Faculty by Teaching and Research Interests
The list below groups faculty members according to their areas of teaching and research interests. The list will provide guidance in selecting upperlevel courses and in identifying faculty with whom to consult on a number of issues, including the selection of law journal note topics, the supervision of independent study projects, and the identification of law firms with relevant practice areas.
We'll use Areas of Study and Practice for these. Associations between areas and faculty should be made soon.
View faculty by teaching/research interests via Data App.
| Business, Commercial, and Tax Law |
| Core Law School Faculty |
| James Cox |
Business Associations; Securities Regulation; Governance, Responsibility and Crime in the Public Corporation |
| Deborah DeMott |
Advanced Issues in Agency Law; Business Associations; Corporate Finance; Issues in Corporate Representation |
| Andrew Foster |
Community Economic Development Law; Community Enterprise Law Clinic |
| Barak Richman |
Antitrust |
| Richard Schmalbeck |
Federal Income Taxation; Quantitative Methods; The Non-Profit Sector |
| Steven Schwarcz |
Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy; Principles of Commercial and Bankruptcy Law; Structuring Commercial and Financial Transactions |
| John Weistart |
Athletics and Antitrust; Commercial Transactions; Contracts; Strategies in Commercial Transactions |
| Lawrence Zelenak |
Corporate Taxation; Federal Income Taxation; Tax Policy |
| Other Key Duke Faculty |
| Wesley Cohen |
Intellectual Capital and Competitive Strategy (Fuqua) |
| John Graham |
Corporate Restructuring (Fuqua) |
| Andrew Widmark |
Real Estate Entrepreneurship (Fuqua) |
| Rebecca Zarutskie |
Venture Capital and Private Equity (Fuqua) |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Contracts |
| Labor and Employment |
| Related Dual Degrees |
| Master of Business Administration |
| Current Issues in Comparative Law; Law and Globalization |
| Madeline Morris |
International Criminal Law; International Human Rights; Public International Law; The Enforcement of International Human Rights: International Criminal Law |
| Jonathan Ocko |
Chinese Company and Security Law; Chinese Law and Society; Chinese Legal History |
| Jerome Reichman |
International Intellectual Property |
| James Salzman |
International Environmental Law |
| Scott Silliman |
National Security Law |
| Jonathan Wiener |
Climate Change and the Law; Risk Regulation in the US, Europe & Beyond; Global Property Regimes |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Business/Commercial Law |
| Constitutional Law |
| Environmental Law |
| Possible Dual Degrees |
| LL.M. in International Law |
| M.A. in foreign history or language |
| M.A. in political science |
| Constitutional and Administrative Law |
| Core Law School Faculty |
| Stuart Benjamin |
Administrative Law; First Amendment; Telecommunications |
| James Boyle |
Constitution in Cyberspace |
| Curtis Bradley |
Foreign Affairs Law; Public International Law; National Security |
| Charles Clotfelter |
Race and Education |
| Doriane Lambelet- Coleman |
Writ of Certiorari |
| Walter Dellinger |
Advanced Constitutional Law; The Rehnquist Court |
| Donald Horowitz |
Comparative Constitutional Design |
| Trina Jones |
Employment Discrimination; Race and the Law |
| Carolyn McAllaster |
AIDS Law; AIDS Legal Assistance Project |
| Jefferson H. Powell |
Powell Constitutional Law; Constitutional Law II; Theological Dimensions of Law and Politics |
| Jedediah Purdy |
Property and the Constitutional Order |
| Christopher Schroeder |
Administrative Law; Advanced Constitutional Law; The Congress; Comparative Constitutional Law; Constitutional Law |
| Neil Siegel |
Constitutional Law; Federal Courts Seminar: State Sovereign Immunity and Section Five |
| Scott Silliman |
Military Justice; National Security Law |
| Jane Wettach |
Education Law; Childrens Education Law Clinic Other Key Duke Faculty |
| Ernest Young |
Constitutional Law; Federal Courts; Reading Group in Constitutional Theory |
| Adjunct Faculty |
| Ted Kaufman |
The Congress; The Congress: Government, Business, and the Global Economy |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Criminal Law and Procedure |
| Related Dual Degrees |
| MA in History |
| MA in Political Science |
| Master of Public Policy |
| Intellectual Property, Science, and Technology |
| Core Law School Faculty |
| Stuart Benjamin |
Property Rights versus the Commons in High Technology; Telecommunications Law |
| James Boyle |
Constitution in Cyberspace; Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property, Public Domain and Free Speech |
| David Lange |
Entertainment Law; Independent Feature Film Production, Finance, and Distribution; Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property, Public Domain, and Free Speech; Telecommunications Law; Trademark Law and Unfair Competition |
| Arti Rai |
Intellectual Property Rights and the Biopharmaceutical Industry; Patent Law and Policy |
| Jerome Reichman |
Copyright Law; Intellectual Property; International Intellectual Property |
| Other Key Duke Faculty |
| Allen Buchanan (philosopher/Sanford) |
| Wes Cohen (economist/Fuqua) |
| Robert Cook-Deegan (genomics, law and policy/MD) |
| Related Legal Fields |
| Environmental Law |
| Possible Dual Degrees |
| Master of Environmental Management |
| Master of Public Policy |
| MS/MA in Engineering |
| Related Dual Degrees |
| M.D. |
| Environmental Law and Policy |
| Core Law School Faculty |
| Jedediah Purdy |
Property; Property and the Constitutional Order |
| James Salzman |
Environmental Law; International Environmental Law; Natural Resources Law |
| Christopher Schroeder |
Environmental Law; The Origins of Environmental Legislation |
| Jonathan Wiener |
Environmental Law; Global Property Regimes; Mass Torts; Risk Regulation |
| Adjunct Faculty |
| Stephen Roady |
Coastal Law and Policy; Environmental Litigation; Environmental Litigation Outplacement |
| Related Dual Degrees |
| Master of Environmental Management |
| Master of Forestry |
| Master of Public Policy |
| Other Key Duke Faculty |
| George Gopen |
Advanced Writing Tutorials |
| First Year Courses |
| Core Law School Faculty |
| Civil Procedure |
Paul Carrington, Trina Jones, Thomas Metzloff |
| Constitutional Law |
H. Jefferson Powell, Christopher Schroeder, Neil Siegel, Ernest A. Young |
| Contracts |
Katharine Bartlett, Paul Haagen, H. Jefferson Powell, Jerome Reichman, Barak Richman, James Salzman, John Weistart |
| Criminal Law |
Sara Sun Beale, James Coleman, Lisa Kern Griffin |
| Property |
Jedediah Purdy, William Reppy, James Salzman, Jonathan Wiener |
| Torts |
James Boyle, George Christie, Deborah DeMott, Doriane Lambelet Coleman |
