Professor Fionnuala Ni Aolain, Regents Professor and Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School, will deliver the 2024 Bernstein Lecture in Comparative Law, which will address the consolidation and expansion of counter-terrorism norms and institutions since 9/11. The rise of counter-terrorism has enabled the consolidation of autocracy, sustained democratic backsliding, and undermined the capacity of civil society to function across the globe.

In 'Closing International Law's Innocence Gap,' Duke Law Clinical Professor Jayne Huckerby, Professor Laurence Helfer, and Professor Brandon Garrett argue that now is the time to close a gap in how national criminal legal systems address post-conviction claims of factual innocence. They build a substantive case for recognizing a new international human right and detail the advantages of doing such, offering derivative and freestanding approaches, as well as a framework for adapting the right to national models.

Please join the Center for International and Comparative Law for a discussion with Professor Frank Upham of NYU Law on "Same-Sex Marriage and Gender Issues in Japan." Moderated by Professor Laurence Helfer, Duke Law. Co-sponsored by the Duke Japanese Law Society, the Duke Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, and Duke OutLaw.

The Center for International and Comparative Law welcomes Professor Emilia Justyna Powell, University of Notre Dame Law School and Professor of Political Science, to discuss her new book, The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial & Maritime Disputes (with Krista E. Wiegand, Oxford University Press). Introduction by Laurence Helfer.

Join Duke Law School Professors Kate Bartlett, Guy Charles, Larry Helfer, Jed Purdy, and Neil Siegel for a discussion of the implications of the 2012 national elections and state referenda for American constitutional law and culture, both inside and outside the courts. Topics may include the possible effects of the Presidential and Senate elections on the future composition and decision making of the U.S.

Panel discussion on Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface. This new book, from Professors Laurence Helfer and Graeme Austin (Melbourne Univ. and Univ. of Victoria of Wellington), analyzes the complex issues involved when human rights claims are often used to counter expansion of intellectual property rights or intellectual property rights are asserted as a fundamental human right. The panelists are Professors Sean Flynn (American Univ. Washington Coll. Of Law), Molly Land (N.Y. Law School), Chidi Oguamanam (Univ. of Ottawa Faculty of Law), Ruth Okediji (Minn.

Ten Duke Law students, led by Professor Laurence Helfer, spent their spring break in Brazil, doing field research into the land rights of Afro-Brazilian communities, part of their semester-long ad hoc seminar.

Co-sponsored by Duke Law School and the University of Geneva Law Faculty in Switzerland, it coordinates courses on public international law with visits to the international organizations in Geneva, as well as offers courses in private law areas with special emphasis on European and comparative law.