Videos tagged with Panels

  • The symposium on Guns Rights and Regulations Outside the Home looks at the issues left open by the Supreme Court in District of Columbia concerning whether and how the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms extends outside the home. Experts in the legal, historical, and empirical aspects of this question weigh in on the proper approach.

    Panel 2: Regulating People, Places, and Products

    Moderator: Kate Shaw, Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

  • Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana, two members of the Exonerated Five, formerly known as the Central Park Five, tell their stories to a Duke Law audience. They are the subjects of the Netflix series "When They See Us," which focuses on the conviction and later exoneration of Mr. Salaam, Mr. Santana and three others in the infamous Central Park jogger case. Dean Kerry Abrams welcomes the panelists to Duke Law and Professor Brandon Garrett interviews Mr. Salaam and Mr. Santana about their experiences. A question and answer period follows.

  • University of Texas law professor Sanford Levinson joins Duke's own Walter Dellinger for a conversation about the Supreme Court, the Second Amendment, and the future of gun rights and regulation. Levinson's article The Embarrassing Second Amendment is regarded as one of the foundational pieces of scholarship in the area. Dellinger argued District of Columbia v. Heller. Moderated by Joseph Blocher.

    Sponsored by the Duke Center for Firearms Law.

  • Two leading firearms law scholars, David B. Kopel, research director at the Independence Institute and associate policy analyst at the Cato Institute, and George A. Mocsary of the Southern Illinois University School of Law, join Professor Charles Dunlap and Professor Darrell Miller for a discussion of The Second Amendment and the Prevention of Tyranny.

    Co-sponsored by the Duke Center for Firearms Law and the Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security.

  • Retired Journalist, Lew Powell, exoneree Bob Kelly, his attorney, Mark Montgomery, as well as Jennifer Behrens from the Duke Law Library, spoke about the Little Rascals case that shook North Carolina with ultimately unsubstantiated accusations of toddlers and preschoolers being molested while at the daycare. It was one of multiple cases involving false allegations of child sexual abuse and Satanic rituals performed by daycare providers that swept the nation in the late 1980s and early 1990s.The Little Rascals Daycare Case Papers are now in the permanent collection of the J.

  • What are the top cybersecurity issues for 2019? Panelists discuss these topics. Panelists include: Ari Schwartz, the Managing Director of Cybersecurity Services at Venable, Jen Ellis, Vice President of Community and Public Affairs at Rapid 7, and Sam Curry, Chief Product Officer at Cybereason. Shane T. Stansbury (Duke Law), moderates.

    Sponsored by the Center for Law, Ethics and National Security and Duke Center on Law & Technology

  • January 28th of every year is Data Privacy Day. Data Privacy Day commemorates the Jan. 28, 1981, signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection. Leonardo Cervera Navas, Prof. David Hoffman and Prof. Jolynn Dellinger started Data Privacy Day eleven years ago with an event at Duke Law School to discuss transatlantic cooperation in privacy and data protection. Prof. Hoffman moderates a panel discussion including Prof. Jolynn Dellinger, Mr.

  • Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller discuss their book, "The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller". This title is the first comprehensive post-Heller account of the history, theory, and law of one of the Constitution's most recognized - and perhaps most misunderstood rights: the right to keep and bear arms. Senior Associate Dean Margaret H. Lemos leads the conversation.

    Co-sponsored by the Goodson Law Library and Office of the Dean.

  • Duke Law panelists disuss Juliana v. United States, a case the Supreme Court allowed to proceed in the 9th Circuit, which concerns the constitutional and public trust implications of climate change. Specifically, the youth plaintiffs argue that (1) the United States' actions that have contributed to climate change have unconstitutionally deprived future generations' right to life, liberty, and property; and (2) that the atmosphere is protected by the Public Trust Doctrine.

  • David Levi (Director of the Bolch Judicial Institute), Judge Jeffrey Sutton (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Judge Joan Larsen (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Judge Allison Eid (United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit), and Justice Goodwin Liu (Supreme Court of California) discuss Judge Sutton's book, "51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law." (Oxford University Press, 2018).

    Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute.

  • This panel discusses the ways that the Research Triangle can develop in a sustainable manner. Focuses include “green building”, policy or legal impediments, and the interaction between historic land use.

    Panelists:

    Kofi Boone, NC State University, Department of Landscape Architecture
    Timothy Johnson, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment
    Floyd McKissick, Jr., North Carolina Senate, District 20
    Danielle Spurlock, UNC Chapel Hill Department of City & Regional Planning

  • For the conclusion of the symposium, panelists will discuss how communities can continue developing in a sustainable manner. The panel delves into elements such as the interactions between human health and climate change, policy tools need to sustain development, and resilience to pollution and climate change.

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  • This panel will discusses the significance of alternative modes of transportation for sustainable urban development. This topic is examined through multiple lenses, including environmental justice reform, political and policy barriers, and efficient urban transit.

    Panelists:

    Ellen Beckmann, Senior Transportation Planner, City of Durham
    JoHanna Cockburn, Director, NCDOT Bicycle/Pedestrian Division
    Patrick McDonough, Planning/Transit Development, GoTriangle
    Karen Rindge, Executive Director, Wake Up Wake County

  • Former Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert and Facebook's Head of Global Policy Monika Bickert discuss the challenges of and opportunities for both government and the private sector for addressing digital threats, especially those utilizing social media platforms.

    Sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security.

  • The Alaska Judicial Council, created in Article IV, Section 8 of the State’s Constitution, carries out the duties of the merit selection system created by the Constitution. In this presentation, Dosik details the article by herself and Teresa W. Carns describing how the Council developed its procedures from statehood forward, and what they are at the present.

  • Due to the unique history of the territory and State of Alaska, and the social, political and legislative treatment of its indigenous inhabitants, Alaska’s Constitution has an extraordinary impact on the legal rights of Alaska Natives. Willie "Iggiagruk” Hensley was a young Inupiaq man living in remote rural Alaska at the time of the constitutional convention. He presents the perspective of Alaska Natives in the drafting and ratification of the Alaska Constitution.

  • This presentation seeks to clarify what is distinctive about the Alaska Constitution by placing it in comparative perspective. This begins with a review of the characteristics of state constitutions themselves, in contrast to the more familiar United States Constitution. Next, an introduction to the New Judicial Federalism, whereby state high courts may interpret, or at least consider interpreting, their own state constitutions to provide more protective rights than those under the US Constitution.

  • Moderators: Nita Farahany, Duke Law School, Duke Initiative for Science & Society
    Arti Rai, Duke Law School, The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law

    Sameer Antani, NIH/U.S. National Library of Medicine
    John Daley, IBM Watson Health
    Julie Anderson Daughtry, IBM Watson Health
    Nicholson Price, Michigan Law

  • Marjory Blumenthal, RAND
    Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service

    Moderators: Stephen Merrill, The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law
    Stuart Benjamin, Duke Law School, The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law

  • Moderator: Jonathan Wiener, Duke Law School, Rethinking Regulation Program at The Kenan Institute for Ethics

    J.B. Ruhl, Vanderbilt Law
     Group discussion

  • Introductory Remarks
    Stuart Benjamin, Duke Law School, The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law

    Nita Farahany, Duke Law School, Duke Initiative for Science & Society

    Jeff Ward, Duke Law School, Duke Center on Law & Technology

    Jonathan Wiener, Duke Law School, Rethinking Regulation Program at The Kenan Institute for Ethics

  • AI, Automated Vehicles, and Transportation Policy

    Moderator: Jeff Ward, Duke Law School, Duke Center on Law & Technology

    Missy Cummings, Duke University
    Michael Clamann, Duke University
    Bryant Walker Smith, University of South Carolina Law

  • Moderator: Arti Rai, Duke Law School, The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law

    Liat Belinson, AI Patents
    Scott Beliveau, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
    Alex Measure, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
    Ian Wetherbee, Google

  • Professors, practitioners, and competitors discuss the Fourth Circuit case of United States v. Robinson from the Hardt Cup Moot Court Tournament this year. The case involves wide-ranging and overlapping issues regarding high-crime areas and relationships with police, gun rights, and 4th amendment protections against unreasonable search-and-seizure.

    Panelists: Professors Lisa K. Griffin and Guy-Uriel Charles, as well as First Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of North Carolina, G. Alan DuBois.

    Sponsored by the Moot Court Board.

  • The Center for Innovation Policy's conference, "The Decline in Corporate Research: Should We Worry?", was held on March 31, 2017, at Duke's "Duke in D.C." offices.

    Panel 4: Forces for Change

    Moderator: Bill Janeway, Warburg Pincus & Cambridge University

    Discussants:
    1. Globalization: Increased competition and increased
    market opportunities
    Pian Shu, Harvard Business School