http://www.law.duke.edu/webcast

Duke Law School offers a huge collection of over 120 webcasts going back to November 2000. The videos present lectures and conferences — typically an hour or longer — including 80 new videos since our last visit about a year ago. (See my September 2004 column.)

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FAVORITES

• Democratizing Innovation includes a case study of informal recipe rights expectation among French chefs. (September 22, 2005)

• Moving Image Contest Winners - Two minute movies about the ways intellectual property affects art — specifically documentary film or music. (January 14, 2005)

2005 VIDEOS

• The Future of Peer-to-Peer Networks and Digital Music examines the future of the digital music market in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in MGM Studios v. Grokster. (October 27, 2005)
• Cronyism and the Future of the Supreme Court: The Nomination of Harriet Miers - Speakers include Erwin Chemerinsky and former Deputy White House Counsel Bill Marshall. (October 26, 2005)
• International Week presents Retired Ambassador David Rawson (October 25, 2005)
• Information Ecology Lecture: Professor P. Bernt Hugenholtz, University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law (October 24, 2005)
• 2005 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum (DELPF) Symposium (October 21, 2005)
• Randa Siniora, General Director of Al Haq, a United Nations specialist in the human rights of women (October 20, 2005)
• Civil Rights Issues in the Age of Electronic Voting: Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Joe Andrew on Identifying Potential Candidates and Raising Campaign Funds (October 18, 2005)
• What's the Matter with Democrats?, a talk by William Greider, national affairs correspondent for "The Nation." (October 17, 2005)
• Practical Politics and The Law: The Lawyer as Candidate. Maj. Paul Hackett will discuss his experiences as a recent Democratic candidate for the Ohio Second District congressional seat. (October 5, 2005)
• Update on the Global War on Terrorism at Home and Abroad with Scott Silliman, Chris Schroeder, and Bruce Jentlesen, Professor of Public Policy Studies. (September 28, 2005)
• Professor Richard Buxbaum of the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) delivers the annual Bernstein Memorial Lecture in International and Comparative Law (September 27, 2005)
• Interview with Janet Reno by Walter Dellinger - Great Lives in the Law series. (September 26, 2005)
• Democratizing Innovation - Information Ecology Lecture by MIT Professor Eric von Hippel, including a case study of informal recipe rights expectation among French chefs. (September 22, 2005)
• National Security in an Age of Terrorists, Tyrants and Weapons of Mass Destruction - Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1981 through 1985. (September 21, 2005)
• The New Constitution for Europe and Why it Failed in the French and Dutch Referenda by Piet Eeckhout, a King's College professor and Director of the Centre of European Law. (September 16, 2005)
• A Discussion of the Legacy of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist - panel discussion. (September 8, 2005)
• Who Is John Roberts? - a debate between Erwin Chemerinsky and Adam Charnes, on the nomination of Judge John Roberts to the Supreme Court. (August 31, 2005)
• Reflections on the "O'Connor Court" and the Prospects for Change in Constitutional Doctrine After Her Retirement, a panel discussion with the Duke law faculty, plus Sam Sankar, a clerk to Justice O'Connor during the 2003 Term. (August, 29, 2005)
• Working Knowledgee: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930 by Professor Catherine Fisk. (April 14, 2005)
• National Security: The Changing Role of the Courts - D.C. Circuit Judge David Sentelle, arguably the foremost expert on national security in the federal judiciary. (April 13, 2005)
• Renewing the Supreme Court - Consequences of Life Tenure. Sponsored by the Program in Public Law. (April 9, 2005)
• The Impact of Behavioral Genetics on Criminal Law - Law and Contemporary Problems Symposium (April 8 & 9, 2005)
• Strategies for the War on Terrorism: Taking Stock - Interdisciplinary Conference. (April 7-8, 2005)
• Patenting Life and Its Parts: Ethics and Rights in the Political Economy of Intellectual Property - Information Ecology Lecture Series: Professor Daniel Kevles, Yale University. (April 7, 2005)
• Government, Technology and Culture: From Janet Jackson to iPod and Beyond - Reed Hundt, Chairman of the FCC during the Clinton Administration. (April 6, 2005)
• Intellectual Property & Cyberlaw Society "Hot Topics" Symposium - panel debate on "Software: Patents vs. Open Source"; keynote presentation by George Gilder; Phillips v. AWH Corp; Betamax, P2P, and Beyond; Exploring the Limits of Copyright Protection; Innovation Rating for Patents. (April 1, 2005)
• Advocate General Philippe Léger of the European Court of Justice (March 29, 2005)
• Domestic Violence and Immigration Law - Deborah Weissman speaks about the intersection of domestic violence and immigration law. (March 28, 2005)
• Disloyal Agents: Disputed Consequences of Breach of Fiduciary Duty - Professor Deborah DeMott (March 28, 2005)
• Enriching Discourse on the Public Domain - Prof. Pamela Samuelson of the University of California at Berkeley presents the Annual Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property. (March 24, 2005)
• The Honorable James B. Comey, Deputy Attorney General of the United States speaks about prosecuting terrorists and the USA Patriot Act. (March 22, 2005)
• Dwarf-Throwing and Peep Shows: The Law of Human Dignity in the EU and the US - Professor Giorgio Resta of Italy will examine the problem of commodification of persons in a comparative law perspective. (March 10, 2005)
• The Making of Environmental Law - Richard Lazarus (March 9, 2005)
• His Excellency Daniel Ayalon, Israeli Ambassador speaks on the Prospects for Peace in the Middle East. (March 7, 2005)
• How to Think about Blaming the Victim - a debate on current issues on the relationship between race, the law of remedies, and social disadvantage. (March 7, 2005)
• Collective Actions and Proprietary Rights: Promoting Innovation and Access in Health - where proprietary rights on research inputs pose obstacles to biopharmaceutical R&D. (March 4, 2005)
• Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Mehrangiz Kar was named International Woman of the Year in 2000, and is the recipient, amongst others, of the 2002 Ludovic Trarieux International Human Rights Prize. (March 4, 2005)
• Siegel Memorial Lecture on Legal Ethics - Professor William Simon of Columbia Law School (March 3, 2005)
• Fans and Professional Athletes: The Pacers/Pistons Incident and its Implications for Professional Sports - David Feher, partner at Dewey Ballantine (March 3, 2005)
• Duke Law Journal 35th Annual Administrative Law Conference - the effect of the Internet on agency decision-making. Panelists discuss (February 25, 2005)
• Clerkship Information Panel - What do clerks do? Why should YOU be interested in clerking? What can you do to be a better applicant? - Judges Robert Henry and Carlos Lucero of the 10th Circuit, and Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the 2nd Circuit (February 25, 2005)
• "Open Source" Biology: The Role of Law - Professor Arti Rai (February 17, 2005)
• Meeting the Threat: A Symposium on Counter-Terrorism - Panel topics: counter-terrorism strategies, national security, terrorism-related investigation techniques, the prosecution of terrorists pre- and post-9/11 (February 4, 2005)
• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is interviewed by Professor Walter Dellinger as part of the Great Lives in the Law series. (January 31, 2005)
• Prospects for Peace in the Middle East after Palestinian Elections - Marty Rosenbluth of Amnesty International (January 28, 2005)
• Gay and Republican? with Patrick Guerriero, President of the Log Cabin Republicans (January 27, 2005)
• Justice Scalia's Sudden Fondness for Criminal Defendants: Principled Originalism or Soft-on-Crime Judicial Activism? - Professor Stephanos Bibas of University of Iowa College of Law (January 27, 2005)
• Is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream Still Alive?- a British Parliamentary-style debate. (January 20, 2005)
• Moving Image Contest Winners - The best 2 minute movies about the ways that intellectual property affects art — specifically documentary film or music. (January 14, 2005)