International and Comparative Law at Duke Law School

Duke Law faculty members are innovative, interdisciplinary, and practical in their approach to international and comparative law and related subjects.

Curtis Bradley, Richard and Marcy Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

A prolific scholar of international law and U.S. foreign relations law, Professor Bradley's recent articles include "Intent, Presumptions, and Non-Self-Executing Treaties," 102 American Journal of International Law 540-551 (2008) and Self-Execution and Treaty Duality, Supreme Court Review (forthcoming 2009). He is the co-editor, with Christopher H. Schroeder, of Presidential Power Stories (Foundation Press 2008) and the co-author of Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (Aspen Publishers, 1st ed. 2003, 2d ed. 2006, 3d. ed. 2009) (with Jack L. Goldsmith) and International Law (4th ed. 2003) (with Barry E. Carter & Phillip R. Trimble). His forthcoming book, to be published by Oxford University Press, focuses on international law in the U.S. legal system.

Bradley serves on the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law, and is a member of the American Society of International Law Executive Council and on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.

Donald Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science

Professor Horowitz has written extensively on the problems of divided societies and issues related to constitution building and electoral systems. The author of six books, including The Deadly Ethnic Riot and A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society, Horowitz's forthcoming book is An Inside Job: Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia. His article, 'The Federalist' Abroad in the World, will accompany a new edition of The Federalist (Ian Shapiro ed., Yale University Press, forthcoming 2009).

A member of the Secretary of State's bipartisan Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion, Horowitz is president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.

Ralf Michaels, Professor of Law

The director of Duke's Center for International and Comparative Law, Professor Michaels focuses his research on combining comparative law, conflict of laws, and legal theory into a theory of global legal pluralism. His forthcoming book will lay down a general theory of jurisdiction for an age of globalization.

Michaels' recently-published books and edited volumes include "Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws," a symposium issue of Law & Contemporary Problems, for which he served as special editor (with Karen Knop and Annelise Riles), and Beyond the State? Rethinking Private Law, (ed. with Nils Jansen), forthcoming from Mohr/Siebeck, Tübingen. Among his numerous forthcoming articles is Global Legal Pluralism, 5 Annual Review of Law & Social Science (2009). Michaels also is an editor of the German Law Journal and an elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

Madeline Morris, Professor of Law

A scholar of international criminal law and the law of war, Professor Morris has played a key role in framing the legal challenges to the Military Commissions Act and other laws governing the Guantanamo detentions. She has served both as chief counsel to the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel for Military Commissions in the U.S. Department of Defense and as adviser to the chief defense counsel. In 2005 she founded the Guantanamo Defense Clinic at Duke Law School through which law students have worked closely with lead counsel representing detainees in military commission and federal court proceedings. Morris has been involved in such cases as U.S. v. Khadr, U.S. v. Hamdan, Boumediene v. Bush, and U.S. v. Al-Marri. She has given expert testimony to the military commission in U.S. v. Jawad, and currently serves as counsel to the defense in Jawad and in U.S. v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, et. al.

A member of the U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law, Morris is currently completing Terror and Integrity: Preventive Detention in the Age of Jihad, co-authored with Stephen Bornick, Allison Hester-Haddad, and Landon Zimmer, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Jerome Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law

Professor Reichman is a leading scholar of intellectual property law, including comparative and international intellectual property law, and the connections between intellectual property and international trade law. Much of his recent work has focused on the problems faced by developing countries in implementing the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement), intellectual property rights in data, the appropriate contractual regime for online delivery of computer programs and other information goods, and on the use of liability rules to stimulate investment in innovation.

Reichman's recent projects include "Intellectual Property and Alternatives: Strategies for Green Innovation," submitted to the Chatham House Project on Climate Change Technologies and Intellectual Property Rights (with Duke colleagues Jerome Reichman, Arti K. Rai, Jonathan Wiener, and Richard Newell); and "Identifying and Addressing Global Trends to Restrict Access to Scientific Data from Government Funded Research," in The Global Flow of Information (Jack M. Balkin & Eddan Katz eds., forthcoming from Yale University Press forthcoming) (with Paul F. Uhlir).

Jonathan Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law, Professor of Environmental Policy, and Professor of Public Policy Studies

A scholar of environmental law and policy and an expert in risk analysis and regulation, Professor Wiener has cross appointments at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. In 2008 he served as president of the Society for Risk Analysis.

A prolific writer on a broad range of issues pertaining to U.S., European, and international environmental law and risk regulation, his recent projects include: "Radiative Forcing: Climate Policy to Break the Logjam in Environmental Law," NYU Environmental Law Journal (2008); "Intellectual Property and Alternatives: Strategies for Green Innovation," submitted to the Chatham House Project on Climate Change Technologies and Intellectual Property Rights (with Duke colleagues Jerome Reichman, Arti K. Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, and Richard Newell); "Issues in Comparing Regulatory Oversight Bodies," for the OECD Public Management Directorate, Working Party on Regulatory Management and Reform; and "Climate Change Policy and Policy Change in China," 55 UCLA Law Review 1805 (2008).