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March 2019
Tech Talk with Merritt from Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Careers and Industry Updates in Cybersecurity/Infosec
Merritt Baer is a Principal Security Architect at AWS, where she advises some of their largest customers on executive decisions in cloud security. She has worked in cybersecurity in all three branches of US Government, and is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law. In this lunch talk, she will discuss emerging technologies, the cloud industry and shared responsibility model, and how to architect for security and privacy. She will also discuss avenues to careers in technology and security,…
Find out more »Do Lunch with Dr. Deborah Rhode
Deborah L. Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford University and Director of Stanford's Center on the Legal Profession and Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship. Rhode is the most frequently cited scholar on legal ethics and the author or co-author of over 30 books in the area of professional responsibility, leadership, and gender. She has received the American Bar Association's Michael Franck Award for contributions to the field of professional responsibility and Pro Bono Publico…
Find out more »William Hurlbut: The Ethics of Gene Editing
William B. Hurlbut, MD, is Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scholar in Neurobiology at the Stanford Medical School. After receiving his undergraduate and medical training at Stanford University, he completed postdoctoral studies in theology and medical ethics, studying with Robert Hamerton-Kelly, the Dean of the Chapel at Stanford, and subsequently with the Rev. Louis Bouyer of the Institut Catholique de Paris. His primary areas of interest involve the ethical issues associated with advancing biomedical technology, the biological basis of…
Find out more »Lunch with Dr. Deborah Rhode
Deborah L. Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford University and Director of Stanford's Center on the Legal Profession and Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship. Rhode is the most frequently cited scholar on legal ethics and the author or co-author of over 30 books in the area of professional responsibility, leadership, and gender. She has received the American Bar Association's Michael Franck Award for contributions to the field of professional responsibility and Pro Bono Publico…
Find out more »Pillage of Natural Resources as a Restraint on the Use of Force
Professor James G. Stewart, Peter A. Allard School of Law, The University of British Columbia, will discuss the issue of the pillage of natural resources as a restraint on the use of force.This talk will be moderated by Professor Jayne Huckerby, Clinical Professor of Law and Inaugural Director of the Duke International Human Rights Clinic. The program is part of the Human Rights in Practice series, which is co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Clinic and the Center for International and Comparative Law. This event is also co-sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute; the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics; the Human Rights Law Society; and the International Law Society
Find out more »“Do No Harm?: Perspectives from Cultural Ethics on the Opioid Crisis”
Duke Divinity School’s Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative is co-sponsoring a public conversation titled "Do No Harm?: Perspectives from Cultural Ethics on the Opioid Crisis" with Dr. Carl Elliott, professor in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. Brett McCarty, St. Andrews Fellow in Theology and Science at the Divinity School. They will discuss how their work in cultural ethics illuminates the contemporary opioid crisis. Building off his work on consumerism in modern healthcare, Elliott will…
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