Program in Public Law

2004-2005 Archive

Fall 2004-Spring 2005

• Program in Public Law Conference: Reforming the Supreme Court
  April 9th conference focuses on Supreme Court Reform (more) (Conference)
  Carrington and Cramton's book Reforming the Court now available
  April 9, 2005
  
  
  
• Program in Public Law Conference: Reforming the Supreme Court
  April 9th conference focuses on Supreme Court Reform (more) (Conference)
  April 9, 2005
• Strategies for the War on Terrorism: Taking Stock
  Top national security experts gather at Duke for "Strategies for the War on Terrorism: Taking Stock" conference, sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security and co-sponsored by the Program in Public Law (more) (Conference)
  April 7-8, 2005
• Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Comey
  Deputy Attorney General Defends USA Patriot Act (more)
  March 22, 2005
• Ambassador Daniel Ayalon
  Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Ayalon speaks about "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East" (more)
  March 7, 2005
• Meeting the Threat: A Symposium on Counter Terrorism
  Feb 4th symposium features experts on the front lines of investigating and prosecuting terrorists (more)
  February 4, 2004
• Great Lives in the Law presents Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  Great Lives in the Law presents Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A “Lady” Who Led the Fight for Gender Equity (more)
  January 31, 2005
• Great Lives in the Law presents John Hope Franklin
  Walter Dellinger interviews renowned historian John Hope Franklin as Great Lives in the Law series continues Oct. 26 at Duke Law School (more)
  October 25, 2004
• SEC Commissioner Roel Campos
  SEC Commissioner Roel Campos will speak at Duke Law School
  September 30, 2004
• ACLU President Nadine Strossen
  ACLU President Nadine Strossen in conversation with Duke Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky Sept. 30 at Duke Law School (more)
  September 30, 2004
• Georgetown Professor of Law Neal Katyal
  The Use of Military Commissions to Try Suspected Terrorists, presented by Neal Katyal, Professor of Law, Georgetown School of Law
  September 29, 2004
• Professor Curtis Bradley
  Professor Curtis Bradley to join Duke Law faculty (more)
  September 29, 2004
• Professor Erwin Chemerinsky
  Justice Stephen Breyer should recuse himself from ruling on constitutionality of federal sentencing guidelines, Duke Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky says (more)
  September 29, 2004
• Preview of the Upcoming Supreme Court Term
  Professor Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Neil Siegel
  September 27, 2004
• Public Address by Jamie Gorelick
  Could 9-11 have been prevented if intelligence errors had not been committed? What changes should be made to prevent something like this from happening again? Is that even the right question to be asking? (more)
  September 22, 2004
• Program in Public Law Conference: Interrogation, Detention and the Powers of the Executive - A Series of Roundtables
  Program in Public Law's Sixth Annual Conference. The war on terror raises important issues regarding the appropriate treatment of detainees, implicating questions of constitutional law, domestic law and international law. Can the President selectively direct some detainees into indefinite military detention and others into the criminal justice system? What interrogation techniques are appropriate and legal? How extensive is the power of the Commander-in-Chief? (more)
  September 17, 2004
• Constitutional Law: Is Doctrine Possible
  A debate by Former Solicitor Generals Walter Dellinger and Charles Fried
  (Co-Sponsored with The Federalist Society)
  September 16, 2004
• Trying International Terrorists: The Options
  Norm Abrams, Professor of Law, UCLA
  September 10, 2004
• USA Patriot Act: Civil Liberties and the War on Terror
  Professor Chris Schroeder & Professor Scott Silliman discuss (more)
  September 7, 2004