Duke on Demand

The Duke Law Moot Court Board invites you to the final round of this year's Dean's Cup, Duke's premier oral advocacy competition. The problem involves a constitutional challenge by indigent plaintiffs to Tennessee's felon re-enfranchisement statute, which requires felons to pay all child support and restitution obligations before they can regain their right to vote. The student finalists are second-year students Shifali Baliga and Nina Gupta with Casteel Scherger '14 and Oscar Shine '13. This year's esteemed panel of judges are Hon. Marjorie Rendell (3d Cir.), Hon. Andre Davis (4th Cir.), and Hon. Catherine Eagles (M.D.N.C.). The competition will be followed by a light reception.
Read the article http://law.duke.edu/news/2ls-baliga-and-gupta-win-2013-dean-s-cup/ .

LaMonte Armstrong served 17 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. He was exonerated with the help of students, faculty, and alumni in Duke Law School's Wrongful Convictions Clinic.

Professor Nicola Lacey, of All Souls College at Oxford University, will be presenting the 2013 Annual Bernstein Lecture titled "Comparative Criminal Justice: An Institutional Approach."

The Asian Law Students Association is proud to welcome John R. Dunne, former Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and current Senior Counsel at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP. At the Civil Rights Division, Mr. Dunne oversaw the U.S. government's formal apology and redress to Japanese Americans forced to relocate into internment camps during World War II. Mr. Dunne will reflect on the implementation of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, as well as his distinguished career in public service.

Randall Kennedy, the Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School, will deliver a five-part lecture series on the modern history of the civil rights movement at Duke Law School during the spring 2013 semester.

The lectures, to be delivered Feb. 13 and 14, March 28, and April 8 and 9, will address the major legislative and legal achievements of the civil rights revolution, including the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and cases that contributed to symbolic and substantive changes in U.S. law and culture. Kennedy's lecture is supported by the Robert R. Wilson Fund at Duke University and is part of Duke University's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the undergraduate program's desegregation.

Battlefields, Boardrooms, and Backyards: The New Face of National Security Law

Speaker: Hon. Charles Blanchard, General Counsel, Department of the Air Force

Voter ID laws are popping up in states all over the country. Proponents say they are necessary to prevent voter fraud. Opponents claim they are solutions designed to address problems that don't really exist. Even more troubling, they might even be used to disenfranchise large swaths of our nation's poor. Please join the Duke Law ACLU in welcoming Clare Barnett from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice and Jen Frye from Democracy NC for a discussion about this controversial topic!

Duke Law School welcomes Cary Sherman, Chairman & CEO of Recording Industry Assoc. of America as the 2013 Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property speaker

Gilad Noam, Senior Deputy to Israel's State Attorney and lecturer in international criminal law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, will discuss the legal issues and challenges posed by Hamas' shelling of Israeli towns, Israel's 2012 "Pillar of Defense" operation in the Gaza strip, and the UN General Assembly's resolution upgrading the status of the PLO's observer mission to the UN to that of "non-member Observer State."

Battlefields, Boardrooms, and Backyards: The New Face of National Security Law

Opening remarks: Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, USAF (Ret.), LENS Executive Director

Keynote: The Law of Cyberwar: The Tallinn Manual
Speaker: Prof. Michael N. Schmitt, Chairman, International Law Department, Naval War College