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Supreme Court Clerks 2024

Supreme Court Clerks 2024

John Macy ’22 and Donovan Stone ’20 Macy ’22 and Stone ’20 serving as Supreme Court clerks John Macy ’22 and Donovan Stone ’20 are serving as Supreme Court clerks for the October 2024 term.  Macy is clerking for Associate Justice Samuel Alito and Stone is...

Bolch Prize 2024

Bolch Prize 2024

Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was celebrated as the 2024 recipient of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law.

Insignes 2024

Insignes 2024

Insignes Recognizing significant legal clerkships, fellowships, and honors Nick Opoku LLM ’24, a corporate lawyer from Ghana, is the first international LLM graduate to be awarded the Farrin Fellowship. Funded by James Farrin ’90 and the North Carolina law firm...

Duke Endowment Challenge 2024

Duke Endowment Challenge 2024

Duke Law School donors, board members, faculty, named scholars, and fellows gathered in October 2023 for the Scholarship & Fellowship Brunch. Students had the opportunity to meet and thank the donors whose support of financial aid has helped make their Duke Law...

Distinguished Professorships  2024

Distinguished Professorships 2024

L-R: Professors Veronica Root Martinez, Doriane Lambelet Coleman, Sara Sternberg Greene, Emily Ryo, and Elisabeth de Fontenay. Distinguished Professorships Professors Doriane Lambelet Coleman, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Sara Sternberg Greene, Veronica Root Martinez, and...

Duke Law Faculty Awards 2024

Inaugural Duke Law Faculty Awards Adler, Rich, Foster, and Grant were nominated by their peers for excellence in scholarship, teaching, institutional service, and community engagement. Professors Matthew Adler, Rebecca Rich, Andrew Foster, and Crystal Grant were...

Professorship Dinner 2024

Professorship Dinner 2024

Professorship Dinner Duke Law School held a Professorship Dinner on October 26, 2023, to honor named professors and celebrate donors of endowed professorships. The event provided an opportunity to express gratitude and celebrate our wonderful donors and professors who...

Yaron Nili 2024

Yaron Nili 2024

Yaron Nili, scholar of corporate and securities law, joins faculty Yaron Nili, a scholar and teacher of corporate law, corporate governance, and securities law, joined Duke Law School on July 1 as a professor of law. Most recently, Nili was a professor of law and the...

Faculty Notes 2024

Faculty Notes 2024

Jenkins appears on CBS Sunday Morning Clinical Professor of Law Jennifer Jenkins JD/MA ’97 was featured in a CBS News Sunday Morning segment on copyright and the public domain on April 14. Jenkins, director of Duke Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, told...

Q&A Lefkowitz 2024

Q&A Lefkowitz 2024

Alumni Q&A Alla Lefkowitz JD/LLM ’10 In December 2012, 20 children and six adults died from gunshots at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the fourth deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Prior to that day, Alla Lefkowitz JD/LLM ’10 hadn’t given much thought...

Alex Alumni profile 2024

Alex Alumni profile 2024

Alumni Profile April Alex April Alex ’24 has often sought opportunities to make a direct impact on the lives of those around her. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Houston when Hurricane Harvey struck the Texas coast in 2017. The deadliest...

Magazine Cover - Rebooting America

Winter 2021
Volume 40 | Number 1