PILF

Before the Auction, PILF offers a preview of events offered by Faculty because students typically form groups in advance to bid on these.

We are also offering a preview of some of our other items/events. The list of items in this email will also be available at our website.

Faculty Events

This year, we have quite possibly the largest faculty participation in the history of PILF. We sincerely thank our wonderful faculty for their enthusiasm and support for PILF each year.

Below, you’ll find a brief description of the faculty members offering events, and the event that they are offering.

Professor Jennifer Jenkins

She’s a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School and the Director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain. She teaches intellectual property and is the head of the Arts Project at the Center. Do you like comic books? She’s the co-author of Bound By Law, a comic book about copyright, fair use, and documentary films. A graduate of Duke Law, she’s worked at Kilpatrick Stockton in Atlanta.

She would like to take 5 students to dinner at Magnolia Grill (best restaurant in the area, in my opinion). Includes food, beverages, and transportation.

Professors Sara Sun Beale and Richard Schmalbeck

Professor Beale is well-known at the law school for teaching Criminal Law courses. She has written scores of articles and has been cited on numerous occasions by the federal courts, including a number of mentions by the Supreme Court of the United States. She’s interested in law reform efforts and was appointed in 2004 by Chief Justice William Rehnquist to serve as a Reporter for the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules, which drafts the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. She’s worked the Office of Legal Counsel and the Office of the Solicitor General at the DOJ prior to coming to Duke in 1979.

Professor Schmalbeck was previously the dean of the University of Illinois College of Law before coming to Duke. His work focuses on non-profits and the federal estate and gift taxes. He literally wrote the federal income tax casebook that Duke Law uses, along with Professor Zelenak.

Professors Beale and Schmalbeck welcome you to bid on a wine tasting and small plate (tapas) experience for 8 students at Professor Beale’s home.

Dean David F. Levi

He’s the 14th Dean of Duke Law School, the former Chief United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California. A graduate of Stanford Law School, he clerked for Justice Lewis Powell on the Supreme Court. He has been appointed the chair of two Judicial Conference Committees by the Supreme Court. He founded and was the first president of the Schartz-Levi American Inn of Court.

He’s the man, the myth, the legend, the one and only Dean David F. Levi, and he wants you to BBQ with him. Specifically, he wants 6 people to BBQ with him, so invite your friends. (So, it’s a BBQ with Dean Levi).

Professor Sean Andrussier

A 1992 graduate of Duke Law School, Professor Andrussier is the co-director of Duke’s Appellate Litigation Clinic. He also teaches Appellate Practice and LARW. Prior to joining Duke’s faculty, he was the co-chair of Womble Carlyle’s appellate practice group. He is on the Appellate Rules Committee of the NC Bar association.

Professor Andrussier is offering dinner for 3 upper-level students with him at his home.

Professor Jeremy Mullem

Professor Mullem is Duke’s Assistant Director of Legal Writing and a Senior Lecturing Fellow at the law school. His scholarly research focuses on the development of legal writing and rhetoric (very practical for lawyers). He is also working on a novel about Civil War Battlefields and has written several works of short fiction that have appeared in literary journals.

Professor Mullem invites 4 or 5 students to join him for a BBQ Lunch.

Dean Wayne Miller

Dean Miller is the Assistant Dean for Academic Technologies. At the law school since 2001 and a member of the faculty since 2007, he is a Senior Lecturing Fellow.

Most importantly, though, Dean Miller owns a sailboat, and invites the winning bidder to join him on a cruise on the boat. Lunch will be provided (on the boat).

Professors Ernest Young, Joseph Blocher, and Marin Levy

Professor Ernie Young is the Alston & Bird Professor of Law, teaching constitutional law, federal courts, and foreign relations law (and a Readings in Ethics course too). If you’ve had the pleasure of taking one of his courses, you are already aware that he is of the nation’s leading authorities on federalism. He has written many articles on the Rehnquist Court. A long time faculty member of UT Law, he joined Duke in 2008. A former clerk for Justice Souter, he has also practice law at a number of the nation’s leading law firms. I hear he’s also a skilled gourmet chef.

Professor Blocher’s interests include constitutional law, the First and Second Amendments, and capital punishment. A native of Durham, he graduated from Yale Law School and clerked on the 2nd circuit and 11th circuit Court of Appeals and practice at the prestigious law firm of O’Melveny & Myers, where he assisted in the merits briefing of DC v. Heller, the landmark 2nd Amendment case. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Ghana and a Gates Scholar at Cambridge.

Professor Levy’s interests include civil procedure, judicial behavior, health care law and policy, and bioethics. A graduate of Yale Law School, she has clerked on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and worked as an associate at Jenner & Block in DC.

Professors Young, Blocher, and Levy invite 6 students to join them for dinner.

Clinical Faculty

The Clinical Faculty wants to challenge 15 students to a Kickball match… er, they want to host a Kickball Party.

Professors Laurence Helfer

The Harry R. Chadwick Professor of Law, Professor Helfer is an international law expert and is interested in international law, human rights, and international intellectual property law and policy. He co-directs the Duke Law Center for International and Comparative Law and is a member of the faculty steering committee for the Duke Center on Human Rights.

Professor Helfer and his spouse Professor Boyd invite 4 students to join him at Nana’s for dinner.

Professors Jonathan Wiener and Barak Richman

Professor Wiener is the William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Profess or Law. He is also a Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment and a Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy. In 2008, he was the President of the Society for Risk Analysis. He clerked for Judge Breyer before he was known as Justice Breyer. He has long been involved in community service, helping to organize the Americorps National Service Program in 1993, helping to start the annual City Year servathon in Boston in 1989, and the D.C. Cares servathon in 1991. He was on the NC State Commission on National and Community service. He is also the founder (1995) of the law school’s signature bi-annual community service event, better known as “Dedicated to Durham”

Professor Richman is a Professor of Law who has taught a wide variety of classes and has guest taught courses at both the Sanford School for Public Policy and the Fuqua School of Business. His research interests include the economic of contracting, new institutional economics, antitrust, and healthcare policy. If you’re a 1L, he may have taught you contracts.

Professors Wiener and Richman invite you to Poker Night! 20-25 students will have the opportunity to play poker with Professors Weiner and Richman. No WSOP Bracelets included, sorry!

Professor Diane Dimond

Professor Dimond is a Clinical Profesor of Law and is the Director of the Legal Writing Program at Duke. She also teaches one of the Negotiation sections. She practice for a number of years in NYC and NC. Prior to coming to Duke, she was a partner at a major NC law firm, focusing on commercial litigation. She was the 2001 recipient of the DBA Distinguished Teaching Award.

She invites 6 students to join her for dinner at her home.

Professor Neil Siegel

Not content to merely be a Professor of Law, Professor Siegel is also a Political Science professor and a co-director of the Program in Public Law. He was a Bristow Fellow and clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He advised then-Senator Joseph Biden during the confirmation hearings of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito. You know him as your friendly constitutional law professor. His research interest focuses on various aspects of constitutional law and theory. He has a cat, and its name is Max.

Professor Siegel invites 6 students to join him and his family for Chipotle and a movie at his home.

Professor James Coleman

Professor James Coleman is the John S. Bradway Professor of Law. He was a partner in a large law firm for many years and specialized in federal court and administrative litigation. He has also worked for the Legal Services Corporation. He joined the faculty full-time in 1991 and is best known for teaching 1st year criminal law and the wrongful convictions clinic. Professor Coleman is one of the faculty heads of the Innocence Project.

Do you golf? Professor Coleman is seeking 3 students to join him for lunch and a round of golf.

Professor Samuel Buell

Professor Buell was a federal prosecutor for a number of years prior to entering academia. As a prosecutor, he twice received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service, the DOJ’s highest honor. He was a lead prosecutor for the DOJ’s Enron Task Force. He joined Duke Law in 2010 and his research interests include criminal law and the regulatory state, particularly the regulation of corporations and financial markets.

Professor Buell would like to invite 3 students for a round of golf at the Duke University Golf Club followed by drinks at the Washington Duke Inn.

Professor Tom Metzloff

Perhaps best known for his powerhouse of a bowling team, Professor Metzloff joined the Duke Law Faculty in 1985. He teaches Civil Procedure, ethics, and dispute resolution. He is the director of the Voices in American Law project.

Professor Metzloff invites 7 students to join him for a BBQ Dinner, featuring a selection of NC Microbrew Beers.

Professor Lisa K. Griffin

Professor Griffin teaches evidence and criminal procedure. She clerked on the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the Supreme Court. She also spent five years as a federal prosecutor in the Chicago United States Attorney’s Office. She joined Duke Law in 2008 and in 2011 received the Distinguished Teaching Award.

Professor Griffin invites 5 students to dinner at a Durham restaurant of their choice!

Professor DeMott

Professor Demott clerked for a federal judge in New York City and practiced with a large law firm there before joining the Duke Law faculty in 1975. She received the Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award in 1989. She was the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Agency, published in 2006. Her scholarship concerns corporate law, takeovers and acquisitions, and fiduciary obligation.

Professor Demott invites 8 students to a home-cooked brunch for 8 students at her house.

Professor Fleishman

Professor Fleishman teaches Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Not-For-Profit Law and Management. He is Professor of Law and Public Policy and Director of the Heyman Center on Ethics, Public Policy, and Professions. He also directs the Duke Foundation Research Program. He is now serving as co-chair of Independent Sector’s Committee on the Self-Regulation of Nonprofit Organizations.

Professor Fleishman invites you to bid on a bottle of 1982 Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou valued at $300. The Wine Spectator gave this wine 99 points and described it as follows: “This has an impressive powerful and hearty structure, with seductive floral, currant and licorice aromas and flavors, showing powerful tannins at the end. This sneaks up on you at the end. Structured and very, very powerful. The blockbuster tannins are sweet and fruit-coated. This is a classic, powerful style of Ducru.”

Professor James Boyle

Professor Boyle teaches torts, intellectual property, law and literature, musical composition, and legal theory. He is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School He joined the faculty in July 2000. He has also taught at American University, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Professor Boyle invites 3 students to join him at the Green Room for beer, pool, and darts. Includes a free lesson in British accents and an optional set of anecdotes about eccentric students of years past.

Professor Marin Levy

Professor Levy teaches appeals, reproductive technology, readings in ethics, and law and bioethics. Her teaching and research interests include civil procedure, judicial behavior, judicial administration, health care law and policy, bioethics, and torts. Professor Levy joined the Duke Law faculty in 2009, after serving as a clerk to Judge José A. Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to her clerkship, she was an associate at Jenner & Block, LLP in Washington, DC.

Professor Levy invites 4 students to have high tea at her home.

Professor Chris Griffin

Professor Griffin teaches empirical law and economics, remedies, and employment discrimination law. His research interests focus on empirical law and economics, employment discrimination law, disability law, and labor law. Much of his work uses statistical and econometric methods to understand how legal interventions affect social and economic outcomes.

Professor Griffin invites 4 students to join him for dinner at Magnolia Grill.

Professor Erika Buell

Professor Buell teaches Advising the Entrepreneurial Client. She has worked extensively in corporate law and has advised technology companies and start-ups. She has also worked as in-house counsel advising on intellectual property.

Professor Buell invites 3 students to join her for burgers and beer at Bull City Burger and Brewery. Bull City Burger uses ground NC-sourced pasture raised beef burgers (veggie burgers also available!) and has fresh beer brewed by brewery-principal Seth Gross. Includes a tour of the brewery and restaurant.

Professor Steven L. Schwarcz

Steven Schwarcz is the Stanley A. Star Professor of Law & Business at Duke University. After graduating first in his class in engineering school (B.S. summa cum laude, New York University School of Engineering and Science), majoring in aeronautics and astronautics, he worked on legislative initiatives involving science and law while earning his J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. Prior to joining the Duke faculty in 1996, he was a partner at the law firm of Shearman & Sterling and then a partner and practice group chairman at Kaye Scholer LLP, where he represented many of the world’s leading banks and other financial institutions in structuring innovative capital market financing transactions, both domestic and international. He also helped to pioneer the field of asset securitization, and his book, Structured Finance, A Guide to the Principles of Asset Securitization (3d edition with supplements), is one of the most widely used texts in the field.

Professor Schwarcz invites you to bid on a bottle of 1997 San Lorenzo Allesandria Barolo, the #1 voted wine by the Duke wine Tasting Club.

Professors Jebediah Purdy and Joseph Blocher

Professor Purdy graduated from Harvard College, summa cum laude, with an A.B. in Social Studies, and received his J.D. from Yale Law School. He teaches constitutional, environmental, and property law and writes in all of these areas. Professor Purdy clerked on the 2nd Circuit and was a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, an ethics fellow at Harvard University, and a visiting professor at Yale Law School and Harvard Law School.

Professor Blocher’s interests include constitutional law, the First and Second Amendments, and capital punishment. A native of Durham, he graduated from Yale Law School and clerked on the 2nd circuit and 11th circuit Court of Appeals and practice at the prestigious law firm of O’Melveny & Myers, where he assisted in the merits briefing of DC v. Heller, the landmark 2nd Amendment case. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Ghana and a Gates Scholar at Cambridge.

Professors Purdy and Blocher invite 2 groups of 10 students to a private tour and tasting at Triangle Brewery.

Professor Dana A. Remus

Professor Remus is visiting in the spring 2012 semester from the University of New Hampshire School of Law. Her current research interests center on ethics and the regulation of the legal profession. Remus’ teaching interests include property, trusts and estates, legal ethics, and the regulation of the legal profession. At Duke Law, Remus is teaching Property.

Professor Remus invites 3 students to have lunch and tour the Carolina Tiger Rescue.

Professors Jim and Doriane Coleman

Professor James Coleman is the John S. Bradway Professor of Law. He was a partner in a large law firm for many years and specialized in federal court and administrative litigation. He has also worked for the Legal Services Corporation. He joined the faculty full-time in 1991 and is best known for teaching 1st year criminal law and the wrongful convictions clinic. Professor Coleman is one of the faculty heads of the Innocence Project.

Professor Doriane Coleman is a Professor of Law at Duke Law School, where she specializes in teaching and scholarship related to children and the law. Her scholarship has focused on the relationship between parents and the state and decisionmaking for the child in the context of that relationship, and on cultural conflicts between traditional parenting practices and American legal norms.

8 lucky students will celebrate the Last Day of Classes (“LDOC”) with Local Beer and BBQ at the Coleman household on Sunday, April 15th!

Assistant Dean Jason Belk and Assistant Dean Ann Sherman

Dean Belk began his legal career in San Francisco with Farella, Braun + Martel in the field of insurance and construction litigation. From there he joined the Washington, DC office of Paul Hastings where he continued to develop his career in business litigation. Most recently, Dean Belk practiced in the Raleigh office of Womble Carlyle before coming to Duke Law School. He’s currently our Assistant Dean for Student Affairs.

As the Assistant Dean for Academic Advising, Dean Sherman advises students about the degree requirements students must fulfill in order to graduate with a JD or a dual degree from the Law School. Prior to joining the Office of Student Affairs, Anne practiced employee benefits law at McDermott, Will & Emery in Chicago and Poyner & Spruill in Raleigh and worked in the Career and Professional Development Center at Duke Law.

These two fabulous deans invite 4 students to have lunch at Revolution.

Professor Stephen Sachs

Professor Sachs is a scholar of civil procedure, constitutional law, Anglo-American legal history, and conflict of laws. He joined the Duke Law faculty after practicing in the litigation group of Mayer Brown LLP in Washington, D.C. He teaches civil procedure and conflict of laws.

Professor Sachs will write 1 Shakespearean sonnet on the subject of one lucky student’s choice.

Assistant Dean Kimberly Ann Bart

Dean Bart is the Assistant Dean for Public Interest and Pro Bono at Duke Law School. Prior to coming to Duke, Dean Bart was on faculty at the University of Alabama School of Law, where she was the director of the Domestic Violence Law Clinic from 2006 to 2009. Before that, Bart was a teaching fellow in the Federal Legislation Clinic at the Georgetown University Law Center from 2004-2006, where she conducted legislative advocacy on social policy issues including TANF, Social Security, and immigration reform; and an associate with Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, DC from 2002-2004, where she practiced regulatory law in the areas of energy, natural resources and environment, and international trade and participated in pro bono class action litigation.

Dean Bart invites 10 students to join her for margaritas and a pool party at her home.

Professor George C. Christie

Professor Christie teaches torts, jurisprudence, and readings in ethics. His chief academic interests are in the areas of torts and jurisprudence, in both of which he has published widely. He is the editor of, among other books, a casebook in jurisprudence originally published in 1973, and now in its third edition, and one on torts first published in 1983, and now in its fourth edition. He is currently working on problems encountered in the adjudication of human rights as part of his wider interest in comparative legal reasoning.

Professor Christie invites you to bid on one bottle of 1986 Graham’s Malvedos Vintage Port.

Dessert, Wine, and MAGIC with Professor Don Beskind

Professor Beskind teaches torts, evidence, and trial practice. He has devoted more than 30 years in practice to representing plaintiffs in civil cases and defendants in criminal cases. He returned full time to the Duke Law faculty as a professor of the practice of law in 2010.

Professor Beskind invites 20 students to join him at his home for an evening of wine, desserts, and magic on March 24th.

Major General Charles Dunlap (USAF-Ret)

General Dunlap, the former deputy judge advocate general of the United States Air Force, joined the Duke Law faculty in July 2010. His teaching and scholarly writing focus on national security, international law, civil-military relations, cyberwar, and military justice. General Dunlap retired from the Air Force in June 2010, having attained the rank of major general during a 34-year career in the Judge Advocate Corps.

General Dunlap invites 8 students to enjoy BBQ, Beer, Banter, and more in the casual outdoor setting of Joy and Charlie Dunlap’s garden on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

Professor James Cox

Professor Cox teaches Business Associations, Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation, Current Issues in Law and Markets, and Strategies in Business Transactions. Professor Cox joined the faculty of the School of Law at Duke in 1979 where he specializes in the areas of corporate and securities law. Prior to moving to Durham, he taught at the law schools of Boston University, the University of San Francisco, the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and Stanford. During the 1988-89 academic year he was a Senior Research Fulbright Fellow at the University of Sydney. Professor Cox earned his B.S. from Arizona State University and law degrees at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D.) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.)

Professor Cox invites 8 students to join him and his wife for a candlelight dinner. 3-course candlelight dinner with a happy hour preceding the feast, for 8 students, at the home of Bonnie and Jim Cox on a mutually convenient evening. The fare is formal, but the evening is otherwise casual. A perennial favorite.

Professor Mary Dudziak

Professor Dudziak is offering a copy of her book, “War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences”

Other Items

The Emily K Center

PILF is pleased to announce that we are auctioning multiple items provided to us by the Center. Half of the proceeds from these auction items will go towards the Emily K. Center.

Signed Copy of The Gold Standard: Building a World-Class Team by Mike Krzyzewski

Signed Duke Basketball from Coach K

Exclusive Chance for Up to Twenty People to Play on the 2001 NCAAA Championship Floor for Three Hours

The Goodson Law Library

Exclusive use of a personal Study Carrel for 2012-2013 academic year.

Duke Law Office of Student Affairs

The ever-popular Law Lot Parking Pass for academic year 2012-2013. Last year’s top item.

Bryan Leitch

A 2-hour Jazz Guitar performance from professional musician Bryan Leitch at the time and place of your choosing between now and mid-July at a location in the Triangle area

Duke Westlaw Team

You can get points from Westlaw and purchase reward items such as an iPad, iPod, sunglasses, grills, and DVDs!

Duke Lexisnexis Team

You can get points from Lexis and purchase reward items such as Amazon gift cards, iPods, Bose headphones, handbags, and a waffle maker.

Silver Coast Winery Experience

A Wine Experience for Four Guests at Silver Coast Winery. The experience includes a wine tasting for four adults, a Silver Coast Winery logo glass, a tour of the winery and 10% off all items in the art and gift gallery.

Sudanese Gift Set

A Duke Alumn in Sudan is offering a Sudanese Cultural Gift Set Including Two Darfuri Baskets, a Darfuri Woven Wall Hanging, a Sudan Photobook, Brothers in Hope Children’s Book, and Music of Sudan CD.

Gift cards and Items from area businesses

Many local businesses have continued their support of PILF this year by offering gift certificates and gift cards to their businesses. We thank our local businesses for their support of PILF. The list of businesses who have contributed items and gift cards includes (but is not limited to):

• Appalachian Ski Mountain
• Arrowhead Inn Bed & Breakfast
• Aveda
• Aveda
• Baba Ghannouj Bistro
• Barbri
• Bon Vivant Catering
• Cafe Parizade
• Caju Salon
• Carolina Coffee Shop
• Champps Sports Bar & Grill
• Champps Sports Bar & Grill
• Chapel Hill Florist
• Chapel Hill Restaurant Group
• Cozy
• Dickey’s BBQ Pit
• Duke Law Westlaw Team
• Duke University Stores
• East End Oyster & Martini Bar
• Fink’s Jewelers
• Firehouse Subs
• Four Seasons Atlanta
• Francesca’s Dessert Cafe
• Franklin Street Yoga
• Fred Astaire Dance Studio
• Harris Teeter
• Hot Topic
• Johnny T-Shirt
• LexisNexis
• Local 506
• Lynn’s & Daphne’s Hallmark Shops
• Marbles Kids Museum
• Millennium Hotel
• Monica Wyrick
• Monica Wyrick
• Mount Fuji
• Museum of Life & Science of Durham
• Ninth Street Dance
• Noodles & Co.
• P.F. Chang’s
• Panera Bread
• Pinnacle Ridge
• Professor Michael Tigar
• REI
• Rubberbanditz
• Salon 135
• Silver Coast Winery
• Spartacus Restaurant
• Sports Basement
• TGI Friday’s
• The Belmont
• The Cheesecake Factory
• The Duck Shop
• The Garden Salon
• The Green Bag, Inc.
• The Lofts at Lakeview
• The Magnolia Grill
• The Metropolitan Club
• The Regulator Bookshop
• Thidar Aung
• Triangle Brewery, Professors Purdy and Blocher
• Vaguely Reminiscent Boutique
• Verizon Wireless at Southpoint
• Vita Organic Italian Restaurant
• Washington Duke Inn
• Wavelengths Salon
• Wingstop
• Yankee Candle

Donations from your fellow students

Some of your classmates have generously donated of their time to provide you with various events at the auction. This includes babysitting, dog-sitting, and motorcycle lessons.

And more!

Signed basketballs from the Duke Men’s Basketball Team, a Campout exemption, and much more will be available at the auction. You can only bid if you’re there though, so be sure to buy your tickets! (20 dollar pre-order, 25 at the door) Friends, family, random strangers off the street… all are welcome (the random strangers might be a bit sketch actually, do some background checking first).