Commons Faculty Focus Feature Profiles Alumni Notes In Memoriam Sua Sponte Archive | Fall 2023 | Volume 42 No. 2 From the Dean Generative AI has the power to transform work, including legal work, but it poses new challenges for civil rights and liberties The Commons Alison Ashe-Card named inaugural associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion Exiled Afghan judge Tayeba Parsa serving as inaugural Bolch Rule of Law Judicial Fellow Convocation 2023 Apple GC Kate Adams tells graduates how she found personal and professional fulfillment by bucking expectations See more articles in The Commons > Clinic Spotlight Student-attorneys in the Community Enterprise Clinic supply local organizations with legal services that help them fulfill their missions Recognizing significant professional honors The Future of Rights? AI and algorithmically-based applications may help solve humanity’s most pressing problems. But they also come with challenges for civil rights and liberties. Q&A Proposing a right to cognitive liberty Nita Farahany JD/MA ’04 PhD ’06 proposes establishing a human right to mental privacy in her new book “The Battle for Your Brain” AI and speech Stuart Benjamin predicts a continuation of the Supreme Court’s historically broad view of free speech as it considers AI-generated content Alumni Profile The intentional intervener Yendelela Neely Holston ’06 champions “an injury-free environment” as an Atlanta labor and employment attorney and leader in DEI Alumni Q&A Dissent Undeterred Illia Salei LLM ’14 was held as a political prisoner in his home country; now in exile from Belarus, he fights for democracy and the rule of law Alumni Profile A deep dive A pioneer in national security law, John Norton Moore’s 45th book is The Struggle for Law in the Oceans: How an Isolationist Narrative Betrays America” Alumni Profile Coke and a smile Dan Bowling ‘80 combined his experiences at Coca-Cola and studies of human happiness and potential in a popular class on lawyer wellbeing Faculty Focus Foster, Longest awarded newly endowed clinical professorships Lawrence G. Baxter retires: An accomplished scholar, teacher, and business executive, Baxter pioneered the study of banking regulation at Duke Law School New Faculty Emily Ryo Richard Katzkee Robert Bishop Lauren Fine ’11 Faculty Notes Jones elected chair of Duke University Academic Council; Purdy edits a new edition of Thoreau’s writings; and more. See more articles in Faculty Focus > Sua Sponte André Pinelli and Lorena Carvalho Pinelli are not just father and daughter; they were also classmates who earned LLMs together at Duke Law
