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Spring 2006 | Volume 24 Number 1 Volume Volume 24 Number 1 from the Dean Duke Law School Duke Law Magazine LAW DUKE Duke University Law School NON-PROFIT ORG. Box 90389 U.S. POSTAGE Durham, NC 27708-0389 PAID MAGAZINE Spring 2006 MAGAZINE Spring DURHAM, NC PERMIT NO. 60 Address service requested DUKE L AW MAGAZINE Spring 2006 | Volume 24 Number 1 Volume 24 Number 1 From the Dean Duke Law School Dear Alumni and Friends, As this issue went to press, Duke This issue of Duke Law Magazine focuses Provost Peter Lange announced Spring 2006 on one of the most exciting developments at Katharine T. Bartlett’s decision to step the Law School in recent years—the explo- sion in legal clinics. Ten years ago, Duke’s down as dean of Duke Law School, Selected events only “in-house” legal clinic was the AIDS effective June 30, 2007, at which Legal Assistance Project. This clinic has point she plans to return full-time to become a well established legal resource in the faculty. the community for individuals with HIV and Lange described Bartlett as “a AIDs, and a national model. Since then the JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH superb dean.” Children’s Education Law Clinic has become a prominent community advocacy service “Her quiet leadership has led to 19 10 3-4 for children with special needs who are seek- an extraordinary expansion of the Law Fifth Annual Rabbi ESQ.: Fourth Annual Seventh Annual ing appropriate educational services. The One way in which we hope to step up our School faculty built on recruitments of Seymour Siegel Business Law Conference of the Community Enterprise Clinic, now in its fourth contacts with alumni is with our new, high- the highest quality and the establish- Lecture in Symposium Program in year, handles complex transactional work end additional CLE programs. Early this year, ment of true peaks of excellence in Medical-Legal Ethics Public Law for low-income businesses and community we teamed up with West LegalEdcenter, to areas such an intellectual property and Alexander Capron 13 “Delegating Power to development corporations in North Carolina. offer online access to many of our programs Director of Ethics, Trade, and International Institutions: international law,” Lange said. “She has Great Lives In addition to these now-established clinics, and special projects for CLE credit. Programs Human Rights, in the Law Constitutional and Political three new clinics were launched this academic include documentaries from Tom Metzloff’s invigorated the intellectual culture of the World Health Organization Perspectives” year: the Animal Law Clinic in which students “Distinctive Aspects of American Law” series, Linda Greenhouse Law School and attracted stronger stu- Supreme Court correspondent, engage in advocacy for animals; the Low- which take a highly innovative approach to dents, including an outstanding body of 23 The New York Times income Taxpayer Clinic, in which students Supreme Court cases, as well as conferences international students, all the while serv- International Law 15-17 help low-income individuals settle disputes and other academic programs that emanate 17 ing as a wonderful university citizen.” Society and the Global Capital with the IRS; and the Guantanamo Defense from our interdisciplinary centers. I think you Fifth Annual “Hot Bartlett’s decision to step down Human Rights Markets Center Clinic, in which students participate as mem- will find that CLE has never been so infor- Initiative Topics in Intellectual 5th Annual Directors’ bers of the defense teams for detainees at mative, easily accessible—linked from our comes as the School completes a five- Private Military Contractors Property Law” Education Institute Guantanamo Bay who have been charged by homepage—and entertaining, not to mention year strategic plan. and the Law of War Symposium military commissions. The Death Penalty Clinic a great way of keeping up with the intellectual “Being dean has been an extraor- Patent Reform and the will return in the fall term, and planning—and life of this Law School. dinary privilege for me,” said Bartlett. Future of Digital Media fundraising—is underway to launch a clinic The continued excellence and improve- “The last five years we have pushed that will involve students in issues of environ- ment of the Law School depends, of course, mental law and policy in the Southeast. on the support of our alumni. If you have hard to add a record number of excep- The opening of our new 30,000 square- already donated to the Annual Fund, thank tional new faculty, recruit an increas- foot wing in October provided a huge boost you. The unrestricted annual giving of our ingly talented student body, dramatically to the clinics, enabling most of the clinics alumni and friends supports such essen- improve facilities, and strengthen the APRIL MAY to come together in one integrated—and tial initiatives as strategic faculty hires, School’s commitment to faculty-student absolutely gorgeous—“law firm” space. merit-based scholarships, and student-run collaboration. The Law School is beauti- 20-21 Faculty, students, and staff are also thrilled programs. Our recently launched Brick 13 with the new seminar rooms, journal offices, campaign honors leadership gifts of $2,500 fully positioned now to attract a strong Center on Law, Duke Law School and faculty offices in the new wing, as well or more this year to the Annual Fund with leader who can build on what faculty, Ethics and Hooding Ceremony as with the new and renovated classrooms engraved pavers to form an alumni courtyard students, and alumni have achieved in National Security throughout the building. The renovations and or plaza area in the landscaping adjacent to the last several years.” David Gergen additions over the past few years have truly a new atrium on the northeast corner of the and the Program in A search committee will be in place Professor of Public Service and transformed the building; if you haven’t seen Law School. You can find more information at Public Law Director, Center on by early May. Meanwhile, Bartlett prom- it yet in person, I hope you take the opportu- www.law.duke.edu/alumni/annualfund/brick- “U.S. National Security Strategy Public Leadership nity to come visit us. campaign/. We hope to see your name along ises that the School’s momentum will Finding the Right Balance” John F. Kennedy School Our faculty continues to grow with the those of your classmates and friends. continue in the 14 months remaining of Government addition of top scholars and teachers. in her deanship. “We are on a roll,” she Harvard University Most recently, Duke Law School recruited explains. “I expect the next year to be 21-23 Professor Mitu Gulati from the Georgetown Sincerely, our most ambitious and most success- law faculty. Professor Gulati is a prolific schol- Reunion 2006 ful year ever.” ar best known for his pathbreaking work on sovereign debt and international investment, and for his work on negotiating race and gen- Katharine T. Bartlett, Dean and der identity in the workplace. A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law FEATURES Spring 2006 | Volume 24 Number 1 Clinic Opportunities DEAN Deepen at Duke Law Katharine T. Bartlett A new clinic suite is symbolic of the growing DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS strength of the Law School’s clinical program Kiersten Murnane 14 EDITOR Frances Presma ASSOCIATE EDITORS Janse Haywood Kathryn Bradley A Piece FACULTY NOTES EDITOR Melanie Dunshee of History President Nixon’s letter claiming CLASS NOTES EDITOR Te r r y Banfi ch executive privilege is donated to Law Library CONTRIBUTING WRITERS 10 Frances Presma Tricia Horatio Diana Nelson Karla McKanders ’03 ART DIRECTOR Domenick Rella Rella:Cowan Advertising The New Wing PRODUCTION ARTISTS The Law School adds 30,000 square feet Jennifer Hill Cover and feature: of sun-fi lled space and a great new entrance Bidlack Creative Group 46 PHOTOGRAPHY Don Hamerman DEPARTMENTS Anthony Cross / The Chronicle From the Dean Thomas Metzloff Duke University Photography: 2 News Briefs Jon Gardiner Faculty News Chris Hildreth 32 Faculty Focus 37 Faculty Notes 46 Around the Law School Profiles 54 Bruce Rogers ’87 56 David W. Hardee ’72 57 Steve Pepe ’68 58 Lynn Wardle ’74 59 Linda Malone ’77 60 Pammela Quinn ’00 Duke Law Magazine is published under the and Matthew Stone ’01 auspices of the Office of the Dean, 61 John Coburn ’95 Duke University Law School, Science Drive 62 Chris Richardson ’07 and Towerview Road, Durham, NC 27708 63 Joe Davis ’07 Alumni News 64 Class Notes 74 In Memoriam 80 Sua Sponte Fall 2005 • Duke Law Magazine 1 News Briefs Great Lives in the Law Janet Reno: Using law to solve problems “She tried her best.” intact and became a symbol to Reno “that her handling of the case, and using their anet Reno was characteristically mod- you must build your life the right way.” concerns and comments to tackle the social J est when she told a Duke Law audience ills plaguing Dade County—issues such how she would like to be remembered. Gathering facts as housing and opportunities for young Interviewed by Douglas B. Maggs Professor Though Reno graduated near the top of her people. Such community involvement and of Law Walter Dellinger as part of the Harvard Law class in 1963, she found that interaction is central to a career in public Program in Public Law’s “Great Lives in firms were reluctant to hire women. She service, she said. the Law” series on September 26, the eventually joined a small Miami firm that “There are burdens that go with it, but it first female attorney general of the United specialized in condemnation work. There is so important to speak to the truth, to con- States shared stories and lessons from a life she learned the importance of preparing a front people, to talk out issues, to show peo- and career marked by perseverance, prepa- ration, and resolute action.
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