Alumni profile Full Circle Umbraphile Evan Zucker ’79 has spent a lifetime documenting solar eclipses For Evan Zucker ’79, time can’t blot out memories of his first solar eclipse. “It was 1963, I was 8, and I was playing outside in upstate New York,” Zucker says. “I...
Alumni Profile Yendelela Neely Holston ’06 by Richard Lawson Growing up in Laurens, South Carolina, Yendelela Neely Holston ’06 was aware of racism. She recalls watching a Ku Klux Klan march at eight years old, and being overlooked for academic opportunities at school...
Alumni Q&A Illia Salei LLM ’14 As a high school student, Illia Salei LLM ’14 was pretty confident he was going to be a lawyer. He never expected to be a political prisoner. Salei, whose mother is a law professor and father established one of the first...
Alumni Profile John Norton Moore ’62 by Richard Blaustein ’92 John Norton Moore ’62 looks back on Duke Law Journal as the laboratory that created his writing career, which to date includes dozens of solo and co-authored books and numerous articles and book...
Daniel S. Bowling III ’80 Former Coca-Cola executive Bowling ’80 retires from teaching at Duke Law Distinguished Fellow Daniel S. Bowling III ’80, a longtime senior executive for one of the world’s most iconic brands, retired from 18 years of teaching at...
Mandisa Maya LLM ’90 Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa By Frances Presma In late January, Mandisa Maya, the Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa, celebrated the launch of a new publication that will give women lawyers and judges opportunities to write early in...
Mark Uyeda ’95 By Andrew Park When Mark Uyeda arrived for his first day as a member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last June, he was in a familiar place. He had been on the SEC staff since 2006 in a variety of positions, including senior advisor to...
Alumni Q & A Jessica Sklarsky ’09 By Jeannie Naujeck Just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated federal abortion protections with its June ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, Jessica Sklarsky, a senior staff attorney with the Center for Reproductive...
Nicole De Brigard ’23 By Andrew Park Nicole De Brigard was surprised when Dean Kerry Abrams opened the first meeting of her Dean’s Advisory Council in April 2022 by asking each of the group’s student members to name two things they’d like to see at Duke Law School. As...
For Momanyi, investigating claims of police misconduct in Minneapolis central to ensuring justice for all, including those from whom it has been “systemically deprived”
Jalali returned to Afghanistan after earning his LLM, only to leave in the same airlift as those he is now helping as a fellow in the Immigrant Rights Clinic
Winter 2021
Volume 40 | Number 1