dean Liz Gustafson and Professor Marilyn Forbes—for their achievements and how they inspire her as a person and an aspiring trial lawyer, and then gets a surprise visit!

Join Taylor Grant '25 for a fun a look inside of Duke Law School, with visits to the Duke Law Library, the Moot Courtroom, classrooms, and social areas.

For more information on Duke Law, please visit http://law.duke.edu.

The Center for International and Comparative Law welcomes Paul B. Stephan, the John C. Jeffries, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, to discuss his new book, "The World Crisis and International Law: The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future." The speaker is introduced by Rachel Brewster.

This year, Women's History Month is "celebrating women who tell our stories." Recognizing this theme, Duke Law faculty and students are sharing about the women in the law who are telling their stories in this weekly video series throughout the month of March.

Here, 3L Gaby Feliciani, whose activities at Duke Law include the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy, Women Law Students Association, Health Justice Clinic, and Health Care Planning Project, shares about Maryland State Delegate Robbyn Lewis inspires her work as an aspiring lawyer.

Join us for a discussion on policing and gun violence featuring Sanford Professor Emeritus Philip J. Cook and Durham Chief of Police Patrice Andrews. The discussion will cover Professor Cook's new book, Policing Gun Violence, as well as a detailed report that Professor Cook produced - at the invitation of Chief Andrews - regarding fatal and non-fatal shootings in Durham. Questions raised include: How can police departments find the right balance between over- and under-policing of high-violence areas? What are the best practices for police to preempt and deter gun violence while engendering support and cooperation from the public? The event is sponsored by the Duke Center for Firearms Law and the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. It is moderated by Joseph Blocher.

Students enjoyed a visit from the fluffy, four-legged, and friendly puppies from the Duke Canine Cognition Center today!

Novel Justice is a book event series sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. We invite authors to discuss recently published criminal justice books and engage in Q&A with faculty and students. Nicholas Dawidoff is the critically acclaimed author of five books, including The Catcher Was a Spy and In the Country of a Country. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and has also been a Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, and Art for Justice Fellow. Dawidoff's latest book, The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City, is a landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. Join us for a conversation and Q&A with Dawidoff about his work. Professor Brandon Garrett, Faculty Director of the Wilson Center, will moderate. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice and Duke Law Center for Criminal Justice & Professional Responsibility.

This year, Women's History Month is "celebrating women who tell our stories." Recognizing this theme, Duke Law faculty and students are sharing about the women in the law who are telling their stories in this weekly video series throughout the month of March.

Here, Duke Law Clinical Professor Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, supervising attorney for the International Human Rights Clinic at Duke Law, shares how she is inspired by the bravery and tenacity of Mitsuye Endo, the chief plaintiff in the landmark 1944 U.S. Supreme Court ex parte decision. The Court's ruling led to the reopening of the West Coast to Japanese Americans after their incarceration in camps across the U.S. interior during World War II.

Melissa Murray, the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, gives the annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture. Murray, who is also the faculty director for the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network at NYU Law, is a leading expert in family law, constitutional law, and reproductive rights and justice. Her award-winning research focuses on the legal regulation of intimate life and encompasses such topics as the regulation of sex and sexuality, marriage and its alternatives, the marriage equality debate, the legal recognition of caregiving, and reproductive rights and justice. Her publications have appeared in the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, among others. She is an author of Cases on Reproductive Rights and Justice, the first casebook to cover the field of reproductive rights and justice, and a co-editor of Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories. Prior to joining the NYU faculty, Murray was on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she was the recipient of the Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction. From March 2016 to June 2017, she served as interim dean of the Berkeley Law.

This year, Women's History Month is "celebrating women who tell our stories." Recognizing this theme, Duke Law faculty and students are sharing about the women in the law who are telling their stories in this weekly video series throughout the month of March. Here, Duke Law 3L Leandra Kede Yomo speaks about how Alice Nkom, the first female lawyer in Cameroon and an advocate for decriminalizing homosexuality in the Central African country, is inspiring her work as a law student.

In keeping with this year's theme for Women's History Month, Duke Law faculty and students are "celebrating women who tell our stories" in a series of month-long videos honoring women in the law who are telling their stories. The first is by 2L Katie Fink who speaks about how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg inspires her as an aspiring law student.

Avishalom Tor (Notre Dame Law School), Gabriel Scheffler (University of Miami School of Law), Daniel Walters (Texas A&M Law School), panelists. Moderated by Matthew Adler (Duke Law)

Session 1

Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School), Stephanie Bornstein (University of Florida Levin College of Law), Jed Stiglitz (Cornell Law School), panelists. Moderated by Stuart Benjamin (Duke Law).

Jeffrey Rachlinski (Cornell Law School), Emily Murphy (UC Hastings Law School), panelists. Moderated by Arti Rai (Duke Law).

Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School). Introduced by Stuart Benjamin (Duke Law).

Members of the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ), the 2023 recipient of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law, discuss their efforts to coordinate an emergency evacuation of women judges in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover in 2021. The panel includes Justice Susan Glazebrook of the New Zealand Supreme Court, Justice Mona Lynch of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, Judge Vanessa Ruiz of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Judge Patricia Whalen of the Vermont State Court, and Judge Robyn Tupman of the District Court of New South Wales. The discussion is moderated by Dean Kerry Abrams. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law.

In keeping with this year's theme for Women's History Month, Duke Law faculty and students are "celebrating women who tell our stories" in a series of month-long videos honoring women in the law who are telling their stories. The first is by 2L Katie Fink who speaks about how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg inspires her as an aspiring law student.

The Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law presented the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) with the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law at a ceremony hosted at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art on March 1, 2023. The IAWJ was honored for their remarkable efforts to help evacuate, support, and resettle Afghan women judges after the Taliban retook control of the country in 2021.

FEATURING REMARKS BY:

• Kerry Abrams, James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke Dean of Duke Law School,
Distinguished Professor of Law
• Hon. Paul M. Newby, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina
• Hon. David F. Levi, Director Emeritus, Bolch Judicial Institute, President, American Law
Institute
• Hon. Allyson K. Duncan, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (retired),
Regional Vice President, International Association of Judges
• Judge Sosan Bakhshi, A Former Judge of Afghanistan
• Hon. Paul W. Grimm, Director, Bolch Judicial Institute, Judge, U.S. District Court for the
District of Maryland (Retired)
• Dame Susan Glazebrook, Justice, Supreme Court of New Zealand, President,
International Association of Women Judges
• Susan Bass Bolch, Founder, Bolch Judicial Institute

ABOUT THE PRIZE:

The Carl and Susan Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law is awarded annually to an individual
or organization who has demonstrated extraordinary dedication to the rule of law and
advancing rule of law principles around the world. By honoring those who do this work,
the Bolch Prize draws attention to the ideals of justice and judicial independence and to
the constitutional structures and safeguards that undergird a free society. To learn
more, visit https://judicialstudies.duke.edu/.

Since 1995 the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) has hosted an annual national security law conference in Durham, N.C. The conference promotes education and discussion of the complex and diverse issues involved in national security, such as the legal and policy implications of counterterrorism operations at home and abroad, the international law of armed conflict, the impact of security issues on international business endeavors, and the ethical issues of the practice of national security law.

8:50 am, Saturday, Feb.25
Speaker: Prof. Adam Oler, Col., USAF (Ret.), National Defense University

Since 1995 the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) has hosted an annual national security law conference in Durham, N.C. The conference promotes education and discussion of the complex and diverse issues involved in national security, such as the legal and policy implications of counterterrorism operations at home and abroad, the international law of armed conflict, the impact of security issues on international business endeavors, and the ethical issues of the practice of national security law.

11:55 am, Saturday, Feb. 25
Speaker: Lt. Col. Timothy M. Goines, Senior Military Faculty and Assistant Professor of Law, United States Air Force Academy

Since 1995 the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) has hosted an annual national security law conference in Durham, N.C. The conference promotes education and discussion of the complex and diverse issues involved in national security, such as the legal and policy implications of counterterrorism operations at home and abroad, the international law of armed conflict, the impact of security issues on international business endeavors, and the ethical issues of the practice of national security law.

11:00 am, Saturday, Feb. 25
Speaker: Prof. Arti Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law and Faculty Director, The Center for Innovation Policy, Duke Law

Since 1995 the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) has hosted an annual national security law conference in Durham, N.C. The conference promotes education and discussion of the complex and diverse issues involved in national security, such as the legal and policy implications of counterterrorism operations at home and abroad, the international law of armed conflict, the impact of security issues on international business endeavors, and the ethical issues of the practice of national security law.

7:50 am, Saturday, Feb. 25
Introduction: Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, USAF (Ret.), LENS Executive Director
Speaker: Lt. Gen. David Deptula, USAF (Ret.), Dean, Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

Since 1995 the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) has hosted an annual national security law conference in Durham, N.C. The conference promotes education and discussion of the complex and diverse issues involved in national security, such as the legal and policy implications of counterterrorism operations at home and abroad, the international law of armed conflict, the impact of security issues on international business endeavors, and the ethical issues of the practice of national security law.

8:05 am, Friday, Feb. 24
Introduction: Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, USAF (Ret.), LENS Executive Director
Speaker: Prof. Nita A. Farahany, Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law, Duke Law School

Since 1995 the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) has hosted an annual national security law conference in Durham, N.C. The conference promotes education and discussion of the complex and diverse issues involved in national security, such as the legal and policy implications of counterterrorism operations at home and abroad, the international law of armed conflict, the impact of security issues on international business endeavors, and the ethical issues of the practice of national security law.

9:20 am, Friday, Feb. 24
Moderator: Col. David E. Graham, USA (Ret.), Senior Fellow, Center on National Security, Georgetown Law
Panelists:
Prof. Geoffrey S. Corn, George R. Killam Jr. Chair of Criminal Law and Director of the Center for Military Law and Policy, Texas Tech University School of Law
Prof. Laurie Blank, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law
Prof. Robert Lawless, Assistant Professor in the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy, West Point

Since 1995 the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) has hosted an annual national security law conference in Durham, N.C. The conference promotes education and discussion of the complex and diverse issues involved in national security, such as the legal and policy implications of counterterrorism operations at home and abroad, the international law of armed conflict, the impact of security issues on international business endeavors, and the ethical issues of the practice of national security law.

12:30 pm, Thursday, Feb.23
Moderator: Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, USAF (Ret.), LENS Executive Director
Panelists:
RADM Melissa Bert, Judge Advocate General, U.S. Coast Guard
Mr. Phillip Carter, Senior Director, Public Sector Legal, Salesforce
Ms. Michele Pearce, Of Counsel, Covington & Burling
Ms. Genelle Francis, Assistant General Counsel, Federal Bureau of Investigation

The finalists will moot Peltier v. Charter Day School, Inc., 37 F.4th 104 (4th Cir. 2022) (en banc) in the 2022-2023 Dean's Cup Final Round. Katherine Thomas (representing the petitioner, Charter Day School) and Caroline Tervo (representing the respondent, Peltier) will argue in front of the panel: Judge Guy Cole (6th Cir.), Judge Robin Rosenbaum (11th Cir.), and Judge Justin Walker (DC Cir.).

Co-sponsored by the Duke Law Moot Court Board and the Office of the Dean.

For more information about the event read the storry at: https://law.duke.edu/news/caroline-tervo-24-prevails-deans-cup-final-ro…

As part of the Human Rights in Practice series, join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program featuring Katharine G. Young, Associate Dean of Faculty and Global Programs, Professor, and Dean's Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School, who will be discussing her piece on "Human Rights Originalism." Moderated by Jayne Huckerby, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Duke Law. Co-sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union, American Constitution Society, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Human Rights Law Society, and International Law Society.

A celebration held on February 20, 2023 at Duke Law School for Professor H. Jefferson Powell's recent book, The Practice of American Constitutional Law (e-book available at https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE010495796). The new title explores the "Constitution-in-practice, the set of legal rules and principles that lawyers and judges have created in the course of trying to apply the written Constitution to the real world of legal and political conflict." James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, moderated the discussion.

As part of the Human Rights in Practice series, join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program featuring Catherine Addo, Founder, Racial Equity Impact Practice & Senior Strategy Director, Purpose; Richard Gaines, Global Advocacy team, Wikimedia Foundation; and Genevieve Sauberli, Human Rights Officer, OHCHR Migration Team. Speakers will discuss messaging for social change. Co-sponsored by APALSA, BLSA, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Human Rights Law Society, Duke Immigrant and Refugee Project, International Law Society, LALSA, MENALSA, NALSA, SALSA, and WoCC. Moderated by Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Clinical Professor of Law (Teaching) and Supervising Attorney, International Human Rights Clinic, Duke Law.

Novel Justice is a book event series sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. We invite authors to discuss recently published criminal justice books and engage in Q&A with faculty and students. Christopher Slobogin is the Milton Underwood Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School and the director of Vanderbilt Law School’s Criminal Justice Program. His book, Virtual Searches: Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing, develops a useful typology for sorting through the bewildering array of old, new, and soon-to-arrive policing techniques. It then lays out a framework for regulating their use that expands the Fourth Amendment’s privacy protections without blindly imposing its warrant requirement, and that prioritizes democratic over judicial policymaking. Join us for a conversation and Q&A with Slobogin about his work. Professor Brandon Garrett, Director of the Wilson Center, will moderate.

Our Data Privacy Day 2023 event, “Privacy in a Post-Dobbs Landscape: Health Data, Technology, Law & Policy,” will explore issues raised by the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. In our first panel discussion, we will consider reproductive health data, the limited nature of HIPAA and the privacy implications of interoperability mandates; the increasingly important role played by telemedicine and medication abortion for privacy and reproductive health; and the rise of self-managed abortion, criminalization and the associated surveillance of women. Included are opening comments by Jolynn Dellinger (Duke Law) and David Hoffman (Duke Law). The panelists are Carly Zubrzycki (University of Connecticut), Rachel Rebouché (Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law), Stephanie Pell (Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution).

Sponsored by: The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, Duke Law, Sanford School of Public Policy and Duke Science & Society.

Our Data Privacy Day 2023 event, “Privacy in a Post-Dobbs Landscape: Health Data, Technology, Law & Policy,” will explore issues raised by the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. In our second panel, partners from three of the country’s leading law firms will discuss the multi-faceted ways in which laws passed in the aftermath of Dobbs are affecting the interests of a broad spectrum of clients and the ways data privacy issues arise in and affect their post-Dobbs practice of law. The panelists are Colleen Theresa Brown (Sidley Law Firm), Beth Brinkmann (Covington & Burling), and Chris Hart (Foley Hoag).

Sponsored by: The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, Duke Law, Sanford School of Public Policy and Duke Science & Society.

This open coursebook is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulæ—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights. It focuses on the three main forms of US federal intellectual property—trademark, copyright and patent—but many of the ideas discussed here apply far beyond those legal areas and far beyond the law of the United States. The book is intended to be a textbook for the basic Intellectual Property class, but because it is an open coursebook, which can be freely edited, copied and shared, it is also suitable for undergraduate classes, or for a business, library studies, communications or other graduate school class. A free downloadable version can be found at the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain website at: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/openip/

Featuring Rachel Chambers, Assistant Professor, Business Law, University of Connecticut, UConn Business and Human Rights Initiative, co-author of "Human Rights Disclosure and Due Diligence Laws: The Role of Regulatory Oversight in Ensuring Corporate Accountability" (2021), and Terry Collingsworth (JD '82), Executive Director of International Rights Advocates, who will be discussing business and human rights. Moderated by Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Clinical Professor of Law (Teaching) and Supervising Attorney, International Human Rights Clinic at Duke Law.

Novel Justice is a book event series sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. We invite authors to discuss recently published criminal justice books and to engage in Q&A with faculty and students. Daniel Medwed is a University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University School of Law. His book, Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison, explores the range of procedural barriers that so often prevent innocent prisoners from obtaining exoneration.

Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.