Lunch with a Professor – Government and Public Service Society

March 12, 2019March 17, 2019

GPS Lunch with Professor Griffin

Wednesday, March 20th | 12:30pm

Please join GPS for lunch with Professor Lisa Kern Griffin. Space is limited, so please RSVP here. Sponsored by the Government and Public Service Society. For more information, please contact Peyton Coleman at peyton.coleman@lawnet.duke.edu.

Professor Griffin’s scholarship focuses on evidence theory, constitutional criminal procedure, and federal criminal justice policy. After graduating from Stanford Law School, she clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States. She also spent five years as a federal prosecutor in the Chicago United States Attorney’s Office.

February 12, 2019March 12, 2019

GPS Lunch with Professor Siegel

Tuesday, February 26th | 12:30pm

Please join GPS for lunch with Professor Neil Siegel. Space is limited, so please RSVP here. Sponsored by the Government and Public Service Society. For more information, please contact Krista Kowalczyk at krista.kowalczyk@duke.edu.

Professor Siegel is a constitutional law generalist. His scholarship addresses a variety of areas of constitutional law and, in doing so, considers ways in which a methodologically pluralist approach can accommodate changes in society and the needs of American governance while remaining disciplined and bound by the rule of law. His articles on collective action federalism offer constitutional justification for robust, but not limitless, federal power. His contributions in the area of separation of powers document and conditionally justify the role of historical governmental practices and norms in constraining political partisanship and partially constituting congressional, executive, and judicial power. His writings on the politics of constitutional law and judicial statesmanship seek to understand how participants in the practice of constitutional law can vindicate the preconditions for the legitimacy of constitutional law. His constitutional theory scholarship analyzes, among other issues, how perceptions of the clarity or ambiguity of the constitutional text are affected in part by purposive, structural, historical, doctrinal, and consequentialist considerations. His work on sex equality and reproductive rights examines how equality values are protected under both equal protection and substantive due process, and extends the skepticism of constitutional sex equality doctrine to pregnancy discrimination and restrictions on access to contraception and abortion.

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019

GPS Lunch with Professor Demeritt

Wednesday, February 20th | 12:30pm

Please join GPS for lunch with Professor Hannah Demeritt. This event is capped at 10 students, so please RSVP here. Sponsored by the Government and Public Service Society. For more information, please contact Ellie Shingleton at eleanor.shingleton@duke.edu.

Professor Hannah Demeritt, a Clinical Professor of Law, is a supervising attorney in the Health Justice Clinic.

Professor Demeritt received her J.D., with high honors and membership in the Order of the Coif, from Duke Law School in 2004. She received her B.A. from Reed College (Portland, Oregon) in 1992. Between graduation from Reed and acceptance into Duke Law, she worked as a social worker, advocating for indigent clients, in Portland and in New York City. As a law student, Professor Demeritt performed pro bono work, interned at Legal Aid, and completed two of the Duke Law clinics. She was also a senior staff editor on Law and Contemporary Problems.

After graduating from Duke, Professor Demeritt clerked for the Honorable Robin Hudson for three years, at the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the North Carolina Supreme Court. After clerking, she practiced for three years as a solo practitioner in Durham, representing primarily indigent criminal defendants at the trial and appellate levels. She also represented juveniles in delinquency court and served on the Executive Committee of the Juvenile Defense Section of North Carolina Advocates for Justice from 2008-2010. In 2010, Professor Demeritt went to work as an assistant appellate defender in the North Carolina Office of the Appellate Defender. There, she served as co-counsel on JDB v. North Carolina, a case she had worked on pro bono in State court prior to joining the Office of the Appellate Defender. In June 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court decided JDB in her client’s favor.

From 2007- 2009, while still in solo practice, Professor Demeritt also worked part-time in the Health Justice Clinic at Duke, travelling the State to supervise students providing offsite legal assistance. She also taught legal writing to 1L’s at North Carolina Central University School of Law. Professor Demeritt has also been teaching legal ethics at Duke for several years and returned to work at Duke Law full-time, as a supervising attorney in the Health Justice Clinic, in 2011.

Professor Demeritt is admitted to practice in North Carolina and the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of the American Bar Association (and its Professional Responsibility section), the North Carolina Academy for Justice, and the North Carolina Gay Advocacy Legal Alliance.

October 2, 2018October 2, 2018

GPS Lunch with Professor Gordon

Wednesday, November 14th | 12:30pm

Please join GPS for lunch with Professor Anne Gordon. This event is capped at 10 students, so please RSVP here. Sponsored by the Government and Public Service Society. For more information, please contact Ellie Shingleton at eleanor.shingleton@duke.edu.

Professor Anne Gordon joins Duke’s clinical faculty as a senior lecturing fellow and director of Duke Law’s externship programs. Externships enable students to earn academic credit while experiencing the real world of legal practice in a government or nonprofit setting. Duke currently offers individual externships, faculty-mentored externships, and integrated externships, including Duke in D.C. and the Federal Public Defender’s Office externship.

Before joining Duke Law, Professor Gordon taught at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she helped lead the Appellate Advocacy Program and served as a senior research fellow at the California Constitution Center. Her research focuses on the constitutional right to education. She spent the 2015-2016 academic year as a distinguished visiting professor at Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Puebla, Mexico, teaching professional skills and comparative constitutional law.

Before teaching, Professor Gordon was a staff attorney with the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and practiced criminal appellate law and capital habeas with the Habeas Corpus Resource Center and the Fifth and Sixth District Appellate Projects. She has also worked with refugees in Ethiopia, sex workers in Chicago, and farmers in Cambodia.

Professor Gordon received her A.B. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. After law school, she clerked for Judge Boyce F. Martin, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

October 2, 2018October 2, 2018

GPS Lunch with Professor Newman

Thursday, October 25th | 12:30pm

Please join GPS for lunch with Professor Theresa Newman. This event is capped at 10 students, so please RSVP here. Sponsored by the Government and Public Service Society. For more information, please contact Ellie Shingleton at eleanor.shingleton@duke.edu.

Professor Newman is a clinical professor of law, co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic, associate director of the Duke Law School Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility, and faculty adviser to the student-led Innocence Project. She has been at Duke since 1990 and served as the associate dean for academic affairs from 1999-2008.

Professor Newman is a member of the board of the international Innocence Network, an affiliation of more than sixty-five organizations dedicated to providing pro bono legal and investigative services to individuals seeking to prove their innocence and working to redress the causes of wrongful convictions. Until several years ago, she served as Network president. She has also served as president of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, a nonprofit organization she helped found, which is dedicated to assisting wrongly convicted North Carolina inmates obtain relief, and a member of the North Carolina Chief Justice’s Criminal Justice Study Commission (formerly the Commission on Actual Innocence), the North Carolina Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism, and the North Carolina Bar Association Administration of Justice Committee.

Professor Newman received her JD from Duke in 1988. She clerked for the Honorable J. Dickson Phillips, Jr., on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit after graduation and then practiced in the civil litigation group of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice in Raleigh, N.C., before returning to Duke.