The Commons Back on campus After almost 18 months of online teaching and learning due to the coronavirus pandemic, the fall semester has marked a return to normal for Duke Law with in-person classes and a full cohort of students and faculty on campus. Clinic News Clinic teams help secure grants of asylum for three refugee children, a pardon of innocence for a wrongfully convicted client, and coverage for gender-affirming surgery for transgender individuals and produce a report on discipline trends in N.C. charter schools. Recognizing significant legal clerkships, fellowships, and honors Recent graduates have secured a Supreme Court clerkship, a DOJ Bristow Fellowship, and a clerkship with Europe’s highest court, among other honors. Gift from Farrin ’90, wife establishes new post-grad public interest fellowship The Farrin Fellowship will fund a new graduate’s work with a nonprofit organization that provides domestic legal services, particularly those serving low-income or indigent clients. Center for Innovation Policy Denis Simon joins CIP as executive director Simon, a specialist in science and technology policy and innovation studies, recently returned to Durham following a five-year term as executive vice chancellor of Duke Kunshan University. Bolch Judicial Institute Bolch Prize celebration honors Justices Moseneke, Marshall Two remarkable judges, both born in apartheid-era South Africa, had very different paths to the judiciary. Wilson Center for Science and Justice Leading legal, public health, and sentencing advocates join Wilson Center staff. Prosecutors help shed light on plea agreements in novel Wilson Center project. Convocation 2021 Newman ’88 urges graduates to help “bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice” Fall 2021Volume 40 No. 2
