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International Human Rights Clinic » NEW FACULTY SCHOLARS Fall 2013 | Volume 32 Number 2 THEJUDGES’ ROUNDTABLE Dean David F. Levi talks with student judges in Duke’s Master of Judicial Studies program : » International Human Rights Clinic PLUS » NEW FACULTY SCHOLARS From the Dean I hope that you will have the chance to meet and reconnect with our faculty. Their effort, dedication, and talent are at the heart of the excitement and hope that we feel today and every day. Our newest faculty member, Taisu Zhang, focuses his research and scholar- ship on comparative legal history, specifically property rights in modern China and early modern Western Europe, comparative law, property law, contem- porary Chinese law, and the Chinese judiciary. A Yale Law graduate, he is also a PhD candidate in the Yale history department, and his ambitious research agenda includes both empirical and theoretical work. Zhang is currently a visit- Dean David F. Levi ing assistant professor at Duke Law School. We told you about our other new faculty scholars, Marin Levy and Mathew Dear Friends, McCubbins, in the winter 2013 issue of the magazine. Levy focuses much of her HE FALL SEMESTER IS IN FULL SWING at Duke Law School, and, as current research and scholarship on judicial decision-making and federal court Tusual, our classrooms, conference rooms, and common areas are buzz- administration. Having joined the faculty as a lecturing fellow in 2009, she has ing with intellectual energy. The excitement here is both due to our students’ also distinguished herself in the classroom as a dynamic teacher. McCubbins, engagement with their studies, and to our faculty members, who every day who will arrive on campus this summer following his completion of a year- tackle the most challenging and important legal problems and developments long sabbatical at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is one of the in their scholarship, classes, and commentary. leading scholars in the study of democracy and the law, and has undertaken And here is the best news: Our outstanding faculty is adding to its reach and path-breaking scholarship on the role of regulatory agencies and the lawmaking depth. This is one area of academic life in which nothing succeeds like success; process. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science the most exciting and promising scholars wish to come to Duke because of the and will direct Duke Law’s Center for Law and Democracy. excellence we already have achieved. We have just completed an exceptional In general, we seek to add both accomplished and up-and-coming academ- hiring year in which we added seven terrific scholars to our governing faculty. ics to our areas of strength and also to build in new areas, often in partnership You will read about a few of our new colleagues — Darrell Miller, Elisabeth with another department or school at Duke. The most important — indeed, de Fontenay, and Jayne Huckerby — in this issue of Duke Law Magazine (see essential — traits that we look for are excellence and ambition in scholarship Page 25). All three have deep experience as practitioners in their fields as well and teaching, and an embrace of the Duke culture of dedication to knowledge as outstanding academic credentials. in the service of society, the best ideals of the legal profession, and the fulfill- An award-winning teacher at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, ment of the potential of each and every one of our students and colleagues. Miller adds to our depth in constitutional law with his research focus on the We have had extraordinary success in meeting our goals; in just the past three Second and Thirteenth Amendments, and brings insights drawn upon his years, we have welcomed 13 exceptional scholars to our already outstanding years of practice to his scholarship and classes in civil procedure. Huckerby, faculty. Already we feel the difference that such wonderful hiring makes to our who teaches International Human Rights Advocacy and is the director of our forward progress. And this is just our governing faculty. Our resident faculty new International Human Rights Clinic, is helping the United Nations craft as a whole, including our research librarians, legal research and writing faculty, principles relating to the right to an effective remedy for victims of human clinicians, and senior lecturers, are also extraordinarily talented and make a trafficking. (Read more about the International Human Rights Clinic, Page 2.) hugely positive impact on our Law School. We will focus on their many contri- de Fontenay grounds her teaching and scholarship relating to corporate law, butions in a future magazine. finance, and financial institutions in her significant experience in practice as I hope that you will have the chance to meet and reconnect with our faculty. a specialist in mergers and acquisitions and debt financing. Her scholarship Their effort, dedication, and talent are at the heart of the excitement and hope focuses on private equity firms and the debt markets. de Fontenay has been a that we feel today and every day. teaching fellow at Harvard Law School since 2011. Thank you for your continued support of Duke Law. Joining the faculty in 2014 is Sara Sternberg Greene, an interdisciplinary scholar whose interests span bankruptcy, commercial law, contracts, tax, Sincerely, poverty, and health law. Broadly concerned with the relationship between law and inequality, she uses qualitative empirical research to examine the effect of welfare and tax rules on low- and moderate-income families. Greene is soon to receive a PhD in social policy and sociology from Harvard University, to add to David F. Levi her JD from Yale Law School. Dean and Professor of Law Fall 2013 Volume 32 Number 2 DEAN David F. Levi EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Andrew Park EDITOR Frances Presma CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Andrew Clark David Fellerath THEJUDGES’ Valerie Marino Forrest Norman Frances Presma Melinda Myers Vaughn Caitlin Wheeler ’97 ROUNDTABLE ART DIRECTION AND COVER ILLUSTRATION Marc Harkness Dean David F. Levi talks with student judges in Duke’s Master of Judicial Studies program PHOTOGRAPHY Courtney Davis Jon Gardiner Chris Hildreth Jared Lazarus Joseph Lawton Jay Mallin Megan Morr Les Todd WEB PRODUCTION Miguel Bordo Jennifer Carpenter In this issue: Courtney Davis Jonathan Kidder From the Dean Michael Wright 2 News Briefs 23 Faculty Focus ALUMNI NOTES EDITOR Janse Haywood 13 Profiles 33 Pamela Gann ’73 Duke Law Magazine is published under the 35 Terry Collingsworth ’82 auspices of the Office of the Dean, 36 Chris Bryant ’14 Duke University Law School, 210 Science Drive, Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708 37 Conor Reardon ’14 The letters of Robert G. Seaks ’34 offer a student’s 38 Alumni Notes perspective of Duke Law during the Great Depression. 47 In Memoriam 48 Sua Sponte This publication 5 23 was produced using 7 paper which supports Duke’s commitment to sustaining our environment. 7 48 33 36 News Briefs Duke International Human Rights Clinic to open in spring semester “Clinic students will develop particularly strong competencies around cross-cultural communication and transnational lawyering.” — Clinical Professor Jayne Huckerby rights framework to domestic issues; projects that focus on human rights advocacy abroad where human rights standards are nascent or absent, such as in countries in transi- tion; projects that engage with international institutions to advance human rights protec- tions; and projects that analyze and shape the human rights implications of U.S. foreign policy, such as counter-terrorism initiatives that cause collateral gender-based harm. UKE LAW SCHOOL will launch an international human rights “The new clinic at Duke will be unique in its focus on shaping the Dlaw clinic in the spring semester. Jayne Huckerby, a prominent role of human rights in U.S. foreign policy,” she said. “By leveraging human rights lawyer, advocate, and teacher, has joined the faculty as Duke’s presence in D.C., students will be pivotal in bridging local reali- an associate clinical professor of law and director of the new clinic. ties with their broader legal and policy environments to bring about (Read more about Huckerby, Page 27.) concrete social and legal change.” “With our summer institutes in Hong Kong and Geneva, our As they do in all Duke Law clinics, students in the International strong international and comparative law faculty, and our many inter- Human Rights Clinic will hone their skills in legal analysis and writ- national students and alumni, Duke Law has had a strong program ing, work collaboratively, and make strategic decisions that call upon in public and private international law for many years. Many of our a range of skills, including those relating to fact-finding, documenta- students are interested in pursuing careers in international human tion, standard-setting, reporting, advocacy, and use of social media, rights advocacy,” said Dean David F. Levi. “For several years, our fac- as well as litigation. ulty has supported this interest by crafting issue-specific seminars “Clinic students will also develop particularly strong competen- that combine classroom study with overseas field research. We are cies around cross-cultural communication and transnational lawyer- now taking this programming to a new level with the establishment ing,” Huckerby said. “These skills are essential for positioning Duke of the International Human Rights Clinic. Jayne Huckerby is the Law students as global lawyers in a legal world where borders are perfect person to develop this new clinic. She is highly regarded both much less relevant and any form of legal practice has an interna- as a practitioner and as a teacher. I am confident that in short order tional component.” Duke Law School will be known for the excellence and impact of this “Expanding our clinical program through the addition of an inter- new clinic.” national human rights clinic has been an important strategic prior- Huckerby, who has partnered with a broad range of international ity for Duke Law,” said Clinical Professor Andrew Foster, director of organizations, legal experts, governments, and NGOs over more the Duke Legal Clinics.
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