The Program in Public Law presents its annual Supreme Court Review. Duke Law professors Lisa Kern Griffin, Katharine T. Bartlett and Ernest A. Young review the most significant decisions of the 2013-14 term of the U.S. Supreme Court, while Professor Darrell A.H. Miller moderates. Cases discussed include Hobby Lobby, Riley v. California, and Bond v. U.S.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discusses the most recent Supreme Court term with Duke Law Professor Neil Siegel before an audience of alumni and students from Duke Law's DC Summer Institute.

The Program in Public Law presented its annual Supreme Court Review (Civil) on August 29, 2013. Duke Law Professors Neil Siegel, Darrell Miller, Ernest Young and Katharine Bartlett discussed the most significant civil decisions of the past term of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture: Duke Law School welcomes Akhil Reed Amar as the 2013 Currie Memorial Lecture speaker. Amar, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, will explain his preferred version of the so-called "nuclear option" by which a simple Senate majority may modify or eliminate the Senate's entrenched filibuster practice in his lecture titled: "Lex Majoris Partis: How the Senate Can End the Filibuster on any Day by Simple Majority Rule."

Fisher and the Future of Affirmative Action. Oral arguments are in the books and the Supreme Court's decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin is only months away. How will the court decide? Will it be a narrow ruling? What could this mean for the future of race-conscious admissions policies? The American Constitution Society and Duke Law ACLU invite you to join Professor Neil Siegel and Professor Guy Charles, founding director of the Duke Law Center on Law, Race, and Politics, for a discussion of these questions and the Court's affirmative action doctrine generally.

The Program in Public Law presents its annual Supreme Court Review (Criminal). Duke Law professors Neil Siegel, Sam Buell, Jim Coleman, Nita Farahany, and Lisa Griffin review the most significant decisions of the past term of the U.S. Supreme Court, focusing on criminal cases.

Duke Law professors discuss and review the most significant decisions of the 2011 term of the U.S. Supreme Court, focusing on civil cases. Margaret H. Lemos looks at the statistics from the term. Ernest A. Young examines two cases: Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC and Arizona v. U.S. Katharine T. Bartlett reviews Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals. Lastly, Joseph Blocher looks at the free speech decisions of the Court for the term. Sponsored by the Program in Public Law.

Duke Law professors Neil Siegel, Sara Beale, Sam Buell, Jim Coleman and Lisa Griffin review the most significant decisions of the past term of the U.S. Supreme Court (2010 Term), focusing on criminal cases.

Duke Law Professors Neil Siegel, Stuart Benjamin, Joseph Blocher, Marin Levy, and Ernest Young discuss the most significant decisions of the past term of the U.S. Supreme Court (2010 term), focusing on civil cases.

Sri Srinivasan is a partner in the Washington, DC, office of O'Melveny and Myers LLP, where he focuses on appellate and complex litigation. He has argued 17 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including five cases in the past two terms. Notable cases include Hertz Corp. v. Friend, Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, and Skilling v. U.S.

A leading authority on Supreme Court practice and nationally recognized expert on criminal procedure, Professor Fisher will talk about marshaling originalism and related interpretive methodologies in order to persuade conservative judges to protect the rights of criminal defendants. More generally, he will also discuss how the United States Supreme Court might change now with its two new justices. Sponsored by the Program in Public Law. Introduction by Michael Dreeben.

Recorded on October 19, 2010.

Duke Law professors Neil Siegel, Stuart Benjamin, Guy-Uriel Charles, and Lisa Kern Griffin discussed some of the most important Supreme Court decisions from the October 2008 Term.

Recorded on September 24, 2009.

Randy Barnett, professor of legal theory at Georgetown Law, speaks on Lochner and the 14th Amendment.

Sponsored by the Federalist Society.

David Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law from the University of Chicago School of Law, launched a semester-long lunchtime lecture series on key legal and constitutional policy issues arising during the Bush administration. Sponsored by the Program in Public Law.

Originally recorded on September 10, 2008.

Join Judge Sentelle, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, for an engaging discussion of extraordinary rendition in the War on Terror.

Co-sponsored by the Federalist Society and the Program in Public Law.

Recorded on March 28, 2008.

Lecture titled: Bring 'Em Back Alive: Extraordinary Rendition in the War on Terror.

Appearing: Scott Silliman (Duke University School of Law), introduer; David Sentelle (U.S. Court of Appeals), speaker.

The Brown Discussion features Historian John Hope Franklin, Judge Louis Pollak, Professor Jack Greenberg, Professor Guy-Uriel Charles, and is moderated by Professors Neil Siegel and Charles Clotfelter. They discuss what it took to enact the decision, how it has impacted education in the United States, and what the future holds for the landmark decision.

Recorded on March 27, 2008.

Panel titled: Brown vs. Board of Education: Past, Present & Future.

Appearing: Speakers: John Hope Franklin, Louis Pollak, Jack Greenberg, and Guy-Uriel Charles.

Prof. Pam Karlan of Stanford Law School presents the annual Currie Lecture. One of the nation's leading experts on voting and the political process, Karlan is the co-author of three leading casebooks on constitutional law and related subjects. She has served as a commissioner on the California Fair Political Practices Commission and as an assistant counsel and cooperating attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. A former clerk to Justice Harry A.

The Program in Public Law presents The Fourteenth Amendment: The Framing of America's Second Constitution with Professor Garrett Epps, the Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. His book, "Democracy reborn : the Fourteenth Amendment and the fight for equal rights in post-Civil War America," is the basis for today's talk.

Recorded on February 14, 2008.

Full title: The Fourteenth Amendment: The Framing of America's Second Constitution.

The Honorable Diane P. Wood, Federal Court of Appeals Judge, 7th Circuit, speaks on the subject of the role of international law in the U.S. federal courts.

Recorded on November 05, 2007.

Appearing: Ralf Michaels, host/introductions ; Diane P. Wood (7th Cir.), speaker.

Stare decisis, in Latin literally "Let the decision stand," is the doctrine by which courts adhere to previously decided cases or precedents. Professors Paulsen and Gerhardt will debate this provocative topic, with Professor Paulsen specifically arguing that "the doctrine of stare decisis is ... unconstitutional and dis-serves all of the rule-of-law values it is alleged to advance."

Recorded on October 25, 2007.

Appearing: Curtis Bradley, moderator ; Michael Paulsen (University of St. Thomas School of Law), panelist ; Michael Gerhardt (UNC-CH School of Law), panelist.

Discussion of important cases that the Supreme Court will hear in the upcoming term, including the Guantanamo cases and Medellin, as well as some significant employment discrimination, election, and criminal procedure cases.

Recorded on October 01, 2007.

Appearing: Neil Siegel (Duke Law), introductions/panelist ; Curtis Bradley (Duke Law), panelist ; Catherine Fisk (Duke Law), panelist ; James Coleman (Duke Law), panelist.

Professor Walter Dellinger delivers Duke University's Constitution Day address.

Recorded on September 17, 2007.

Appearing: Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke University School of Law), introducer; Walter Dellinger (Duke University School of Law), speaker.

Professor Reva B. Siegel (Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law and Professor of American Studies at Yale University), delivers the 40th Annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture. Her lecture is entitled "The Right's Reasons: Constitutional Conflict and the Spread of Woman-Protected Anti-Abortion Argument."

Appearing: Reva B. Siegel (Yale Law School), speaker; Neil Siegel (Duke Law School), introductions.

Originally recorded on March 1, 2007.

Duke Law professors and constitutional law scholars Erwin Chemerinsky, Neil Siegel, Robert Mosteller, and Christopher Schroeder discuss current issues of the US Supreme Court.

Recorded on August 28, 2006.

Panel titled: Supreme Court Preview What to Anticipate in the Upcoming Term.

Appearing: Christopher H. Schroeder (Duke Law), moderator ; Neil S. Siegel (Duke Law), panelist ; Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke Law), panelist ; Robert P. Mosteller (Duke Law), panelist.

Professor Thomas Metzloff presents his latest documentary on Van Orden v. Perry, a landmark Supreme Court case that tested the limits of church and state. Through interviews with the people involved, including Van Orden, Duke Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky (who argued Van Orden's case before the Court), and Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz, the video explores the factual and legal underpinnings of the case, its path to the U.S. Supreme Court, and its effects on the people involved.