Faculty Focus

New Faculty: Lauren Fine ’11 Fall 2023

New Faculty: Lauren Fine ’11 Fall 2023

Lauren Fine ’11 Alumna returns to Duke as supervising attorney of Criminal Defense Clinic by Jeannie Naujeck Lauren Fine ’11, a nationally recognized advocate for youth justice reform, joined the faculty in July as assistant clinical professor of law and...

Aguirre Hire

Aguirre Hire

Emilie Aguirre, previously the Earl B. Dickerson Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, is a graduate of Harvard Law School and received a Ph.D in Health Policy and Management from Harvard Business School in May.

Raskin distinguished professorship

Raskin distinguished professorship

Former Deputy Treasury Secretary Raskin awarded distinguished professorship  By Andrew Park Sarah Bloom Raskin, the former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury and a visiting professor since 2020, has been named the Colin W. Brown Distinguished...

Faculty Notes Fall 2021

Faculty Notes Fall 2021

Faculty Notes Fall 2021 Arti Rai, the Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law and faculty co-director of the Center for Innovation Policy, was appointed, in April, to serve as a senior advisor in the Office of General Counsel in the U.S. Department of Commerce. In this role,...

McCubbins

McCubbins

McCubbins, the Ruth F. De Varney Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law, died July 1.

Remembering Paul Carrington

Remembering Paul Carrington, renowned scholar, transformative dean By Frances Presma Paul D. Carrington, the Harry R. Chadwick, Sr., Professor Emeritus of Law and a former dean of Duke Law School, died on Aug. 24 at the age of 90. Carrington, a scholar of civil...

Newman Retirement

Theresa Newman ’88, clinical professor and Wrongful Convictions Clinic co‑director, retires By Frances Presma Theresa Newman was drawn to study law by her interest in its stories.  “As a rule follower I was always interested in rule breakers and what it...

John Weistart ’68: Scholar, teacher, mentor, friend

John Weistart ’68: Scholar, teacher, mentor, friend

John Weistart ’68: Scholar, teacher, mentor, friend A scholar of contracts and commercial transactions renowned as a sports law pioneer, Weistart retired after 51 years at Duke Law, revered for a powerful gift of connection. By Frances Presma Professor John Weistart...

Schroeder – Office of Legal Counsel

Schroeder – Office of Legal Counsel

Schroeder leads Office of Legal Counsel as acting assistant attorney general Professor Emeritus Christopher Schroeder is serving as acting head of the OLC after leading the Department of Justice agency review team for the Biden-Harris transition. Christopher...

Ludington

Ludington

First Amendment, information privacy scholar joins faculty as director of the First Amendment Clinic

Sarah Bloom Raskin

Sarah Bloom Raskin

Former deputy Treasury secretary joins Duke Law as a visiting professor of the practice of law

Magazine Cover - Rebooting America

Winter 2021
Volume 40 | Number 1