Richard H. Brodhead was the president of Duke University from 2004 to 2017 and served as the William Preston Few Professor of English. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He previously served as the dean of Yale College from 1993 to 2004 and as the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English at Yale University. He is the recipient of several awards, including four honorary degrees. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, he cochaired its national Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. A scholar of nineteenth-century American literature, Brodhead is the author of several books, including
Lessons of Lacrosse
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Published:March 2017
The Duke lacrosse case was the most difficult chapter during Richard Brodhead’s thirteen years as president. In September 2007, after the players had been exonerated and the district attorney had been disbarred for his role in the case, the Duke Law School hosted a conference titled The Court of Public Opinion: The Practice and Ethics of Trying Cases in the Media,, at which Brodhead made these remarks.
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