News Archives 2004

  • Television personality Bob Barker donates $1 million to Duke Law School for Animal Law study (more)
  • Criminal procedure expert Nancy J. King examines federal appellate review of sentencing in annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture at Duke Law School (more)
  • Living History: Great Lives in the Law features renowned historian and James B. Duke Professor Emeritus John Hope Franklin, in conversation with Duke Law Professor Walter Dellinger (more)
  • President Bush should bridge the divide, nominate a moderate jurist to the U.S. Supreme Court, says Duke Law Professor Neil Siegel (more)
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Sudeen Kelly and other policy makers, practitioners, and legal scholars discuss issues at the intersection of environmental regulation, energy, and economics at conference sponsored by Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum (more)
  • Sara Sun Beale, Charles B. Lowndes Professor of Law, has been appointed reporter to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules (more)
  • AIDS Legal Project Director Carolyn McAllaster reflects on the changing face and challenges of AIDS, marking Dec. 1 World AIDS Day (more)
  • Student volunteers in Duke Law School's Innocence Project, advised by Jim Coleman, undertake six-month re-investigation of Winston Salem, N.C. assault case (more)
  • Thou Shalt Not? Yonat Shimron of the Raleigh News & Observer examines Van Orden v. Perry, a Ten Commandments case to be argued by Duke Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky before the U.S. Supreme Court this term (more)
  • WTO Condemnation of U.S. Ban on Internet gambling pits free trade against moral values, says Duke Law Professor Joost Pauwelyn (more)
  • Duke Law Professor Jonathan Wiener and Fuqua School of Business Professor Laura Kornish on stopping the next flu pandemic: the vaccine shell game (more)
  • International law scholars Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks deliver Duke Law Journal Fall Lecture Nov. 18, entitled How to Influence States: Socialization and International Human Rights Law (more)
  • Honor Week Nov. 15-19 features presentations by Duke Law Professor and N.C. State Rep. Deborah Ross, Author David Callahan, and Duke Professor Bruce Payne (PDF)
  • Walter Dellinger prepares for oral argument before U.S. Supreme Court with Nov. 19 moot at Duke Law School (more)
  • Duke Law Professors Walter Dellinger, Erwin Chemerinsky, and Neil Siegel offer post-election analysis (more)
  • Duke Law Professor Carolyn McAllaster looks back on Greensboro Massacre as important reminder of the need to protect civil liberties (more)
  • Criminal practice and procedure expert Nancy King to deliver Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture Nov. 16 at Duke Law School (more)
  • Duke Law Professor Deborah DeMott testifies as expert witness in Walt Disney Company case (more)
  • Michigan Law Professor Carl Schneider speaks about legal career choices Nov. 8 at Duke Law School (more)
  • Duke Law Professor Walter Dellinger defends the Electoral College (more)
  • James Love, director of the Consumer Project on Technology, speaks about A New Trade Framework for Global Healthcare Research and Development as Information Ecology Series continues Nov. 4 (more)
  • Duke Law Professor Neil Siegel urges voters to consider the future of the Supreme Court (more)
  • Duke Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky looks at possible election legal challenges (more)
  • Third Annual Bernstein Lecturer Chibli Mallat examines patterns in emerging constitutions (more)
  • Children's Education Law Clinic experience leads Luke Lantta '04 into fellowship; Duke Law clinics launch new websites (more)
  • Chief defense counsel for the "enemy combatant" detainees being held at Guantanamo Naval Base Will A. Gunn speaks at Duke Law School (more)
  • Duke Law School Information Services Week highlights the role of the Law Library, Computing Services and Educational Technologies in the law school community (pdf)
  • Duke Law School hosts second annual Workshop of the German Law Journal (more)
  • Sports and Entertainment Law Society hosts Oct. 29 panel discussion examining labor issues in professional sports at Duke Law School (more)
  • Duke Law Professor Robinson O. Everett lauded for professionalism; Everett Criminal Law Symposium Oct. 22 examines modern criminal law for the civil law practitioner (more)
  • Professor Curtis Bradley to join Duke Law faculty (more)
  • Fourth Annual International Week Oct. 18-22 features faculty debate, cultural extravaganza, and food festival (pdf)
  • A growing law school stays small: Dean Katharine Bartlett discusses new initiatives at Duke Law School (more)
  • Duke Law faculty integral to new Center for the Study of Public Genomics at Duke (more); fellowship opportunity available (more)
  • Duke Law Professor Neil Siegel: Upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term could include historic rulings (more)
  • Justice Stephen Breyer should recuse himself from ruling on constitutionality of federal sentencing guidelines, Duke Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky says (more)
  • ACLU President Nadine Strossen in conversation with Duke Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky Sept. 30 at Duke Law School (more)
  • Faculty Lives in Public Service: Jim Coleman shares his stories (more)
  • Islamic law expert Chibli Mallat speaks about Constitutions for the 21st Century: Emerging patterns-the EU, Iraq, Afghanistan in third annual Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture in International and Comparative Law Sept. 28 at Duke Law School (more)
  • Professor Scott Silliman discusses troubling questions in interrogating terrorists (from Duke Magazine) (more)
  • Duke Bar Association named top law school student government by American Bar Association (more)
  • Orientation 2004: Wrongly imprisoned, Darryl Hunt tells first-year students to "Do what's just" (more)
  • William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law James Boyle is one of four regular columnists for the Financial Times online-edition's New Economy Policy Forum (more)
  • Community Enterprise Clinic receives grant from Racial Justice Collaborative (more)
  • Enhancing the classroom with technology: Professor Tom Metzloff produces court-case documentaries to enrich legal instruction and learning (more)
  • Business Executive Stanley A. Star and the Star Family Foundation will give $3 million to Duke Law School in support of building and renovation projects (more)
  • Director of Computing Services Ken Hirsh receives National Computing Services-Special Interest Section Distinguished Service Award named in his honor (more)
  • Director Jane Wettach announces gift to Children's Education Law Clinic from Toys "R" Us (more)
  • The Duke Blueprint to LEAD charts the way for new student orientation Aug. 16-20 (PDF)
  • The Economist discusses a proposal by Duke Law Professor Arti Rai and others for an open-source approach to invent drugs to fight tropical diseases (more)
  • Community Enterprise Clinic Director Andrew Foster reports second-year success (more)
  • Professor Robinson Everett receives North Carolina Bar Association's highest award (more)
  • Special seminars, alumni reception and tour of World Bank highlight Summer Passport Series for joint-degree students (PDF)
  • Professor Scott Silliman, director of Duke's Center for Law, Ethics and National Security, comments on prison abuse at Abu Ghraib (more)
  • Professors Jim Coleman and Theresa Newman work to right wrongful convictions (more)
  • Brown v. Board gains are being undone, says Professor Charles Clotfelter, author of the new book After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation (more)
  • Law Professors Steven Schwarcz, Jonathan Wiener and Lawrence Zelenak earn distinguished professorships (more)
  • Five graduating students receive Justin Miller Awards (more)
  • The Arts Project at Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain hosts conference on how law constructs and constrains culture and launches 2-minute moving image contest
  • U.S. Solicitor Theodore Olson advises 307 law graduates on professional success - and failure - at 2004 commencement ceremony (more)
  • Professor Deborah Rhode of Stanford Law School takes on tort reform in third annual Siegel Memorial Lecture (more)
  • Global Capital Markets Center hosts third annual conference on corporate governance (more)
  • Students gain hands-on legal experience helping others in Southern Justice Spring Break Mission Trip (more)
  • U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson to address law graduates (more)
  • Gala, Justin Miller Awards headline week of graduation activities for Class of 2004 (PDF)
  • Duke Law scholarly journals publish new works addressing criminal and constitutional law and science, technology and the law (more)
  • Professors Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk recruited to Duke Law (more)
  • Distinguished environmental law scholar James Salzman, noted author Jedediah Purdy, and U.S. Supreme Court clerk Neil Siegel will join the Duke Law School faculty (more)
  • Duke Law welcomes back alumni and friends for Reunion Weekend 2004 (more)
  • Duke Law School Center on Law, Ethics and National Security hosts major conference on U.S.-Canadian Relations Apr. 15-16 (more)
  • Public Law Conference Apr. 16-17 to recognize scholarship of Professor William Van Alstyne (more)
  • Dean Katharine T. Bartlett interviews Julie Goodridge, plaintiff in the Massachusettes same-sex marriage case, in Apr. 13 event (PDF)
  • Nominations sought for Justin Miller Awards honoring outstanding graduating students (more)
  • Duke Law Library holds fourth annual Faculty Authors Reception Apr. 8 (more)
  • The Arts Project at Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, in association with the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, sponsors Apr. 2 conference on how law constructs and constrains culture (more)
  • Duke Law Journal sponsors thirty-third annual Administrative Law Conference Apr. 2 (more)
  • Business Law Society brings together students, alumni, practitioners for second annual Business Law Career Symposium Apr. 2 (more)
  • Legal ethics and gender discrimination scholar Deborah Rhode delivers Mar. 31 Rabbi Seymour Siegel Memorial Lecture in Medical-Legal Ethics (more)
  • Duke Law Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society hosts Mar. 26 Hot Topics in Intellectual Property Law Symposium (CLE credit available) (more)
  • Duke Law Students Dimitri Varmazis '04 and Sebastian Kielmanovich '04 receive competitive North Carolina public interest law fellowships (more)
  • Jonathan Krause '04 wins 2004 Dean's Cup Moot Court Competition (more)
  • Duke Law School hosts Seminar for Federal Judges ( more)
  • Duke Law community mourns the death of Professor Jerome Culp (more)
  • SEC Selects Duke Law professor Francis McGovern to distribute $400M to aggrieved investors (more)
  • The Honorable Richard Goldstone delivers Mar. 1 Great Lives in the Law lecture (more)
  • Public Interest Law Foundation hosts annual Auction and Gala Feb. 27 and launches new website featuring Duke Law apparel for sale to raise money for summer public interest employment (more)
  • Judaic Themes in American Law lunch discussion Feb. 26 features prominent scholar, Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson (more)
  • Duke Law students take second place in WTO Moot Court Competition (more)
  • Science and technology policy expert Lewis Branscomb delivers Feb. 19 Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property Law (more)
  • Students take a break from job interviews and studying to participate in the second annual Student Leadership Retreat for organization leaders (more)
  • Charles Ogletree, documentary film highlight Duke's 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration (more)