Faculty

Recent Activities

 

  • Lawrence G. Baxter

    • Professor Baxter participated on a panel with the Chairman of the FDIC, Sheila C. Bair, as part of Fuqua Business School's  Distinguished Speaker Series. (February 8, 2011)
       
    • Professor Baxter presented a panel paper on "Capture in Financial Services," at the Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law Symposium sponsored by Fordham Law School in New York City.   (February 7, 2011)
       
    • Professor Baxter delivered lectures on "US Financial Reform:  Dodd-Frank and G20/Basel," at the Seminar on Comparative Law, Commercial Law and Enterprise Law," at the National Taiwan University College of Law in Taipei.  (December 6, 2010)
       
    • Professor Baxter presented “U.S. Financial Reform: Dodd-Frank and the G20/FSB/Basel Committee” at the National Taiwan University College of Law’s Seminar on Comparative Commercial Law and Enterprise Law. (December 6, 2010)
       
    • Professor Baxter participated in a panel discussion on “Assessing the Outcome of Financial Reform” at Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics (November 11, 2010)
       
    • Professor Baxter participated in a panel on Financial Reform (with Dan Ariely, William Cohan & Ed Balleisen), sponsored by the Kenan Institute of Ethics at Duke University. (November 11, 2010)
       
    • Professor Baxter delivered the Oliver Schreiner Memorial Lecture on "Adaptive Regulation in the Amoral Bazaar" at the University of Witwatersrand School of Law in Johannesburg, South Africa. (October 20, 2010)
       
    • Professor Baxter presented a paper entitled "Exploring the WFO Option for Global Banking Regulation" at the Globalisation and Governance Conference 2010, at the Mandela Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa. (October 15, 2010)
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  • Sara Sun Beale

    • Professor Beale, along with Professors Lisa Griffin and Samuel Buell, hosted a conference on "Adjudicating the Guilty Mind" at Duke Law School. (May 10, 2011)
       
    • Professor Beale attended a meeting of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules in Portland, Oregon, as the committee’s reporter.   (April 11, 2011)
       
    • Professor Beale chaired a panel at a conference on "The Future of Adversary Systems," at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.   (April 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Beale presented “Prosecutorial Independence: Comparing The U.S. to its Common Law Cousins,” during a faculty workshop at the University of Virginia Law School in Charlottesville, Virginia. (March 25, 2011)
       
    • Professor Beale presented “Prosecution of Terrorists in Federal Courts” at the Federal Judicial Center's seminar on Law and Terrorism at Duke Law School. (March 3, 2011)
       
    • Professor Beale, with James Felman L’87, co-authored a chapter entitled "Enlisting and Deploying Federal Grand Juries in the War on Terrorism," Included in “Grand Jury 2.0: Modern Perspectives on the Grand Jury.” (February 22, 2011)
       
    • Professor Beale moderated a panel on “Happiness” during a conference on “Dancing on the Glass Ceiling: Tools and Creative Solutions for Professional and Personal Success,” at Duke Law School. (January 28, 2011)
       
    • Professor Beale attended and served as commentator during a Criminal Justice Roundtable at Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville. (December 10, 2010)
       
    • Professor Beale spoke at "Overcriminalization 2.0," a conference sponsored by the Journal of Law, Economics and Policy and others in Washington, D.C. (November 21, 2010)
       
    • Professor Beale spoke on a panel on "Expansion of Federal Criminal Power: Too Much or Too Little?" at the Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention, Washington, D.C. (November 18, 2010)
       
    • Professor Beale spoke on a panel on "White Collar Sentencing" at the ABA Criminal Justice Section's Sentencing & Reentry Institute in Washington, D.C. (November 5, 2010)
       
    • Professor Beale spoke on "Media and Public Policy," at the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice conference on "Sentencing and Corrections: Sentencing Theory Meets Practice," Vancouver, British Columbia. (October 15, 2010)
       
    • Professor Beale attended the meeting of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules, on which she serves as the reporter, in Boston, Massachusetts. (September 27, 2010)
       
    • Professor Beale taught a course for judges, sponsored by the Law and Economics Center, on "Corporations and the Limits of Criminal Law" at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. (September 24, 2010)
       

  • Stuart M. Benjamin

    • Professor Benjamin spoke on "Standing the Test of Time: The Breadth of Majority Coalitions and the Fate of U.S. Supreme Court Precedents," at the "Judicial Collegiality: Positive Theories and Empirical Analyses," conference hosted by the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in Los Angeles, California. (November 11, 2011)
       
    • Professor Benjamin delivered the keynote address at a conference entitled, "Incentive Auctions & Spectrum Secondary Markets: Complements or Substitutes?" hosted by the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy in Washington, D.C. (June 16, 2011)
       
    • Professor Benjamin was the keynote speaker at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy's conference on "Incentive Auctions and Spectrum Secondary Markets: Complements or Substitutes?" (June 16, 2011)
       

  • Donald H. Beskind

    • Professor Beskind served as Vice President of the Roscoe Pound Institute for Civil Justice. (February 22, 2011)
       
    • Professor Beskind taught a joint program for the Department of Justice and National Institute for Trial Advocacy on trial skills for lawyers representing victims of domestic violence held in New Orleans, Louisiana. (January 3, 2011)
       
    • Professor Beskind, through the National Institute for Trial Lawyers, designed and conducted a trial skill training program for Lawyers at the Raleigh City Attorney’s office. (September 1, 2010)
       

  • Joseph Blocher

    • Professor Blocher participated in a Faculty Workshop on "Rights To and Not To” at Duke Law School.  (July 8, 2011)
       
    • Professor Blocher served as advisor at an Entry Level Professor Workshop at Duke Law School. (May 19, 2011)
       
    • Professor Blocher participated in a panel discussion on JDB v. North Carolina, at Duke Law School. (April 6, 2011)
       
    • Professor Blocher participated in a seminar on “Capitalism, Institutions, and Economic Growth: ‘Thin’ Rule of Law,” at Duke's Sanford School  of Public Policy. (February 10, 2011)
       
    • Professor Blocher was an organizer and moderator for the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy's annual symposium on “The Very Idea of Judicial Takings.”  (February 4, 2011)
       
    • Professor Blocher spoke about “Reverse Incorporation” during the Federalism Seminar at Duke Law School. (January 21, 2011)
       
    • Professor Blocher participated in a panel discussion with the Hon. Jeff  Sutton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, at Duke Law School. The topic discussed was “State Constitutional Law: Why Practice It, Why Study It.”  (January 11, 2011)
       
    • Professor Blocher delivered a paper, “Reverse Incorporation of State Constitutional Law,” at the Constitutional Law & Theory Colloquium at Cornell Law School. (November 8, 2010)
       
    • Professor Blocher delivered a paper, “When and How Is It Appropriate for Federal Courts to Borrow State Constitutional Law?” at the “State Constitutionalism in the 21st Century” symposium at Penn State Law School. (September 22, 2010)
       

  • Daniel S. Bowling III

    • Senior Lecturing Fellow Dan Bowling delivered an address on "What's Up with Young Lawyers" to the annual conference of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court. Bowling discussed generational differences in the practice of law and their impact on the current crop of law school graduates. (May 3, 2011)
       
    • Professor Bowling delivered a lecture at Emory Law School as part of the four-year "Pursuit of Happiness" project, conducted by the Center for Law and Religion at Emory. (September 9, 2010)
       

  • James Boyle

    • Professor Boyle delivered the 2011 Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture on "Back to the Future: Piracy, Technological Revolution and a 'Scheme of Greed,'" at UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, California. (November 3, 2011)
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    • Professor Boyle wrote about "Fantasy and reality in intellectual property policy" for the Financial Times' New Technology Policy Forum. (December 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Boyle delivered "A Brief History of Copyright" for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Spark programme as part of its coverage of Canada's pending new copyright act. (November 28, 2010)
       
    • Professor Boyle received one of five Electronic Freedom Foundation 2010 Pioneer Awards for his work "to celebrate and protect the values of cultural and scientific openness.” (November 8, 2010)
       
    • Professor Boyle joined Ryan Radia and Paul Jones to discuss "Is the Net Neutral Territory?" on WUNC's The State of Things. (September 28, 2010)
       
    • Professor Boyle wrote about "Who steals the gene from the off the common" for the Financial Times' New Technology Policy Forum. (September 25, 2010)
       
    • Professor Boyle, with Jennifer Jenkins, and Keith Aoki, created an editorial cartoon for the San Francisco Chronicle on "Copyright's Futures” (September 25, 2010)
       
    • Professor Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins, Keith Aoki, Deborah De Angelis, and Lorenzo De Tomasi, released an Italian translation of the educational comic/graphic novel "Racconti dal pubblico dominio : Prigioniera della Legge ?" (Tales of the Public Domain: Bound By Law?) (September 21, 2010)
       
    • Professor Boyle, with Professor Jennifer Jenkins, discussed S.3728: the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act," which would extend copyright protection to the fashion industry, for Newsweek. (August 20, 2010)
       
    • Professor Boyle was the keynote speaker at the Open Rights Group Conference in London, U.K. He discussed "The Incredible Shrinking Public Domain: A Paradox.” (July 24, 2010)
       

  • Curtis A. Bradley

    • Professor Bradley participated in a panel discussion on “Suing Foreign Officials under the Alien Tort Statute,” as part of a conference on “Official and Municipal Liability for Constitutional and International Torts Today” at Fordham Law School in New York City. (April 8, 2011)
       
    • Professor Bradley delivered a lecture, “International Law and the U.S. Common Law of Foreign Official Immunity" at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. (December 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Bradley presented a paper on foreign sovereign immunity at the Annual International Law in Domestic Courts Workshop, at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia. (December 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Bradley moderated and participated in the annual Duke-Harvard Foreign Relations Law Workshop. (November 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Bradley served as a panelist as part of a discussion of foreign official immunity at the International Law Association’s International Law Weekend in New York. (October 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Bradley and Professor Mitu Gulati presented their recently published article, “Withdrawing from International Custom,” at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut. (September 1, 2010)
       

  • Samuel W. Buell

    • Professor Buell, along with Professors Sara Beale and Lisa Griffin, hosted a conference on "Adjudicating the Guilty Mind" at Duke Law School. (May 10, 2011)
       
    • Professor Buell was elected to two-year term on the Duke University Academic Council. (May 3, 2011)
       
    • Professor Buell presented his paper, "Consciousness of Wrongdoing, Conference on Adjudicating the Guilty Mind," at Duke Law School. (May 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Buell served as a panelist on the, "Forum on Corporate Enforcement," held in Charlottesville, Virginia. (May 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Buell presented his paper, "What Is Securities Fraud?," at a Faculty Workshop held at Florida State University College of Law in Tallahassee, Florida.  (April 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Buell presented his paper, "What Is Securities Fraud?," to the Conference on Corporate Governance and Business Ethics in a Post-Crisis World, held at Notre Dame Law School in South Bend, Indiana. (March 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Buell served as a panelist on, "Hard Choices in Teaching Criminal Law,"as part of the Criminal Justice Section meeting at the AALS Annual Meeting, held in San Francisco, California. (January 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Buell presented his paper, "What Is Securities Fraud?," at a Faculty Workshop held at Duke Law School. (November 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Buell presented his paper, "What Is Securities Fraud”?, at the Faculty Workshop at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon. (October 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Buell delivered written and oral testimony as a witness before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary at a hearing titled, "Restoring Key Tools to Combat Fraud and Corruption After the Supreme Court’s Skilling Decision." (September 28, 2010)
       

  • Guy-Uriel Charles

    • Professor Charles participated in a panel "Citizens United: Right or Wrong?" at the University of Minnesota Law School's "Citizens United: Democracy Realized or Defeated?" conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (October 21, 2011)
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  • Daniel L. Chen

    • Professor Chen was a presenter and discussant during the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at Yale University. (November 5, 2010)
       
    • Professor Chen presented at the Southeastern Law Scholars Conference. (October 23, 2010)
       
    • Professor Chen presented his scholarship at Duke Law School.
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    • Professor Chen presented at the Women and the Economy Conference at the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics. (August 3, 2010)
       

  • George C. Christie

    • Professor Christie’s new book “Philosopher Kings? The Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights and Social Values,” was published by Oxford University Press. (February 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Christie delivered the keynote address, “The Role of Courts in Enforcing Environmental Rights” at the Greening Humanity Conference at the University of Athens in Athens, Greece. (October 14, 2010)
       
    • Professor Christie taught the weekly legal philosophy seminar at the University of Athens faculty of law and used as the basis of that seminar a chapter of his book,“Philosopher Kings? The Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights and Social Values."  (October 1, 2010)
       

  • Charles Clotfelter

    • Professor Clotfelter has been awarded the 2011 Spencer Foundation Award by The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.  The Spencer Foundation Award recognizes noteworthy contributions through research and analysis in the field of education policy and management. (October 27, 2011)
       
    • Professor Clotfelter presented, “Should Commercial Sports be in University Mission Statements?” at the College Sport Research Institute Conference. (April 21, 2011)
       
    • Professor Clotfelter presented, “Teachers, Labor Markets, and the Effect of Policies Outside the Classroom,” to the HBCU-ETS Collaboration Conference, sponsored by Winston-Salem State University. (April 18, 2011)
       
    • Professor Clotfelter authored “It’s Madness as Universities Play for Pay,” for the Raleigh News and Observer, Seattle Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.        (April 11, 2011)
       
    • Professor Clotfelter was appointed to Subcommittee on Financial Exigency and Program Discontinuance,” by the American Association of University Professors.  (April 11, 2011)
       
    • Professor Clotfelter presented “Big-Time Sports in American Universities,” part of the "Talk to Texas Schools Project," at the University of Texas at Dallas.  (April 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Clotfelter presented, “American Universities in a Global Market,” to the North Carolina State University School of Education, as part of their series on the future of universities. (February 11, 2011)
       
    • Professor Clotfelter participated in a seminar at Stanford University's Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA) on the topic, “Is Big-Time Sports a Core Function of Universities?” (January 27, 2011)
       
    • Professor Clotfelter gave an after-dinner talk to the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics in Washington, DC. (December 14, 2010)
       
    • Professor Clotfelter delivered a presentation, “The Power of ‘March Madness’ ™” at the Southern Economic Association meetings in Atlanta, Georgia.  (November 21, 2010)
       
    • Professor Clotfelter was interviewed WNCU Radio's “The State of Things,” on the subject of college sports. (November 16, 2010)
       
    • Professor Clotfelter presented, “Success in Community Colleges: Do Institutions Differ?” at the Beyond Test Scores conference. The presentation reported on joint work with Helen Ladd, Jacob Vigdor, and Clara Muschkin. (November 11, 2010)
       
    • Professor Clotfelter presented, “New Destinations, New Trajectories? The Educational Attainment and Persistence of Hispanic Youth in North Carolina,” at the Association for Public Policy and Management in Boston, Massachusetts. The presentation was based on joint work completed with Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor. (November 6, 2010)
       
    • Professor Clotfelter authored, “Is Sports in Your Mission Statement?” for the Chronicle of Higher Education. (October 24, 2010)
       

  • James E. Coleman, Jr.

    • Professor Coleman participated in a panel discussion about the influence of race in the criminal justice system with Frank Stasio, host of "The State of Things," on North Carolina Public Radio (WUNC) on January 16, 2012. The discussion followed a screening of the documentary film, "The Trials of Darryl Hunt." (January 16, 2012)
       

  • James D. Cox

    • Professor Cox authored “Lying and Getting Caught: Empirical Study of the Impact of Securities Class Action Settlements on Defendant Firms”, U. Pennsylvania Law Review (2010). (February 22, 2011)
       
    • Professor Cox served as a member of the Corporate Laws committee, Business Law Section, ABA. (February 22, 2011)
       
    • Professor Cox served as a member of the Standing Advisory Group, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. (February 22, 2011)
       
    • Professor Cox, with T. Hazen, authored “Treatise on The Law of Corporations.” (February 22, 2011)
       
    • Professor Cox participated in an Academic Roundtable before FINRA in New York, New York. (November 22, 2010)
       
    • Professor Cox presented “Tweaking Corporate Governance for Small Companies after Dodd-Frank,” at the Weinberger Corporate Governance Center at the University of Delaware. (November 12, 2010)
       
    • Professor Cox was a commentator for the Law and Finance Workshop hosted by Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville, Tennessee. (October 15, 2010)
       
    • Professor Cox moderated “The Financial Crisis” a panel sponsored by Labaton Sucharow in New York, New York. (September 30, 2010)
       
    • Professor Jim Cox moderated “Innovation and Startups,” a panel sponsored by Law School and Fuqua School of Business Chicago Alumni clubs in Chicago, Illinois. (September 23, 2010)
       
    • Professor Cox participated in a roundtable on “Emerging Issues in Public Accounting”, convened by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in Washington, D.C. (September 21, 2010)
       

  • Richard A. Danner

    • Professor Danner organized the conference: “Implementing the Durham Statement: Best Practices for Open Access Law Journals,” at Duke Law School. (October 22, 2010)
       
    • Professor Danner gave a presentation titled “Open Access in the Law School Journal Environment,” at a conference on Implementing the Durham Statement: Best Practices for Open Access Law Journals, at Duke Law School. (October 22, 2010)
       
    • Professor Danner was featured in the "Office Hours" program webcast by Duke's Office of News and Communications. (October 22, 2010)
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    • Professor Danner coordinated the program, “The Durham Statement on Open Access One Year Later: Preservation and Authentication of Legal Scholarship,” at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. (July 25, 2010)
       

  • John M. de Figueiredo

    • Professor de Figueiredo discussed, "Back and Forth: Producing Information Strategically in Judicial Panels," at the "Judicial Collegiality: Positive Theories and Empirical Analyses," conference hosted by the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in Los Angeles, California. (November 11, 2011)
       
    • Professor de Figueiredo delivered the European Union Lectures on the Economics and Management of Network Industries in Paris, France. (April 26, 2011)
       

  • Deborah A. DeMott

    • Professor DeMott served as a commentator for the Inaugural Junior Faculty Business and Financial Workshop, sponsored by the George Washington University Law School, Center for Law, Economics, and Finance, located in Washington, D.C.  (April 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor DeMott served as a presenter and moderator for, "Investment Funds: A Roundtable Discussion," held at Boston University School of Law. (December 9, 2010)
       
    • Professor DeMott presented, "Causation in the Fiduciary Realm," at "The Role of Fiduciary Law and Trust in the 21st Century: A Conference Inspired by the Work of Tamar Frankel," sponsored by Boston University School of Law.  (October 28, 2010)
       
    • Professor DeMott presented, "Investing in Work: Wilkes as an Employment Law Case," at the conference on "Fiduciary Duties in the closely Held Business 35 Years After Wilkes v. Springside Nursing Home, " sponsored by the Western New England College of Law. (October 21, 2010)
       

  • Diane Dimond

    • Professor Dimond participated in the panel, "Thinking Forward," part of a workshop hosted by the Legal Writing Institute at Wake Forest University Law School. (December 3, 2010)
       

  • Mary L. Dudziak

    • Professor Dudziak discussed, "What Kind of War Was the Cold War?", a chapter from her forthcoming book "War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences," as part of a Duke History Department Colloquium. (November 7, 2011)
       
    • Profesor Dudziak was elected to the National Council of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. (November 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Dudziak discussed her book, "War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences," at the Legal Theory Workshop, hosted by Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut. (October 27, 2011)
       
    • Professor Dudziak delivered the Ben C. Green Lecture at the Institute for Global Security Law on "War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences, and Policy," at Case Western Reserve University Law School in Cleveland, Ohio. (October 11, 2011)
       
    • Professor Dudziak discussed "'Rumors of War': Robert Jackson Confronts War and Security after Nuremberg," at a Faculty Workshop at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. (October 11, 2011)
       
    • Professor Dudziak discussed her new book, "War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences," at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. (October 10, 2011)
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    • Professor Dudziak delivered the University of Buffalo's annual Mitchell Lecture. Her lecture, "Rumors of War: Robert Jackson on Law and Security after Nuremberg," was part of a conference highlighting Justice Jackson's first public address after he returned from serving as chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. (October 4, 2011)
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    • Professor Dudziak participated in a conference at the Institute for International Law and Public Policy at Temple Law School. She discussed her forthcoming book, War Time:  An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences. (September 23, 2011)
       
    • Professor Dudziak discussed her forthcoming book, "War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences" at a conference hosted by the Institute for International Law and Public Policy at Temple Law School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (September 23, 2011)
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  • Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. USAF (Ret.)

    • Professor Dunlap participated in a panel discussion on legal opportunities in the national defense and homeland security industries as part of a meeting of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law panel  held in Toronto, Ontario. (August 17, 2011)
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    • General Dunlap presented, "No More Bullet Sponges!  Observations About Contemporary Counterinsurgency Issues," as part of a debate with Dr. Michael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution on, “Is COIN a Passing Fad?” The debate was sponsored by the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.  (April 20, 2011)
       
    • General Dunlap presented his paper, "Clever or Clueless? Observations About Bombing Norm Debates," as part of the “Bombing Norms Workshop,” sponsored by Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.  (April 8, 2011)
       
    • General Dunlap participated in a panel discussion on "Libya's No Fly Zone: War or Humanitarian Intervention?," sponsored by the Student Organization for Legal Issues in the Middle East and North Africa (SOLIMENA) and the International Criminal Court Student Network (ICCSN) at Duke Law School. (April 6, 2011)
       
    • General Dunlap participated as a judge in the Hardt Cup Moot Court Competition Quarterfinals held at Duke Law School. (April 5, 2011)
       
    • General Dunlap spoke on "The Philosophical Basis of Civilian Control of the Military," in conjunction with the “Civilian Control of the Military and American Democracy,” conference sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute, held at The First Division Museum at Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois. (April 2, 2011)
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    • General Dunlap chaired a panel discussion on Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, at Duke University School of Law. The event was sponsored by the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy. (March 21, 2011)
       
    • General Dunlap presented on JAG, for the “Government and Public Interest Career Symposium: Finding Your Way,” at Duke University School of Law. (March 18, 2011)
       
    • General Dunlap participated in the 2011 Uniform Code of Military Justice Committee, sponsored by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. General Dunlap was appointed to the committee by the Secretary of Defense pursuant to 10 U.S. C. §946.  (March 2, 2011)
       
    • General Dunlap participated in the panel, "Whole-of-Government Prospects and Challenges," part of the “Conflict Management: A Tool for U.S. National Security Symposium,” sponsored by Kennesaw State University, in Kennesaw, Georgia. (February 25, 2011)
       
    • General Dunlap participated in, “In Wartime The Laws Fall Silent,” a panel discussion previewing Robert Redford’s forthcoming movie “The Conspirator,” at the American Bar Association Midyear meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.  (February 12, 2011)
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    • General Dunlap participated in a panel, "Manuals for Customary International Law" as part of the “Air and Missile Warfare Manual: A Critical Analysis” Conference sponsored by The University of Texas Law School in Austin, Texas.  (February 11, 2011)
       
    • General Dunlap was a luncheon speaker on "Contemporary National Security Law Issues," at the Durham Lions Club. (February 9, 2011)
       
    • General Dunlap was a guest lecturer on the topic "Law, Ethics, and War: The Rise of Lawfare in Modern Conflicts," as part of the U.S. Naval War College Ethics Conference. (February 3, 2011)
       
    • General Dunlap was a panelist on "The Wars Within: Thoughts on the State of Civil-Military Relations in 2011," part of the “Military-Industrial Complex at 50: Assessing the Meaning and Impact of Eisenhower’s Farewell Address” Conference sponsored by the CATO Institute. (January 13, 2011)
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    • General Dunlap was appointed to the Department of Defense Code Committee for a three-year term. (January 3, 2011)
       

  • Lisa Kern Griffin

    • Professor Griffin presented her paper, Stories in Adjudication, at a Faculty Workshop at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia. (October 7, 2011)
       
    • Professor Griffin presented her paper, Stories in Adjudication, at a Faculty Workshop at Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  (September 14, 2011)
       
    • Professor Griffin testified before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, on pending public corruption legislation.  (July 26, 2011)
       
    • Professor Griffin presented a paper, "Fictions in Adjudication," at a Faculty Workshop at Duke Law School. (May 25, 2011)
       
    • Professor Griffin presented a paper, "Stories of Culpability," at a conference on "Adjudicating the Guilty Mind" at Duke Law School. (May 10, 2011)
       
    • Professor Griffin, with Professors Sara Beale and Samuel Buell, hosted a conference on "Adjudicating the Guilty Mind" at Duke Law School. (May 10, 2011)
       
    • Professor Griffin authored a chapter entitled "Inside-out Enforcement," in Prosecutors in the Boardroom: Using Criminal Law to Regulate Corporate Conduct, published by New York University Press. (April 18, 2011)
       
    • Professor Griffin participated in a panel discussion on "JDB v. North Carolina: Juveniles, Miranda Warnings, and the 'Reasonable Person,'" at Duke Law School. (April 6, 2011)
       
    • Professor Griffin presented her paper, "The Federal Common Law Crime of Corruption," at a symposium on "Adaptation and Resiliency in Legal Systems," at University of North Carolina Law School. (October 15, 2010)
       

  • Laurence R. Helfer

    • Professor Helfer authored “Collective Management of Copyright and Human Rights Revisited 75-104,” Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights (2d Ed.) (Daniel Gervais, ed. 2010). (February 22, 2011)
       
    • Professor Helfer authored “Exiting Custom: Analogies to Treaty Withdrawals,” 21 Duke J. Comp. & Int’l L. 65 (2010). (February 22, 2011)
       
    • Professor Helfer, with Karen J. Alter, authored “Nature or Nurture? Judicial Law-Making in the European Court of Justice and the Andean Tribunal of Justice,” 64 Int’l Org. 563 (2010) (peer review journal). (February 22, 2011)
       
    • Professor Helfer co-presented, “International Law and the U.S. Common Law of Foreign Official Immunity,” during a meeting of ASIL Interest Group on International Law in Domestic Courts, University of Virginia Law School in Charlottesville, Virginia. (December 13, 2010)
       
    • Professor Helfer served as a commentator for the “Meeting on International Law and Regulation, Laboratory on International Law and Regulation,” at the University of California, San Diego. (December 8, 2010)
       
    • Professor Helfer served as a commentator for the Duke/Harvard Foreign Relations Workshop at the Duke University Law School, Durham, North Carolina. (November 7, 2010)
       
    • Professor Helfer co-presented “Measuring Judicial Influence: Does the European Court of Human Rights Promote Social and Legal Change,” during the Conference on the Domestic Consequences of International Human Rights Treaty Ratification hosted by NYU Law School, New York, New York. (October 15, 2010)
       
    • Professor Helfer served as a judge and commentator at Stanford/Harvard International Junior Faculty Forum hosted by Stanford Law School, Stanford, California. (October 8, 2010)
       

  • Donald L. Horowitz

    • Professor Horowitz spoke on "Constitutionalism in Crisis," at a session on "Courts and Constitutions," at a Transatlantic Law Forum conference in Hamburg, Germany. (October 28, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz spoke on "Indonesia's Path to Constitutional Democracy." at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg, Germany. (October 27, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz spoke at the annual conference of the American Society of Comparative Law on "Revolution and Constitution." (October 21, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz became a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Journal of Conflictology. (October 17, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz served as a commentator on a paper on "US Foreign Policy Habits in Ethnic Conflict" at The George Washington University Comparative Politics Workshop, held in Washington D.C. (October 14, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz spoke at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Southeast Asia Program workshop on "How Indonesia Became a Constitutional Democracy," held in Baltimore, Maryland. (October 5, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz spoke on "Constitutional and Electoral Measures to Reduce Ethnic Conflict," at MIT's XXI Century conference on Foreign Politics, International Relations, and the National Interest held in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (October 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz delivered a lecture, "The Possibilities of Federalism," at a National Defense University conference on Iraq. (September 21, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz spoke on "Financial Arbitration in the United States" at Ko Guan Law School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in Shanghai, China. (August 4, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz was awarded an honorary doctoral degree at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels). (May 25, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz addressed the Flemish Association of Political Scientists on "Constitutional Design for Severely Divided Societies." (May 24, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz spoke on "Creating and Sustaining Democracy in the Middle East: Constitutional and Governance-Building Considerations" at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. His specific topic was the likely impact of various electoral systems in Tunisia and Egypt. (May 2, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz presented remarks on South Sudan's transitional constitutional process at a workshop on that subject sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace and the National Democratic Institute. (March 15, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz delivered a paper on "Electoral Systems and the Reduction of Ethnic Conflict" at the Indiana University Law School Center for Constitutional Democracy conference on Difference and Constitutionalism in Pan-Asia. (March 5, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz was a commentator on a paper on "Constitutional Compliance" at the George Washington Law School Annual Roundtable on Comparative Constitutional Law held in Washington, D.C. (March 4, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz was cited in the Washington Post as having been consulted by the White House council on the Egyptian problem. (February 14, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz was interviewed on WTOP Radio in Washington D.C. concerning the turmoil in Egypt. (February 14, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz spoke on "Options for a Negotiated Transition Agenda: issues, actors, processes, and timing" at a meeting on "The Challenge of Democratization in Egypt" at the National Endowment for Democracy. (February 11, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz presented his paper on "Electoral Systems" at a Duke Law School Roundtable. (January 30, 2011)
       
    • Professor Horowitz delivered a paper at the George Washington University Comparative Politics Workshop on "How Indonesia Became a Constitutional Democracy." Horowitz is currently a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington. (October 12, 2010)
       
    • Professor Horowitz delivered a paper at the George Washington University Comparative Politics Workshop on "How Indonesia Became a Constitutional Democracy.” (October 12, 2010)
       

  • Judy Horowitz

    • Professor Horowitz interviewed Palestinian lawyers in Ramallah.  The lawyers are applicants for scholarships to study at U.S. law schools under the Palestinian Rule of Law program, sponsored by the Soros Foundation's Open Society Foundations.  (February 1, 2011)
       

  • David F. Levi

    • Dean Levi was a panelist for “Balls and Strikes, Original Intent and the Living Constitution: What Does the Supreme Court Actually Do?” at the Fall Meeting of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers in Washington, D.C. (November 8, 2010)
       
    • Dean Levi presented the Devitt Award to Judge Anthony J. Scirica at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (September 13, 2010)
       

  • Ryke Longest

    • Professor Longest presented "North Carolina Regulatory Control of Natural Gas Exploration" at the Summit on Impacts of Fracking conference at the 27th Annual Meeting of Clean Water for NC, held in Pittsboro, North Carolina. (September 10, 2011)
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    • Professor Longest participated in a panel discussion on the “Role of EPA in the Courts” at a seminar looking at the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, held at Duke Law School. (January 24, 2011)
       

  • Marty Lybecker

    • Professor Lybecker was awarded the 2011 Grass Roots Advocacy Award, presented by ABA President Stephen Zack during ceremonies at the U.S. Supreme Court.  (April 13, 2011)
       
    • Professor Lybecker spoke on "Managing the Portfolio: Topical Legal Issues Confronting Lawyers Today," at the 2011 Institutional Investor Forum, sponsored by PLI, held in New York City. (March 22, 2011)
       
    • Professor Lybecker spoke on "Navigating the Latest Federal Regulatory and Legislative Developments," at the 2011 Wealth Management Trust Conference, sponsored by the Texas Bankers Association in San Antonio, Texas. (March 17, 2011)
       
    • Professor Lybecker spoke on "Changes to the Federal Securities Laws, The Dodd-Frank Act: A New Framework for the Regulation of Financial Services in the U.S.," as part of the ABA CLE Webinar Program. (February 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Lybecker moderated, "Developments in Hedge Funds, Investment Funds, a Roundtable Discussion," sponsored by the Boston University School of Law. (December 10, 2010)
       
    • Professor Lybecker spoke on the "Family Office Exemption," at the Florida Family Office Exchange. (November 29, 2010)
       
    • Professor Lybecker spoke on the "Family Office Exemption," at the Fall Meeting of the Subcommittee on Hedge Funds, Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, American Bar Association, held in Washington, D.C. (November 19, 2010)
       
    • Professor Lybecker spoke on the "Investment Advisers Act," at the FOX Private Wealth Conference, held in Chicago, Illinois. (November 10, 2010)
       
    • Professor Lybecker spoke on "Family Office Exemption," at the FOX Fall Forum, held in Chicago, Illinois. (October 18, 2010)
       
    • Professor Lybecker spoke on "Dodd-Frank Financial Reform and Its Impact on the Banking Industry," at the ALI-ABA Course of Study, held in Washington, D.C. (October 7, 2010)
       

  • Carolyn McAllaster

    • Professor McAllaster, along with Jennifer Brobst, co-authored The North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys: Creating Camaraderie, Nurturing Leaders, and Protecting the Rights of Women, which was published in the
      North Carolina State Bar Journal.
      (October 6, 2011)
       
    • Professor McAllaster co-authored an article in the Fall 2011 North Carolina State Bar Journal entitled: The North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys: Creating Camaraderie, Nurturing Leaders, and Protecting the Rights of Women.
      (October 6, 2011)
       
    • Professor McAllaster and Professor Allison Rice conducted an Ethics Continuing Legal Education Workshop on Special Ethical Concerns Raised by the Representation of Clients with Stigmatizing Conditions, at the NC Association of Women Attorneys annual meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina. (September 16, 2011)
       
    • Professor McAllaster presented at the Reducing Harm & Building Communities: Addressing Drug Use in the South Conference: workshop: Human Rights and HIV in the South:  The Criminal Law and HIV-Positive People, Sex Workers, and Drug Users, in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. (September 8, 2011)
       
    • Professor MacAllaster presented on "Access to Justice:  Identifying Resources, Creating Networks" at the Ford Foundation Convening: HIV/AIDS Strategic Litigation/Access to Justice in New York City. (April 27, 2011)
       
    • Professor McAllaster gave a presentation on the "Legal Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS" at the Duke Addictions Group in Durham, North Carolina. (April 7, 2011)
       
    • Professor MacAllaster was elected co-chair of the North Carolina AIDS Action Network (NCAAN). (April 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor McAllaster co-presented a workshop at the Equality North Carolina annual meeting in Greensboro, entitled “HIV Policy in North Carolina: Successes and Challenges.”  (November 13, 2010)
       

  • Francis McGovern

    • Professor McGovern participated in the “Mediation and Settlement of MDL Litigation,”at the Johnson & Johnson DePuy Hip Implant Litigation Conference in Durham, North Carolina. (November 17, 2010)
       
    • Professor McGovern participated in“Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Study Project,” at the Transferee Judges’ Conference in Palm Beach, Florida.  (October 26, 2010)
       
    • Professor McGovern delivered “Advanced Mediation Strategy,” at the U.S. Courts Conference in Pocatello, Idaho.  (October 22, 2010)
       
    • Professor McGovern received the 2010 Leadership Award from the National Center for Victims of Crime, in New York City.  (September 28, 2010)
       
    • Professor McGovern was awarded a 2010 Leadership Award by the National Center for Victims of Crime. (September 28, 2010)
       
    • Professor McGovern delivered “Distribution Process in Class Action and SEC Settlements,” to the Bank Depository User Group in Clearwater Beach, Florida.  (September 23, 2010)
       
    • Professor McGovern delivered “The ‘I Hate Class Actions’ Approach to Multidistrict Litigation,” at The Inner Circle of Advocates, in Princeville, Hawaii.  (August 9, 2010)
       
    • Professor McGovern spoke on “The Classical Age of Greece,” at DIKEMES, College Year in Athens, in Athens, Greece.  (July 1, 2010)
       

  • Thomas B. Metzloff

    • Professor Metzloff spoke on a panel entitled "VMI and Co-education: The Civil War Revisited or Defenders of Educational Creativity?" at Washington and Lee Law School in Lexington, Virginia. (November 1, 2010)
       

  • Ralf Michaels

    • Professor Michaels delivered a keynote address, "What Private International Law Is About," to 200 participants at the biannual conference of the Journal of Private International Law in Milan, Italy.  (April 15, 2011)
       
    • Professor Michaels delivered a keynote lecture on "The role of academics and practitioners in private international law" to 150 members of the invitation-only German Association of International Law in Cologne, Germany. (March 30, 2011)
       
    • Professor Michaels delivered a keynote address, "Neocolonialism in European Private Law? Lessons from the legal pluralism debate," at the Pluralism and European Private Law Conference in Exeter, England. (March 25, 2011)
       
    • Professor Michaels discussed "Legal Origins, Doing Business and Rule of Law Indicators: The Economic Evaluation of Legal Systems," at the Annual Conference of the American Society of International Law in Washington, D.C. (March 24, 2011)
       
    • Professor Michaels discussed "Comparing Law: Debates on Method" with Pierre Legrand at Duke Law School. (February 26, 2011)
       
    • Professor Michaels participated in a panel discussion on "Comparing Law: Debates on Method," at Duke Law School. (February 16, 2011)
       
    • Professor Michaels participated in the "CICL-CLRP Scholarship Roundtable: Challenges to Democracy in Divided Societies," at Duke Law School.  (January 29, 2011)
       
    • Professor Michaels participated in the panel, "Beyond the State? Comparative Approaches to Group Political Identity in the Age of the Transnational,"with Karen Knop and Annelise Riles at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. (January 8, 2011)
       
    • Professor Michaels presented, "The Mirage of Nonstate Governance," at a seminar held at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis. (November 22, 2010)
       
    • Professor Michaels discussed, "National Law in a Global Context," at the  Symposium LAPA 10-year Anniversary held at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.  (October 22, 2010)
       
    • Professor Michaels was a commentator on, "Roundtable: Law Beyond Borders: Jurisprudence for a Hybrid World," held at  Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  (October 8, 2010)
       

  • Theresa Newman

    • Professor Newman, with Darryl Hunt, spoke to at the annual meeting of Durham Congregations in Action. (January 20, 2011)
       

  • Michelle Benedict Nowlin

    • Professor Nowlin developed a poster presentation entitled, "Protecting Sea Turtles Through Science-Based Fishery Regulations," for display at the International Sea Turtle Symposium. (April 11, 2011)
       
    • Professor Nowlin presented, "An Introduction to Environmental Law: What Every Advocate Needs to Know," to the North Carolina Conservation Network.  (April 8, 2011)
       

  • Jedediah Purdy

    • Professor Purdy was a presenter at the "New Directions in Environmental Law," conference held at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut.  (April 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Purdy participated in a "Discussion of Hanoch Dagan’s Property: Values and Institutions," at the Association for Law, Property, and Society. (March 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Purdy presented, "Women’s, Feminist, and Gender History," as part of a Duke/UNCworking group on, “Feminist Pedagogy in Legal Education.”  (March 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Purdy presented his paper, "American Natures," on the history of environmental lawmaking, at Harvard Law School (March 2010), Columbia Law School (April 2010), Georgetown Law Center and UCLA Law School faculty workshops (October 2010). (February 22, 2011)
       
    • Professor Purdy presented at the White Center Annual Conference on Constitutional Law, sponsored by Colorado Law School and The University of Denver Law School.  (January 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Purdy presented “American Natures,” at a Georgetown Law Center Faculty Workshop held in Washington, D.C. (October 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Purdy presented, “American Natures,” at a UCLA Law School Faculty Workshop held in Los Angeles, California. (October 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Purdy participated as a panelist in the 2010 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights conference in honor of Carol Rose at William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia. (September 1, 2010)
       

  • Arti K. Rai

    • Professor Rai was appointed to serve on the Defense Advance Research Project Agency (DARPA) Synthetic Biology Expert Panel. (October 6, 2011)
       
    • Professor Rai delivered the 9th annual Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property at Duke Law School. (March 24, 2011)
       
    • Professor Rai participated in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Roundtable on Federal Government Engagement in Standards in Washington, D.C. (January 25, 2011)
       
    • Professor Rai delivered the keynote address at the 11th Annual Silicon Valley Advanced Patent Law Institute. (December 10, 2010)
       
    • Professor Rai delivered the 13th annual Niro Distinguished Intellectual Property Lecture at DePaul Law School in Chicago, Illinois. (October 20, 2010)
       
    • Professor Rai served until September 2010 as the administrator of the Office of External Affairs at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. (September 30, 2010)
       
    • Professor Rai  testified at hearings on synthetic biology held by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues in Washington, D.C. (September 13, 2010)
       

  • William A. Reppy, Jr.

    • William Reppy received the A. Kenneth Pye Award in honor of his career accomplishments and dedication to Duke Law School. (February 22, 2011)
       

  • Allison Rice

    • Professor Rice and Professor Carolyn McAllaster conducted an Ethics Continuing Legal Education Workshop on Special Ethical Concerns Raised by the Representation of Clients with Stigmatizing Conditions, at the NC Association of Women Attorneys annual meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina. (September 16, 2011)
       

  • Barak D. Richman

    • Professor Richman served as Senior Fellow at the Center on law, Economics, and Organization at the Columbia Law School in New York. (March 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Richman was selected to be a Senior Fellow at Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics. (January 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Richman was selected to be on the editorial board for Business & Politics. (October 1, 2010)
       

  • James Salzman

    • Professor Salzman presented on the role of payments for ecosystem service markets in Western land management at the Property and Environmental Research Center (PERC) in Bozeman, Montana. (December 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Salzman presented the keynote speech at the Ecosystem Markets Conference, held in Raleigh, North Carolina, and sponsored by the World Resources Institute and American Forest Foundation.  (December 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Salzman particpated in a panel discussion on innovative regulatory approaches to ecosystem service markets at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (December 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Salzman delivered the 11th Annual Kerlin Lecture on Environmental Law at Pace Law School. His lecture was titled "What is the Emperor Wearing? The Secret Lives of Ecosystem Services." (October 18, 2010)
       

  • Richard L. Schmalbeck

    • Professor Schmalbeck made a presentation to a meeting of philanthropic leaders at Independent Sector in Washington, on developments relating to hybrid organizational forms that are structured to accomplish charitable ends. (August 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Schmalbeck gave a workshop on the treatment of churches under American tax law at the University of Toronto Law School. (March 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Schmalbeck taught short executive education courses in international tax to groups of lawyers and accountants in programs in Neuchatel, Switzerland; Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico; and to two separate groups of tax collection officials from India who visited Duke University. (January 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Schmalbeck gave a formal commentary on a paper presented by John Colombo at the annual conference of the National Center for Philanthropy and Law at New York University. (October 28, 2010)
       

  • Steven L. Schwarcz

    • Professor Schwarcz delivered the first annual Roberta Mitchell Lecture at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio. (October 28, 2011)
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    • Professor Schwarcz delivered the keynote address, "A Regulatory Framework for Managing Systemic Risk," at the European Central Bank's Seminar on Regulation of Financial Services in the EU: Surveillance—Resilience—Transparency, held in Frankfurt, Germany. (October 20, 2011)
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    • Professor Schwarcz delivered the Diane Sanger Memorial Lecture on “Protecting Investors in Securitization Transactions: Does Dodd-Frank Help, or Hurt?” at Georgetown Law School, sponsored by the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society, in Washington D.C. (March 28, 2011)
       
    • Professor Schwarcz gave the Keynote Speech, “Identifying and Managing Systemic Risk: An Assessment of Our Progress,” at George Mason University AGEP Advanced Policy Institute on Financial Services Regulation in Arlington, Virginia. (March 10, 2011)
       
    • Professor Schwarcz delivered the Keynote Speech at the Chapman Law Review’s 2011 Symposium: “The Future of Financial Regulation” at Chapman University School of Law in Orange, California. This speech also served as the Chapman Law School's 2011 Chapman Dialogue Series Address. (January 28, 2011)
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    • Professor Schwarcz released his article, “Marginalizing Risk.” (December 1, 2010)
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    • Professor Schwarcz presented his paper "Compensating Market Value Losses," at the Law and Finance Workshop co-sponsored by the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law and Said Business School faculty. (November 16, 2010)
       
    • Professor Schwarcz gave faculty workshops on his research at the University of Leicester School of Law, London School of Economics, Queen Mary (University of London), University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, University College London Faculty of Laws, and the University of Manchester, School of Law. (November, 2010)
       
    • Professor Schwarcz delivered three Leverhulme Lectures 2010, “The Global Financial Crisis and Systemic Risk,” “Regulating Complexity in Financial Markets,” and “The Future of Securitization” as the Leverhulme Visitng Professor of Law at the University of Oxford. (November 1, 2010)
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    • Professor Schwarcz participated in Systemic Risk and the Global Financial Crisis, at the Global Economic Governance (GEG) Seminar, University College (University of Oxford). (October 29, 2010)
       
    • Professor Schwarcz participated as an “expert” on improving the settlement of financial market disputes at the World Legal Forum’s Expert Roundtable, The Hague Peace Palace. (October 25, 2010)
       
    • Professor Schwarcz participated in a research interaction, Regulating Systemic Risk, with Oxford faculty and graduate students. (October 20, 2010)
       
    • Professor Schwarcz advised the Ministry of Finance, Republic of Chile about reforming regulation of the Chilean financial markets. (September 1, 2010)
       

  • Scott L. Silliman

    • Professor Silliman was a guest speaker at the monthly luncheon of the West Triangle Chapter of the United Nations Association of the United States of America. (April 27, 2011)
       
    • Professor Silliman coordinated the "National Security Since 9/11: New Norms for a New Decade" Conference held at Duke University. (April 14, 2011)
       
    • Professor Silliman served on a panel discussing the “No Fly” zone in Libya at a luncheon program sponsored by the Student Organization for Legal Issues in the Middle East and North Africa (SOLIMENA). (April 6, 2011)
       
    • Professor Silliman once again served as Duke Law School’s principal organizer and joined LENS Board members Sara Beale, Chris Schroeder, and Curt Bradley in offering a program for 45 federal judges under the auspices of the Federal Judicial Center.  This year's conference featured a "Law and Terrorism Seminar." (March 3, 2011)
       
    • Professor Silliman debated Professor John Radsan from William Mitchell College of Law at a meeting of the Duke Law Federalist Society. (February 25, 2011)
       
    • Professor Silliman was the featured speaker at a meeting of the UNC Christian Legal Society. (February 21, 2011)
       
    • Professor Silliman was a featured speaker at a plenary session of Duke University’s 2011 Model United Nations.  (February 18, 2011)
       
    • Professor Silliman served as a guest lecturer at the University of North Carolina Law School’s annual two-day CLE program in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  He presented his regular National Security Law Update lecture to over 165 attorneys.   (February 12, 2011)
       
    • Professor Silliman delivered an address, "Legal Aspects of the Ongoing Conflict against Terrorists," to the student body at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (December 6, 2010)
       
    • Professor Silliman taught a two-week segment of a course entitled "Detention, Interrogation and Prosecution of Enemy Combatants and Alleged Terrorists" as part of the 2010 Duke-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law. (July 12, 2010)
       

  • Michael E. Tigar

    • Professor Tigar was a panelist at the Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference, and the keynote speaker at the Patrick Higginbotham Inn of Court in Dallas, Texas. (May 1, 2011)
       
    • Professor Tigar presented a paper, "The Crisis in Legal Ethics," at the Carhart Conference on Legal Ethics at Ohio Northern University Law School. (April 28, 2011)
       
    • Professor Tigar was the keynote speaker at the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court in Washington, D.C. (April 22, 2011)
       
    • Professor Tigar was a keynote speaker at the Judicial Conference of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.  (April 2, 2011)
       
    • Professor Tigar was an expert witness on counsel in capital cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Washington, D.C. (October 29, 2010)
       
    • Professor Tigar taught a session on cross-examination to the Office of Military Defense Counsel, Washington, D.C. (October 25, 2010)
       
    • Professor Tigar delivered a lecture “Why You Should Be An Advocate” at Temple University Law School. (October 18, 2010)
       
    • Professor Tigar's play “The Trial of John Peter Zenger” was performed by a theatre group from Temple University at the Philadelphia Bench/Bar Conference in Atlantic City, NJ. The performance was followed by a panel discussion in which Professor Tigar participated with judges and lawyers. (October 15, 2010)
       
    • Professor Tigar gave a six-hour presentation on “Nine Principles of Litigation – and Life” at the New Jersey Bar on August 19, 2010, and at the Ohio Bar. (October 8, 2010)
       

  • Jane R. Wettach

    • Professor Wettach, director of the Law School's Children's Law Clinic, was chosen by the North Carolina Justice Center to be a recipient of their 2010 Defenders of Justice Award. (August 25, 2010)
       

  • Jonathan B. Wiener

    • Professor Wiener presented, “The Tragedy of the Uncommons,” at the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. (December 9, 2010)
       
    • Professor Wiener presented, “US Domestic Climate Policy and International Relations,” at the conference on “Pricing Carbon,” at Université Paris-Dauphine in Paris, France. (November 9, 2010)
       
    • Professor Wiener presented, “Addressing Risk in Regulatory Decision-Making” at the conference on “Regulatory Policy at the Crossroads: Toward a New Policy Agenda,” OECD in Paris, France. (October 28, 2010)
       
    • Professor Wiener presided as session chair at the “Global Cost-Benefit Analysis,” conference held by the NYU Institute for Policy Integrity in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (October 26, 2010)
       
    • Professor Wiener delivered “The (Mis)Use of Risk Analysis, the Financial Crisis, and Reform,” at the conference held by Labaton Sucharow LLP in New York, New York on the “The New Regulatory Paradigm: What Has Been Accomplished and What Remains to be Done?” ? (October 1, 2010)
       

  • Lawrence A. Zelenak

    • Professor Zelenak was a speaker at NYU Law School's "Second Annual Tax Movie Night," featuring tax-related situation comedy episodes from The Honeymooners to The Simpsons.   (April 7, 2011)
       
    • Professor Zelenak was a commentator at, "Confronting the Intersection of Tax Law, Gender, and Sexuality," a symposium sponsored by the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law in Washington, D.C. (March 30, 2011)
       
    • Professor Zelenak presented his work-in-progress, "Learning to Love the Form 1040: Two Cheers for the Return-Based Mass Income Tax," at the University of Pennsylvania Law School's Tax Law and Policy Seminar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  (January 26, 2011)
       
    • Professor Zelenak presented his paper, "Learning to Love the Form 1040: Two Cheers for the Return-Based Mass Income Tax," at Washington and Lee Law School Faculty Workshop Series, Lexington, Virginia. (November 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Zelenak spoke on "Two Cheers for the Return-Based Mass Income Tax," University of Montana Law School Tax Institute, Missoula, Montana. (October 22, 2010)
       
    • Professor Zelenak presented his paper, "A Loophole You Can Drive an SUV Through: The SUV Deduction as a Case Study in the Greening of the Internal Revenue Code," at Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. (October 8, 2010)
       
    • Professor Zelenak served as a commentator at the Duke Law Journal symposium on judging. (October 1, 2010)
       
    • Professor Zelenak presented, "Many Not-So-Unhappy Returns: The Underappreciated Virtues of the Return-Based Mass Income Tax," at the University of Colorado Law School Summer Tax Workshop in Boulder, Colorado. (July 16, 2010)