Duke’s core intellectual property faculty members are James Boyle, David Lange, Arti Rai, and Jerome Reichman. Professors Boyle, Lange, Rai and Reichman bring an extraordinary range of expertise to the law school. Their specialties run the gamut from legal issues in cyberspace and the history and theory of IP, to entertainment law, filmmaking and appropriationist art, through to biotech and patent law, and international intellectual property law and science and innovation policy. The IP Program is further enriched by Stuart Benjamin, an expert in the related telecommunications area.

The interdisciplinary aspects of the IP program are strengthened by affiliated faculty members Wesley Cohen, Robert Cook-Deegan, and Tracy Lewis, who bring leading expertise in the economics of technological change and R&D, health policy and social issues engendered by genomics, and the economics of regulation and financial contracting.

Duke also draws on a rich group of lecturers and adjunct faculty, many of whom also work in the surrounding biotech and startup communities of the Research Triangle. The principal extended faculty members are Troy Dow, Ken Sibley, and Jennifer Jenkins. The subjects of their classes include Digital Copyright, Biotech Patents, Patent Claim Drafting, and Intellectual Property, the Public Domain and Free Speech.

In addition, the IP Program is enhanced by Duke's strengths in a number of related areas, including Bioethics, the First Amendment, the Center for Genome, Ethics, Law, and Policy, Information Science and Information Studies , International Law, Law and Literature, and Legal Theory.