Doriane Coleman

Duke University School of Law

Doriane Lambelet Coleman is a Professor of Law at Duke Law School, where she teaches courses in Torts, Children and the Law, and a seminar in Advanced Issues in Children's and Family Law. Her scholarship focuses on the ways in which culture - both domestic and foreign - impacts women and children as these are treated in the law. Her most recent work is concerned with child maltreatment in immigrant families and the legal ethics of pediatric research.

She is a graduate of Cornell University (BA in Biopsychology and Soviet Studies, 1982) and of the Georgetown University Law Center (JD 1988), and an alumnae of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where she was a general litigator with some focus on toxic torts. Beginning in 1978 and through 1992, she competed nationally and internationally for Nike and the Swiss and U.S. National Teams over 800 meters in the sport of track and field. In that period, she garnered four national championships: One collegiate national championship over 800 meters, one senior national championship as part of a 4 x 400 meters relay team, and two over 800 meters in Switzerland.