FACULTY

TEACHERS & MENTORS

Duke Law School’s faculty are an integral part of a culture that is both intellectually rigorous and exceptionally supportive.

At Duke, your professors will be world-renowned legal scholars, innovative interdisciplinary researchers, advisors to governments and NGOs, and authors of amicus briefs read by Supreme Court justices. But they will also be dedicated and energetic teachers who care deeply about helping you master doctrine and theory and guiding your development as legal practitioners.

They will be accessible, lingering long after class to answer questions and stopping in the hallways to ask how you are. And some will become lifelong friends and colleagues, welcoming you and your classmates into their homes for dinner, inviting you to collaborate with them on research and writing, and joining with you in extracurricular activities and projects to help the community.

“I had all these misconceptions about what law school was, and then I came in and Duke Law provided such a great experience because of interaction with professors. It’s a very small school when you get to know people on an individual basis. People care about what you care about — they were wanting to share their ideas and perspectives.”

ELIZABETH TOBIERRE ’19 worked in the Civil Justice Clinic, the Children’s Law Clinic, and served as notes editor on the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law.