Glad to see you again on our continuing voyage of discovery into the uncharted waters of streaming video on the Internet. Each column, we explore examples of law firm, law school, and court “webcasts” — audio/video over the World Wide Web.

Having learned the joys of dry socks, I hope to prevent your feet from getting wet this time! Instead of sloshing after streaming video from law firms, this issue we’ll take a look at a safe and comfortable video archive.

WHAT’S ON TONIGHT?

It’s time for a return visit to the law school at Duke University for an update of their webcast archive, initially covered in column #6 (September, 2003). The law school's video collection, now with over 60 topics, ranges from November, 2000, to the present. It offers lectures and conferences — typically an hour or longer -- on a variety of legal and timely topics, including public policy, politics, the courts, national security, cyber law, genetics, sports, Iraq, the FCC, and technology.

“Duke Law School - Webcasts Archive”
http://www.law.duke.edu/webcast/webcastsArchive.html

All you need is a 56K modem (faster is better!) and RealPlayer media player software (free) to watch these streaming videos:

• Same-Sex Marriage: Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace, Dean Katharine T. Bartlett interviews Julie Goodridge, plaintiff in the Massachusetts same-sex marriage case (April 13, 2004)
• Adam and Steve, Alice and Eve: A Debate of the Legal Issues Surrounding Same-Sex Marriage, by Jeffery Ventrella and Greg Nevins (April 7, 2004)
• Complexity Theory in the Modern Administrative State, Duke Law Journal 34th Annual Administrative Law Conference, in two sessions (April 2, 2004)
• Siegel Memorial Lecture in Medical-Legal Ethics lecture series presents Professor Deborah Rhode (March 31, 2004)
• MP3s - Privacy and Piracy, 3rd Annual Hot Topics in Intellectual Property Law Symposium. Speakers from BMG Music, BayTSP, and Electronic Frontier Foundation discuss music piracy (March 26, 2004)
• The Honorable Richard Goldstone, Great Lives in the Law lecture series (March 1, 2004)
• Foreign Private Issuers and Raising Capital in the United States, Peter Ruhlin (February, 24 2004)
• Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property presents science and technology policy expert Lewis Branscomb (February 19, 2004)
• Health Law Society Speaker Symposium (February 18, 2004)
• All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News, by Professor James T. Hamilton, Information Ecology Lecture Series (February 27, 2004)
• Ending Abuse of Patent Continuations, by Professor Mark Lemley, Information Ecology Lecture Series (February 12, 2004)
• Fairness versus Welfare, Steven Shavell, presented by the Duke Economics Department and Duke Law School (November 20, 2003)
• Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, in 4 sessions (November 14, 2003)
• The Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture, by Robert Nagel (November 13, 2003)
• The Law and Economics of the Americans with Disabilities Act, by Michael Ashley Stein of the William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law (November 6, 2003)