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Melinda M. Vaughn
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Frances Presma
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Thomas B. Metzloff ^*

• has written training materials for arbitrators
• organized a major conference on teaching ethics
• major study of court-ordered mediation in medical malpractice

Paul D. Carrington

• drafted and coordinated review of amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Steven L. Schwarcz^*

• former partner at two major New York law firms
• fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers
• founder and former faculty director of Duke University's Global Capital Markets Center
• expert on debtor-creditor law
• advisor to the U.N. on international receivables financing

James D. Cox

• author of Financial Information, Accounting and the Law; Corporations (with Hazen & O'Neal); and Securities Regulations Cases and Materials (with Hillman & Langevoort)

• also published extensively in the areas of market regulation and corporate governance and has testified before the U.S. House and Senate on insider trading and market reform issues.

• member of the American Law Institute, the NYSE Legal Advisory Committee, and the NASD Legal Advisory Board

Walter Dellinger 

• former acting solicitor general of the U.S.

• in addition to teaching at Duke Law, he is currently litigating with O’Melveney & Meyers out of Washington D.C.

Christopher H. Schroeder 

• founded the Center for the Study of Congress

• former advisor to Congress, special counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee

• served as acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel

• director of the Duke Program in Public Law

Deborah A. DeMott

• American Law Institute Reporter
• author of widely used treatise on shareholder litigation

James Boyle*

• author of Shamans, Software and Spleens, on the construction of the information society
• founding member of the board of directors of Creative Commons, a nonprofit company that will develop ways for artists, writers and others to easily designate their work as freely shareable.
• Co-director (with Duke Law professors David Lange and Jerome Reichman) of the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain 

James E. Coleman*

• member of blue-ribbon American Bar Association committee established to oversee implementation of a resolution passed at his initiative urging states to establish a moratorium on the death penalty until the question of unequal application to minorities could be resolved

Doriane Lambelet Coleman*

• assembled team of experts to clear runner Mary Decker Slaney of drug charges in 1996 Olympic trials
• helped develop the USA Track and Field's drug-testing program

Trina Jones

• employment law scholar and former litigator in this area

Jonathan B. Wiener ^*

• wrote book on risk and the environment
• has testified before Congress; advised the President's Council on Sustainable Development; designed a system for the U.N.

Christopher H. Schroeder ^*

• casebook on environmental regulation

Katharine T. Bartlett

• Dean of Duke Law School
• Reporter for the American Law Institute Family Dissolution Project chapter on child custody

Doriane Lambelet Coleman

• Scholarship focuses on the ways in which culture impacts women and children as these are treated under the law

• Author of Fixing Columbine: The Challenge to American Liberalism

Sara Sun Beale

• Argued six cases in the U.S. Supreme Court
• Advised ABA's Standing Committee on Judicial Selections on nominees to the Supreme Court

David L. Lange ^*

• consultant to Vietnam and China on intellectual property issues
• leading efforts to forge public-private initiatives to enforce intellectual property rights in evolving economies

Jerome Reichman ^*

• widely published scholar on international trade issues
• renowned intellectual property and copyright expert

Madeline Morris ^*

• advisor to the president of Rwanda on criminal justice; expert on international war crimes; work with International Criminal Tribunals at The Hague, in Ethiopia and Rwanda
• director of the Guantanamo Clinic at Duke Law School

Donald Horowitz

• one of the world's best known experts on ethnic conflict
• author of several widely-read books on ethnic conflict

Ralf Michaels

• international and comparative law scholar, focusing on conflict of laws

Neil Vidmar ^*

• wrote book on medical malpractice and the American jury
• co-authored book on types of juror prejudice
• currently involved in one-of-a-kind Arizona Jury Project, evaluating jury response 

William A. Reppy

• three books and several articles on marital property

Scott Silliman ^*

• executive director of Duke Law's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security
• retired Air Force judge advocate

John C. Weistart ^*

• reform of college sports

Paul H. Haagen

• advises prominent Duke University athletes on their professional prospects and careers

Richard L. Schmalbeck

• worked in Russia to help reform the tax code

Donald Beskind*

• wrote trial and deposition training materials for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy
• works exclusively in civil cases, including business litigation, professional negligence, products liability and torts