Events
The Center on Law, Race and Politics presents lectures, scholarly roundtables, workshops and conferences to create opportunities for academics, students and the community to participate in the focus areas of CLRP.
SPECIAL EVENTS
February 21, 2011 - LECTURE
Duke Law School, Room 3041- 12:15pm - 1:15 pm
Presenter Marc Elias of Parker Coie, LLP will speak on "Recounts and Post Election Legal Disputes Ten Years After Bush v. Gore" to the Duke University community.
January 29, 2011 - SCHOLARLY ROUNDTABLE
CICL-CLRP Scholarship Roundtable
Duke Law School, Room 4044- All Day Event (Invitation Only)
The Duke Center on Law, Race and Politics and the Duke Law Center on International and Comparative Law will hold a scholarship roundtable titled: "Challenges to Democracy in Divided Societies." The purpose of the roundtable is to bring together scholars who are not often in conversation with one another across a range of disciplines -- particularly law, political science and economics -- to think through the current and future challenges to democracy in fractured societies.
April 8-9, 2010 - CONFERENCE
This conference aims to frame a new scholarly discussion of race. What are the issues that should be at the heart of our public discourse on race? What can we as scholars and empiricists offer to this discussion that might help address racial inequality or improve our understanding of race? What is the significance of President Obama's election for racial identity and equality? Should -- can -- we reframe the stories we tell about race?
November 23, 2009 - LECTURE
Paul H. Anderson, Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, will present: "A View from the Bench: Resolving Election Disputes and the Minnesota 2008 Senate Election."
Workshops
April 14, 2011 - Law & Social Science Workshop
12:00 PM, Law School 4055
John Bowen, the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences and Sociocultural Anthropology at the Washington University in St. Louis will present his paper, "How Could English Courts Recognize Shariah?"
March 3, 2011 - Law & Social Science Workshop
12:00 PM, Law School 4055
Steven Schwarcz, the Stanley A. Star Professor of Law & Business at Duke will present his paper, "Addressing the Problem of Sovereign Debt: Comparing Free-Market and Statutory Approaches."
February 10, 2011 - Law & Social Science Workshop
12:00 PM, Law School 4055
Presenter Chuck Cameron, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University will present his papers, "Modeling Collegial Courts (3): Adjudication Equilibria," and "Policy and Disposition Coalitions on the Supreme Court of the United States."
January 27, 2011 -Law & Social Science Workshop
12:15 PM, Law School 4055
Presenter James D. Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law, Duke University, will present his paper titled: "Tweaking Governance for Small Companies after Dodd-Frank."