Faculty by Teaching and Research Interests
The list below groups faculty members according to their areas of teaching and research interests. The list will provide guidance in selecting upperlevel courses and in identifying faculty with whom to consult on a number of issues, including the selection of law journal note topics, the supervision of independent study projects, and the identification of law firms with relevant practice areas.
We'll use Areas of Study and Practice for these. Associations between areas and faculty should be made soon.
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| Business, Commercial, and Tax Law |
| Core Law School Faculty |
| James Cox |
Business Associations; Securities Regulation; Governance, Responsibility and Crime in the Public Corporation |
| Deborah DeMott |
Advanced Issues in Agency Law; Business Associations; Corporate Finance; Issues in Corporate Representation |
| Andrew Foster |
Community Economic Development Law; Community Enterprise Law Clinic |
| Joost Pauwelyn |
International Law and Development; International Trade Law; Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization |
| Barak Richman |
Antitrust |
| Richard Schmalbeck |
Federal Income Taxation; Quantitative Methods; The Non-Profit Sector |
| Steven Schwarcz |
Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy; Principles of Commercial and Bankruptcy Law; Structuring Commercial and Financial Transactions |
| Stephen Wallenstein |
Comparative Equity Capital Markets; Current Issues in U.S. Corporate Governance; Global Capital Markets; Venture Capital and Private Equity |
| John Weistart |
Athletics and Antitrust; Commercial Transactions; Contracts; Strategies in Commercial Transactions |
| Lawrence Zelenak |
Corporate Taxation; Federal Income Taxation; Tax Policy |
| Other Key Duke Faculty |
| Wesley Cohen |
Intellectual Capital and Competitive Strategy (Fuqua) |
| John Graham |
Corporate Restructuring (Fuqua) |
| Andrew Widmark |
Real Estate Entrepreneurship (Fuqua) |
| Rebecca Zarutskie |
Venture Capital and Private Equity (Fuqua) |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Contracts |
| Labor and Employment |
| Related Joint Degrees |
| Master of Business Administration |
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| Current Issues in Comparative Law; Law and Globalization |
| Madeline Morris |
International Criminal Law; International Human Rights; Public International Law; The Enforcement of International Human Rights: International Criminal Law |
| Jonathan Ocko |
Chinese Company and Security Law; Chinese Law and Society; Chinese Legal History |
| Jerome Reichman |
International Intellectual Property |
| James Salzman |
International Environmental Law |
| Scott Silliman |
National Security Law |
| Stephen Wallenstein |
Global Capital Markets |
| Jonathan Wiener |
Global Property Regimes |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Business/Commercial Law |
| Constitutional Law |
| Environmental Law |
| Possible Joint Degrees |
| LL.M. in International Law |
| M.A. in foreign history or language |
| M.A. in political science |
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| Adjunct Faculty |
| Heather MacKenzie |
Survey of Immigration Law and Policy |
| Ted Kaufman |
The Congress; The Congress: Government, Business, and the Global Economy |
| Mark Prak |
Telecommunications Law |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Criminal Law and Procedure |
| Related Joint Degrees |
| MA in History |
| MA in Political Science |
| Master of Public Policy |
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| Intellectual Property, Science, and Technology |
| Core Law School Faculty |
| Stuart Benjamin |
Property Rights versus the Commons in High Technology; Telecommunications Law |
| James Boyle |
Constitution in Cyberspace; Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property, Public Domain and Free Speech |
| Clark Havighurst |
Health Care Law and Policy |
| David Lange |
Entertainment Law; Independent Feature Film Production, Finance, and Distribution; Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property, Public Domain, and Free Speech; Telecommunications Law; Trademark Law and Unfair Competition |
| Arti Rai |
Intellectual Property Rights and the Biopharmaceutical Industry; Patent Law and Policy |
| Jerome Reichman |
Copyright Law; Intellectual Property; International Intellectual Property |
| Other Key Duke Faculty |
| Allen Buchanan (philosopher/Sanford) |
| Wes Cohen (economist/Fuqua) |
| Robert Cook-Deegan (genomics, law and policy/MD) |
| Tracy Lewis (economist) |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Environmental Law |
| Possible Joint Degrees |
| Master of Environmental Management |
| Master of Public Policy |
| MS/MA in Engineering |
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| Related Joint Degrees |
| M.D. |
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| Environmental Law and Policy |
| Core Law School Faculty |
| Jedediah Purdy |
Property; Property and the Constitutional Order |
| James Salzman |
Environmental Law; International Environmental Law; Natural Resources Law |
| Christopher Schroeder |
Environmental Law; The Origins of Environmental Legislation |
| Laura Underkuffler |
Advanced Topics in Property; Land Use Planning |
| Jonathan Wiener |
Environmental Law; Global Property Regimes; Mass Torts; Risk Regulation |
| Adjunct Faculty |
| Stephen Roady |
Coastal Law and Policy; Environmental Litigation; Environmental Litigation Outplacement |
| Doug Wheeler |
The Endangered Species Act |
| Related Joint Degrees |
| Master of Environmental Management |
| Master of Forestry |
| Master of Public Policy |
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| Civil and Criminal Procedure, Dispute Resolution, and Evidence |
| Core Law School Faculty |
| Sara Beale |
Criminal Law; Federal Criminal Law |
| Paul Carrington |
Civil Procedure; Transnational Dispute Resolution |
| James Coleman |
Criminal Law; Negotiation; Wrongful Convictions |
| Diane Dimond |
Negotiation |
| Robinson Everett |
Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure: Formal; Advanced Issues in Criminal Justice; Military Justice |
| Trina Jones |
Civil Procedure |
| Francis McGovern |
Dispute Resolution; Legal Strategy |
| Thomas Metzloff |
Civil Procedure |
| Robert Mosteller |
Criminal Procedure: Police; Evidence |
| Theresa Newman |
Wrongful Convictions |
| Thomas Rowe |
Access to Civil Justice; Civil Procedure; Complex Civil Litigation; Federal Courts; Remedies |
| Neil Vidmar |
Contemporary Jury; Negotiation; Psychology of Litigation; Social Science Evidence in Law; World Jury Systems: A Comparative Perspective |
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| Other Key Duke Faculty |
| George Gopen |
Advanced Writing Tutorials |
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| First Year Courses |
| Core Law School Faculty |
| Civil Procedure |
Paul Carrington, Trina Jones, Thomas Metzloff, Thomas Rowe |
| Constitutional Law |
H. Jefferson Powell, Christopher Schroeder, Neil Siegel |
| Contracts |
Katharine Bartlett, Paul Haagen, H. Jefferson Powell, Jerome Reichman, Barak Richman, James Salzman, John Weistart |
| Criminal Law |
Sara Sun Beale, James Coleman, Robinson O. Everett |
| Property |
Jedediah Purdy, William Reppy, James Salzman, Laura Underkuffler, Jonathan Wiener |
| Torts |
James Boyle, George Christie, Doriane Lambelet Coleman |
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