Duke University School of Law - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

Duke Law has an impressive roster of faculty including a sitting Supreme Court Justice, a former United States Senator, 14 former Supreme Court clerks, a former federal judge and a former Judge Advocate General.

• Matthew Adler, Visiting Professor of Law, Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
• Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Visiting Professor of Law
• Katharine T. Bartlett, immediate past Dean (2000–2007) and A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law
• Stuart Benjamin, Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law, Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice David Souter
• Curtis Bradley, Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies (international law and U.S. foreign relations law), Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron White
• Kathryn Webb Bradley, Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron White
• James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law (Intellectual Property and Legal Theory)
• Paul D. Carrington, former Dean and currently Chadwick Professor of Law (civil procedure and international litigation)
• James D. Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law (corporate and securities law)
• Richard A. Danner, Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor of Law
• Walter E. Dellinger III, Douglas Blount Maggs Professor of Law, Fmr. Acting Solicitor General of the United States (1996–1997), Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
• Charles J. Dunlap Jr., Visiting Professor of the Practice of Law, Executive Director, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, Fmr. Deputy Judge Advocate General of the United States Air Force
• Lisa Kern Griffin, Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
• G. Mitu Gulati, Professor of Law (International Debt Transactions and Judicial Behavior)
• Donald L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law (national specialist on ethnic conflict)
• David L. Lange, Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law (intellectual property)
• Ted Kaufman, Visiting Professor of the Practice, Fmr. United States Senator from Delaware
• Margaret H. Lemos, Professor of Law, Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Clerk John Paul Stevens
• David F. Levi, Dean, former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (1994–2007), Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, Son of Fmr. U.S. Attorney General Edward H. Levi.
• Thomas B. Metzloff, Professor of Law, Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron White
• Arti K. Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Administrator of the Office of External Affairs at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, President-Elect Obama’s transition team.
• Jerome H. Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law
• William A. Reppy Jr., Charles L. B. Lowndes Professor of Law, Emeritus, Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Douglas
• Admiral Horace B. Robertson (Ret), Jr., Professor of Law Emeritus, Fmr. Judge Advocate General of the United States Navy
• Thomas D. Rowe, Jr., Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law Emeritus (civil procedure and federal courts), Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Potter Stewart
• Stephen E. Sachs, Assistant Professor of Law, Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
• Christopher H. Schroeder, Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law (administrative law), Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy (OLP), Fmr. Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy, Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
• Neil S. Siegel, Professor of Law and Political Science, Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Scott Silliman, Professor of the Practice of Law (national security law, military law, and the law of armed conflict)
• Michael Tigar, Professor of the Practice of Law (criminal law), Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan,
• Ernest A. Young, Alston & Bird Professor of Law (Federal Courts and Constitutional Law), Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice David Souter