Duke University

By noreply@blogger.com (KC Johnson) Durham, like Duke, also defended the propriety of Duke handing over FERPA-protected student keycard information to Durham, and then neither Duke nor Durham attorneys admitting this transaction to the court when Nifong (unsuccessfully) subpoenaed the keycard information in summe...

By noreply@blogger.com (KC Johnson) 3.) Duke’s claim that the University and Levicy can’t be held liable because Nifong and the police made the key decisions on whether to indict misses the mark. The Cooper brief had little difficulty in rebuffing this point: “the University and its

By noreply@blogger.com (KC Johnson) Having described both the case and North Carolina law in a wildly inaccurate fashion, the JMN questionnaire asks test-takers to compare the (inaccurate) description of Nifong’s misconduct with the misconduct committed by other North Carolina prosecutors. (Three of the ten sections...

By noreply@blogger.com (KC Johnson) CHARLIE ROSE: Let me talk about today. Duke University has gone on to be a great university. CHARLIE ROSE: Uncle Buck is James Buchanan Duke. ANTHONY DREXEL DUKE: Yes. MARY DUKE BIDDLE TRENT SEMANS: Yes, they do. MARY DUKE BIDDLE TRENT SEMANS: That’s right. ANTHONY DREXEL DUKE: Anyway.

By noreply@blogger.com (KC Johnson) 2.) Two months after public revelation of Mike Nifong’s most serious procedural breach—instructing the Durham police to run the rigged April 4, 2006 lineup—President Brodhead declined a request from Friends of Duke University to publicly demand that Duke students receive the same du...

By noreply@blogger.com (KC Johnson) Notes the Journal, “Mr. Steel said he was approached about the job in the past few days. He has a long friendship with Mr. [Lanty] Smith [who chaired the Wachovia search committee] as both share ties to Duke University; Mr. Steel is the current chairman of Duke’s board of trustees, and Mr. Smith i...

By noreply@blogger.com (KC Johnson) Partner Jamie Gorelick, Co-Chair of WilmerHale's Defense, National Security and Government Contracts Practice Group and Chair, Public Policy and Strategy will be a featured speaker along with Kent Alexander of Emory University and Pamela Bernard of Duke University, on a panel disc...

By noreply@blogger.com (KC Johnson) Duke cites North Carolina rulings to claim that it had no legal obligation to enforce either the student bulletin or the Faculty Handbook: “Plaintiffs fail, however, to allege the essential elements of any valid contract—the mutual manifestation of an intent to be bound . . . The North Caro...

By KC Johnson At some time on March 31, Investigators Smith and Stotsenberg of the Duke Police handed over to Gottlieb several reports. Among the reports, according to Gottlieb’s later testimony, was “one key card report for the Duke team members from March 13 and March 14.” This report was prepared by t...

By KC Johnson in early stages of case, almost didn't matter what Duke said or did; media rushed to stereotype [as of course, did activist Duke profs] variable that made this story so powerful, in the end, was Duke University"--Duke had been on pedestal Rotberg (ex-Chronicle reporter):

By KC Johnson Does Bruce think it was difficult for people to “come to an understanding of [Farred’s] views” when Farred, in that same Williams address, contended, “At the heart of the lacrosse team’s behavior is the racist history of the South”? Does Bruce think it was difficult for people to “come to...

By KC Johnson Panelists:--John F. Burness, Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations, Duke University--James E. Coleman, Jr., Professor of the Practice of Law, Duke University School of Law--Paul H. Haagen, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law--Raymond C. Pierce,...

By KC Johnson The administration, meanwhile, has been at best inconsistent regarding the student code of conduct. “Harassment of any individual for any reason is not acceptable at Duke University,” the code declares. Duke has written procedures that it follows—except when it doesn’t.

By KC Johnson Friday and Saturday, I will be in Durham to participate in Duke Law School’s “Court of Public Opinion” conference. Former federal judge David F. Levi, now dean of Duke Law School, noted, “All of these cases raise fundamental questions about the proper balance between the rights of the indi...

By KC Johnson Examples of such statements abound. From the English Department (Professor Houston Baker), to the Literature Department (Grant Farred), to the Cultural Anthropology Department (Orin Starn), to the Department of African and African-American Studies (Wahneema Lubiano and Mark Ant...