Videos

At a conference on “The Legacy of the Rehnquist Court,” a panel of solicitors general discussed the impact of the Rehnquest Court, the structural Constitution under the Rehnquist Court, and …

Former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse talked about her career with retired Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Walter Dellinger made introductory remarks, and Ronald Collins mode…

The panel talked about the impact of the presidency on the Supreme Court. They focused on the results of the 2008 Presidential Election and the role that the winner would play in changing th…

America and the Courts (Satuday, Aug. 2nd)

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was joined in conversation about standards of excellence in legal reasoning and how the law’s coherence is principally advanced or impeded in opinion …

Former Acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger, a member of the Duke Law faculty, for the school’s “Great Lives in the Law” series, interviewed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She spoke about…

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, docket number 07-290, in which a 1976 law was challenged that had the effect of banning handguns in the D…

A panel of Supreme Court experts talked about the Boumediene v. Bush case scheduled for oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court on December 5, 2007, to decide if the Military Commissions…

Walter Dellinger, Former Solicitor General in the Administration of President Bill Clinton, moderated a panel discussion about the future of the U.S. Supreme Court. The panelists discussed t…

Former Solicitors Generals, Theodore Olson and Walter Dellinger talked about the state of the Supreme Court, the current justices, and the major cases. Olson was Solicitor General for the G…

Panelists discussed federalism cases that will come before the Supreme Court in the current term. First, Professor Chermerinsky discussed the effects that past federalism cases have had, inc…

Ken Starr and Walter Dellinger discussed the upcoming Supreme Court term. They discussed the types of cases that will be considered, including those dealing with commercial law.

Leaders of the legal community addressed the kickoff event of the American Constitution Society (formerly the Madison Society), a new national organization working to transform the legal deb…