Notable faculty include 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. •
Samuel Alito,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (visiting professor) •
James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law (Intellectual Property and Legal Theory) •
James Earl Coleman, John S. Bradway Professor of Law (criminal law) and director of the Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility •
Chelsea Cook, member of the
Durham City Council •
James C. Dever III,
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina •
Charles J. Dunlap Jr., professor of the practice of law, executive director, Duke Center on Law, Ethics and National Security,
major general of the
United States Air Force •
Thavolia Glymph, John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History •
Jack Knight, Frederic Cleaveland Professor of Law and Political Science •
David F. Levi, Dean, former chief judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (1994–2007), former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell •
H. Jefferson Powell, professor of law, former principal deputy solicitor general of the United States •
Arti K. Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, former Administrator of the Office of External Affairs at the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (2009–2010) •
Sarah Bloom Raskin, Rubenstein Fellow, former
United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (2014–2017), former governor of the
Federal Reserve (2010–2014) •
Christopher H. Schroeder, Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law (administrative law), assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Policy (OLP), former acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Policy, Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee •
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), former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, •
Jonathan B. Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law (Risk Analysis and Regulation) •
Jedediah Purdy, Raphael Lemkin Distinguished Professor of Law.
Former faculty •
William Van Alstyne, former William R. & Thomas S. Perkins Chair of Law (Constitutional Law), 1974–2004 (deceased) •
Erwin Chemerinsky, former
Alston & Bird Professor of Law (Constitutional Law), current dean of the
UC Berkeley School of Law •
Brainerd Currie,
conflict of laws pioneer (deceased) •
Richard A. Danner, Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor of Law (former law librarian at
University of Wisconsin–Madison) (deceased) •
Walter E. Dellinger III, Douglas Blount Maggs Professor of Law, former acting
solicitor general of the United States (1996–1997), former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black (deceased) •
Robinson O. Everett, professor of criminal law and former chief judge of the United States Court of Military Appeals (deceased) (also professor at
Wake Forest University) •
Joseph Tyree Sneed III, former dean (1971–1973); federal judge (1973–1987) (deceased)
Deans of Duke Law School • 1850–1882,
Braxton Craven • 1891–1894, A.C. Avery • 1904–1927, Samuel Fox Mordecai • 1927–1930, W. Bryan Bolich (acting) • 1930–1934,
Justin Miller • 1934–1947, H. Claude Horack • 1947–1949, Harold Sheperd • 1949–1950, Charles L.B. Lowndes • 1950–1956, Joseph A. McClain Jr. • 1956–1957, Dale F. Stansbury (acting) • 1957–1966, Elvin Latty • 1966–1968, F. Hodge O'Neal • 1968–1970,
A. Kenneth Pye • 1971–1973,
Joseph Tyree Sneed III • 1978–1988,
Paul Carrington • 1988–1999,
Pamela Gann • 1999, Clark C. Havighurst (interim) • 2000–2007, Katharine T. Barlett • 2007–2018,
David F. Levi • 2018 – present,
Kerry Abrams ==References==