Professor Curtis Bradley, currently teaching at Chicago Law, is a scholar of foreign relations law, international law, and constitutional law, and he was previously on the Duke Law faculty for many years. He will discuss his latest book, Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice (Harvard University Press, 2024). His talk will focus on how the foreign affairs powers of Congress and the President have often stemmed from historical practice rather than the text of the Constitution or judicial decisions.

Join Professor Marin Levy for a celebration of her forthcoming book, Written and Unwritten: The Rules, Internal Procedures, and Customs of the United States Courts of Appeals (publisher description at https://duke.is/v/dmzq. The new title, co-authored with Judge Jon O. Newman of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, is the first to offer an inside look at the operations of the thirteen U.S. Courts of Appeals through in-depth interviews and surveys with Chief Judges and Clerks of Court about their practices and customs.

Join us for a panel discussion on community-based solutions to gun violence, including those based in violence intervention, diversion programs, and restorative justice. Panelists from Durham and across the country will discuss their on-the-ground experience and expertise using non-carceral approaches. The event is sponsored by the Duke Center for Firearms Law and the Wilson Center for Science and Justice

Get to know what makes Duke Law’s Master of Laws (LLM) program so special! Gilberto Ortega LLM '24 shares insights into the reasons he chose to pursue his LLM degree at Duke Law. He speaks about his time during Summer Institute on Law, Language, & Culture (SILLC), his favrotie things about Durham, his fellow classmates, and the impact that being apart of various student organizations had on him.

Learn more about the LLM program at Duke Law at https://law.duke.edu/internat/llm/

Quincy Amerson, a client of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic at Duke Law, was released from prison on March 13 this year, after spending more than 20 years behind bars. He was convicted of first-degree murder in 2001 and sentenced to life without parole. After taking up Amerson's case, the clinic presented exculpatory evidence that led to a dismissal. A Superior Court judge found that Amerson was denied a fair trial due and exonerated him of the crime.

#wrongfulconviction #podcast #dukelaw

The Supreme Court has just decided three major cases that will profoundly shape First Amendment limits on governments' ability to regulate social media, and First Amendment law more generally - NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice (involving Texas and Florida laws restricting social media companies' content moderation) and Murthy v. Missouri (addressing who may challenge government communications that allegedly compel content moderation).

0:13:03 Last week, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of upholding a 1994 ban on persons with restraining orders having access to firearms. While the outcome in U.S. v. Rahimi wasn’t entirely unexpected, it did offer our first glimpse into how the conservative-majority Court would handle gun rights cases going forward.

#gunrights #supremecourt #gunlaws #secondamendment #podcast

Speakers:
- Duke Law Professor Joseph Blocher
- Duke Center for Firearms Law Co-founder Darrell A.H. Miller*
- Duke Center for Firearms Law Exec. Director Andrew Willinger

In the wake of a 2017 mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas, the Trump administration passed a regulation to ban bump stocks – a device that enables a semiautomatic rifle to fire rounds much like a machine gun. Last week, the conservative-majority Court struck down that ban, stating the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives overstepped its authority in classifying bump stocks as machine guns.

Leah Nicholls JD/LLM ’11, director of the Access to Justice Project at Public Justice, provides perspective on why she chose to pursue a career in public interest law, the resources she received while at Duke Law, her law school experience, her experience after graduation, and her advice to students pursuing public interest law.

Nicholls graduated from Duke University with a JD and an LLM degree in International and Comparative Law from Duke Law. She currently serves as a Consumer Fellow to the American Bar Association’s Consumer Financial Services Committee.

Sophia Tan JD/MA '19, a Clinical Law Fellow at Georgetown Law's Racial Equity in Education Law & Policy Clinic, offers insights into why she chose to pursue a career in public interest law, her road to law school, her law school experience, and her decision to start her public interest law career directly after law school.

Inclusive Juries Convening: Imagining A Post-Batson Future, hosted at Duke Law School on June 21, 2024.
Speakers: ACLU Atty Henderson Hill and CDPL Dir. Gretchen Engel
Forming an Inclusive Juries Network to:
Consider the Impact of Recent Jury Reform Experiments
Engage the Batson-Plus vs. Peremptory Strike Abolition Debate
Develop Strategies for Achieving Inclusive Jury Pools and
Improving the Collection and Transparency of Jury Data
Generate Strategies for Reigniting the Jury Reform Movement

Sponsored by the Inclusive Juries Project.

King County Sup. Court Judge Veronica Galván; Berkeley Law Professor Elisabeth Semel; Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Peter Swann (ret.); Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods

Duke Law alums welcome class of 2024 graduates the Law School's alumni network.

Cathrine Rohde Kjaergaard grew up in Denmark and earned her first law degree from Aar-
hus University. During her law studies in Denmark, she was an exchange student at South
Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas, and the first intern at the Royal Danish Consulate
General and Trade Council in Houston. She worked as an attorney in Copenhagen before
coming to Duke Law, where she earned her LLM degree as well as the Certificate in Busi-
ness Law. She plans to sit for the Texas bar.

Esosa Gloria Asemota was born in North Carolina to Nigerian parents Ogie and Love Ase-
mota. She was raised in the great state and went on to attend UNC-Chapel Hill, where she
graduated with a bachelor of science in public health in 2020. During her time at Duke,
she served as the internal vice president of the Black Law Students Association and the
social chair of the Duke Law Music Association. She was also a member of the Tricky Dick
comedy sketch club and the Dean’s Advisory Council. After graduation, she will work for

Convocation speaker Christopher H. Schroeder, a longtime faculty member who served in high-level positions at the Department of Justice, including leading the Office of Legal Counsel and its Office of Legal Policy, told the Class of 2024 on Saturday that his opportunities came from both luck and remaining focused on personal integrity and professional responsibilities.

“I absorbed that lesson from so many colleagues in government, including three outstanding attorneys general, but it is a lesson that is entirely transportable wherever your work takes you,” Schroeder said.

Christopher H. Schroeder, the Charles S. Murphy Professor Emeritus of Law and professor
emeritus of public policy, joined the Duke Law faculty in 1979. He retired from teaching
in 2020 and in October 2021 was appointed by President Joe Biden as assistant attorney
general for the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). On his retirement
from that position in July 2023, Schroeder was presented with the Edmund J. Randolph
Award, the department’s highest honor, by Attorney General Merrick Garland in recog-

Q&A with Jamie Lau, Clinical Professor, Duke Law Wrongful Convictions Clinic

Join Neil Siegel, David W. Ichel Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for Intellectual Life, for a celebration of his latest book, The Collective-Action Constitution (publisher description at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-collective-action-constitut…).

This year's featured speaker for the Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture is Professor Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. He specializes in constitutional studies with emphasis on power and ethics, design of innovative governance solutions, law and religion, and the history of legal ideas. His lecture is titled "History and Tradition? Anatomy of a Constitutional Revolution." The Currie Lecture began over 30 years ago to honor Professor Brainer Currie who was formerly on the Duke Law School faculty

Dean Kerry Abrams moderates a panel discussion with three of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s former law clerks: Duke Law Professors Lisa K. Griffin (clerked in 1997-98) and Matthew Adler (clerked in 1992-93) and Duke Law alumna Sarah Boyce ’12 (Deputy Attorney General & General Counsel, NC Department of Justice, clerked in 2015-16).

This conversation was hosted as part of celebrations at Duke University on April 8, 2024, honoring the life and legacy of Justice O’Connor, the 2024 recipient of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law.

Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was celebrated as the 2024
recipient of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law during a private ceremony held at Duke
University on April 4, 2024.

During the ceremony, John G. Roberts Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, delivers remarks
and a slideshow presentation honoring Justice O’Connor’s life and legacy (29:58) and Scott
O’Connor accepts the prize on behalf of his late mother (18:15).

The onset of the #BlackLivesMatter Era has opened scrutiny over what exactly should be police's goals and responsibilities in today's society. Can the police be trusted guardians of security and justice simultaneously? What are the pathways toward institutional change, whatever that may look like? And how are police departments themselves strategically navigating these efforts? This discussion engaged those questions with the authors of three new books:

Join us for the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund's 2024 Spring Symposium. The Symposium will feature panelists substantially connected to the fields of animal rights, law, and industry.

Speaker: Aaron Rimmler-Cohen, The Farm Sanctuary

Sponsored by the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund.

Duke Law Prof. Veronica Root Martinez talks about what motivated her to pursue a clerkship as a law student, how she went about that process, and the legal skills she gained as a judicial clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Prof. Martinez also offers suggestions to law schools and judges interested in diversifying their pool of clerkships applicants and clerks.

For more information, visit Duke Law Clerkships Office online:
https://law.duke.edu/clerkships