The Duke Law Podcast

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The Duke Law Podcast is produced by the Duke University School of Law. Each episode is selected from Duke Law's regular schedule of guest speakers, panel discussions, and scholarly conferences. Follow us or subscribe for updates!

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Race, Policing, and Guns (Sept. 30, 2020)

Oct 21 2020 60 mins

In the ongoing national conversations about policing, protest, racism, and violence, the role of guns plays an important part. And with gun purchasing, carrying, and brandishing increasingly in the news during the Covid-19 pandemic, the intersection of these issues takes on heightened importance. This online panel discussion shares insights into these issues. Panelists include Duke

The Convergence of Movements to Abolish ICE and Defund the Police (Sept. 23, 2020)

Oct 21 2020 68 mins

At the heart of both Abolish ICE and Defund the Police is a conversation about who is incarcerated and criminalized. The movements share the belief that regardless of the badge, bad law enforcement practices and policies affect the safety and well-being of people across the United States. This discussion focuses on the increasingly intersecting coalitions between the movements and

Watchdog: How Protecting Consumers Can Save Our Families, Our Economy, and Our Democracy (Sept. 10, 2020)

Nov 13 2020 63 mins

Richard Cordray, former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), discussed his new book, "Watchdog: How Protecting Consumers Can Save Our Families, Our Economy, and Our Democracy." Growing problems in the increasingly one-sided finance markets blew up the economy in 2008. In the aftermath, Congress created the CFPB. Sharing the stories of individual consumers, W

The Importance of Local Elections for Immigration Policy (Oct. 7, 2020)

Dec 10 2020 60 mins

While immigration law is federal, the policies enacted by local elected officials can shape immigration enforcement measures and efforts to include and support immigrants and refugees. This Duke Law event featured a panel discussion with Spencer Bloom, Civic Engagement Organizer at El Pueblo in Raleigh, N.C., and Stefania Arteaga, Immigrants' Rights Organizer at ACLU of North Carol

Digital Rights and Discrimination with Nanjala Nyabola & Maya Wang (Sept. 28, 2020)

Feb 04 2021 65 mins

As part of Duke Law's International Week, Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Clinical Professor of Law and Supervising Attorney at the International Human Rights Clinic at Duke Law, moderated this discussion with Nanjala Nyabola, independent consultant and author,Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya, and Maya Wang, China Senior Researcher, Human Righ

Race and the 1L Curriculum: Criminal Law (Oct. 9, 2020)

Feb 04 2021 70 mins

In the past year, movements to address deep racial inequities embedded in the criminal system gained greater prominence and popular support. At the forefront of these movements are leaders in North Carolina fighting the cash bail system that incarcerates people based on poverty, the racially disparate disenfranchisement of individuals for unpaid fines and fees, and the dangerous co

GameStop Explained (Feb. 4, 2021)

Feb 16 2021 68 mins

This event examined what happened with GameStop's stock, the legal and regulatory implications, and what it could mean for the future of the stock market. Featured speakers include Professors Lawrence G. Baxter, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Jim Cox, Gina-Gail Fletcher, Lee Reiners, and Emily Strauss. Sponsored by the Global Financial Markets Center and the Interactive Entertainment Law S

6 Trials and 23 Years: Curtis Flowers talks justice with the Wilson Center (Feb. 18, 2021)

Feb 25 2021 54 mins

Curtis Flowers is a Mississippi man who was tried six times for the same crime and whose case was the subject of Season 2 of the APM Reports podcast "In the Dark." He spent nearly 23 years behind bars and endured six trials and four death sentences for four murders he has always maintained he did not commit. Four of the trials resulted in convictions, all of which were overturned o

Community Re-entry for the Formerly Incarcerated (March 9, 2021)

Mar 24 2021 68 mins

Formerly incarcerated individuals face many barriers when re-entering their communities. This Duke Law roundtable explores the barriers and the programs successfully addressing them with Alice Marie Johnson, a criminal justice reform advocate and former federal prisoner pardoned by former President Donald Trump; Dontae Sharp, a N.C. exoneree who now works at Forward Justice; and El

Institutional Inequity and the COVID Vaccine (March 1, 2021)

Mar 28 2021 47 mins

How racial disparities in healthcare continue to make Black and Latinx people less likely to receive a vaccine, despite both communities being more likely to become sick from COVID-19, is the focus of this discussion with Duke Law Professor Kate Evans, Professor Thomas Williams and Durham-based physician Edith Nieves Lopez. Sponsored by Duke Immigrant and Refugee Project and co-spo