Copyright expert and scholar David Nimmer discussed current developments in U.S. copyright law and how they push us in unanticipated directions when he delivered the annual Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property. Among other matters, he explored the potential for recent Supreme Court decisions to upset a large body of jurisprudence, and whether "The Cloud" might push the law in the opposite direction.

Phillip Carter, Center for a New American Security, discusses "Contemporary Civil-Military Relations: A Lawyer's Perspective," with a subsequent question and answer period.

Lecture title: Contemporary Civil-Military Relations: A Lawyer's Perspective

Recorded as part of the 2014 LENS Conference: LAWshaping in National Security: The Past, the Progress, and the Path Ahead.

Maj. Gen. Steven Lepper, USAF (Ret.), former Deputy Judge Advocate General, remarks on professional responsibility for lawyers practicing national security law at a time when new technology and modes of warfare are engendering major ethical questions. Followed by conference closing remarks by LENS Executive Director Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, USAF (Ret.).

Speaker: Maj. Gen. Steven Lepper, USAF (Ret.), former Deputy Judge Advocate General, United States Air Force

Closing remarks: Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, USAF (Ret.), LENS Executive Director

Robert S. Litt, general counsel in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, discusses the new digital information landscape, and legal issues arising from the possibility for surveillance and data collection on a scale never seen before.

Speaker: Hon. Robert S. Litt, General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Recorded as part of the 2014 LENS Conference: LAWshaping in National Security: The Past, the Progress, and the Path Ahead.

Addressing Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces: The Path Ahead
Speaker: Capt. Lindsay L. Rodman, USMC, Deputy Legal Counsel, Office of the Legal Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

(45:41) Conference Capstone Lecture: The Legal Profession and National Security Law
Speaker: Mr. James R. Silkenat, President, American Bar Association

Comments on efforts by the United States armed forces to address sexual assaults in the military. Followed by remarks by the president of the American Bar Association on practice of national security law.

North Carolina's ongoing battles over ballot access are a window into the current malaise that plagues America's electoral system. Amid the debates about vote fraud and vote suppression, about race and politics, about abuse and integrity, lie deeper questions about how the U.S. has structured its democracy. Recent Supreme Court decisions provide new clues to the complicated interrelation between law, the Constitution, race and politics.

Professor Anne van Aaken of the University of St. Gallen gives a talk and answers questions on the topic of "Behavioral International Law and Economics." This event is sponsored by the Center for International & Comparative Law.

Ember Reichgott Junge, Duke Law '77, tells the story behind the first charter school law. Thirty years ago there were no state charter schools. Today more than two million students attend charter schools in over 40 states and the District of Columbia. As a Minnesota state senator, Reichgott Junge worked for three years to ensure the passage of the initial charter school legislation. Her book, Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story, provides an insider's look at the legislative process and the compromises sometimes necessary as a bill becomes a law.

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."

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.

Did Lincoln deserve his reputation as the Great Emancipator? Did he free the slaves? Why did he wait so long? What were the consequences of the Emancipation Proclamation? These and other questions will be explored by Paul Finkelman, John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of Legal History, during the Robert R. Wilson Lecture entitled "How a Railroad Lawyer Became the Great Emancipator: Abraham Lincoln, and the Problem of Ending Slavery."

The Environmental Law Society presents a lunch talk with Professor James Salzman about his new book "Drinking Water: A History." Professor Salzman analyzes the human relationship with drinking water and how it has evolved throughout history from ancient to modern societies. His book examines the question of whether we view water as a basic human right or a marketable commodity. For more information on the book see: http://law.duke.edu/news/new-book-salzman-examines-our-relationship-drin

Duke Law Alum and George Mason University Professor Nathan Sales L'00 joins the Federalist society to discuss the recent National Security Leaks. Why do they matter? Who is behind them? Are they politically driven?

Professor John Fabian Witt, of Yale Law, will present a lunchtime lecture on his newly published book, "Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History," cosponsored by CICL and LENS.

The Program in Public Law presents Professor RonNell Andersen Jones (J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University). Forty years ago, in Branzburg v. Hayes, the Supreme Court made its first and only inquiry into the constitutional protection of the relationship between a reporter and a confidential source, resulting in a reporter-focused "privilege" now widely regarded to be doctrinally questionable and deeply inconsistent in application.

Ethical Issues of the Practice of National Security Law (one hour)
Maj Gen Charles J. Dunlap, Jr, USAF (Ret.)

Luncheon presentation
Host: Professor Charles Dunlap
Speaker: Dr. Mac Owens, Naval War College

Join author/activist Rebecca MacKinnon and Professor James Boyle, for an exciting discussion about the expanding struggle for control over the Internet and the implications for civil liberties, privacy and democracy both in the U.S. and worldwide. MacKinnon is the author of the new book, Consent of the Networked: The World Wide Struggle for Internet Freedom. Previously CNN Bureau Chief in Beijing and Tokyo, she is the co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices, an expert on Chinese Internet censorship, and presented at TEDGlobal 2011.

Join distinguished Baltimore attorney George Liebmann and concerned faculty, students and staff in a lunch-time session to discuss the end of the War on Drugs. Mr. Liebmann, Executive Director of the Calvert Institute in Baltimore and sometime Fellow at Cambridge University, is widely engaged in working for law reform.

Duke Law School welcomes Heather Gerken as the 2012 Currie Memorial Lecture speaker. Ms. Gerken is the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School where she specializes in election law, constitutional law, and civil procedure. Professor Gerken is one of the country's leading experts on voting rights and election law, the role of groups in the democratic process, and the relationship between diversity and democracy.

Join Utah Law Professor Amos Guiora for a public lecture on his book, Targeted Killing (forthcoming, OUP). Recent killings of high level al-Qaeda and Taliban leadership have renewed debate in the United States regarding the legality, morality and utility of killing terrorists. Guiora will explore the important questions that arise in any target killing decision and options for effective counterterrorism.

"Building a 21st Century Patent Office in a Global Economy:" David J. Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will outline modern trends in intellectual property policy and how current court cases are shaping the patent landscape. He also will focus on the importance of patent reform legislation and its impacts upon the USPTO operations, patent quality, and innovation.

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.

Robert Jervis discusses his most recent publication, "Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War" in a public lecture.

Recorded on September 23, 2010.

Full title: Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons From the Iranian Revolution & the Iraq War.

Appearing: Curtis A. Bradley, host/introductions ; Robert Jervis (Columbia University), speaker.

Ann Elizabeth Mayer is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She earned a PhD in History from the University of Michigan, a Certificate in Islamic and Comparative Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research areas include Islamic law in contemporary Middle Eastern and North African countries and international human rights law, with an emphasis on women's international human rights.