Celebrating Kate Bartlett: A remarkable scholar, colleague, mentor, and dean
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n her way to teach her late-afternoon class in law and literature on April 22, Professor Katharine T. Bartlett was met with an excited crowd. As soon as she stepped into view, faculty, staff, and students lining the corridor outside her fourth-floor classroom began clapping and chanting “Kate, Kate, Kate.” Bartlett responded with laughter, a few hugs and high-fives, and a joking acknowledgment that the occasion must indeed be special to have drawn one somewhat reclusive colleague from his office. And it was: she was teaching her last class at Duke Law after more than 35 years on the faculty.
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