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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.

Havighurst Painting Donation 2024

Havighurst Painting Donation 2024

Karen and Clark Havighurst Havighurst family gifts painting to Law School The family of Clark Havighurst, the William Neal Reynolds Professor Emeritus of Law, former interim dean, and longtime faculty member at the Law School, gifted the Law School a painting by noted...

Pro Bono Roundup 2024

Pro Bono Roundup 2024

2024 Pro Bono All-Star Award Winners(Back row, from left) D.J. Dore, Director of Pro Bono; Lucas Mears ’24; Brendan Hogan ’24; Maati Ech Chaibi El Hidaoui LLM ’24; Andres Pulido Matallana LLM ’24; Stella Boswell, Associate Dean, Office of Public Interest & Pro...

Alumni Notes 2024

1961 Llewelyn Pritchard, chair of the lifetime directors of the Seattle Symphony, was honored for his 40 years of service on October 7, 2023, when the symphony dedicated its masterworks concert to him. The Symphony celebrated its 120th anniversary in 2023 and is the...

Sua Sponte 2024

Sua Sponte 2024

Sua Sponte Robert Chang JD/MA ’92 returned to Duke Law School to deliver the inaugural Jerome M. Culp, Jr. Critical Theory Lecture on Feb. 1 before students, faculty, and members of Culp’s family. Chang, a professor of law and executive director of the Fred T....

Quincy Amerson 2024

Quincy Amerson 2024

Free after 23 years Wrongful Convictions Clinic secures exoneration for Quincy Amerson Quincy Marquies Amerson, a client of the Duke Law School Wrongful Convictions Clinic, walked free for the first time in more than two decades after the clinic presented exculpatory...

Wrongful Convictions Clinic 2024

Wrongful Convictions Clinic 2024

Ronnie Long and Clinical Professor Jamie Lau ’09 following Long’s release from prison on Aug. 27, 2020. (Photo: Denise Nation) Wrongful Convictions Clinic Ronnie Long receives $25 million settlement Ronnie Long, a client of Duke Law School’s Wrongful Convictions...

Faculty Books 2024

Faculty Books 2024

Faculty Books Thomas L. Perkins Distinguished Professor of Law Doriane Lambelet Coleman published On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach (Simon & Schuster, May 2024), in which she charts a middle path through one of the most hotly debated issues in American...

The Future of Rights Fall 2023

The Future of Rights Fall 2023

AI and algorithmically-based applications may help solve humanity’s most pressing problems. But they also come with challenges for civil rights and liberties.

Insignes Fall 2023

Insignes Fall 2023

Recognizing significant legal clerkships, fellowships, and honorsFall 2023 Goodrich Ellen Goodrich ’23 and Lily Talerman ’23 are the inaugural recipients of the Farrin Fellowship, established by James Farrin ’90 and his wife Robin Farrin in 2021 to support graduating...

Magazine Cover - Rebooting America

Winter 2021
Volume 40 | Number 1