Professor Lena Salaymeh, Tel Aviv University and Princeton University, discusses her award-winning book, "The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions" (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Showing how Muslim jurists crafted their legal opinions by combining ancient norms, scripture, religious and scholarly precedents, local traditions, and social needs in unexpected ways, Prof. Salaymeh challenges modern preconceptions of Islamic law and illustrates the dynamic nature of Islamic jurisprudence in a contemporary setting.

Jerome H. Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, discussed his book "Governing Digitally Integrated Genetic Resources, Data, and Literature: Global Intellectual Property Strategies for a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons." (Cambridge 2016). James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, provided introductory remarks.

Sponsored by the Goodson Law Library and Office of the Dean.

Michael Schwaiger presents unpublished materials written by the late Honorable Tom Stewart, who was the Secretary of the Alaska Constitutional Convention.

The symposium is co-sponsored by the UAA Justice Center and the Alaska Law Review in cooperation with the Historians Committee of the Alaska Bar Association

Recorded on October 12, 2018.

Michael Schwaiger (Alaska Bar Association, Historians Committee)

In anticipation of the sixtieth anniversary of Alaska statehood, "60 Years Later: The Alaska Constitution, History in Context" was at the University of Alaska Anchorage - Alaska Pacific University Consortium Library.

The symposium is co-sponsored by the UAA Justice Center and the Alaska Law Review in cooperation with the Historians Committee of the Alaska Bar Association

Recorded on October 12, 2018

This 2018 National Library Week Alumni Author event featured Ben Fountain '83, critically acclaimed author of the novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" (2012) and the short story collection "Brief Encounters with Che Guevara" (2006). Fountain discussed his journey from attorney to full-time writer, and shared selected readings from his works of fiction as well as his forthcoming collection of essays on the 2016 election, "Beautiful Country, Burn Again" (2018).

Sponsored by the Goodson Law Library.

Jack L. Goldsmith, the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University, delivers the annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture on "The Failure of Internet Freedom." Goldsmith makes the case that the pursuit of internet regulation policies encouraging individual flourishing, technological innovation, and economic prosperity in the United States have had disastrous consequences abroad and domestically, where a relatively unregulated internet is being used for ill, to a point that threatens basic American institutions.

Kelli Muddell, Director of the Gender Justice Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice, discusses trends in the field of transitional justice especially with respect to gender-based impacts of violations committed during conflict and under authoritarian regimes as well as how these impacts are addressed post-conflict. This talk was moderated by Professor Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Senior Lecturing Fellow and Supervising Attorney of the Duke International Human Rights Clinic.

On Feb. 9, 2018, the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Clinic held its first annual Environmental Justice Symposium, focusing on access to water and sanitation in underserved communities. Keynote speaker Catherine Flowers from the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise discussed "Promoting Access to Environmental Justice in Rural Communities in the U.S."

Introduction: Environmental Law & Policy Clinic Director Ryke Longest

Thavolia Glymph, the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History and a professor in the departments of History and African & African American Studies at Duke University gives the annual Robert R. Wilson Lecture titled, "'You will please let me know if we are free:' The Dissolution of Property Rights in Human Beings in War and the Bounds of Freedom."

Justice Daphne Barak-Erez, Justice on the Supreme Court of Israel, delivers the Annual Bernstein Lecture in Comparative Law titled "Battles of Reproductive Technologies: Comparative Tales." The lecture addresses landmark cases on controversies in the area of IVF law, using examples and models from several jurisdictions, thus exploring the potential contribution of comparative analysis to this area of law.

Norm Champ discusses insights from his new book: "Going Public: My Adventures Inside the SEC and How to Prevent the Next Devastating Crisis" http://amzn.to/2nvFrgm.

The 2017 National Library Week Alumni Author event featured John D. Inazu (JD 2000), Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion at Washington University in St. Louis.

In his second book, Confident Pluralism (2016), he presents a framework for an increasingly polarized and divided America to live together peaceably and to explore deep differences in good faith.

Introduction by Professor H. Jefferson Powell.

Sponsored by the Goodson Law Library and the American Constitution Society.

The prevailing narrative of the financial crisis is that it was caused by Wall Street greed and insufficient regulation. In response, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act, which fundamentally reformed financial sector regulation. But what if this narrative is wrong, and the government's attempts to prevent future financial crises slowed our economic recovery? Peter Wallison discusses how the misinterpretation of the causes of the financial crisis resulted in the Dodd-Frank Act, our slow economic recovery, and the election of Donald Trump.

William W. Fisher, the WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Faculty Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, delivered the annual David L. Lange Lecture in Intellectual Property Law (formerly named the Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property Law). Professor Fisher is the author of four books, including Promises to Keep: Technology, Law and the Future of Entertainment (Stanford University Press 2004), as well as numerous other publications on intellectual property law and American legal history.

Rebecca J. Scott, the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History, delivered Duke University's 2017 Robert R. Wilson Lecture. Prof. Scott's lecture, "Adjudicating Status in a Time of Slavery: Luisa Coleta and the Capuchin Friar (Havana, 1817)," asks to what extent the exercise of authority under slavery was constrained by law. Was the Caribbean war refugee named Coleta a slave, or was she a free woman?

Duke's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) held its annual national security conference on February 24-25, 2017 at Duke Law School. The 2017 LENS conference was titled "Cyber, Security & Surveillance: Truth & Consequences."

Keynote: The View from the NSA
Introduction: Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, USAF (Ret.), LENS Executive Director
Speaker: Mr. Glenn S. Gerstell, General Counsel, National Security Agency

Duke's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) held its annual national security conference on February 24-25, 2017 at Duke Law School. The 2017 LENS conference was titled "Cyber, Security & Surveillance: Truth & Consequences."

Ethics in the Age of Cyber and Autonomy
Speaker: Col. Linell Letendre, USAF, Head, Department of Law, U.S. Air Force Academy

Closing remarks: Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, USAF (Ret.), LENS Executive Director

Duke's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) held its annual national security conference on February 24-25, 2017 at Duke Law School. The 2017 LENS conference was titled "Cyber, Security & Surveillance: Truth & Consequences."

China, Cyber, & U.S. National Security

Introduction: Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, USAF (Ret.), LENS Executive Director
Speaker: Dr. Dean Cheng, Heritage Foundation, author of Cyber Dragon: Inside China's Information Warfare and Cyber Operations (2017)

Duke's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) held its annual national security conference on February 24-25, 2017 at Duke Law School. The 2017 LENS conference was titled "Cyber, Security & Surveillance: Truth & Consequences."

Welcome: Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, USAF (Ret.), LENS Executive Director

Keynote: Cyber, Security & Surveillance: Framing the Issues

Speaker: John P. Carlin, Former Assistant Attorney General for National Security

Alvin E. Roth, The Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences discusses his book, "Who Gets What - And Why: The Hidden World of Matchmaking and Market Design."

Sponsored by the Duke Project on Law and Markets.

Introduction: Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, USAF (Ret.), LENS Executive Director
Speaker: Craig Silliman, Executive VP of Public Policy and General Counsel, Verizon

Speaker: Col. Bryan Watson, USAF, White House Military Office

Closing remarks: Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, USAF (Ret.), LENS Executive Director

Duke's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) held its annual national security conference on February 26-27, 2016 at Duke Law School. The 2016 LENS conference, titled "Hybrid Threats = Hybrid Law?", will examine how technology, science, and societal changes have affected the nature of war, created new fields of conflict, and necessitated new ways of thinking about the legal architecture affecting 21st century threats.

Speaker: Professor Nita Farahany, Duke Law School

Duke's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) held its annual national security conference on February 26-27, 2016 at Duke Law School. The 2016 LENS conference, titled "Hybrid Threats = Hybrid Law?", will examine how technology, science, and societal changes have affected the nature of war, created new fields of conflict, and necessitated new ways of thinking about the legal architecture affecting 21st century threats.

John Simpkins '99, General Counsel of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), lead a wide-ranging conversation about his role as the lead attorney overseeing the multi-billion dollar budget of the government agency responsible for civilian foreign aid. Prior to his position at USAID, Mr. Simpkins served as Deputy General Counsel at the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama Administration. He spoke about his career path, day-to-day work, and offered advice to students interested in a career involving international trade and development work.

Jean Baptiste Maillart, a visiting PhD student from the University of Geneva, he addresses the rise of Islamic State since 2014 as well as its brutality and cruel practices, often filmed and diffused online, that have sparked fear and indignity in the international community. The Islamic State's existence has also raised numerous legal issues under international law, some of which will be addressed in a series of lunch-time talks throughout the spring 2016 semester.