Duke Law | Mental Illness and the Criminally Accused
June 30, 2021 - The Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law hosts a roundtable discussion about people with mental illnesses who are criminally accused and found incompetent to proceed in the criminal legal system. Topics include how competency restoration poses a challenge and costly management problem for state mental health and criminal legal systems; alternative pathways to community reentry for this population; the ethical-legal aspects; how mental health authorities and policymakers in different states are (or aren't) dealing with it, and what should be done. Panelists are Dr. Reena Kapoor, from Yale School of Medicine; Dr. Debra Pinals, from University of Michigan Law and Medicine; W. Lawrence Fitch, from University of Maryland Francis King Cary School of Law; and Dr. William Fisher, who works with the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Dr. Jeffrey Swanson from Duke School of Medicine will moderate.

Duke Law Graduation 2021 | Professor Theresa Newman '88
May 15, 2021 - Professor Theresa Newman—the Charles S. Rhyne Clinical Professor of Law, co-founder and co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic, and a leader in the national innocence movement—was the distinguished speaker at the Duke Law Convocation Ceremony held on May 15, 2021 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. A longtime member of the Duke Law faculty, Newman also serves as associate director of the Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility and faculty adviser to Duke’s student-led chapter of the Innocence Project. After earning her law degree at Duke, Newman clerked for the Honorable J. Dickson Phillips, Jr., on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She was a founding member of the board of the international Innocence Network, was the group’s inaugural co-president and later served as its president, helping set standards and ethical guidelines for innocence clinics across the country. Newman has twice been honored by the Law School’s Law Alumni Association, receiving the Young Alumni Award in 2003, and sharing the A. Kenneth Pye Award for Excellence in Education with Professor James E. Coleman, Jr., in 2018.

Duke Law Graduation 2021 | Garmai Gorlorwulu '21
May 15, 2021 - Garmai Gorlorwulu '21 addressed the JD Class of 2021 at the Duke Law Convocation Ceremony held on May 15, 2021 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Garmai is from Portland, Oregon, by way of Liberia, and graduated from Stanford University with a degree in human biology with a concentration in African conflict, development, and health. At Duke, she served as the co-chair of the Womxn of Color Collective and the Coalition Against Gendered Violence. She was the special projects editor for the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy and was on the board of the Black Law Students Association and First Generation Professionals (1GP). After graduation, Garmai will join the Portland office of Perkins Coie.

Duke Law Graduation 2021 | Taísa Condino LLM '21
May 15, 2021 - Taísa Condino LLM'21 addressed the LLM Class of 2021 at the Duke Law Convocation Ceremony held on May 15, 2021 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Taisa is from São Paulo and graduated from Mackenzie University with a dual degree in business administration and law. She also holds a master’s degree in international advocacy from ISDE in Spain and is admitted to practice law in Brazil and Portugal. At Duke, she served in the International Law Society, collaborated with the Civil Justice Clinic, and participated in the Legal Design Derby to maximize access to justice in North Carolina, where her team won the Driving Collaboration Award. After graduation she will continue her international career as a corporate lawyer.

Duke Law Graduation 2021
May 15, 2021 - 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.

Duke Law | Cherish the Memories: Class of 2021
May 15, 2021 - Enjoy this look back at some of the favorite moments for Duke Law's Class of 2021, inside and outside of the classroom. We're proud of all the students' hard work and look forward to celebrating this milestone.

Duke Law | PIPS Certificate Graduation Ceremony 2021
May 13, 2021 - Join us as we celebrate 30 students in the Class of 2021 who have earned the Certificate in Public Interest and Public Service Law. Appearing: Dean Kerry Abrams, Stella Boswell (Assistant Dean for Public Interest and Pro Bono), Bethan Eynon (Director of Public Interest Careers), and Prof. Michelle Nowlin (Chair, Public Interest and Pro Bono Faculty Committee). Sponsored by Office of Public Interest and Pro Bono.
For more information about Public Interest & Public Service at Duke Law visit: https://law.duke.edu/publicinterest/

Global Financial Markets Center | The Archegos Implosion
April 29, 2021 - Investor Bill Hwang set off a storm in the stock market in March when his firm, Archegos Capital Management, and its banks, began liquidating huge positions in blue-chip companies, according to people familiar with the transactions. The sales sent individual stocks swooning and have left at least three banks with major damage. As a family office - a firm generally created to handle the investments of a single wealthy person and a small circle around them - Archegos was essentially unregulated. Please join us for a panel discussion with Professors Gina-Gail Fletcher, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Jim Cox, Lee Reiners, and Lawrence Baxter on why Archegos failed, who got hurt, and what should be done about it. Sponsored by the Global Financial Markets Center.

Jennie Lee Anderson and David Kessler discuss best practices regarding proportional discovery
April 29, 2021 - Jennie Lee Anderson (partner, Andrus Anderson LLP) and David Kessler (partner, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP) discussed the updates made to the Third Edition of the Guidelines and Best Practices for Implementing the 2015 Discovery Amendments. Ms. Anderson and Mr. Kessler were part of the working group that produced the Guidelines, and their discussion covers both a plaintiff and defendant perspective on the meaning of proportional discovery in a wide range of contexts. The Guidelines are freely available on the Bolch Judicial Institute's website.

Conversations on Innovation | Robert Atkinson & James Lewis
April 26, 2021 - This is the first event in the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law's Spring 2021 seminar series, "Conversations on Innovation: New Thinking and New Approaches." The seminars seek to shed light on innovation policy issues that are on the horizon. We will host a broad range of speakers with deep experience working within the innovation ecosystem in the U.S.A. and abroad. To kick off the series, we are thrilled to have two knowledgeable experts sit down with Duke Law School Professor Arti Rai to exchange ideas about the evolving strengths and weaknesses of the American R&D system: Robert Atkinson, President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), and James Lewis, Director of the Technology Program at The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law.

Race & The Law | Ian Haney López
April 22, 2021 - Ian Haney Lopez, a racial justice scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley, spoke to students as part of Duke Law's "Race and the Law" course and speaker series. The course was offered during the 2021 spring semester and taught by Duke Law's Trina Jones, the Jerome M. Culp Professor of Law; Guy-Uriel Charles, the Edward and Ellen Schwarzman Professor of Law; and, H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr., the John Hope Franklin Research Scholar and Professor of Law. For more information about the series see: https://law.duke.edu/news/new-race-and-law-speakers-series-confronts-ame...

Global Financial Markets Center | Financial Regulation Under the Biden Administration
April 22, 2021 - Financial services regulatory reform will continue to be active these next three plus years, with the Biden administration focused on activity at the intersection of financial regulation and social policy. However, the pace and tenor of change under the Biden administration will be heavily influenced by the leadership of and senior personnel at the federal prudential and market regulators. This panel discussion with Professors Sarah Bloom Raskin, Gina-Gail Fletcher, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Jim Cox, and Lawrence Baxter covers what we might expect for financial regulation under the Biden administration. Moderated by Lee Reiners. Sponsored by the Global Financial Markets Center.

Duke Law | Rising Anti-Asian Violence
April 15, 2021 - The Office of Dean and Kerry Abrams host this discussion on 'Rising Anti-Asian Violence in the U.S.,' with guest speakers Robert Chang JD/MA '92, executive director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality and professor of law at the Seattle University School of Law; Stephen Lee, professor of law and associate dean for Faculty Research and Development at the UC-Irvine School of Law; and Jo-Ann Yoo, executive director of the Asian American Federation. This discussion is moderated by Bethan Eynon, director of Public Interest Careers at Duke Law. Panelists provided key frameworks for understanding and disrupting the nuanced ways in which structural racism in America uniquely impacts those who identify and who are identified as Asian American and Pacific Islander, including the "model minority myth" and "foreigner status." They discussed how all types of anti-Asian bias can be placed within these analyses to understand the context for what can seem like individualized and isolated issues. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of how anti-Asian bias and discrimination fits within broader structural racism concepts and will be challenged to consider our implicit biases. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean and the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association at Duke Law.

Duke Law | Hardt Cup Championship Round 2021
April 09, 2021 - The Duke Law Moot Court Board invites you to the championship round of this year's Duke Law Hardt Cup Competition. The Honorable Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, D.C. Court of Appeals, the Honorable Mary Scriven, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, and the Honorable Wes Hendrix, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, will be judging our two finalists: Julianna Ricigliano ’23 and runner-up John Addy ’23. Read more about the event at: https://law.duke.edu/news/ricigliano-23-wins-final-round-hardt-cup Sponsored by the Duke Law Moot Court Board.

Novel Justice | The Feminist War On Crime by Aya Gruber
April 06, 2021 - Novel Justice is a book event series hosted by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. We invite authors to discuss recently published criminal justice books and to engage in Q&A with faculty and students. Aya Gruber is Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Her book, The Feminist War on Crime: the Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration, documents the failure of the state to combat sexual and domestic violence through law and punishment. Join us for a conversation and Q&A with Gruber about her work. Wilson Center Director Brandon Garrett is host. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.

Duke Law | DACA: Resilience in the Face of Adversity
April 05, 2021 - Duke's Immigrant and Refugee Project (DIRP) invites you to join us as we discuss the legal, social, and economic, challenges that DACA recipients face and highlight the resilience of the undocumented communities, the status of community mobilization efforts, and actions allies can take. Appearing: Luis Basurto Villanueva JD '21, introductions ; Prof. Kate Evans (Duke Law), moderator ; Reyna Montova and Vanessa Luna, former undocumented immigrants and activists, and Jeffrey Davidson, a partner at Covington & Burling and a DACA defender. Sponsored by the Immigrant Rights Clinic and Duke Immigrant and Refugee Project, and co-sponsored by the Hart Leadership Program, Duke Student Affairs, the Latin American Law Students Association, the Asian and Pacific American Law Students Association, the Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association, OutLaw, the ACLU, the Human Rights Law Society, First Generation Professionals, and the Duke National Lawyers' Guild.

Duke Law | Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion
April 01, 2021 - Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a community-based diversion approach with the goals of improving public safety and public order and reducing unnecessary justice system involvement of people who participate in the program. Join us for a panel of experts who will discuss their work and experience with LEAD. They are Lisa Daugaard, Director of the Public Defender Association; Reed Baer, Deputy Chief of Police of the Hickory Police Department in North Carolina; and Charlton Roberson, a peer support specialist from Fayetteville's LEAD program. Allison Robertson, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke, and Melissia Larson, LEAD Coordinator at North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, will moderate. The discussion is followed by a Q&A. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.

Autopsy of a Crime Lab | Dispelling the myth of a perfect forensic match
March 31, 2021 - Brandon Garrett, the L. Neil Williams Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law and Director of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice, discusses his recent book: "Autopsy of a Crime Lab Exposing the Flaws in Forensics." Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.

Autopsy of a Crime Lab | An Interview with Itiel Dror
March 31, 2021 - Brandon Garrett, the L. Neil Williams Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law and Director of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice, discusses his recent book: "Autopsy of a Crime Lab Exposing the Flaws in Forensics." Itiel Dror, a cognitive neuroscientist, discusses how bias affects forensics methods. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.

Autopsy of a Crime Lab | Wrongful Convictions
March 31, 2021 - Brandon Garrett, the L. Neil Williams Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law and Director of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice, discusses his recent book: "Autopsy of a Crime Lab Exposing the Flaws in Forensics." Keith Harward discusses his release after his wrongful conviction involving bad forensics. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.

Autopsy of a Crime Lab | Exploding the Myth of Fingerprint Infallibility with Sharia Mayfield
March 31, 2021 - Brandon Garrett, the L. Neil Williams Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law and Director of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice, discusses his recent book: "Autopsy of a Crime Lab Exposing the Flaws in Forensics." Sharia Mayfield discusses the myth of fingerprint infallibility. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.

Duke Law | Dean's Cup Final Round 2021
March 30, 2021 - The Duke Law Moot Court Board invites you to the final round of this year's Dean's Cup, Duke's premier oral advocacy competition. The Honorable Morgan Christen, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, the Honorable Barbara Lagoa, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the Honorable Carl E. Stewart, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will be judging our two finalists, Eric Roytman ’21 and Maurice Baynard ’21, for what is sure to be a fantastic round. Read more about the event at: https://law.duke.edu/news/roytman-21-prevails-final-round-deans-cup-moot... Sponsored by the Moot Court Board.

Faculty Scholarship | Joseph Blocher: "Why Regulate Guns?" & "When Guns Threaten the Public Sphere"
March 29, 2021 - Joseph Blocher, the Lanty L. Smith ’67 Professor of Law at Duke Law and faculty co-director of the Duke Center for Firearms Law, discusses his recent two scholarly articles: "Why Regulate Guns?" and "When Guns Threaten the Public Sphere: A New Account of Public Safety Regulation Under Heller." Prof. Blocher co-wrote both pieces with Reva Siegel, the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Related paper: Reva B. Siegel & Joseph Blocher, Why Regulate Guns?, 48 The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 11-16 (Supp. II 2020). Available on SSRN at: https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3599603 Related paper: Joseph Blocher & Reva B. Siegel, When Guns Threaten the Public Sphere: A New Account of Public Safety Regulation Under Heller, 116 Northwestern University Law Review (fortcoming 2021). Available on SSRN at: https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3764258

Duke Law | Autopsy of a Crime Lab
March 25, 2021 - Duke Law Professor and Wilson Center Director Brandon Garrett's new book, Autopsy of a Crime Lab, Exposing the Flaws in Forensics, is the first to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms. This video documents a roundtable discussion about the book and its findings with Garrett; Erin Murphy, Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties at New York University School of Law; Edward Cheng, the Hess Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School; and Jennifer Mnookin, Dean, Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Professor of Law, and Faculty Co-Director of Program on Understanding Law, Science and Evidence at UCLA Law. The discussion is followed by a Q&A. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.

Duke Law | A Blueprint for Bail Reform
March 18, 2021 - Duke Law professor and Wilson Center Director Brandon Garrett and Sandra Guerra Thompson, professor of law and director of the Criminal Justice Institute at the University of Houston Law Center, discuss their work as independent monitors for a landmark bail reform settlement in Texas. This settlement could become a national model for cash bail reform. The discussion is followed by a Q & A. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.

Laurence Helfer | Derogations from Human Rights Treaties During Covid 19
March 17, 2021 - Numerous governments have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by declaring states of
emergency and restricting individual liberties protected by international law. However, many
more states have adopted emergency measures than have formally derogated from human rights
conventions. This discussion critically evaluates the existing system of human rights
treaty derogations. It analyzes the system’s problems, identifies recent developments that have
exacerbated these problems, and proposes a range of reforms in five areas—embeddedness,
engagement, information, timing, and scope. Appearing: Richard Ong, Columbia Law School 2L, and Laurence Helfer, Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law at Duke Law Hosted by Columbia Law School.

Tina Huang & Kurt Tjossem | Food Insecurity, Climate Change, and Human Rights
March 15, 2021 - Tina Huang, Research Analyst, World Resources Institute, and Kurt Tjossem, Regional Vice President, Horn and East Africa, International Rescue Committee, discuss food security and climactic factors. The program is moderated by Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Clinical Professor of Law (Teaching) and Supervising Attorney, International Human Rights Clinic. This event is part of the Duke Law Human Rights in Practice series organized by the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic. Co-sponsored by the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute; the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics; the Duke Environmental Law Society; the Duke Food Law Society; the Human Rights Law Society; and the International Law Society.

Duke Law | Back to the Future: America's Youth Organizing for Environmental Justice
March 13, 2021 - Community Visions for Environmental Justice Organizing will explore how technical assistance providers such as academics, students, lawyers, researchers, and scientists can support community-based and community-led movements for environmental justice. Session III focuses on youth movements for environmental justice.
Sponsored by the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, the Howard University School of Law, Shaw University, Vermont Law School, and the Yale School of Forestry and the Environment.
The speakers include:
Leah Thomas, Founder, the Intersectional Environmentalist
Justin Onwenu, Environmental Justice Organizer, Sierra Club
Wanjiku Gatheru, NSEG Candidate, Oxford University
Cierra Manassa-Curin, poet
Originally recorded on March 13, 2021.

The Federalist Society Insurrection: How a Lawyers' Group Contributed to Violence at the Capitol
March 09, 2021 - On January 6, 2021, a violent mob attempted to subvert and overthrow the democratic process. These insurrectionists were galvanized and cheered by numerous high-level Federalist Society lawyers. Mark Joseph Stern discusses the Federalist Society's role in the insurrection and attempt to subvert democracy, and their stunning silence in the wake of these tragic events. Stern is a legal analyst and Supreme Court correspondent at Slate, who has long covered the Federalist Society's impact on the judiciary. Co-sponsored by the Duke Law Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Constitutional Society, the National Lawyers Guild, the Black Law Students Association, OutLaw, and If/When/How.

Duke Law | Community Re-entry for the Formerly Incarcerated
March 09, 2021 - Formerly incarcerated individuals face many barriers when re-entering their communities. Learn more about those barriers and the programs successfully addressing them, and hear from formerly incarcerated individuals who have experienced trying to re-enter society. The roundtable for this event includes Alice Marie Johnson, a criminal justice reform advocate and former federal prisoner pardoned by former President Donald Trump; Dontae Sharpe, a North Carolina exoneree who now works at Forward Justice; and Elenore Wade, who teaches as a Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Law & Friedman Fellow at The George Washington University Law School's Prisoner & Reentry Clinic. The panel is followed by a Q&A. Wilson Center Director Brandon Garrett moderates. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.

Beyond COVID | Election 2020: Post-Election Litigation
March 09, 2021 - David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute and president of The American Law Institute, leads a panel discussion about the legal strike force “SG3” that assembled in response to the Trump campaign's challenges to the 2020 election. Panelists include Seth Waxman, former U.S. Solicitor General and partner at WilmerHale; Walter Dellinger, former acting U.S. Solicitor General, Douglas B. Maggs Professor Emeritus of Law at Duke University, and partner at O'Melveny & Myers; and Donald B. Verrilli, former U.S. Solicitor General and partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute and the American Law Institute.

Duke Law | Navigating the Now: Resources and Strategies During the Syndemic
March 06, 2021 - Community Visions for Environmental Justice Organizing will explore how technical assistance providers such as academics, students, lawyers, researchers, and scientists can support community-based and community-led movements for environmental justice. Session II focuses on resources and strategies in the syndemic.
Sponsored by the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, the Howard University School of Law, Shaw University, Vermont Law School, and the Yale School of Forestry and the Environment.
Yvette Arellano, Founder, Fenceline Watch
Kayla DeWaldt de Wendt
Dr. Adrienne Hollis, Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, moderator
Originally recorded on March 6, 2021.

Edith Nieves Lopez & Thomas Williams | Institutional Inequity and the COVID Vaccine
March 01, 2021 - The Duke Immigrant and Refugee Project invites you to join us as we discuss how racial disparities in healthcare make Black and Latinx people less likely to receive a vaccine despite being more likely to become sick from COVID-19 as well as how these disparities intersect with historical distrust of public health systems. Please join us for a conversation between Duke Law's Professor Thomas Williams and Triangle area physician Edith Nieves Lopez. Co-sponsored by Duke Law's ACLU, LALSA, HLS, and the Immigrant Rights Clinic.
Also appearing: Kate Evans, Director of the Duke Immigrant Rights Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law

Talita Dias & Gowri Ramachandran | Voting Security Issues & Cyber Interference in Elections
March 01, 2021 - Talita Dias, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, Junior Research Fellow & Lecturer in Criminal Law, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, and Gowri Ramachandran, Counsel, Election Security, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law discuss voting security. Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Clinical Professor of Law (Teaching) and Supervising Attorney, International Human Rights Clinic, moderator. This event is part of the Duke Law Human Rights in Practice series organized by the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic. Co-sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute; the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics; the Human Rights Law Society; and the International Law Society.

Duke Law | Seeking Justice Through Policy Environmental Justice Legislation and Executive Action
February 27, 2021 - Community Visions for Environmental Justice Organizing will explore how technical assistance providers such as academics, students, lawyers, researchers, and scientists can support community-based and community-led movements for environmental justice. Session I focuses on legislation and executive action. Sponsored by the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, the Howard University School of Law, Shaw University, Vermont Law School, and the Yale School of Forestry and the Environment. Moderator: Marianne Engelman Lado Speakers: 
Veronica Bitting, Equitable and Economic Development Director, Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods
Steve Fischbach, Litigation Director, Virginia Poverty Law Center
Leslie Fields, National Director, Policy, Advocacy and Legal, Sierra Club Oriignally recorded on February 27, 2021.

Bolch Institute | Judgment Calls: A Conversation with Judge Jacqueline Nguyen
February 24, 2021 - Judge Jacqueline Nguyen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit joined Professor David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute, for a discussion about her career and time on the bench. Judge Nguyen was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals on May 7, 2012, and is the first Asian American woman to serve on a federal court of appeals. Prior to her confirmation, she was the first Asian American woman to serve as a district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She began her judicial career as a trial judge on the Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles, serving from 2002 to 2009. Prior to taking the bench, she spent seven years as a federal prosecutor in the U.S Attorney's Office in Los Angeles where she also served as a Deputy Chief in charge of training new Assistant U.S. Attorneys. She began her legal career in private practice. Judge Nguyen received her A.B. from Occidental College in 1987, and her J.D. from UCLA Law School in 1991.

Duke Law | Race and the 1L Curriculum: Constitutional Law
February 23, 2021 - Professors Matt Adler, Joseph Blocher, and Ernie Young engage in a panel discussion with Christina Duffy Ponsa-Kraus, George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History at Columbia Law School, exploring a range of constitutional issues-typically uncovered in the 1L curriculum-that arose in the decades following the Civil War and Reconstruction. Professor Ponsa-Kraus discusses some of the legal questions surrounding the status of Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories, including in particular the history and continuing relevance of the century-old Insular Cases. Professor Young in turn will discuss the failure of the 14th Amendment to prevent the collapse of Reconstruction or provide anything like equal rights to black Americans for the better part of a century, as well as the implications of that failure for constitutional law and theory. The event is followed by questions and discussion amongst the panel and audience. This event is part of the series on Race and the 1L Curriculum. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean. Originally recorded on February 25, 2021.

Novel Justice | Evaluating Police Uses of Force by Seth Stoughton
February 23, 2021 - Seth W. Stoughton is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and an Associate Professor (Affiliate) in the university's Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His book, Evaluating Police Uses of Force, explores a critical but largely overlooked facet of the difficult and controversial issues of police violence and accountability: how does society evaluate use-of-force incidents? This video records a conversation and following Q&A with Stoughton about his work. Wilson Center Director Brandon Garrett moderates. Novel Justice is a book event series hosted by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice. We invite authors to discuss recently published criminal justice books and to engage in Q&A with faculty and students.

Lawyers & Leaders | Marc Elias '93
February 19, 2021 - Dean Kerry Abrams launches Lawyers and Leaders, a new series of conversations with pathbreaking figures in the legal profession and beyond. Her first guest is Marc Elias '93, founder of Democracy Docket and the chair of the political law group Perkins Coie in Washington. A nationally recognized authority and expert in campaign finance, voting rights, redistricting law, and litigation, Marc represents the national Democratic Party, as well as dozens of U.S. senators, governors, representatives, campaigns, and other Democratic groups. During the 2020 election cycle Marc's voting rights practice brought over 150 cases in 30 states, totaling over 120 victories in courtrooms around the country, and winning 64 of 67 post-election cases on behalf of the Democratic National Committee and the Biden campaign. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean.

Ben Finholt | Describes the Just Sentencing Project to the Wilson Center for Science and Justice
February 19, 2021 - Ben Finholt, Director, Just Sentencing Project with NC Prisoner Legal Services, summarizes the organization's mission and work to the Wilson Center. Originally recorded on February 19, 2021.

Duke Law | Six Trials and 23 Years: Curtis Flowers Talks Justice with the Wilson Center
February 18, 2021 - Curtis Flowers is a Mississippi man who was tried six times for the same crime and whose case was the subject of Season 2 of the APM Reports podcast "In the Dark". He spent nearly 23 years behind bars and endured six trials and four death sentences for four murders he has always maintained he did not commit. Four of the trials resulted in convictions, all of which were overturned on appeal. Flowers' case was one of three that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 2016 were to be remanded to lower courts to be reviewed for evidence of racial bias in jury selection. He was finally freed in 2020 when the Mississippi Attorney General's Office dismissed indictments against him. Flowers participates in this event with his attorney, Henderson Hill, to discuss his years-long saga and the injustices of a system zeroed in on convicting him. The discussion is followed by a Q&A. The Wilson Center's Director Brandon Garrett moderates. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science & Justice.

Duke Law | Alternatives to Police Response to Behavioral Crises
February 16, 2021 - Police have become the de facto first responders to behavioral health crises despite rarely receiving adequate training to safely and effectively handle the situation. The consequences of this are reflected in the disproportionate number of people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders killed by police every year and held in jails and prisons. A panel of experts - Dr. Tracie Keesee, Co-founder and Senior Vice President of Justice Initiatives at the Center for Policing Equity; Timothy Black, Director of Consulting for White Bird Clinic; and Christy E. Lopez, Professor from Practice at Georgetown Law - discuss alternatives to police responses when it comes to behavioral health crises. Dr. Marvin Swartz, from Duke Health, will moderate. This event features a Q&A. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Science and Justice.

Aruna Kashyap & Achal Prabhala | Human Rights and the COVID Vaccine: Distribution and Access
February 15, 2021 - This discussion features Aruna Kashyap, Senior Counsel, Business and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, and Achal Prabhala, Coordinator, AccessIBSA project and Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation. The program is moderated by Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Clinical Professor of Law (Teaching) and Supervising Attorney, International Human Rights Clinic. This event is part of the Duke Law Human Rights in Practice series organized by the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic. Co-sponsored by the Duke Law Health Justice Clinic, the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute; the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics; the Health Law Society; the Human Rights Law Society; and the International Law Society. Originally recorded February 15, 2021.

Duke Law | Constitutional Principals: Administrative Adjudication and Arthrex
February 12, 2021 - The Supreme Court will hear argument in United States v. Arthrex, Inc. on March 1, 2021. The issue before the Court is the application of the Appointments Clause to judges of the Patent Trial and Appeals Board, a tribunal established by Congress in 2012 within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The decision below by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that administrative patent judges were principal officers under the Constitution. The Arthrex case focuses on the proper construction of the Appointments Clause and, more broadly, the proper role of administrative adjudication. Distinguished commentators on this program included a Federal Circuit judge and renowned academics whose scholarship has focused on the key patent, administrative, and constitutional issues. Appearing in Panel I: Arti Rai (Duke Law), moderator ; the Honorable Timothy Dyk (United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit), Prof. John Duffy (UVA Law), and Melissa Wasserman (University of Texas Law), panelists. Appearing in Panel II: Stuart Benjamin (Duke Law), moderator ; Michael Asimow (Santa Clara Law), Jennifer Mascott (Antonin Scalia Law School), Nina Mendelson, (University of Michigan Law), and Christopher Walker (Ohio State Moritz College of Law). Panel II titled: Administrative & Constitutional Law starts at 44:00. Sponsored by The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law and the Duke Law Program in Public Law. Originally recorded February 12, 2021.

Duke Law | The Next Four Years
February 08, 2021 - Moderated by Duke Law Professor Marin K. Levy, this panel discussion with fellow Duke Law Professors Curt Bradley, Guy Charles, Kate Evans, Stephen Sachs, and Jim Salzman covers what we might expect from the Biden administration. Specific topics include immigration, environmental policy, voting rights, the judiciary, and foreign affairs. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean and the Program in Public Law.

Admin Law 2021 | Session 1: Chevron Theory and Politics
February 05, 2021 - Bijal Shah (Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law), moderator ; Elizabeth Fisher (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), Sidney Shapiro (Wake Forest University School of Law), Richard Pierce (George Washington University School of Law), Nicholas Bednar (Vanderbilt University), and Dan Walters (Pennsylvania State Law School), panelists. Symposium title: The Future of Chevron Deference Administrative Law Symposium (2020)

Admin Law 2021 | Session 3: Judicial Efforts to Reform Chevron
February 05, 2021 - Lidiya Mishchenko (Duke Law), moderator ; Kristin Hickman (University of Minnesota), Aaron Nielson (BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School), Randy Kozel (University of Notre Dame Law School), Ronald Krotoszynski (University of Alabama School of Law), Aditya Bamzai (University of Virginia School of Law), panelists. Symposium title: The Future of Chevron Deference Administrative Law Symposium (2021)

Admin Law 2021 | Judge Jeffrey Sutton, Keynote
February 05, 2021 - Jeffrey Sutton, a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, gives a keynote address. Symposium title: The Future of Chevron Deference Administrative Law Symposium (2021)

Admin Law 2021 | Thomas W. Merrill, Keynote
February 05, 2021 - Thomas W. Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, gives the lunch keynote address, followed by a Q & A. Symposium title: The Future of Chevron Deference Administrative Law Symposium (2021)

Admin Law 2021 | Session 2: Applying Chevron
February 05, 2021 - Arti Rai (Duke Law), moderator ; Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia (Pennsylvania State Law School), Christopher Walker (Ohio State Moritz College of Law), Jonathan Masur (University of Chicago Law School), Matthew Lawrence (Emory University School of Law), and Jonathan Choi (University of Minnesota Law School), panelists. Symposium title: The Future of Chevron Deference Administrative Law Symposium (2021)

Global Financial Markets Center | GameStop Explained
February 04, 2021 - The saga of GameStop has attracted the attention of trading platforms, regulators and even the White House. Just weeks ago, major hedge funds were betting big money against the success of GameStop in the form of short sales. But that didn't stop individual investors from taking those bets. Instead, a flood of retail investors joined forces on Reddit's WallStreetBets forum to send GameStop's stock soaring. The moves by some brokers to slow down trading in these stocks raised legitimate cries of unfairness to regular investors. This event will examine what happened with GameStop's stock, the legal and regulatory implications, and what this means for the future of the stock market. Featured speakers include Duke Law Professors Lawrence G. Baxter, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Jim Cox, Gina-Gail Fletcher, Lee Reiners, and Emily Strauss. Sponsored by the Global Financial Markets Center and the Interactive Entertainment Law Society.

Duke Law | Race and the 1L Curriculum: Contracts
January 28, 2021 - Issues of race and racism are often absent from scholarly and casebook discussions of contract law. Race and racism, however, have a substantial influence on a broad range of issues within contract law. This event is part of the series on Race and the 1L Curriculum. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean. Appearing: Emily Houh, Gustavus Henry Wald Professor of the Law and Contracts and Co-director of the Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, and Nakita Cuttino, Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University School of Law, with moderator Professor Barak Richman.

Duke Law | Fitch and Swanson on Civil Commitment
January 21, 2021 - Civil commitment and the mental health care continuum: Historical trends and principles for law and practice. Jeffrey Swanson is Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. Swanson holds a PhD in sociology from Yale University. He is a social scientist researcher who collaborates across disciplines to build evidence for interventions, policies and laws to improve outcomes for adults with serious mental illnesses in the community, and to reduce firearm-related violence and suicide. Larry Fitch is a lawyer on the faculty of the University of Maryland, where he teaches classes on mental health law in the Law School and lectures in the forensic psychiatry fellowship program in the Medical School. He served as Director of Forensic Services for the Maryland Mental Hygiene Administration from 1994- 2013. Prior to that, Larry was a professor at the University of Virginia Law School and Director of Forensic Evaluation Training and Research at the University’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy.

Beyond COVID Clip | Did Trump abuse his power as president?
January 21, 2021 - Professor Jack L. Goldsmith of Harvard Law School characterizes Trump’s abuses of power, the rise of populism, and other points raised in his book “After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency,” co-authored with Bob Bauer of NYU Law School. His discussion was part of the first episode of the “Beyond COVID” series, “The U.S. Presidency: Looking Forward,” co-produced by the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School and the American Law Institute. Also appearing: David F. Levi, Director of the Bolch Judicial Institute and Levi Family Professor of Law Watch the full presentation here: https://youtu.be/3Y-7QFbD_PU.
The transcript and additional resources can be found here: https://buff.ly/3svsfcz

Beyond COVID Clip | The American Presidency: An Historical Primer
January 21, 2021 - Historian David Kennedy of Stanford University gives a brief presentation of U.S. presidential history, highlighting some of the major changes to the office in the last 200 years. This history prefaced a discussion about Trump's presidency for the first episode of the “Beyond COVID” series, co-produced by the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School and the American Law Institute. Also appearing: David F. Levi, Director of the Bolch Judicial Institute and Levi Family Professor of Law Watch the full presentation here: https://youtu.be/3Y-7QFbD_PU.
The transcript and additional resources can be found here: https://buff.ly/3svsfcz

Beyond COVID Clip | Professor Daphna Renan explains the paradox of the President's two bodies
January 14, 2021 - Harvard Law Professor Daphna Renan explains the two conflictual but ultimately interdependent understandings of the American presidency: The president is both an individual and an institution. Her full article on the topic, "The President's Two Bodies," was published in the Columbia Law Review and is available at this link: https://columbialawreview.org/content/the-presidents-two-bodies/ Watch the full episode here: https://judicialstudies.duke.edu/episodes/the-u-s-presidency-looking-for... Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute and the American Law Institute.

Beyond COVID | The U.S. Presidency: Looking Forward
January 12, 2021 - David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute and president of the The American Law Institute, leads a panel discussion on the future of the American presidency. Panelists include David Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University; Daphna Renan, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Terry Moe, William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; and Jack L. Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute and the American Law Institute.

Lars Noah | Scholarship Highlight, Time to Bite the Bullet?
January 05, 2021 - In this episode, Jake Charles talks with Lars Noah, University of Florida School of Law about his article "Time to Bite the Bullet?: How an Emboldened FDA Could Take Aim at the Firearms Industry"
to be published in the Connecticut Law Review. Available in SSRN at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3726680 Presented by the Duke Center for Firearms Law. Appearing: Lars Noah (University of Florida School of Law) and Jacob D. Charles (Duke Law).