Our fifth and final #womenshistorymonth video packs a very special ending for 3L Amanda Joss! Here, she celebrates two of her mentors at Duke Law—Associate Dean Liz Gustafson and Professor Marilyn Forbes—for their achievements and how they inspire her as a person and an aspiring trial lawyer, and then gets a surprise visit!

This year, Women's History Month is "celebrating women who tell our stories." Recognizing this theme, Duke Law faculty and students are sharing about the women in the law who are telling their stories in this weekly video series throughout the month of March.

Here, 3L Gaby Feliciani, whose activities at Duke Law include the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy, Women Law Students Association, Health Justice Clinic, and Health Care Planning Project, shares about Maryland State Delegate Robbyn Lewis inspires her work as an aspiring lawyer.

Melissa Murray, the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, gives the annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture. Murray, who is also the faculty director for the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network at NYU Law, is a leading expert in family law, constitutional law, and reproductive rights and justice.

This year, Women's History Month is "celebrating women who tell our stories." Recognizing this theme, Duke Law faculty and students are sharing about the women in the law who are telling their stories in this weekly video series throughout the month of March. Here, Duke Law 3L Leandra Kede Yomo speaks about how Alice Nkom, the first female lawyer in Cameroon and an advocate for decriminalizing homosexuality in the Central African country, is inspiring her work as a law student.

In keeping with this year's theme for Women's History Month, Duke Law faculty and students are "celebrating women who tell our stories" in a series of month-long videos honoring women in the law who are telling their stories. The first is by 2L Katie Fink who speaks about how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg inspires her as an aspiring law student.

The Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law presented the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) with the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law at a ceremony hosted at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art on March 1, 2023. The IAWJ was honored for their remarkable efforts to help evacuate, support, and resettle Afghan women judges after the Taliban retook control of the country in 2021.

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How could the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn the 1973 case Roe vs. Wade last June -- effectively ending a constitutional right to obtain an abortion -- affect your right to privacy, with law enforcement using personal tech and surveillance data to enforce state laws prohibiting abortion?

Novel Justice is a book event series hosted by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. We invite authors to discuss recently published criminal justice books and to engage in Q&A with faculty and students. Aya Gruber is Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Her book, The Feminist War on Crime: the Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration, documents the failure of the state to combat sexual and domestic violence through law and punishment. Join us for a conversation and Q&A with Gruber about her work.

Deborah L. Rhode, the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford University, delivers the Brainerd Currie Memorial and Kenan Institute for Ethics Distinguished Lecture, "#MeToo: Why Now? What Next?".

Kazuko Ito, the Secretary General of "Human Rights Now," a Japanese human rights NGO, will be speaking about the legal and advocacy work that her NGO has been doing surrounding the #MeToo movement in Japan. The program will be moderated by Professor Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Supervising Attorney for the International Human Rights Clinic. This event is part of the Human Rights in Practice series, organized by Duke Law's International Human Rights Clinic and the Center for International and Comparative Law.

Aisling Reidy of Human Rights Watch and Christine Ryan, S.J.D. candidate and Fulbright Fellow, Duke Law, discuss the Irish abortion referendum and women's rights internationally. Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Senior Lecturing Fellow and Supervising Attorney of the Duke International Human Rights Clinic moderates. This talk is part of the Human Rights in Practice series, which is organized by the Duke International Human Rights Clinic and the Center for International and Comparative Law.

A program about Justice Ginsburg's 50+ years as a lawyer, professor, appellate judge and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The discussion features the editor and contributors to the recent book, "The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg", Scott Dodson '00, Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair and Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of Law; Lisa Kern Griffin, Professor of Law; and Neil Siegel, David W. Ichel Professor of Law. It was moderated by Katharine T. Bartlett, A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law.

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This groundbreaking Symposium will analyze two seemingly conflicting value systems in recent employment discrimination cases: one that prohibits stereotyping in the workplace, and another that upholds workplace appearance standards. Part 1. Welcome by Catherine Fisk --- Opening remarks by Dean Katharine Bartlett --- Session 1 with Dean Katharine Bartlett, Joel Friedman, Rafael Gely, Michael Selmi, Rebecca Springer, and Kimberly Yuracko.

Recorded on October 20, 2006.

Full title: Opening Remarks, Appearance Codes & Employment Discrimination.

This groundbreaking Symposium will analyze two seemingly conflicting value systems in recent employment discrimination areas: one that prohibits stereotyping in the workplace, and another that uploades workplace appearance standards. Part 3. Session 4 with Trina Jones, Theresa Beiner, Martha Chamallas, Adrienne Davis, Barbara Flagg, Deborah Zalesne.

Recorded on October 20, 2006.

Panel titled: Sexual Harrassment.

Conference title: Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination (Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination Symposium (2006))

This groundbreaking Symposium will analyze two seemingly conflicting value systems in recent employment discrimination cases: one that prohibits stereotyping in the workplace, and another that upholds workplace appearance standards. Part 1. Welcome by Catherine Fisk --- Closing remarks by Devon Carbado.

Recorded on October 20, 2006.

Conference title: Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination (Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination Symposium (2006))

Appearing: Devon Carbado (UCLA School of Law)

This groundbreaking Symposium will analyze two seemingly conflicting value systems in recent employment discrimination areas: one that prohibits stereotyping in the workplace, and another that uploads workplace appearance standards.

Recorded on October 20, 2006.

Panel titled: Labor Unions & Collective Bargaining.

Conference title: Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination (Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination Symposium (2006))

This groundbreaking Symposium will analyze two seemingly conflicting value systems in recent employment discrimination areas: one that prohibits stereotyping in the workplace, and another that upholds workplace appearance standards.

Recorded on October 20, 2006.

Panel titled: Race, Sexual Orientation & Protected Classes.

Conference title: Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination (Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination Symposium (2006))

This groundbreaking Symposium will analyze two seemingly conflicting value systems in recent employment discrimination areas: one that prohibits stereotyping in the workplace, and another that upholds workplace appearance standards. Session 2 with Mitu Gulati, Paul Ades, Tristin Green, Darryl Roberts, Laura Morgan Roberts, and Ashleigh Shelby Rosette

Recorded on October 20, 2006.

Panel titled: The Workplace.

Conference title: Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination (Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination Symposium (2006))

This groundbreaking Symposium will analyze two seemingly conflicting value systems in recent employment discrimination areas: one that prohibits stereotyping in the workplace, and another that upholds workplace appearance standards. Session 3 with Catharine Fisk, Jennifer L. Gillan, Ann McGinley, Jennifer Pizer, Lucille Ponte, Julie Seaman, and Patrick Shin.

Recorded on October 20, 2006.

Panel titled: Sex- Differentiated Dress.

Conference title: Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination (Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination Symposium (2006))