United States District Judge Esther Salas was awarded the 2024 Raphael Lemkin Rule of Law Guardian Medal at an event held at Duke Law School to recognize her heroic efforts to strengthen security for judges and their families.

Arthur Adler is the LLM Class Speaker for the Duke Law 2022 Convocation Ceremony. Adler earned his law degree from Université Paris II Panthéon-Sorbonne. Before law school, he studied economics at University College London. At Duke, he worked on the Duke Law Afghan Asylum Project and served as a staff editor on the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. After graduation, Adler is joining the New York office of a large corporate law firm.

Tranae Felicien is the JD Class Speaker for the Duke Law 2022 Convocation Ceremony. Felicien is a native of Castries, Saint Lucia, who was raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. She graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a minor in sociology. At Duke, she has served as president of the Black Law Students Association, executive editor for the Duke Law Journal, and a member of the Moot Court Board and the Law School’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. After graduation, she will work for WilmerHale in Washington, D.C.

Please join us as Barton Beebe, the John M. Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law at New York University, delivers the 2022 David L. Lange Lecture on Intellectual Property. Professor Beebe is a co-director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU and the author of Trademark Law: An Open-Source Casebook, a free digital trademark law textbook now in use in 70 law schools around the world.

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Recorded on March 31, 2022.