Date/Time/Location

Event

February 5, 2003
2:45pm
Room 4047
Reception in the 4th floor loggia to follow

Honorable Diana Gribbon Motz will speak about the Violence Against Women Act, constitutional interpretation, and individual rights generally. She will also take questions.
Since 1994, Judge Motz has been a Circuit Judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in 1965 and received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1968. After graduating from law school, she worked as an Associate at Piper & Marbury in Baltimore. She was Assistant Attorney General from 1972-81, and Chief of Litigation from 1982-86 in the Office of Attorney General of Maryland. After leaving the Attorney General's Office, she worked at the law firm of Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman until 1991 when she was appointed to the bench as an Associate Judge on the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland. She is a member of the American Law Institute, American Bar Foundation, Maryland Bar Foundation and was named one of Maryland's Top 100 Women by the Daily Record in 1996.

April 3, 2002
12:15 - 1:00
Blue Lounge

Prof. Len Simon will discuss
  • the impact of an increasingly conservative judiciary;
  • career choices which permit you to pursue liberal ideaological goals through litigation, such as plaintiff's civil practice, criminal defense practice, or government practice;
  • doing pro bono work in whatever career path you choose;
  • any other questions you would like to ask him.
    Prof. Simon teaches Complex Civil Litigation and Real World Litigation here at Duke. Since graduating from Duke Law School in 1973, he has clerked for Judge Hill (Federal District Court), served as lead or co-lead counsel in numberous securities and antitrust suits, and worked in the DC office of corporate firm Arnold and Porter, and the San Diego office of Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, a preeminent plaintiff's class action firm.

    • March 29, 2002
    1:00 - 6:00
    Room 3043

    ACS Duke cohosted with the Duke Law Journal a conference on Administrative Law and the Executive Privilege. Our own Prof. Christopher Schroeder and UNC Professor William Marshall spoke. For more information, go to Conference Website.

    November 8, 2001

    ACS Duke cohosted with the UNC chapter a kick-off event "Take Back the Constitution." Speakers included:
  • Peter Rubin, founder of the ACS, Georgetown Law Professor
  • Christopher Schroeder, Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies at Duke, Former Head of the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, and Former Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee
  • Lisa Brown, Former Chief Counsel to Vice President Al Gore
  • William Marshall, Former Deputy White House Counsel, UNC Law Professor
  • Theresa Wynn Roseborough, Formerly Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice