Hi all,
Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend! Below are announcements and some of this week’s GPI events.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. GPI Job Search and Equal Justice Works Info Session Recording
If you missed the event for 2Ls, 3Ls, LLMs: GPI Job Search & Equal Justice Works Info Session, here is the link to the powerpoint and recording: https://tinyurl.com/2L3LLLMGPIJobSearchFall2018.
2. New GPI Resource Website
The Career & Professional Development Center have launched a new GPI Resource Site! Please explore through this link: https://sites.duke.edu/dukelawgpi/. Many of you already have the advice contained within, but also feel free to email Bethan Eynon at bethan.eynon@duke.edu with feedback.
Note that a large site from CPDC will be forthcoming in late September, so at that point we will have over double the GPI resources than on this temporary site. The first part of the info session (see 1. above) walks through the site, so please refer to that for details. The link to the recording is also linked in the left sidebar of this Resource Site in case you need it in the future.
EVENTS
1. Trump v. Hawaii & the Shadow of Korematsu
Tuesday, September 4th at 12:30pm | Room 3041
Join us for a panel discussing Trump v. Hawaii and the travel ban litigation in relation to the legacy of the Japanese-American exclusion orders and internment during WWII. The panel will feature Dean Kerry Abrams, an expert on immigration law, Professor Eric Muller from UNC Law School, an expert on the Japanese-American exclusion cases, and Pratik Shah, co-head of Akin Gump’s Supreme Court and Appellate practice. Professor Matthew Adler will moderate. Sponsored by the American Constitution Society and the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. For more information, please contact Izaak Earnhardt at alexander.earnhardt@lawnet.duke.edu.
2. PILF General Body Meeting
Thursday, September 6th at 12:30pm | Room 3041
Come join PILF (Public Interest Law Foundation) for our beginning of the year general body meeting! We will introduce our new board and explain PILF’s role in receiving guaranteed summer funding for unpaid government and public interest internships. We will also go over many of the opportunities for PILF hours this year, as well as answer any questions students have. Sponsored by PILF. For more information, please contact Melissa Dix at melissa.dix@duke.edu.
3. 2Ls: Clerkships Information Session
Thursday, September 6th at 12:30pm | Room 4047
All 2Ls are welcome to the first information session about clerkship applications for the class of 2020. Learn about the hiring timeline, various courts, and more. Bring your questions! Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the Career & Professional Development Center. Please contact Sara Emley at sara.emley@law.duke.edu with any questions.
4. Human Rights in the Neoliberal Maelstrom: A Talk by Samuel Moyn
Thursday, September 6th at 5:00pm | Fredric Jameson Gallery (1316 Campus Drive Durham, NC 27708)
Samuel Moyn, Yale Law, will present the Annual Human Rights@Duke Lecture in the Jameson Gallery, 115 Friedl on East Campus. Co-sponsored by Duke Law’s Center for International and Comparative Law, Duke Law’s International Human Rights Clinics, the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Sanford School of Public Policy, The Human Rights Archive at the Rubenstein Library, and the Duke University’s departments of History and International Comparative Studies. For more information, contact Balfour Smith at bsmith@law.duke.edu.
5. Proposed Changes to the Endangered Species Act
Thursday, September 6th at 6:30pm | Email Molly Bruce for location
The Environmental Law Society and American Constitution Society are hosting a comment party on the Department of the Interior’s proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act. The event will be Thursday at 6:30 pm, food provided. Interested students should bring their laptops. Email molly.bruce@duke.edu for details on the location.
6. GPI Speaker Series: Careers in Criminal Law
Friday, September 7th at 12:30pm | Room 4047
Please join us for our first panel in a four-part series highlighting a range of government and public interest careers. The program will cover a range of careers in criminal law. Hear what it is like to practice in these areas and ask for advice from our panelists: Shamieka Rhinehart (Durham District Court Judge, formerly with the Durham District Attorney’s Office); Phillip Rubin L’11 (Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of NC), Sneha Shah L’14 (ACLU of NC), and Samantha Grill L’12 (Mecklenburg County Public Defender in Charlotte, NC). Sponsored by the Office of Public Interest and Pro Bono, the Career and Professional Development Center, and the Government and Public Service Society (GPS). Lunch will be provided, please bring your own beverage. For more information, contact Stella Boswell (boswell@law.duke.edu).
7. Humane: The Politics and Poetics of Endless War
Friday, September 7th at 12:30pm | Room 3037
Human Rights in Practice Series: Samuel Moyn, Yale Law School, will ask what is wrong with the forever war – as the post-9/11 campaigns of the United States have been called. For a broad swathe of critics, the trouble is its inhumanity – especially the peril it brings to civilians. What, however, if the opposite is true – and the problem is that the war on terror is the most humane war ever fought in history? He will throw out some early hypotheses for collective discussion as part of a new project on the stakes of making war more humane when there are no strong controls on its chronological or geographical scope. Moderated by Prof. Jayne Huckerby. Sponsored by the International Human Rights Clinic, the Center for International and Comparative Law, and the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. For more information contact Balfour Smith at bsmith@law.duke.edu.
8. North Carolina Free Legal Answers Training
Friday, September 7th at 1:40pm | Room 4047
NC Free Legal Answers is a web-based program that expands public access to legal advice and legal information about civil matters for low-income people. It allows financially eligible users to post questions for volunteer attorneys to answer free of charge. We invite Duke Law students to a training on how to answer questions submitted to the NC Free Legal Answers website. Light refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Alumni & Development Office an the Office of Public Interest and Pro Bono. For more information, please contact Conner Croxson at conner.croxson@law.duke.edu.
LINKS
New GPS Website: https://sites.duke.edu/gpss/category/student-spotlights/
PILF Summer Report Forms: https://tinyurl.com/yanjtz62
Public Interest Retreat: https://law.duke.edu/publicinterest/retreat/
