The Samuel DuBois Cook Center is a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.
For Dylan Tuchman, the path to law school felt almost inevitable, but not in the way one might expect. With a father and sister already in the legal field, the profession was indeed familiar territory. But her true motivation was sparked by an early love of history and focus on children’s rights. “I always loved…
Core Faculty Affiliate Keisha Bentley-Edwards led a research team in examining the way CKD and kidney failure disproportionately affect marginalized racial and ethnic populations because of structured inequalities in new paper in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Bentley-Edwards and her research team identify a critical need for clinical trials to identify…
Faculty Affiliate Sarah E. Gaither co-authored a chapter in the Handbook of Experimental Social Psychology titled, “Social stigma and coping for people with pluralistic identities”. Dr. Gaither an her team address that pluralistic identities have become increasingly common, yet the shared stigma experiences of these groups go relatively unrecognized. They highlight the shared experiences of…
Today, Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy Emerita at Duke University, will speak with Professor Carol Anderson, Janai Nelson, and Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw at Columbia Law School. She will be apart of a panel, presented by The Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and the African American…
Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman, Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, wrote a column on how Tesla’s move to Texas is testing just how far modern corporate law will lean in favor of management. In 2024, Tesla strategically moved its legal home from Delaware to Texas. A move that positioned the company to benefit from…
Faculty Affiliate Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University, will deliver the Richard Payne Lecture in Faith, Justice, and Health Care this Friday. The event is hosted by the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School. Her lecture, titled Black Women’s Religion and Their Health: When Individual and Institutional Factors Intersect, represents…
