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Building Dedication Week Schedule

Monday, November 3

Intellectual Property in the 21st Century

12:15-1:30 p.m. | Star Commons
Moderator:
Arti K. Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law
Panelists: James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law; David L. Lange, Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law; and Jerome H. Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law
**Lunch provided

Tuesday, November 4

The Variety of Electoral Systems: A Conversation for Election Day

12:15-1:30 p.m. | Star Commons
Moderator:
Professor Ernest Young
Presenter: Donald L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science
Commentators: Professor Ralf Michaels and Visiting Professor Guy Uriel Charles
**Lunch provided

Wednesday, November 5

Election 2008: What Just Happened?

12:15-1:30 p.m. | Star Commons
Moderator:
Christopher H. Schroeder, Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies
Panelists: Visiting Professor Guy Uriel Charles; John Aldrich, Duke University Pfizer-Pratt Professor of Political Science; and Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling
**Lunch provided

Thursday, November 6

The Credit Crisis: A View from the Street

12:15-1:30 p.m. | Star Commons
Moderator:
James D. Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law
Panelists: Nora Jordan '83, head of Davis Polk & Wardwell's Investment Management Group; George Krouse '70, of counsel, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Ed Greene, general counsel, Citi Markets & Banking
**Lunch provided

The 21st Century Law Library

4:30-5:30 p.m. | Room 3041
Panelists:
Dick Danner, Senior Associate Dean for Information Services and Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor of Law at Duke Law School; S. Blair Kauffman, Librarian and Professor of Law, Yale Law Library; and John G. Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean of Library and Information Resources, Harvard Law Library.

Celebration of the Goodson Library

5:30-7:30 p.m. | Goodson Law Library

Friday, November 7

Board Meetings

8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. | Rooms 4047 and 4042
Board of Visitors, Law Alumni Association, Future Forum

Reception and Open House hosted by Duke Bar Association

3:30-5 p.m. | Marcy's Garden

Saturday, November 8

Continental Breakfast

8 a.m. | Third Floor Loggia

Building Dedication Ceremony

9:30 a.m. | Star Commons (overflow Room 3043)
Featuring remarks by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and Judge Allyson Duncan '75 of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

A Conversation with Justice Kennedy

11 a.m. | Room 3041 (overflow Room 3037)