This event will bring together local practitioners and Duke faculty to review recent legal developments that take social media into account, including the Supreme Court's 2012 decision in United States v. Antoine Jones.

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).

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.

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

Duke Law Professors Charles Dunlap, Curtis Bradley and Laurence Helfer discuss the domestic, international, and humanitarian legal issues surrounding a possible U.S. military strike in Syria. Sponsored by the National Security Law Society, International Law Society, American Constitutional Law Society, and Human Rights Law Society.

Please join Duke Law School as we celebrate graduating JD, LLM, and SJD students in the Class of 2021 at their Convocation ceremony in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Congratulations on reaching graduation! We're proud of all the students' hard work and look forward to celebrating this milestone.

Please join Duke Law School as we celebrate graduating JD and LLM students in the Class of 2020 at this special recognition event in Page Auditorium. We're proud of all the students' hard work and look forward to celebrating this milestone.

This week's Duke Law Life question - "What are you looking forward to the most this semester?"

This week's Duke Law Life question - “What’s your favorite law-related movie or TV show, and how accurate is it?”

Boyle, co-founder of Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, is a leader in the open access movement: he was a founding director of Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides licenses that let individual artists choose how to share their work freely; is a co-founder of Science Commons, which aims to expand the Creative Commons mission into the realm of scientific and technical data; and is a co-founder of ccLearn, which works to promote the development of open educational resources.

Law & Contemporary Problems Conference 2009:
Turning Points in the History of the Federal Income Tax November 6, 2009

Garrett Epps delivers a talk on intellectual property and free expression. He discusses the history of literary appropriation and gives his opinion on current developments related to copyright law and the First Amendment. Keith Aoki responds. Part of a conference presented by Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain to honor the publication of the book "No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment" by Duke Law professors David Lange and H. Jefferson Powell.

Session title: Bring me the head of Peter Pan : a commentary on No Law.

Arti Rai, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law

Music lawyer Whitney Broussard describes how law can change the kind of music that gets made, and how clearance processes can make the whole artistic community poorer. Mr. Broussard is a partner at Selverne, Mandelbaum & Mintz, a law firm specializing in entertainment law; representing a wide range of clients such as Ludacris, Twista, and India.Arie.

by Neil Williams. Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Moving Image Contest (Finalist). The contest asked entrants to create short films demonstrating some of the tensions between art and intellectual property law, and the intellectual property issues artists face, focusing on either music or documentary film.

Students and faculty from the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic work out settlement in federal lawsuit to protect endangered sea turtles.

Richard Danner discusses Open Access and the Durham Statement in regards to electronic publishing and best practices for open access at libraries.

February 21, 2011 - Marc E. Elias, Partner at Perkins Coie LLP and Duke Law School Alumnus will give a lecture on "Recounts and Post Election Legal Disputes Ten Years After Bush v. Gore."

Dr. Mohamed A. Noor from the Duke University Biology Department gives us his insight on using the Apple iPad in a classroom setting. Part 1 of 2 for a panel presentation at the CALI 2011 Conference.

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

October 3, 2011 - The Program in Public Law presents its annual Supreme Court Preview. Duke Law professors Neil Siegel, Kate Bartlett, Curt Bradley, Stephen Sachs, and student Emily May ('13) discuss some of the most important Supreme Court cases of the upcoming term.

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.

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

Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, gives a talk and participates in a Q&A on "Something to Hide: New Technology, Dragnet Surveillance, and the Future of Privacy." This event was co-sponsored by the Center for International & Comparative Law, the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, the Duke Law American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Law Society, and the National Security Law Society.

In recent months, the North Carolina legislature has made vast changes to the state's laws in a variety of areas. Four panelists discuss how the current political environment in North Carolina is affecting the natural environment. Speakers: Ellie Kinnaird, former North Carolina Senator for the 23rd District, Orange and Chatham Counties; Mary Maclean Asbill, lawyer-lobbyist at the Southern Environmental Law Center; Brooks Pearson, lawyer-lobbyist at the Southern Environmental Law Center; and Jedediah Purdy, Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.