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.

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.

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 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.

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).

Welcome and opening remarks followed by a panel discussion choice of law issues in American and European contract and tort law.

Recorded on February 09, 2008.

Panel titled: Contract & Tort Law.

Conference title: The New European Choice-of-Law Revolution: Lessons for the United States?

Contents: Welcome (00:00:15) -- Opening remarks (00:02:40) -- Panel 1. Contract and tort law (00:09:30)

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.