Christian Joerges

Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture in International and Comparative Law
September 16, 2003

Christian Joerges is a professor at the European University Institute and a well- known scholar in subjects including German and international private law and economic law, comparative law, and legal theory. He has been a full-time professor at the European University Institute since 1998 and formerly was co-director of the Centre for European Law and Politics. His current research and teaching focus on risk regulation at the European and international level, the Europeanisation of private law, compliance problems and anti-liberal traditions of legal thought in Europe. Among his most recent publications are “Good Governance in Europe's Integrated Market” of 2002 and “Darker Legacies of Law in Europe: The Shadow of National Socialism and Fascism over the Conceptualisation of Europe and its Legal Traditions” of 2003. Joerges, who became a member of the bar in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1972, has held numerous academic positions throughout Europe. To name a few, he has been a lecturer at the University of Frankfurt, co-director of the Centre for European Law and Politics in Bremen, a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. Among other editorial positions, he is co-editor of the European Law Journal.

The Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture series was established in 2002 in recognition of Professor Bernstein, a 17-year veteran of the Law School faculty who died unexpectedly in April 2001. A specialist in contract, comparative and private international law, Bernstein taught at the University at California at Berkeley, the University of Hamburg in Germany and the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom before coming to Duke Law School in 1984.

Robert Nagel

Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture
November 13, 2003

Robert F. Nagel is the Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado School of Law and a pioneering scholar in constitutional law and theory. He is the author of four books and over 50 law review articles and has contributed to the popular debate on such critical constitutional issues as free speech, hate codes and federalism in publications such as The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Monthly. Much of his work has focused on the judiciary and its interpretation of the Constitution in the wider context of American political culture, including his two earlier books, Constitutional Cultures: The Mentality and Consequences of Judicial Review (Cal. 1989) and Judicial Power and American Character: Censoring Ourselves in an Anxious Age (Oxford 1994). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was formerly the Director of the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law. 

The Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture is a lecture series that began over 25 years ago to honor Professor Brainerd Currie, a noted scholar who was best known for his introduction of the concept of governmental interest analysis to the field of conflict of laws. Recent lecturers in this series include Sanford Levinson, Robert Post, Robert Litan, Martha Minow, Bob Ellickson, Sir Kenneth Keith, Franklin Zimring, Jon Elster, Ernest Weinrib, Margaret Jane Radin and Janet Halley. The purpose of the series is for a noted scholar to provide a distinguished public lecture, along with a substantial manuscript for publication in the Duke Law Journal.

Deborah Rhode

Rabbi Seymour Siegel Memorial Lecture in Medical-Legal Ethics
March 31, 2004

Deborah Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Director of the Keck Center on Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession at Stanford University School of Law.   She is the former Chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession and former president of the Association of American Law Schools. She also served as senior counsel to the Minority members of the Judiciary Committee, the United States House of Representatives, on presidential impeachment issues. She is the second most frequently cited scholar on legal ethics and the National Law Journal has profiled her as one of the country’s fifty most influential women lawyers. Formerly the director of Stanford’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender, she writes primarily in the area of legal ethics and gender discrimination. She is the author or coauthor of eleven books and over 100 articles, including The Difference Difference Makes: Women and Leadership (Stanford University Press, 2003);  Professional Responsibility and Regulation (with Geoffrey Hazard, Jr., Foundation Press 2002);  Legal Ethics (with David Luban, 3d ed. Foundation Press, 2001); Gender and Law (with Katharine T. Bartlett and Angela P. Harris, Aspen, 2002); In the Interests of Justice (Oxford University Press, 2000); and Ethics in Practice (Oxford University Press, 2000). 

The Rabbi Seymour Siegel Memorial Lecture in Medical-Legal Ethics is a new lecture series at Duke Law School that grew out of the Siegel Competition, an annual moot court competition established in 1989 by alumnus and Senior Lecturing Fellow Allen Siegel '60 to honor his brother, Rabbi Siegel, who died in 1988. Rabbi Siegel was a noted scholar in the areas of ethics (particularly medical ethics) and theology and, among other accomplishments, organized the effort to build the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. David B. Wilkins, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law and Director of the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, delivered the inaugural Siegel Lecture in Spring 2002, with Dr. Leon Kass, chair of the President’s Council on Bioethics, following in Spring 2003.

Lewis Branscomb

Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property
February 19, 2004
12:00 p.m., Room 3043
Duke Law School

Dr. Lewis Branscomb gives the the Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property on Feb. 19 at Noon in Room 3043 of the Law School. A reception will follow on the third floor loggia.

Dr. Lewis Branscomb is the Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management emeritus and former Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program in the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. A graduate of Duke University, he has written extensively on science and technology policy, comparative studies of science and technology policy in different nations, information technology, management of technology, and atomic and molecular physics. His recent books include Beyond Spinoff: Military and Commercial Technologies in a Changing World (Harvard Business School Press, 1992, with Harvard co-authors); Empowering Technology: Implementing a U.S. Policy , (MIT Press, June 1993), and (with Fumio Kodama) Japanese Innovation Strategies: Technology Support for Business Visions, CSIA Occasional Paper No. 10 (University Press of America, July 1993). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Public Administration, and he serves on the Technology Assessment Advisory Committee to the Technology Assessment Board of the United States Congress.

The Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property is a lecture series that was established in 2000 by Duke Law School alumnus Kip Frey '85 and his wife, Meredith, to increase discussion about emerging issues in the areas of intellectual property, cyberspace, and science and technology law. Noted intellectual property law scholars Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford University, and Yochai Benkler, professor of law at New York University, delivered previous lectures in this series.

Great Lives in the Law

The Great Lives in the Law lecture series invites lawyers and judges whose lives have been distinguished by substantial legal accomplishments to discuss some of the ways their careers have been intertwined with changes in the law or its institutions. Sponsored by the Duke Program in Public Law, these lectures provide an opportunity to reflect on the special perspective of individuals who have participated in or closely been involved in the developments in our legal institutions and laws. In keeping with the focus of the Duke Program in Public Law, emphasis in this series will be upon those whose careers have included significant public service. The Honorable William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, delivered the inaugural lecture in the Great Lives in the Law series in April 2002, with noted civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers and Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor following in October 2002 and March 2003, respectively.

This year, Duke Law School will welcome President of the American Bar Association Dennis Archer and The Honorable Richard Goldstone, of the as participants in the Great Lives in the Law lecture series.

Dennis Archer
November 3, 2003

Dennis W. Archer is president of the American Bar Association, the first person of color elected to the highest office of the association. He previously served two four-year terms as mayor of the city of Detroit (1994-2001), and during the last year was president of the National League of Cities. Since leaving the mayor's office, Archer was elected chairman of Dickinson Wright PLLC, a 200-person Detroit-based law firm with offices in Michigan and in Washington, D.C. He sits on the corporate boards of Johnson Controls Inc., Compuware Corporation and Covisiant.

The Honorable Richard Goldstone
March 1, 2004
12:00 p.m., Room 3043
Duke Law School

The Honorable Richard Goldstone is a leading figure involved in current efforts to create international mechanisms of accountability and prosecution. Hehas served as a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa since 1994. Prior to this, he served as the chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He also chaired the Goldstone Commission, a commission of inquiry established in 1991 regarding the prevention of public violence and intimidation in South Africa.