Panel discussion on access to research and data resources, the scientific commons, and related issues related to economic development. Includes the following short lectures: Robert Evenson, "The Future of Public Agricultural Research in the World Economy" ; Richard Nelson, "Patents and the Scientific Commons" ; Ruth Okediji, "The Impact of the TRIPS Agreement on Educational and Cultural Aspects of Economic Development" ; and Paul Uhlir, "Preserving Access to Public Data Resources for Science and Development."

Recorded on April 05, 2003.

Panel discussion on foreign trade and public goods. Includes the following short lectures: Eric Bond, "Economics of Dispute Resolution with IPRs" ; Joost Pauwelyn, "On the Role of the Appellate Body" ; and Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss and Graeme Dinwoodie, "Using Dispute Resolution to Preserve International Public Goods."

Recorded on April 05, 2003.

Panel titled: Recognition of Public Goods in WTO Dispute Settlement.

Conference title: International Public Goods & Transfer of Technology (TRIPS Conference (2003))

Panel discussion on TRIPS, competition law, and public goods. Includes the following short lectures: Mark Janis, Professor, "Intellectual Property and Anti-Trust Policy " ; Eleanor Fox, "Competition Policy, TRIPS, and Doha " ; and Hanns Ullrich, "TRIPS and Competition Law."

Recorded on April 05, 2003.

Panel titled: The Critical Role of Competition Law in Preserving Public Goods.

Conference title: International Public Goods & Transfer of Technology (TRIPS Conference (2003))

Panel discussion on access to essential medicines in the context of TRIPS. Includes the following short lectures: Frederick Abbott, "Resolving Roadblocks to Ensuring Access to Essential Medicines" ; Rebecca Eisenberg, "Legal Dimensions of the Essential Medicines Problem" ; and Henry Grabowski, "Economics of Drug Discovery and Distribution."

Recorded on April 04, 2003.

Panel titled: Ensuring Access to Essential Medicines.

Conference title: International Public Goods & Transfer of Technology (TRIPS Conference (2003))

Panel discussion on foreign trade and public goods. Includes the following short lectures: Peter Drahos, "Economic and Legal Obstacles Raised by IPR to the Provision of Public Goods" and Paul David "Economics of Public Goods in International Perspective." Also includes welcoming address.

Recorded on April 04, 2003.

Panel titled: International Provision of Public Goods in the New Regime.

Conference title: International Public Goods & Transfer of Technology (TRIPS Conference (2003))

Panel discussion on the global intellectual property rights system and the promotion of public goods. Includes the following short lectures: John Barton, "Reforming the International Patent System" ; Pamela Samuelson and Suzanne Scotchmer, "IPR for Information Technologies" ; and Timothy Swanson, "The Economics of Biotechnology and IPR."

Recorded on April 04, 2003.

Panel titled: Reforming the Global IPR System to Promote Public Goods.

Conference title: International Public Goods & Transfer of Technology (TRIPS Conference (2003))

Panel discussion on 21st century technology transfer. Includes the follow short lectures: Arti Rai, "Technology Transfer from Public to Private Sectors" ; Carlos Correa, "Promoting Technology Transfer within TRIPS" ; and Keith Maskus and Kamal Saggi, "Re-thinking Technology Transfer in the Global Economy."

Recorded on April 04, 2003.

Panel titled: Technology Transfer in the 21st Century.

Conference title: International Public Goods & Transfer of Technology (TRIPS Conference (2003))

A presentation on technology to afford client communications.

Recorded on April 01, 2003.

Lecture titled: Client Communication.

Series: Technology in the Practice of Law Series.

Appearing: Kenneth Hirsh, introductions ; Douglas Caddell (Foley & Lardner), speaker.

Recorded on November 20, 2000, Duke University, School of Law. Judge Scirica and Judge Niemeyer discuss the clerkship process, from how to apply to what clerks do.

September 14, 2011 - Profs Curtis Bradley, Mary Dudziak, Charles Dunlap, and Neil Siegel consider how law governing the "war on terrorism" evolved over the last decade.

September 30, 2011 - The JD/LLM Program in International and Comparative Law presents a Lives in International Law panel discussion with four JD/LLM alumni: Amber Jordan '10 (United State Court of International Trade); Michael Gilles '10 (U.S. State Department) and Coalter Lathrop '06 (Sovereign Geographic) about a broad array of international opportunities available to graduates pursuing careers in international law. The panelists will speak about their own careers paths and potential opportunities for current students.

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy Annual Spring Symposium.
Introduction: Kara Duffle, Editor-in-Chief
Opening Remarks: Jim Johnson, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Policies, Proposals, and Practical Implications
Moderator: Stephen Sachs, Duke Law
Participants: Peter Conti-Brown, Stanford Law, Michael Greve, AEI, Gene Nichol, UNC School of Law

September 16, 2011 - Third Session - The ACA Litigation as Popular Constitutionalism

Ernie Young (Duke Law School), "Popular Constitutionalism and the Underenforcement Problem: The Case of the National Healthcare Law"
Introductory remarks by Guy Charles (Duke Law School), moderator

Bryan J. Leitch (Student - Duke Law School), "Where Law Meets Politics: Freedom of Contract, Federalism, and the Fight Over Health Care"
Introductory remarks by Neil Siegel (Duke Law School)

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.

Join OUTLaw and Lauren Rodgers, a writer for Ballotpedia.org, to learn how you can help prevent this dangerous amendment from becoming enshrined in the NC Constitution.

Hosted by the Duke Law Human Rights Law Society: Professors Michaels, Siegel and Miller discuss the implications of the recent personhood amendments that a number of states have attempted to pass. Professor Bartlett moderates.

March 22, 2012 - The Program in Public Law, Kenan Institute for Ethics, American Constitution Society (Washington, DC), and Duke Law ACLU present an exciting panel discussion on the Supreme Court's recent decision to hear arguments in Arizona v. United States. SB 1070 has been referred to in the media as the "racial profiling" law because it requires law enforcement officers in Arizona to inspect the documents of those suspected of unlawful presence in the state.

September 15, 2011 - Professor John Kunich, a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Law serving at the Indian Law Institute in New Delhi, and Dr. Stuart Pimm from Duke's own Nicholas School of the Environment will be participating in a debate on the proper approach to solving the environmental challenges that face us today. This event is cosponsored by the Environmental Law Society

Last month, the NC legislature voted to put an Amendment on the May Primary ballot that would ban all state recognition of unmarried couples, with potentially devastating consequences for LGBT couples, unmarried domestic violence victims, and children of unmarried parents.

Panel 4 - Creating a Just Green Economy: Moving Forward
Moderator: Ryke Longest, Director of the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic
Kate Gordon*, VP for Energy Policy at the Center for American Progress
Maria Savasta-Kennedy, Professor of Law and Faculty Advisor for the Environmental Law Project at UNC Law
Savi Horne, NC Assoc. of Black Lawyers' Land Loss Prevention Project
(* indicates author in our upcoming publication)

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy Annual Spring Symposium. The Constitution and the Sovereign States Moderator: Steven Schwarcz, Duke Law Participants: Adam Feibelman, Tulane Law Emily Johnson, Wachtell Lipton, Ernest Young, Duke Law Thank You and Closing Remarks Closing: Kara Duffle, Editor-in-Chief

Lunch Panel: The Agency Adjudicators’ View on the New Landscape

Conference title: Charting the New Landscape of Administrative Adjudication

Presenters: Nancy Griswold, Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals, Scott Boalick, Chief Administrative Patent Judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, James McHenry, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review.

Christopher J. Walker, moderator.

September 16, 2011 - Second Session - Constitutional Limits of Congress's Enumerated Powers

Ilya Somin (George Mason University School of Law), "A Mandate for Mandates: Is the Individual Health Insurance Case a Slippery Slope?"
Introductory remarks by Gillian Metzger (Columbia Law School), moderator

Stuart Benjamin (Duke Law School), "Bootstrapping"
Introductory remarks by Matt Adler (University of Pennsylvania School of Law)

Panelists: Jamie Boyle (Duke Law School), Erwin Chemerinsky (UC-Irvine School of Law)

Arturo H. Banegas Masiá (LLM '00), a Senior Legal Consultant at Verizon Wireless and Julian R. Vasquez (LLM '05), Director of International Tax Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers, discuss working as in-house attorneys at major corporations and the career path that led them to these positions.

The Program in Public Law presents a panel discussion on the Constitutional challenges to the health care law, the issues/arguments involved in these challenges, and thoughts about what the Court should do, will do, and how much it matters (i.e., which health care system problems will persist, whatever the Court decides).