Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies

Bridging the gap between academia and the bench and bar.

Center for Judicial Studies


 

To do your job better, you have to understand how you do your job. And that's what I've gotten here.”

Magistrate Judge George C. Hanks Jr.,
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, is a member of the inaugural Master of Laws in Judicial Studies class.

 


The Storied Third Branch

Current issue:

"The Honorable Albion Winegar Tourgée"
"Gave American literature a wealth of narratives of new American citizens, who were confronting freedom after a long night of slavery," writes Judge Robert N. Hunter, Jr.

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