Videos tagged with Constitutional Law

  • The Program in Public Law presents Constitution Day: The Constitution and the War on Terror, a panel discussion.

    Recorded on September 18, 2006.

    Full title: Constitution Day: The Constitution & the War on Terror.

    Appearing: Chris Schroeder (Duke University School of Law), Jeff Powell (Duke University School of Law), Scott Silliman (Duke University School of Law), panelists.

  • Duke Law professors and constitutional law scholars Erwin Chemerinsky and Neil Siegel discuss current issues of the US Supreme Court.

    Recorded on April 22, 2006.

    Panel titled: The Supreme Court in Transition.

    Appearing: Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke University School of Law) and Neil Siegel (Duke University School of Law), panelists.

  • Recorded on September 08, 2005.

    Panel titled: The Legacy of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.

    Appearing: Chris Schroeder (Duke University School of Law), moderator; Jeff Powell (Duke University School of Law), Tom Rowe (Duke University School of Law), Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke University School of Law), Laura Underkuffler (Duke University School of Law), Neil Siegel (Duke University School of Law), panelists.

  • The Program in Public Law presents its Annual Supreme Court Preview. Duke Law professors Erwin Chemerinsky and Neil Siegel offer a preview of the Supreme Court's October 2015 term.

    Recorded on September 27, 2004.

    Full title: Preview of the Upcoming Supreme Court Term: Professors Erwin Chemerinsky & Neil Siegel.

    Appearing: Christopher H. Schroeder (Duke Law School), moderator ; Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke Law School), Neil Siegel (Duke Law School), panelists.

  • August 30, 2010 - Professor Neil Siegel moderated this panel discussion on Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Panelists include Professors Ernest Young and Barak Richman (Duke Law School), Professor Jeffrey Dobbins (Willamette University College of Law), and Professor Andrew Siegel (Seattle University School of Law). Panelists discuss Justice Stevens's long career, the legacy he leaves, and how his retirement and Elena Kagan's ascension to the bench is likely to affect the Court.

  • November 17, 2009 - David Golove, Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, presents "The Case for Incorporating Global Justice in the U.S. Constitution" the second lecture in "The New History of International Law" series. Sponsored by the Law & History Society, the International Law Society, the International Human Rights Law Society, and the Center for International & Comparative Law.

  • Lives in the Law with Justice Samuel Alito

  • October 3, 2011 - The Program in Public Law presents its annual Supreme Court Preview. Duke Law professors Neil Siegel, Kate Bartlett, Curt Bradley, Stephen Sachs, and student Emily May ('13) discuss some of the most important Supreme Court cases of the upcoming term.

  • Chris Wolf, partner at Hogan and Lovells in Washington, D.C., and author of the book "Viral Hate: Containing Its Spread on the Internet," discusses online hate speech at an event sponsored by Duke Law's Program in Public Law.

  • Adam Liptak, U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, and Neil Lewis, former correspondent for The New York Times and Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School, will discuss the challenges and responsibilities of covering the Court.

  • February 21, 2011 - Marc E. Elias, Partner at Perkins Coie LLP and Duke Law School Alumnus will give a lecture on "Recounts and Post Election Legal Disputes Ten Years After Bush v. Gore."

  • Professor Neil Siegel moderated this Supreme Court Review panel. Duke Law Professors Paul Haagen, James Cox, Guy Charles, and Katharine Bartlett discuss the most significant decisions of the past term of the U.S. Supreme Court, focusing on civil cases.

  • A panel featuring Barbara R. Arnwine L'76, Karen Bethea-Shields (formerly Karen Galloway) L'74, Paul A. Brathwaite G'93, L'96, and Hezekiah Sistrunk, Jr, L'82 discussed the evolution of civil rights and the law from a personal and legal perspective during an event presented by the Black Law Students Association at Duke Law School.

  • February 17, 2010 - The Program in Public Law presents a discussion on the recent Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC.

  • September 21, 2010 - Panelists discuss the recently decided Supreme Court case, McDonald v. City of Chicago

  • February 23, 2009 - Professor Jeffrey Fisher will talk about his work on Exxon v. Baker, a case that grew out of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, one of the most devastating environmental disasters in U.S. history, and the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent opinion for punitive damages law. Fisher will discuss some of the challenges of litigating a case concerning an event that occurred almost 20 years ago and 4,000 miles away against the world's most profitable corporation. Before the Ninth Circuit and U.S.

  • Justice Breyer talks with Dean David F. Levi and Professor Walter E. Dellinger III about his distinguished legal career, influences, and philosophy. Prior to taking his seat on the Supreme Court on Aug. 3, 1994, he served on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and as its chief judge from 1990 to 1994. He also has served as a member of the United States Sentencing Commission and the Judicial Conference of the United States, as a special assistant to the assistant U.S.

  • Collective Action Federalism: A General Theory of Article I, Section 8
    by Robert D. Cooter, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
    and Neil Siegel, Duke University School of Law
    Stanford Law Review, Vol. 63, p. 115, 2010

    Read the article at scholarship.law.duke.edu

  • October 6, 2009 - Duke Law Professors Neil Siegel, Ernest Young, James Coleman, and Samuel Buell discussed important cases that the Supreme Court will hear in the upcoming term.

  • September 13, 2010 - Duke Law professors Neil Siegel, Sara Beale, Sam Buell, and Lisa Griffin review the most significant decisions of the past term of the U.S. Supreme Court, focusing on criminal cases.

  • Prof. Deborah DeMott discusses her amica brief in Maples v. Thomas, argued before the Supreme Court on Oct. 4.

  • Duke Law Professors Neil Siegel, Samuel Buell, Lisa Griffin, and James Coleman discuss the most significant criminal decisions of the 2013 term of the U.S. Supreme Court. Presented by Duke's Program in Public Law.

  • Panelists discuss the upcoming Supreme Court case, Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. The case raises important questions at the intersection of the freedom of association, antidiscrimination law, and public forums. At issue is whether the First Amendment permits Hastings Law School to deny official recognition to a student chapter of the Christian Legal Society because the chapter limited its membership to Christians who agreed to its moral conduct code (which included a restriction against homosexual conduct).

  • October 4, 2010 - Panelists discuss some of the most important Supreme Court cases of the upcoming term.