Priorities in Competition Policy: A Conversation with US Asst Attorney General Jonathan Kanter
2023-04-03 12:30 (America/New_York) | Law School 3041
Please join us for a discussion with Jonathan Kanter, U.S. Assistant Attorney General and head of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by Barak Richman, Jolynn Dellinger, and the Competition Law Society. For more information, contact william.petro@duke.edu.

Hardt Cup Competition Championship Round
2023-04-07 12:30
The Duke Law Moot Court Board invites you to the final round of this year's Hardt Cup. The Honorable Catherine Eagles, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, the Honorable Jay Richardson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the Honorable Carla Wong McMillian, Supreme Court of Georgia, will be judging this year's finalists, Justin Fiszer and Meghna Melkote, for what is sure to be a fantastic round. For those who can't attend in person, the event will be livestreamed starting at 12:30 pm using this link: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e45dea16-6570-4ba0-b196-af8f00daf574
For more information, please contact the Hardt Cup Coordinators at dukehardtcup@gmail.com. Sponsored by the Moot Court Board.

The Battle for Your Brain: Nita A. Farahany Faculty Author Celebration
2023-04-10 12:30
Join Nita A. Farahany (JD/MA '04, Ph.D. '06), Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law & Philosophy, for a celebration of her new book, The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology. The new title explores important questions of law, ethics, privacy, and freedom that arise from rapid advances in neuroscience and technology. David Hoffman (JD '93), Steed Family Professor of the Practice of Cybersecurity Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy, will moderate the discussion. Lunch will be served to attendees, first-come first-served. Co-sponsored by the Goodson Law Library and Office of the Dean. For more information, please contact Jennifer Behrens (behrens@law.duke.edu).

Duke Cybersecurity Leadership Program
2023-05-22 08:00, 2023-05-23 08:00, 2023-05-24 08:00
This program provides leaders with the tools they need to address the next generation of threats. Co-Sponsored by: Duke Law School, Duke Pratt School of Engineering, Duke Sanford School of Public Policy and Duke Department of Computer Science. For more information, please contact David Hoffman (david.hoffman@duke.edu) or Shane Stansbury (stansbury@law.duke.edu).

McGovern Symposium on Civil Litigation
2023-05-26 08:00
Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law. For more information contact Lora Beth Farmer at lora.farmer@law.duke.edu

"Your Face Belongs to Us" Book Launch with Author Kashmir Hill
2023-09-27 18:30 - 20:00
Book launch for Kashmir Hill, Technology reporter at The New York Times, who recently published her book, "Your Face Belongs To Us."

Lemkin Rule of Law Guardian Program
2023-10-09 12:30
Professor Harold Hongju Koh of Yale Law School, a leading expert in public and private international law, national security law, and human rights and one of the lawyers currently representing Ukraine at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, will be honored as the 2023 recipient of the Raphael Lemkin Rule of Law Guardian Medal. For anyone unable to attend in person, the event will be recorded and available to watch on YouTube. To learn more about Professor Koh and the Lemkin Medal, visit https://loom.ly/HPxz0KY. Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute. For more information about the event, please contact Ann Yandian (ann.yandian@law.duke.edu).

A Conversation with Chief Judge Debra Livingston
2023-10-31 12:30
Director Paul Grimm of the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School talks with Chief Judge Debra Livingston of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit about her career and time on the bench. Judge Livingston was appointed and confirmed to the Second Circuit in 2007 and became chief judge in 2020. She began her career as an associate with the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in 1985 and then served as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1986 to 1991. In 1992, she elected to pursue an academic career and taught at the University of Michigan's Law School and then at Columbia Law School, where she still teaches today. She is a co-author of the casebook Comprehensive Criminal Procedure and has published numerous academic articles on legal topics. She has taught courses in evidence, criminal law and procedure, and national security and terrorism. She received her B.A. from Princeton University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. Program sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute. Lunch (and treats!) provided. You must register at https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0kbNGhlhEe2iTl4. For more information - please contact Lora Beth Farmer (lora.farmer@law.duke.edu).

Data Privacy Day 2024
2024-02-02 08:30
Twenty-first century technologies, in particular the apps we use on our mobile devices, combined with the lack of effective, privacy protective laws in our information economy, create risks for data related to our health. Duke's Data Privacy Day 2024 event, "Beyond HIPAA: Mental Health Apps, Health Data, and Privacy" will address the vast category of health information that is not covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the urgent need for privacy law and policy to regulate the commercial collection and use of this data. Visit our website, https://duke.is/dpd-2024, for agenda and speaker information. Sponsored by The Kenan Institute for Ethics and Duke Law. Co-sponsored by Sanford School of Public Policy and Science and Society. For more information, contact Jolynn Dellinger at jdellinger@law.duke.edu or David Hoffman at david.hoffman@duke.edu.

* Robert R. Wilson Distinguished Lecture
2024-02-15 12:30
Dylan C. Penningroth, Professor of Law and Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, will deliver the 2024 Robert R. Wilson Distinguished Lecture, "Hidden Histories of Black Civil Rights." Professor Penningroth, who also serves as associate dean of Berkeley Law's Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy / Legal Studies, specializes in African American history and in U.S. socio-legal history. His new book, Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Civil Rights (Liveright, 2023), explores how ordinary Black people used and thought about law in their everyday lives, and how Black legal activity and Black legal thought helped shape American law and Black social movements from the 1830s to the 1970s. His first book, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South (UNC Press, 2003), won the Avery Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians. Boxed lunches will be provided on a first come first served basis. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean. For more information, please contact events@law.duke.edu.

29th Annual LENS Conference
2024-02-23 08:00, 2024-02-24 08:00
Join us for the 29th Annual LENS Conference at the Duke Law School. Sponsored by the Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security. Visit our website at https://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2024/ to view the agenda and register for the conference. Registration is required to attend. For more information, please email Amanda Gonzalez at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

* David L. Lange Lecture in Intellectual Property: Bargaining in the Shadow of Poverty: New Pathways in International Intellectual Property Lawmaking
2024-03-21 12:30
Professor Ruth Okediji, Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will deliver the 2024 David L. Lange Lecture in Intellectual Property, titled "Bargaining in the Shadow of Poverty: New Pathways in International Intellectual Property Lawmaking." A foremost authority on the role of IP in social and economic development, Professor Okediji will explore how the interplay among U.S. identity politics, foreign relations crises, and the dynamics of European integration have shaped new frontiers in international IP lawmaking. Boxed lunches will be provided on a first come first serve basis. This event is sponsored by the Dean's office. Please contact Monica Roberson at monica.roberson@law.duke.edu for more information.

Duke Law Journal's Administrative Law Symposium
2024-03-22 08:30
Please join us for Duke Law Journal's 54th Annual Administrative Law Symposium. The theme of this year's Symposium is "On Democracy in the Administrative State." Breakfast and lunch will provided on a first come, first served basis. You can register to attend the Symposium via the form here: https://forms.gle/3U1N9dxRyHE31DuPA. Sponsored by Duke Law Journal. For more information, please contact Andrea Pillai at alr105@duke.edu.

* Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture
2024-04-15 12:30
This year's featured speaker for the Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture is Professor Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. He specializes in constitutional studies with emphasis on power and ethics, design of innovative governance solutions, law and religion, and the history of legal ideas. His lecture is titled "History and Tradition? Anatomy of a Constitutional Revolution." The Currie Lecture began over 30 years ago to honor Professor Brainer Currie who was formerly on the Duke Law School faculty. Boxed lunches will be provided on a first come first serve basis. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean. For additional information, please contact Monica Roberson at monica.roberson@law.duke.edu.

Faculty Author Celebration: James Boyle, The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood
2024-10-28 12:30
Join Professor James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Law, for a celebration of his forthcoming book, The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood (publisher description at https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049160/the-line/). The new title explores how technological developments in artificial intelligence challenge our concept of personhood, and of "the line" we believe separates our species from the rest of the world but that also separates "persons" with legal rights from objects. Lunch will be served on a first-come, first-served basis. Co-sponsored by the Goodson Law Library and Office of the Dean. For more information, please contact Jennifer Behrens (behrens@law.duke.edu).

* Pop-Up Panel on the Election
2024-11-06 12:30, 2024-11-07 12:30, 2024-11-11 12:30
The Dean's Office wants to maximize real-time learning by leaving space in the days immediately following the U.S. Presidential Election for events about law or legal issues that may be in the news. Faculty and administrators will organize timely discussions of legal topics for students and other members of the Law School who wish to attend. The event is not open to the public. More information to follow. Lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Sponsored by the Office of the Dean. For more information, please contact events@law.duke.edu

Data Privacy Day 2025
2025-01-28 17:00
Join us in conversation with attorneys representing plaintiffs in cases against Amazon, FloHealth, and Meta to hear about the privacy interests and protections at stake in the litigation concerning Alexa, femtech, and the addictive properties of Instagram for teenagers.

Speakers:

Joshua Stein, Partner, Boies Schiller Flexner

Carol Villegas, Partner, Labaton Keller Sucharow

Sponsored by Duke Law. Co-sponsored by Sanford School of Public Policy and Science and Society. For more information, contact Jolynn Dellinger at jdellinger@law.duke.edu or David Hoffman at david.hoffman@duke.edu.

Faculty Author Celebration: Brandon Garrett, Defending Due Process
2025-02-24 12:30
Join Brandon L. Garrett, L. Neil Williams, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice, for a celebration of his latest book, Defending Due Process: Why Fairness Matters in a Polarized World (Polity Press, 2025: https://duke.is/5/xuxv). The new book explores why institutions are under pressure to put desired outcomes before fair process, and how citizens can find common ground to "mend political polarization, cool simmering distrust of government, prevent injudicious errors, and safeguard constitutional rights." James E. Coleman Jr., John S. Bradway Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law, will moderate the discussion. Boxed lunches will be served for attendees on a first-come, first-served basis. Co-sponsored by the Goodson Law Library and Office of the Dean. For more information, please contact Jennifer Behrens (behrens@law.duke.edu).

30th Annual LENS Conference
2025-02-28 08:00, 2025-03-01 08:00
Join us for the 30th Annual LENS Conference at Duke Law School. Conference agenda and reservation link are found here: https://law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2025. Sponsored by the Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security. For more information, please email Bobbi Pabon at lensmailbox@law.duke.edu.

Democracy and Rights: A Conversation with David Robison, II (Law ’64), a Duke 100 Centennial Event
2025-03-27 12:30
Please join us for this special Duke 100 Centennial Event. In 1961, David Robinson, II made history as one of the first three Black students to desegregate Duke. Mr. Robinson's enrollment changed the University forever, setting Duke on a path to becoming more inclusive and forging the foundation for the community we enjoy today. Mr. Robinson had a distinguished career following his graduation from Duke Law in 1964, serving as attorney for the Federal Reserve, senior counsel for the Xerox Corporation, and the first general counsel of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida. Mr. Robinson now is the only surviving member of this historic group that desegregated Duke. He is living history! As background, discussions about the future of the U.S. experiment with democracy often center on threats to the franchise and to the freedom of expression. Yet, a heavy focus on one or two rights obscures the ways in which democracy is interwoven with, and often dependent upon, other rights and freedoms. Moreover, 2025 provides a particularly opportune moment for a Democracy and Rights conversation as the U.S. marks the anniversary of major civil rights milestones, including the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954 and 1955), the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, and the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (1973). This event, therefore, will seek to explore the ways in which democracy intersects with, and is often reliant upon, myriad rights and freedoms, honoring Mr. Robinson's remarkable accomplishments and inviting his insights on, among other things, the state of U.S. democracy and the civil rights of people living here. Professor H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr., John Hope Franklin Research Scholar and Professor of Law, will serve as interviewer for this event. This is a Duke Law Center on Law, Race & Policy ("CLRP") event in partnership with Duke 100 Centennial, the Duke Law DEI Committee, and the Duke Law Black Law Students Association. For more information, please contact Becky Chapman at: becky.chapman@law.duke.edu.

Faculty Author Celebration: Jennifer Jenkins, Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture
2025-04-07 12:30
Join the celebration for Jennifer Jenkins (J.D. '97 & A.M. '00), Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain. Her new book Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2025: https://duke.is/v/bgyn) is an interdisciplinary introduction to the economics, history, and law that shape the music we love. The book is both innovative and readable, presenting its subject through case studies, timelines, and even excerpts from a graphic novel. James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Law, will moderate the discussion. Boxed lunches will be served for attendees on a first-come, first-served basis. Co-sponsored by the Goodson Law Library and Office of the Dean. For more information, please contact Jennifer Behrens (behrens@law.duke.edu).

Fall Board of Visitors Meeting 2025
2025-10-24 09:00
Please contact the Alumni & Development Office at alumni_office@law.duke.edu.

31st Annual LENS Conference
2026-02-28 08:00
Join us for the 31st Annual LENS Conference at Duke Law School. Please visit https://law.duke.edu/lens/conference/2026 for conference agenda. Sponsored by the Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security. For more information, please email Becky Chapman at becky.chapman@law.duke.edu. Registration is now open: https://rsvp.duke.edu/9d93Y7

* Robert R. Wilson Distinguished Lecture
2026-03-24 12:30
This event is sponsored by the Office of Dean. Lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, please contact Becky Chapman at becky.chapman@law.duke.edu.
