Law School

Professor Curtis Bradley joined the faculty from University of Virginia Law School. His teaching and scholarship focus on the intersection of domestic and constitutional law and foreign relations and international law. The school appointed other outstanding faculty in science and technology law, constitutional law, and international and comparative law.
A 30,000-square-foot wing opened to house faculty offices, student law journals and clinical programs.
Showcasing unparalleled strength in national security, foreign affairs and global terrorism legal issues, the Program in Public Law and the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security hosted these guest speakers: 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick; Guantanamo Bay prisoner defense head Air Force Colonel Will Gunn; Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal; ACLU President Nadine Strossen; Deputy Attorney General James Covey; and Israeli Ambassador to the United States Daniel Ayalon.

Deputy Attorney General James Covey

Conferences explored important national and global issues, including "Interrogation, Detention and the Powers of the Executive" and "Strategies for the War on Terrorism." A student-initiated counter-terrorism conference featured top officials including the head of the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Safety Commission and the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The school also held its second annual training conference on national security and terrorism for federal judges.
Faculty members Walter Dellinger and Erwin Chemerinsky argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Dellinger successfully represented petitioner Roderick Jackson in Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education, Dellinger's 18th appearance before the court. Chemerinsky argued two cases, the Texas Ten Commandments case and one involving permanent injunctions and the First Amendment.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke at the school on 'Great Lives in the Law' in a lecture series that also included Duke emeritus historian John Hope Franklin.

Walter Dellinger, a Duke law professor, interviews U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Law School, American Bar Association Gambrell Award for Professionalism
Guardian ad Litem program, North Carolina Bar Association Outstanding Law Student Pro Bono Award
Profesor Erwin Chemerinsky, Top 20 Legal Thinker by Legal Affairs reader poll