The Duke Law Podcast

The Duke Law Podcast

The Duke Law Podcast is produced by the Duke University School of Law. Each episode is selected from Duke Law's regular schedule of guest speakers, panel discussions, and scholarly conferences. Follow us or subscribe for updates!

Episodes

Wrongfully Convicted Quincy Amerson tells his story after 23 years in prison

August 7, 2024 • 51 mins
Quincy Amerson, a client of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic at Duke Law, was released from prison on March 13 this year, after spending more than 20 years behind bars. He was convicted of first-degree murder in 2001 and had been sentenced to life without parole. After taking up Amerson's case, the clinic presented exculpatory evidence that led to the state dismissing the case. A Superior Court judge found that Amerson was denied a ...
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Analysis: Supreme Court ruling on domestic abusers and gun rights

July 2, 2024 • 25 mins
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of upholding a 1994 ban on persons with restraining orders having access to firearms. While the outcome in U.S. v. Rahimi wasn’t entirely unexpected, it did offer our first glimpse into how the conservative-majority Court would handle gun rights cases going forward.
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Analysis: Supreme Court overturns ban on bump stocks

July 2, 2024 • 18 mins
In the wake of a 2017 mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas, the Trump administration passed a regulation to ban bump stocks – a device that enables a semiautomatic rifle to fire rounds much like a machine gun. Last week, the conservative-majority Court struck down that ban in Cargill v. Garland, stating the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives overstepped its authority in classifying bump stocks as machine guns.
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Students pitch access to justice solutions at Legal Design Derby

December 21, 2023 • 11 mins
This October, students from three North Carolina law schools gathered at North Carolina Central University to participate in the fourth annual Legal Design Derby focused on access to justice. Co-hosted by the Duke Center on Law & Technology and the NCCU Tech Law & Policy Center, this human-centered design sprint provided students an opportunity to contribute their ideas to the new Legal Aid of North Carolina Innovation Lab. (Transc...
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Reaction: Center for Firearms Law unpacks oral argument in 'U.S. v Rahimi'

November 21, 2023 • 44 mins
In this episode of the Duke Law Podcast, the Duke Center for Firearms Law (DCFL) discusses the oral argument in U.S. v Rahimi, which was heard in the Supreme Court on November 7. Rahimi is a pending case regarding the Second Amendment to the Constitution and whether allows the government to prohibit firearm possession by individuals subject to certain domestic violence restraining orders. DCFL Executive Director Andrew Willinger i...
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Preview: Supreme Court to hear Major Second Amendment Case

November 1, 2023 • 16 mins
​In this episode of the Duke Law Podcast, Andrew Willinger, executive director of the Duke Center for Firearms Law, discusses 'United States v. Rahimi' – the first major Second Amendment case to be heard by the Court since its landmark ruling in 'New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen last summer' – leading up to the Supreme Court hearing oral argument on November 7. The 'Rahimi' case has garnered national atten...
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Research: 'Closing International Law's Innocence Gap'

June 17, 2023 • 34 mins
In 'Closing International Law's Innocence Gap,' Duke Law Clinical Professor Jayne Huckerby, Professor Laurence Helfer, and Professor Brandon Garrett argue that now is the time to close a gap in how national criminal legal systems address post-conviction claims of factual innocence. They build a substantive case for recognizing a new international human right and detail the advantages of doing such, offering derivative and freestand...
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Research: 'Police agencies on Facebook overreport on Black suspects'

April 18, 2023 • 17 mins
New research co-authored by Duke Law Professor Ben Grunwald, a scholar of criminal procedure, criminal law, and empirical methods, discovered a trend in law enforcement agencies' posts on Facebook that could be perpetuating the myth of Black criminality. Transcript at https://bit.ly/3MSDZCe.
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'The Battle for Your Brain' and a right to cognitive liberty with Prof. Nita Farahany

March 23, 2023 • 35 mins
In this episode of The Duke Law Podcast, Professor Nita Farahany, director of Duke Science & Society, discusses her new book, "The Battle for Your Brain," and her argument for a codified right to cognitive liberty with Clinical Professor Jeff Ward, director of the Duke Center on Law & Tech. Speakers: Duke Law Professor Nita Farahany at https://law.duke.edu/fac/farahany/, https://twitter.com/NitaFarahany, and https://www.nitafarahan...
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What is Critical Race Theory and why is it under attack? (Part 2)

November 1, 2022 • 54 mins
What is critical race theory and why has this decades old academic concept recently come under attack in the halls of Congress and local school board meetings? Three scholarly experts on race and the law provide answers: Part 1 provides an accurate definition of CRT and look back at when and why it began. We will also explore the contemporary attacks on CRT and the battlegrounds where these attacks are happening. In Part 2, our gue...
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What is Critical Race Theory and why is it under attack? (Part 1)

November 1, 2022 • 35 mins
What is critical race theory and why has this decades old academic concept recently come under attack in the halls of Congress and local school board meetings? Three scholarly experts on race and the law provide answers: Part 1 provides an accurate definition of CRT and look back at when and why it began. We will also explore the contemporary attacks on CRT and the battlegrounds where these attacks are happening. In Part 2, our gue...
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The Supreme Court as art critic? ('Warhol v. Goldsmith')

October 10, 2022 • 24 mins
While the artist Prince rocked fans for decades, an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case concerning a 1981 portrait of him could potentially rock America's copyright law and fair use doctrine. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘺 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘩𝘰𝘭 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘴, 𝘐𝘯𝘤. 𝘷. 𝘓𝘺𝘯𝘯 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘺𝘯𝘯 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘩, 𝘓𝘵𝘥. is set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on October 12, 2022, and has ...
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Reproductive rights & big data in a post-Dobbs world

September 7, 2022 • 24 mins
How could the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn the 1973 case Roe vs. Wade last June -- effectively ending a constitutional right to obtain an abortion -- affect your right to privacy, with law enforcement using personal tech and surveillance data to enforce state laws prohibiting abortion? Our guest for this episode, Duke Law Senior Lecturing Fellow Jolynn Dellinger, answers this question as a scholar of privacy and ethic...
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Firearms Center unpacks Bruen ruling and its impact on gun rights and regulation

June 30, 2022 • 30 mins
In this episode of the Duke Law Podcast, the Duke Center for Firearms Law discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen on June 23, 2022. Join Profs. Joseph Blocher and Darrell A. H. Miller – both faculty co-directors of the Center – and Jacob D. Charles and Andrew Willinger – outgoing and incoming executive directors of the Center, respectively – for a broad-ranging...
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Alumni Interviews: Geovette Washington '92

May 12, 2022 • 24 mins
In this episode of the Duke Law Podcast, alumna Geovette Washington '92 charts her remarkable journey from Duke Law to a 13-year partnership, serving under the Clinton and Obama administrations, and her current position as senior vice chancellor and chief legal officer at the University of Pittsburgh. Fellow alumna and member of the Duke Law Alumnae Leadership Council Anne Harper '91 is guest host for this episode. Harper produces...
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The Movement Lawyering Lab at Duke Law

April 8, 2022 • 43 mins
This episode of the Duke Law Podcast spotlights the Law School’s Movement Lawyering Lab, in which students learn about how lawyers’ history of centering themselves in social justice movements often perpetuates a problematic system of racial and gender hierarchy and leaves little room for innovative problem-solving. Speakers: Clinical Professor Anne Gordon, creator/instructor of the Movement Lawyering Lab course and director of...
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Prof. Marin K. Levy strikes Twitter gold with historical gems

March 14, 2022 • 52 mins
In this episode, Professor Marin K. Levy treats David F. Levi, director of the Duke’s Bolch Judicial Institute, to an inside look at her successful Twitter account. Levy’s engaging and insightful threads spotlight hidden gems from judicial history and little-known facts about the bench, including firsts for women and people of color. Levy, a scholar of judicial administration and federal courts, shares how she's learning to navi...
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Duke Center on Firearms Law on SCOTUS and NYSRPA v. Bruen (Nov. 2021)

November 15, 2021 • 42 mins
In this episode of the Duke Law Podcast, two of the most highly citied scholars on New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen – Duke Law Prof. Joseph Blocher and Prof. Darrell A. H. Miller – unpack what happened and what’s at stake with the U.S. Supreme Court’s November 3 hearing of its first major gun rights case since 2008. Duke Law Lecturing Fellow Jacob Charles, executive director of the Duke Center for Firearms...
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The Road to a Career in International Law with Liz Wangu '16

November 2, 2021 • 23 mins
In this episode of the Duke Law Podcast, Liz Wangu '16 stops by the booth following a lunch-time discussion at Duke Law, sharing her insights with students on pursuing a career in international project finance in today's legal market. Approaching her fifth year at Clifford Chance's D.C. office, Wangu is currently on secondment as a legal counsel at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Grou...
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Hispanic, Latino/a, or Latinx: Which is correct? (Oct. 11, 2021)

October 10, 2021 • 34 mins
'Hispanic,' 'Latino/a,' and Latinx--what do each of these terms mean? Who do they refer to? How do these terms show up in law classrooms and in legal practice? And, which is correct? Right now, these terms are being hotly debated across the United States and, in observance of National Hispanic Heritage Month, The Duke Law Podcast explores this discussion and attempts to provide some answers to the aforementioned questions. In this...
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