Videos tagged with Lectures

  • Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, presents a public lunchtime lecture on TRIPS.

  • Remarks on economic and political aspects of intellectual property in a networked economy.

    Recorded on March 26, 2002.

    Full title: Freedom in the Commons: Towards a Political Economy of Information.

    Series: Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property 2nd.

    Appearing: Katherine T. Bartlett and James Boyle, preliminary remarks; Yochai Benkler (New York University), speaker.

  • Program in Public Law lecture featuring Lanny Breuer, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, shares the D.O.J. perspective on American anti-corruption efforts.

  • The Center for International and Comparative Law and the Kenan Institute for Ethics in association with the Law & History Society, International Law Society, ICCSN, Human Rights Law Society, and BLSA invite all students to join, from The Hague, Judge Patrick Robinson of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (President, 2008-2011). Judge Robinson will discuss the role of the ICTY and international criminal courts in the pursuit of justice and reconciliation.

  • Michael Tigar, listed among the best oral advocates in American history, will present his 12 Ideas on Appellate Advocacy. A seasoned appellate advocate with 100's of representative experiences, Mr. Tigar's advice and reflections are invaluable to anyone interested in oral advocacy. Hosted by the Moot Court Board.

  • Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy Annual Spring Symposium.
    Keynote Speaker: John Orth, UNC School of Law

  • Co-sponsored by the Goodson Law Library and the Duke Environmental Law Society. "It is hard to make a desert in a region that receives almost sixty inches of rain each year, but that is exactly what happened in the Ducktown Basin." Join Duncan Maysilles '79 as he discusses his recent book, Ducktown Smoke: The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters, a story of environmental devastation from sulfur dioxide pollution in Southern Appalachia, and a 1907 decision that reframed nuisance law and was the first case of cross-border air pollution to reach the Supreme Court.

  • January 25, 2012 - Chris Christie (L'85) talks about representing death row inmate Victor Stephens. In 2011, a federal court granted Stephens a new trial. The State of Alabama had convicted Stephens of killing two men in a 1986 convenience store robbery. The jury recommended a sentence of life without parole. The trial judge, however, entered an order, drafted ex parte by the Assistant District Attorney, overriding the jury and sentencing Mr. Stephens to death.

  • The Law & History Society and Haiti Legal Advocacy Project invite all students to join Professor Laurent Dubois for a conversation about the Haitian legal system and its contentious development from the Haitian Revolution to the 2010 earthquake. Laurent Dubois is a leading historian of Haiti and is the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke.

  • George Christie, Duke Law School, reflects on his 45 years at Duke University.

  • Anne Gallagher, Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), gives a talk titled "From Peacekeepers to Slave Traders: A Lawyer's Journey to the United Nations and Beyond." This lecture was co-sponsored by the Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the International Human Rights Clinic and the Center for International & Comparative Law.

  • Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Director of the Center for the Study of Public Domain, will discuss the history of musical borrowing and regulation from Plato to hip hop.

    Recorded on: November 17, 2010.

  • Welcome to ESQ. Introduction of Dan Scheinman, Keynote Speaker, Keynote Address for the annual symposium sponsored by the Duke Business Law Society and the Career and Professional Development Center. More than 40 senior alumni will be here to share their experiences, give candid advice, and interact informally with students during panel discussions and in small groups. This is a rare and valuable educational and networking opportunity for law students to learn about different possible career paths and get to know Duke Law alumni.

  • November 28, 2011 - Mary Dudziak, the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History, delivers a public lecture on "The Martial Spirit" in American History: John Hope Franklin on Militarization and War.

  • Professor John Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, will present a public lunch time lecture, followed by book sales and signing.

  • Daniel W. Sutherland, an associate general counsel in U.S.Department of Homeland Security, discusses the complex relationship between emerging technology and national security law.

    Speaker: Mr. Daniel W. Sutherland, Associate General Counsel, National Protection and Programs Directorate, Office of the General Counsel, U.S.Department of Homeland Security

    Lecture title: Technology, Cyberspace and the Law: Challenges and Opportunities

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

  • Jay Jamison, partner at Blue Run Ventures, speaks about what it takes to be an entrepreneur, what the process was like for him, how the legal field played a role, what life is like in Silicon Valley, and how JDs can attract start-ups clients.