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?”

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.

Anne Gallagher, Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), gives a talk titled "From Peacekeepers to Slave Traders: A Lawyer's Journey to the United Nations and Beyond." This lecture was co-sponsored by the Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the International Human Rights Clinic and the Center for International & Comparative Law.

Professors Barak Richman and Guy-Uriel Charles debate the economics and politics of health care reform and take questions from students during an event sponsored by the Duke Health Law Society and the American Constitution Society.

October 26, 2009 - William H. Taft IV, former legal adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State and currently of counsel at Fried Frank, in Washington, D.C. presented an open lecture entitled, "Promises to Keep: The Conduct of American Foreign Policy and International Agreements" on conducting foreign policy in a globalized world. Sponsored by the Center for International and Comparative Law (CICL).

Duke Law Professor Joseph Blocher, a Durham native, tells Durham's history through the lens of the law. Using maps, photographs, and other historical materials, the lecture provides a comprehensive history of Durham, beginning with the town's founding in the aftermath of the Civil War and continuing with the rise of the tobacco industry, the success of Black Wall Street, the founding of the universities, the fight for desegregation, and the city's more recent struggles and revitalization.

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Remarks on economic and political aspects of intellectual property in a networked economy.

Recorded on March 26, 2002.

Full title: Freedom in the Commons: Towards a Political Economy of Information.

Series: Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property 2nd.

Appearing: Katherine T. Bartlett and James Boyle, preliminary remarks; Yochai Benkler (New York University), speaker.

by Alek and Kuba Tarkowski. Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Moving Image Contest (Second Place). 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.

Filmmaker Chris Hegedus discusses how rights clearance practices have changed since the making of Don't Look Back. Ms. Hegedus is Lecturer, Film Studies Program, Yale University; her documentary film work includes Startup.com (Directors Guild Award for Best Documentary) and The War Room (Academy Award nomination, Best Documentary Film).

September 13, 2010 - Duke Law professors Neil Siegel, Sara Beale, Sam Buell, and Lisa Griffin review the most significant decisions of the past term of the U.S. Supreme Court, focusing on criminal cases.

November 16, 2010 - Duke Law School and the Nicholas School of the Environment are pleased to host a conversation with John Adams L'62 H'05 and his wife and life partner, Patricia. Professor James Salzman will facilitate this discussion as the Adams share the story of A Force of Nature, their powerful memoir that conveys the struggles, and victories of building a large political action organization, telling the story of National Resources Defense Council.

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)

Alumni and friends learned about the state of innovation and entrepreneurship at Duke, particularly in the context of the Law and Entrepreneurship Program at Duke Law. They enjoyed a panel discussion with the program director (Kip Frey JD '85), an alumnus-mentor (Glen Caplan JD '02), and a current student (Ryan Blackmon LLM-LE '12).

Duke Law Journal's 42nd Annual Administrative Law Symposium will focus on several important topics in administrative law today. Selected from over 80 proposals, the seven panelists explore issues pressing upon legislators, agency and Executive Branch officials, and judges, such as the politicization of agencies, the judicial review challenges posed by shared regulatory authority, and the emphasis on reason-giving in rulemaking. The participants will use both historical and empirical analysis to describe the current administrative-law landscape and prescribe alternatives for its future.

The Law & History Society and Haiti Legal Advocacy Project invite all students to join Professor Laurent Dubois for a conversation about the Haitian legal system and its contentious development from the Haitian Revolution to the 2010 earthquake. Laurent Dubois is a leading historian of Haiti and is the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke.

Order, Framing and Mode Effects: SWB Experiments from Olympics Data in London, Paris and Berlin

Jonathan Wiener (Duke)
George Kavetsos (LSE)

This week's Duke Law Life question - “If family chores were billable hours, what would your family pay you to do?”

This week's Duke Law Life question - “If you could pick a professor to coach at the Super Bowl, who would you pick?”

Daniel W. Sutherland, an associate general counsel in U.S.Department of Homeland Security, discusses the complex relationship between emerging technology and national security law.

Speaker: Mr. Daniel W. Sutherland, Associate General Counsel, National Protection and Programs Directorate, Office of the General Counsel, U.S.Department of Homeland Security

Lecture title: Technology, Cyberspace and the Law: Challenges and Opportunities

Recorded as part of the 2014 LENS Conference: LAWshaping in National Security: The Past, the Progress, and the Path Ahead.

Session 3: The New Landscape in Context—Immigration Adjudication

Conference title: Charting the New Landscape of Administrative Adjudication

Presenters: Catherine Y. Kim (Brooklyn Law School), Amy Semet (Columbia University), Michael Kagan (UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law), and Jennifer Lee Koh (UCI Law).

Moderator: Dean Kerry Abrams (Duke Law School)

February 23, 2009 - Professor Jeffrey Fisher will talk about his work on Exxon v. Baker, a case that grew out of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, one of the most devastating environmental disasters in U.S. history, and the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent opinion for punitive damages law. Fisher will discuss some of the challenges of litigating a case concerning an event that occurred almost 20 years ago and 4,000 miles away against the world's most profitable corporation. Before the Ninth Circuit and U.S.

October 6, 2009 - Duke Law Professors Neil Siegel, Ernest Young, James Coleman, and Samuel Buell discussed important cases that the Supreme Court will hear in the upcoming term.

November 17, 2009 - David Golove, Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, presents "The Case for Incorporating Global Justice in the U.S. Constitution" the second lecture in "The New History of International Law" series. Sponsored by the Law & History Society, the International Law Society, the International Human Rights Law Society, and the Center for International & Comparative Law.