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...
In the Classroom Law and Policy Lab students tackle the legal and ethical challenges of data governance Nineteen students from the Law School, Graduate School, and Sanford School of Public Policy participated in a role-playing simulation course this spring in which...
Convocation speaker Kate Adams, senior vice president and general counsel, Apple Convocation 2023 by Jeannie Naujeck Kate Adams, senior vice president and general counsel for Apple, told Duke Law School’s class of 2023 to be generous, take risks, and seek ways to make...
Dean Kerry Abrams From the Dean Dear Friends: One of the biggest stories of the past year was the release of ChatGPT, an online tool that uses artificial intelligence to generate quick, human-like responses to prompts, often with impressive accuracy. Almost...
Clinic Roundup Highlights from the Duke Law School clinics Faculty and student-attorneys in Duke Law’s 12 clinics advance their clients’ interests in a variety of ways — often through advocacy in court or administrative processes but also by recognizing opportunities...
Clinic Spotlight Community Enterprise Clinic The clinical experience at Duke Law School provides students with the opportunity to combine theory and practice to develop a deeper understanding of substantive law as well as the soft skills required in client-facing...
Wilson Center database tracks police reform legislation Few events have galvanized calls for policing reform more than the 2020 murder of George Floyd, who died handcuffed and pinned to the ground under the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Floyd’s...
Judge Tayeba Parsa in Gdansk, Poland Judge Tayeba Parsa Exiled Afghan judge serving as inaugural Bolch Rule of Law Judicial Fellow Duke Law School welcomed Judge Tayeba Parsa of Afghanistan in May as the first Bolch Judicial Institute Rule of Law Judicial...
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Duke Law student volunteers and their supervisors at the “Second Chance Wilmington” launch Pro Bono Student attorneys gain critical skills while helping clients clear criminal records Over the fall semester, dozens of Duke Law student volunteers gained critical legal...
Winter 2021
Volume 40 | Number 1