Events
Below you will find a schedule of upcoming international events at or affiliated with the Law School.
Outside of the Law School there are a number of Duke University organizations that regularly plan events on international issues. In the right sidebar of this page, we've provided links directly to the event calendars at those organizations with which we are most connected, as well as a link to the comprehensive list of international centers and programs at Duke.
Students interested in planning events please click here for Funding Application Form.
Upcoming Events
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Scholarship Roundtable: "The Law and Politics of International Cooperation"
This interdisciplinary scholarship roundtable will offer an intimate forum for a small group of legal scholars and political scientists to present their works in progress and to receive detailed commentary and feedback from their colleagues. The event will be centered around eight working papers that will be distributed in advance to participants.
Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6-7, 2009 -
Public Lecture: John Tasioulas
Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy, Oxford University
(co-sponsored with the Duke Human Rights Center)
Topic: "What is a Human Right?"
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009
5:15 p.m. • Room 4042 -
Public Lecture: Patty Gerstenblith
Distinguished Research Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law, Director of the Center for Art, Museum, & Cultural Heritage Law
Topic: "Museums, Markets, and Preservation of the Past: Transnational Regulation of the Trade in Antiquities"
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
12:15-1:15 p.m. • Room 3037 -
Co-sponsored Conference: Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law Symposium: Terrorism and Changes to the Laws of War
Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 -
Scholarship Roundtable: "Opting Out of Customary International Law"
This roundtable will focus on the ability of nations to opt out of, or withdraw from, a rule of customary international law. Participants will consider the theoretical justifications for this conventional wisdom, whether it is descriptively and historically correct, and whether it is normatively desirable.
Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 -
Public Lecture: Patricia Wald
Former Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Former Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Topic: "International Criminal Tribunals"
Monday, Feb. 15, 2009
12:15-1:15 p.m. • Room 3037 -
Public Lecture: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory Law School
Topic: "The Compatibility of Islamic Law and State Law"
(co-sponsored with Duke Islamic Studies Center)
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
4:00-5:30 p.m.