Faculty by Teaching and Research Interests
The list below groups faculty members according to their areas of teaching and research interests. The list will provide guidance in selecting upperlevel courses and in identifying faculty with whom to consult on a number of issues, including the selection of law journal note topics, the supervision of independent study projects, and the identification of law firms with relevant practice areas.
We'll use Areas of Study and Practice for these. Associations between areas and faculty should be made soon.
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- Business, Commercial, and Tax Law
- International and Comparative Law
- Constitutional and Administrative Law
- Intellectual Property, Science, and Technology
- Health Law and Policy
- Environmental Law and Policy
- Civil and Criminal Procedure, Dispute Resolution, and Evidence
- The Legal Profession
- Clinical Courses (including skills courses except for writing courses)
- Other Upper-Class Courses/Faculty
- First-Year Courses
| Business, Commercial, and Tax Law | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| James Cox | Business Associations; Securities Regulation; Governance, Responsibility and Crime in the Public Corporation |
| Deborah DeMott | Advanced Issues in Agency Law; Business Associations; Corporate Finance; Issues in Corporate Representation |
| Andrew Foster | Community Economic Development Law; Community Enterprise Law Clinic |
| Joost Pauwelyn | International Law and Development; International Trade Law; Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization |
| Barak Richman | Antitrust |
| Richard Schmalbeck | Federal Income Taxation; Quantitative Methods; The Non-Profit Sector |
| Steven Schwarcz | Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy; Principles of Commercial and Bankruptcy Law; Structuring Commercial and Financial Transactions |
| Stephen Wallenstein | Comparative Equity Capital Markets; Current Issues in U.S. Corporate Governance; Global Capital Markets; Venture Capital and Private Equity |
| John Weistart | Athletics and Antitrust; Commercial Transactions; Contracts; Strategies in Commercial Transactions |
| Lawrence Zelenak | Corporate Taxation; Federal Income Taxation; Tax Policy |
| Other Key Duke Faculty | |
| Wesley Cohen | Intellectual Capital and Competitive Strategy (Fuqua) |
| John Graham | Corporate Restructuring (Fuqua) |
| Andrew Widmark | Real Estate Entrepreneurship (Fuqua) |
| Rebecca Zarutskie | Venture Capital and Private Equity (Fuqua) |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Joseph Bylinski | Financial Information |
| Jeff Coyne | Corporate Reorganization |
| Xi-Qing Gao | Chinese Company and Securities Law |
| Robert Hart | Mergers and Acquisitions; Securities Regulation II |
| Ogden Lewis | Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy |
| Martin Lybecker | Financial Holding Companies Law; Financial Services Law |
| Walter Nunnallee | Corporate Taxation; Partnership Taxation |
| Nancy Shaw | Estate and Gift Taxation, Estate Planning; Trusts and Estates |
| Charles Verrill | International Business Transactions |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Contracts |
| Labor and Employment |
| Related Joint Degrees |
| Master of Business Administration |
| International and Comparative Law | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Francesca Bignami | Comparative Constitutional Law; Current Issues in Comparative Law; European Union Law |
| Curtis Bradley | Public International Law, U.S. Foreign Relations Law |
| Michael Bradley | International Investment Law |
| Paul Carrington | Transnational Dispute Resolution |
| George Christie | Comparative Legal Reasoning |
| Martin Golding | Jewish Law |
| Donald Horowitz | Comparative Constitutional Design; Comparative Public Law and Policy: Ethnic Group Relations |
| Jennifer Jenkins | Intellectual Property, Public Domain, and Free Speech |
| Thomas Metzloff | Distinctive Aspects of U.S. Law |
| Ralf Michaels | Comparative Law: Western Legal Traditions; Conflict of Laws; Private Law Beyond the State |
| Current Issues in Comparative Law; Law and Globalization | |
| Madeline Morris | International Criminal Law; International Human Rights; Public International Law; The Enforcement of International Human Rights: International Criminal Law |
| Jonathan Ocko | Chinese Company and Security Law; Chinese Law and Society; Chinese Legal History |
| Joost Pauwelyn | Current Issues in International Law; Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization; European Union Law; International Law and Development; International Trade Law |
| Jerome Reichman | International Intellectual Property |
| James Salzman | International Environmental Law |
| Scott Silliman | National Security Law |
| Stephen Wallenstein | Global Capital Markets |
| Jonathan Wiener | Global Property Regimes |
| Other Key Duke Faculty | |
| Ebrahim Moosa | Islamic Law and Culture |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Heather MacKenzie | Survey of Immigration Law and Policy |
| Cesare Romano | International Human Rights; International Courts and Tribunals |
| Katherine Topulos | International Research Methods |
| Hubert Van Vliet | Legal Aspects of EU-US Transactions |
| Charles Verrill | International Business Transactions |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Business/Commercial Law |
| Constitutional Law |
| Environmental Law |
| Possible Joint Degrees |
| LL.M. in International Law |
| M.A. in foreign history or language |
| M.A. in political science |
| Constitutional and Administrative Law | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Stuart Benjamin | Administrative Law; First Amendment; Telecommunications |
| Francesca Bignami | Administrative Law; Comparative Constitutional Law |
| James Boyle | Constitution in Cyberspace |
| Curtis Bradley | Foreign Affairs Law; Public International Law; National Security |
| Erwin Chemerinsky | Constitutional Law; Federal Courts; Federal Practice of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties |
| Charles Clotfelter | Race and Education |
| Doriane Lambelet- Coleman | Writ of Certiorari |
| Walter Dellinger | Advanced Constitutional Law; The Rehnquist Court |
| Robinson Everett | Criminal Procedure: Formal |
| Peter Fish | Courts, Wars, and Legacies |
| Catherine Fisk | Employment Law |
| Donald Horowitz | Comparative Constitutional Design |
| Trina Jones | Employment Discrimination; Race and the Law |
| Carolyn McAllaster | AIDS Law; AIDS Legal Assistance Project |
| Robert Mosteller | Criminal Procedure: Police |
| Jefferson H. Powell | Powell Constitutional Law; Constitutional Law II; Theological Dimensions of Law and Politics |
| Jedediah Purdy | Property and the Constitutional Order |
| Thomas Rowe | Federal Courts; Remedies |
| Christopher Schroeder | Administrative Law; Advanced Constitutional Law; The Congress; Comparative Constitutional Law; Constitutional Law |
| Neil Siegel | Constitutional Law; Federal Courts Seminar: State Sovereign Immunity and Section Five |
| Scott Silliman | Military Justice; National Security Law |
| Jane Wettach | Education Law; Childrens Education Law Clinic Other Key Duke Faculty |
| Other Key Duke Faculty |
| John Hope Franklin |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Heather MacKenzie | Survey of Immigration Law and Policy |
| Ted Kaufman | The Congress; The Congress: Government, Business, and the Global Economy |
| Mark Prak | Telecommunications Law |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Criminal Law and Procedure |
| Related Joint Degrees |
| MA in History |
| MA in Political Science |
| Master of Public Policy |
| Intellectual Property, Science, and Technology | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Stuart Benjamin | Property Rights versus the Commons in High Technology; Telecommunications Law |
| James Boyle | Constitution in Cyberspace; Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property, Public Domain and Free Speech |
| Clark Havighurst | Health Care Law and Policy |
| David Lange | Entertainment Law; Independent Feature Film Production, Finance, and Distribution; Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property, Public Domain, and Free Speech; Telecommunications Law; Trademark Law and Unfair Competition |
| Arti Rai | Intellectual Property Rights and the Biopharmaceutical Industry; Patent Law and Policy |
| Jerome Reichman | Copyright Law; Intellectual Property; International Intellectual Property |
| Other Key Duke Faculty |
| Allen Buchanan (philosopher/Sanford) |
| Wes Cohen (economist/Fuqua) |
| Robert Cook-Deegan (genomics, law and policy/MD) |
| Tracy Lewis (economist) |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Lauren Dame | Bioethics; Genetics and the Law |
| Kenneth Sibley | Patent Law |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Environmental Law |
| Possible Joint Degrees |
| Master of Environmental Management |
| Master of Public Policy |
| MS/MA in Engineering |
| Health Law and Policy | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Clark Havighurst | Health Care: Emerging Issues; Health Care Law and Policy |
| Carolyn McAllaster | AIDS Law |
| Arti Rai | Intellectual Property Rights and the Biopharmaceutical Industry |
| Barak Richman | Health Care Law and Policy |
| Related Joint Degrees |
| M.D. |
| Environmental Law and Policy | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Jedediah Purdy | Property; Property and the Constitutional Order |
| James Salzman | Environmental Law; International Environmental Law; Natural Resources Law |
| Christopher Schroeder | Environmental Law; The Origins of Environmental Legislation |
| Laura Underkuffler | Advanced Topics in Property; Land Use Planning |
| Jonathan Wiener | Environmental Law; Global Property Regimes; Mass Torts; Risk Regulation |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Stephen Roady | Coastal Law and Policy; Environmental Litigation; Environmental Litigation Outplacement |
| Doug Wheeler | The Endangered Species Act |
| Related Joint Degrees |
| Master of Environmental Management |
| Master of Forestry |
| Master of Public Policy |
| Civil and Criminal Procedure, Dispute Resolution, and Evidence | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Sara Beale | Criminal Law; Federal Criminal Law |
| Paul Carrington | Civil Procedure; Transnational Dispute Resolution |
| Erwin Chemerinsky | Federal Courts |
| James Coleman | Criminal Law; Negotiation; Wrongful Convictions |
| Diane Dimond | Negotiation |
| Robinson Everett | Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure: Formal; Advanced Issues in Criminal Justice; Military Justice |
| Catherine Fisk | Civil Procedure |
| Trina Jones | Civil Procedure |
| Francis McGovern | Dispute Resolution; Legal Strategy |
| Thomas Metzloff | Civil Procedure |
| Robert Mosteller | Criminal Procedure: Police; Evidence |
| Theresa Newman | Wrongful Convictions |
| Thomas Rowe | Access to Civil Justice; Civil Procedure; Complex Civil Litigation; Federal Courts; Remedies |
| Neil Vidmar | Contemporary Jury; Negotiation; Psychology of Litigation; Social Science Evidence in Law; World Jury Systems: A Comparative Perspective |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Donald Beskind | Evidence; Trial Practice |
| Walter Cox | Advanced Issues in Criminal Justice |
| Sally Johnson | Forensic Psychiatry |
| Denise Riebe | Appellate Practice |
| Stephen Roady | Environmental Litigation; Environmental Litigation Outplacement |
| The Legal Profession | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Katharine Bartlett | Readings in Ethics |
| Paul Carrington | The American Legal Profession in Historical Perspective |
| George Christie | Readings in Ethics |
| James Coleman | Readings in Ethics |
| Deborah DeMott | Issues in Corporate Representation |
| Peter Fish | Courts, Wars, and Legacies |
| Andrew Foster | Ethics and the Law of Lawyering (transactional) |
| Paul Haagen | American Legal History |
| Jefferson H. Powell | The Culture of American Law; Readings in Ethics |
| Jedediah Purdy | Readings in Ethics |
| Christopher Schroeder | Readings in Ethics |
| Other Key Duke Faculty | |
| Karla Holloway | Readings in Ethics |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Charles Holton | Ethics and the Law of Lawyering (litigation) |
| Chris McLaughlin | Ethics and the Rules of Professional Conduct |
| Alice Mine | Ethics in Action |
| Allison Rice | Ethics and the Law of Lawyering |
| Clinical Courses | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Brenda Berlin | Childrens Education Law Clinic |
| James Coleman | Death Penalty Clinic; Wrongful Convictions |
| Richard Danner | Legislation |
| Diane Dimond | Negotiation |
| Noemi Flores | Community Enterprise Law Clinic |
| Andrew Foster | Community Enterprise Law Clinic |
| Carolyn McAllaster | AIDS Legal Assistance Project |
| Francis McGovern | Legal Strategy |
| Madeline Morris | Clinic for the Special Court for Sierra Leone |
| Theresa Newman | Wrongful Convictions |
| Donna Nixon | Legal Research |
| Allison Rice | AIDS Legal Assistance Project |
| Denise Riebe | Appellate Practice |
| Nancy Shaw | Estate and Tax Planning |
| Carol Spruill | Poverty Law |
| Neil Vidmar | Negotiation |
| John Weistart | Strategies in Commercial Transactions |
| Jane Wettach | Childrens Education Law Clinic |
| Other Key Duke Faculty | |
| George Gopen | Advanced Writing Tutorials |
| Adjunct Faculty | |
| Robert Beason | Negotiation |
| Charles Becton | Trial Practice |
| Donald Beskind | Trial Practice |
| J. Donald Cowan | Trial Practice |
| Rene Stemple-Ellis | Ellis Negotiation |
| James Fuller | Trial Practice |
| Robert Glenn | Civil Pretrial Practice |
| Robert Hart | Mergers and Acquisitions |
| Sandra Johnson | Trial Practice |
| Elizabeth Kuniholm | Trial Practice |
| Ogden Lewis | Legal Strategy |
| Thomas Maher | Trial Practice |
| William Mills | Trial Practice |
| Stephen Roady | Environmental Litigation Outplacement |
| Kenneth Sibley | Patent Claim Drafting |
| Other Upper-Class Courses/Faculty | |
|---|---|
| Doriane Lambelet-Coleman | Coleman Children and the Law |
| Susan Lewis | Family Law |
| Jane Wettach | Education Law |
| First Year Courses | |
|---|---|
| Core Law School Faculty | |
| Civil Procedure | Paul Carrington, Catherine Fisk, Trina Jones, Thomas Metzloff, Thomas Rowe |
| Constitutional Law | Erwin Chemerinsky, H. Jefferson Powell, Christopher Schroeder, Neil Siegel |
| Contracts | Katharine Bartlett, Paul Haagen, H. Jefferson Powell, Jerome Reichman, Barak Richman, James Salzman, John Weistart |
| Criminal Law | Sara Sun Beale, James Coleman, Robinson O. Everett |
| Property | Jedediah Purdy, William Reppy, James Salzman, Laura Underkuffler, Jonathan Wiener |
| Torts | James Boyle, George Christie, Doriane Lambelet Coleman |
| Legal Analysis, Research and Writing | |
| Jennifer L. Behrens | Legal Research |
| Lauren M. Collins | Legal Research |
| Diane Dimond | Legal Analysis, Research and Writing |
| Melanie Dunshee | Legal Research |
| Sarah Ludington | Legal Analysis, Research and Writing |
| Joan Magat | Legal Analysis, Research and Writing |
| Frances Turner Mock | Legal Analysis, Research and Writing |
| Jo Ann Ragazzo | Legal Analysis, Research and Writing |
| Denise Riebe | Legal Analysis, Research and Writing; Appellate Practice |
| Katherine Topulos | Legal Research |
