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HighlightsThree new legal clinics, the Guantanamo Defense Clinic, the Low-income Taxpayer Clinic, and the Animal Law Clinic, were launched, and a fourth, the Duke Environmental Clinic, was given faculty approval to open in 2007. Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, both spoke at the school as part of the “Great Lives in the Law” series. The Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, along with the Program in Public Law, sponsored a two-day conference in April entitled “National Security Strategy: Finding the Right Balance.”
The Center on Law, Ethics and National Security and the Program in Public Law sponsored a two-day conference in April entitled “National Security Strategy: Finding the Right Balance.” The Law School hosted a number of other extraordinary speakers and programs relating to national security and the war on terrorism, including a panel discussion on the use of private military contractors in war and peacekeeping. Awards and recognitionAlston & Bird Professor of Law and Political Science Erwin Chemerinsky was named Duke’s 2006 University Teacher/Scholar of the Year. Professor Joost Pauwelyn won the Paul Guggenheim Prize in June for his book Conflict of Norms in Public International Law: How WTO Law Relates to Other Rules of International Law. Zachary McNish was awarded the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Medal, awarded to a member of the faculty, staff or graduate student body for outstanding commitment to service. The moot court team of ’06 graduates Audry Casusol, Sara Wickware, and April Nelson (pictured above) won the National Moot Court Competition in New York City in February. Nelson was also named second best oralist. |
The Center for the Study of the Public Domain wrote and published Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain, the first in a series of comic books designed to educate artists about issues related to intellectual property law. It received enthusiastic reviews and extensive media and online coverage, and the center’s web page has received more than 2.8 million page views since the comic, dealing with copyright law and documentary film, was released online in April.