David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute and president of The American Law Institute, leads a panel discussion about the legal strike force “SG3” that assembled in response to the Trump campaign's challenges to the 2020 election.

Moderated by Duke Law Professor Marin K. Levy, this panel discussion with fellow Duke Law Professors Curt Bradley, Guy Charles, Kate Evans, Stephen Sachs, and Jim Salzman covers what we might expect from the Biden administration. Specific topics include immigration, environmental policy, voting rights, the judiciary, and foreign affairs.

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean and the Program in Public Law.

Moderated by Guy Charles, Edward and Ellen Schwarzman Professor of Law, this panel discusses the current state of the lawsuits challenging the election results as well as questions around the transfer of power from one administration to the next. Experts in democratic theory and constitutional law, including Jack Goldsmith, Henry L.

Leading up to election day for the 2020 presidential campaign, several Duke Law faculty and staff shared the reasons why it's important to them to vote.

Appearing: Marin Levy, Jamie Lau, Timothy Lovelace, Amanda Lacoff, Michael Tigar, Lawrence Baxter, Jennifer Jenkins, Ryke Longest, and Michael Dockterman of Duke Law.

Alaska’s Ballot Initiative Today: History, Practice, and Process: Elizabeth Bakalar (Former Senior Assistant Attorney General, Current Municipal Attorney)

Alaskan Exceptionalism in Campaign Finance: Chad Flanders (Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law)

Commenter- Susan Orlansky (Reeves Amodio LLC)
Moderator: Professor Thomas B. Metzloff (Duke Law; Alaska Law Review)

Originally recorded on October 30, 2020.

Sponsored by the Alaska Law Review and co-sponsored with the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center.

Keynote Address, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean; University of California, Berkeley Law School)

Originally recorded on October 30, 2020.

Sponsored by the Alaska Law Review and co-sponsored with the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center.

Scott Kendall (Alaskans for Better Elections)
Professor Ryan Fortson (University of Alaska Anchorage)
Moderator: James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News

Originally recorded on October 30, 2020.

Sponsored by the Alaska Law Review and co-sponsored with the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center.

The Duke Law Center on Law, Race and Politics hosts a panel that examines the pandemic's effects on marginalized populations and considers policy interventions designed to address structural inequality.

The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy hosted its 2017 symposium, "Voting Rights in Polarized America," on Feb. 17, 2017.

Introduction and Opening Remarks:
David Friedman, Special Projects Editor, DJCLPP
The Honorable Henry E. Frye, Retired Chief Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court

The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy hosted its 2017 symposium, "Voting Rights in Polarized America," on Feb. 17, 2017.

Session 3:
"The Role of Courts in Election Reform: Lessons from NAACP v. McCrory"
Caitlin Swain, Forward Justice
Noel Johnson, Public Interest Legal Foundation
Allison Riggs, Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Irving Joyner, North Carolina Central University School of Law
Moderator: Joseph Blocher, Duke University School of Law

Closing Remarks

The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy hosted its 2017 symposium, "Voting Rights in Polarized America," on Feb. 17, 2017.

Session 2:
"Election Administration and Reform after 2016"
Anthony J. Gaughan, Drake University Law School
Allison Riggs, Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Moderator: Darrell Miller, Duke University School of Law

The Duke Law Chapter of the American Constitution Society welcomed Justice Sue Bell Cobb, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court from 2007-2011, for a discussion on the troubling optics and perverse incentives of judicial elections and ensuing effects on the independence of our state judiciaries and the legal profession as a whole.

Sponsored by the Duke Bar Association and the National Chapter of the American Constitution Society.

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 Lawrence Lessig from Harvard Law School outlines campaign financing in U.S. elections, and discusses the need for a new system.