Duke Bar Association

The Duke Bar Association coordinates the professional, social, and other extracurricular activities of the student body. The association resembles in its composition and purpose both a university student government and a professional bar association. It addresses student grievances and serves as a liaison between students, faculty, and the administration. The association oversees all student organizations, publicizes Law School activities, sponsors athletic and social programs, and disburses its dues funds among the school's organizations.

DBA 2006-2007

• President – Brettny Hardy
• Internal Vice President – Benjamin Richter
• External Vice President – Christian Dysart
• Secretary – Timothy Shih
• Treasurer – Ryan McLeod
• Academic Chair – Douglas Calidas
• Athletics Chair – Christopher Healey
• Communications Chair – Nicole Guerrero
• Community Service Chair – Leanne Reagan
• Social Chair – Stephanie Chu
  

ABA Law Student Division Representatives: Curt Clausen, Unfilled, Unfilled, Unfilled
Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) Representatives: Unfilled, Unfilled, Unfilled, Crystal Brown, Joel Cohen, Marisa Darden
Judicial Board: Paige Berges, Jerome Maiatico, Penelope Donkar, Maksim Rakhlin
Appeals Board: Alicia Wright, Michelle Leutzinger

Faculty Student Committees

• Admissions: Tiaunia Bedell, Jennifer Zimbroff
• Career Services: Unfilled, Nathan Good
• Curriculum: Unfilled, Scott Thompson
• External Relations: Unfilled, Sarah Scott
• Faculty Appointments: Marla Johnson, Destiny Duron-Deas
• Library & Web Oversight: Unfilled, Amanda Broan
• Planning: Jared Slade, Eric Lashner

Descriptions of the ABA/LSD and GPSC representative positions:

American Bar Association Law Student Division. The ABA/LSD promotes law student contact with the nation's largest professional association for lawyers, the American Bar Association. Each year the student body elects ABA/LSD representatives who serve as liaisons between students and the ABA. The ABA/LSD also promotes various advocacy and essaycontests throughout the school year.

Graduate and Professional Student Council. The GPSC includes representatives elected from the business, divinity, environment, graduate, law, medical and nursing schools. These schools make up almost half of Duke's student body. The GPSC acts as a liaison between students and the university administration and appoints representatives to many university and trustee committees. The GPSC also plans interdepartmental and interschool social events and publishes a handbook for new students.

Financial Information and Forms

Click on the links below to download files in PDF format. Completed forms should be placed in the DBA Treasurer Ryan McLeod's mail folder. To view PDF files, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is already installed on the Law School computers.

DBA Funding Guidelines - information about applying for the Speakers and Programming Funds.

Reimbursement Request Form- For student groups with DBA-administered budgets, or for groups who have been granted money from the Speakers Fund or the Discretionary Fund..

DBA Funding Requests - for DBA-chartered student groups seeking either Speakers or
Programming funds.

DBA Budgeting Guidelines - How the DBA determined groups's budgets for the 2002-2003 school year. (Information about the 2003-2004 year will be e-mailed to students over the summer.)

2005–06 Budget Report (preliminary draft) - A review and analysis of the 2005–06 budget. A final draft will be released by the end of the 2006 Fall Semester.