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Professor Doriane Lambelet Coleman teaches courses in torts, children and the law, and a seminar in advanced issues in children's and family law. Her scholarship focuses on child maltreatment, including as this legal doctrine is implicated and influenced by religion, political ideology, immigrant cultural practices, and medical innovations. She has also done substantial work in the area of Olympic sport, and on doping control issues in particular. Her recent work includes "The Problem of Doping," 57 Duke Law Journal 1743 (2008) (with James E. Coleman, Jr.) and "The Legal Ethics of Pediatric Research," 57 Duke Law Journal 517 (2007).
Recent News
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Professor Scott Silliman discusses split verdict in Hamdan case
Silliman explains the outcome of Salim Hamdan's military commission trial and what the decision means for other detainees at Guantanamo Bay. » Minnesota Public Radio -
Professor Doriane Coleman discusses sex testing at the Beijing Olympics
Olympic sex testing began in 1968, following suspicions about female track and field athletes taking anabolic androgenic steroids, Coleman says. » NPR -
Professor James Cox comments on reputation of Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.
There’s reluctance to be critical because it would further erode investor confidence and therefore cause the markets to dive deeper, Cox says. » The New York Times -
Professor Stuart Benjamin comments on federal appeals court ruling in Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction'
The decision is "a slap in the face" for the Federal Communications Commission, Benjamin says. » Associated Press -
Clean air update
Ryke Longest, director of the Duke Law Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, explains complex interstate air pollution regulations on "The State of Things." » WUNC
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