Recent Scholarship

Where possible, links are provided for the full text of items listed below. Preference is given to freely accessible sources, but access to some materials may be available only through institutional database licenses or on a pay-for-use basis.

The full text of scholarship produced by Duke Law faculty members can also be found in the Law School's Faculty Scholarship Repository, and in links from individual faculty members' bibliographies on the Faculty Profile pages.

 

 

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  • Has the Great Big-Bank Die Off Begun?, Seeking Alpha (July 11, 2012)

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  • Individualized Education Program in, Special Education Advocacy ch. 5 (Ruth Colker & Julie Waterstone eds., 2011) (with Jane R. Wettach)

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  • Problems in Trial Advocacy (NITA 2006, 2007, 2011) (with Anthony J. Bocchino)

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  • A New Year’s Resolution for Labor, Daily Caller (January 3, 2012, 12:41pm)
  • Obama's Payback to Labor Thwarted by DC Court, Daily Caller  (January 28, 2013, 9:25am)
  • Six Big Myths About Lawyers, The Careerist (February 19, 2013, 2:37pm)
  • The Unhappiest Job in America?, Talent Management (April 4, 2013)

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  • Public by Sufferance Alone: The Worst of 2012 , Huffington Post (January 10, 2013, 8:51am) (with Jennifer Jenkins)

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  • Terrorists, Pirates, and Drug Traffickers: Customary International Law and U.S. Criminal Prosecutions, Lawfare (January 11, 2013, 10:34 am)
  • Foreign Official Immunity in U.S. Courts Since Samantar, Lawfare (December 17, 2012, 6:51am)

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  • US-Europe Fight Over Airline Emissions Could Help Talks On Climate Change, Christian Science Monitor (January 15, 2013)

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  • Anti-Corruption Policy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role? (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming May 2013) (editor with Susan Rose Ackerman)
  • Appeals, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (forthcoming) (with Marin K. Levy)  
  • Protecting the Right of Citizens to Aggregate Small Claims Against Business, Michigan Journal of Law Reform (forthcoming 2013)

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  • Book Review (forthcoming) (reviewing Jeffrey O'Connell & Thomas E. O'Connell, Political and Legal Adventurers: From Marx to Moynihan (2009))
  • The War on Poverty and Guaranteed Student Loans: The Consequences for the Legal Profession

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  • Bring the Justices Back to Earth (Op-Ed.), New York Times, April 10, 2012, at A23
  • No Such Thing As A Corporate Citizen, National Law Journal, January 18, 2010, at 39

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  • Anticipatory Self-Defense and the Israeli-Iranian Crisis: Some Remarks, ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law (forthcoming 2013)
  • Clever or Clueless? Observations About Bombing Norm Debates, in Bombing: How Legal and Ethical Norms Change (Matthew A. Evangelista ed., forthcoming 2013)
  • Military Law, in The Modern American Military (David M. Kennedy, ed., Stanford University forthcoming 2013)
  • The Role of Peacebuilding and Conflict Management in a Future American Grand Strategy: Time for an "Off Shore" Approach?, in Conflict Management and Peacebuilding: Pillars of a New American Grand Strategy (Volker D. Franke & Robin Dorff eds., U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute forthcoming 2013)

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  • A Peek But Still No Clear Policy on Using Force Against U.S. Citizens, Newsobserver.com  (February 6, 2013)
  • Bad Policies Breed Bad Behavior on Modern Battlefield Situations, Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 22, 2012
  • Charles Dunlap on the Discussion Started by Mark Mazzetti, The Drone Zone, Lawfare, July 12, 2012
  • Could Airstrikes Save Lives?, Washington Post, October 22, 2010, at A25
  • Lessons Learned: Enlisting Trust, Military Officers Association of America Magazine (March 17, 2010)
  • Pilots Should Lead the Way at Airport Checkpoints, The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), November 28, 2010 at 15A

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  • Empirical Use of Behavioral Genetics and Neuroscience in Criminal Law, 2004-2010
  • On Cognitive Liberty
  • Privacy Lost and Found

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  • Hindsight Standards
  • Silence

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  • The Content of One's Racial Character, Huffington Post (April 4, 2013, 7:49am) (with Devon Carbado)
  • Echoes of Subprime Ring Out Across Greek Debt Crisis, Financial Times, June 28, 2010 (with Eric Posner)

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  • Designing Adjudicatory Systems for International Economic Agreements, Project on ASEAN Integration Through Law
  • The Codification of Foreign Official Immunity (with Tim Meyer)

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  • Biometric ID Cybersurveillance, 88 Indiana Law Journal (forthcoming 2013)
  • Reverse-Commandeering, 46 University of California Davis Law Review 535-627 (forthcoming 2013)

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  • Public by Sufferance Alone: The Worst of 2012 , Huffington Post (January 10, 2013, 8:51am) (with James Boyle)

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  • Talking Judges, The Legal Workshop - Duke Law Journal, March 16, 2010 (with Mitu Gulati)

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  • Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials (West Publishing, 1998; 2d ed., 2003; 3d ed., 2007; 4th ed., 2012) (with others)

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  • International Maritime Boundaries, vol. 7 (M. Nijhoff, forthcoming) (editor)

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  • Viewpoints: Cuts Will Make Federal Judiciary Mediocre, Sacramento Bee (April 3, 2013, 12:00am)
  • In Defense of Young Lawyers, National Law Journal, August 9, 2010, at 39

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  • Appeals, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (forthcoming) (with Paul D. Carrington)
  • Judging the Flood of Litigation, 80 University of Chicago Review (forthcoming, 2013)

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  • What $18 Billion in 'Enforcement-Only' Buys, News & Observer (January 9, 2013)

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  • Health Implications of Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren in China, 67 Journals of Gerontology Series B 99-112 (2012) (with Feinian Chen)
  • Psychological Well-Being of the Institutionalized and Community-Residing Oldest Old in China: The Role of Children, 75 Social Science & Medicine 1874-1882 (with others)  
  • The Cumulative Impact of Unemployment on Risks of Acute Myocardial Infarction Archives of Internal Medicine E1-E7 (November 2012) (with others)
  • Intergenerational Ties in Context: Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren in China, 90 Social Forces 571-594 (2011) (with Feinian Chen & Christina A. Mair)
  • Job Satisfaction and Racism in the Service Sector: A Study of Work in Assisted Living, in Frontline Workers in Assisted Living 171-194 (Mary Ball et al eds., 2010) (with others)
  • Social Change and Socioeconomic Disparity in Health Over the Life Course in China: A Cohort Analysis, 75 American Sociological Review 126-150 (2010) (with others)

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  • Va. Doesn’t Need to Mess Around With Uranium, Washington Post (January 4, 2013)

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  • Are We Halfway There Yet? House Passes Major Financial Services Bill with Senate Expected to Act Early This Year, 127 Banking Law Journal 12-20 (2010) (with Gail C. Bernstein, Matthew A. Chambers & Sara A. Kelsey)

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  • Reconciling Public and Private Rights and Interests in International Investment Law (forthcoming June 2013)
  • Transparency in International Investment Law--Making and Dispute Resolution, in Transparency in International Law (Andrea Bianchi & Anne Peters eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012)

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  • MFN-based Jurisdication in Investor-State Disputes: Is There Any Hope for a Consistent Approach, 14 Journal of International Economic Law (2011)

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  • From Charisma to Routine: Presiding over Catastrophe's Aftermath, 29 Negotiation Journal 119-123 (2013) (reviewing Kenneth R. Feinberg, Who Gets What: Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval (2012))
  • Evaluating and Improving the MDL Process, 38 Litigation 26-32 (Spring 2012) (with Hon. John G. Heyburn II)
  • Litigation After "Natural" Disasters, International Liability Forum (2012)
  • The American Law Institute's New Principles Of Aggregate Litigation, 8 Journal of Law, Economics, & Policy 183-212 (2011-2012) (with others)
  • Punitive Damages and Class Actions, 70 Louisiana Law Review 435-462 (2010)

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  • "One Size Can Fit All" – On the Mass Production of Legal Transplants, in Order from Transfer—Studies in Comparative (Constitutional) Law (Günter Frankenberg ed., Elgar, forthcoming 2013)
  • Applicable Law and Collective Redress in Europe, in Cross-Border Class Actions (Arnaud Nuyts ed., Sellier, forthcoming 2013)
  • Globalization and Law: Law Beyond the State, in Law and Society Theory (Banakar and Travers eds., forthcoming 2013)
  • Make or Buy – A Public Market for Legal Transplants?, in RegulatoryCompetition in Contract Law and Dispute Resolution (Horst Eidenmüller ed., Beck / Hart / Nomos, forthcoming 2013)

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  • Opportunities Exist for Progress, National Journal (January 9, 2013, 9:36 am)

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  • Terror and Integrity: Preventive Detention in the Age of Jihad (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

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  • The Constitution and the Commander in Chief (forthcoming 2013)
  • The Humanity of Law, in Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought (Patrick McKinley Brenann, H. Jefferson Powell & Jack Sammons eds., forthcoming 2013)

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  • Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought (Carolina Academic Press, 2013) (editor with Patrick McKinley Brenann & Jack L. Sammons)

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  • The American Environmental Imagination (Harvard University Press, forthcoming)

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  • A Terrible Beauty, Avidly (February 15, 2013)
  • Open the Slaughterhouses, New York Times (April 9, 2013 at A23)
  • How to be American Here in the Future, Huffington Post (November 9, 2012, 3:07pm)
  • Whiteness in the Age of Obama, Huffington Post (November 26, 2012, 4:43pm)

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  • Patentable Subject Matter at the Supreme Court: An Exceptional Case?SCOTUSblog (Feb. 4, 2013, 12:22 PM)

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  • All Rise! Standing in Judge Betty Fletcher's Court, 85 Washington Law Review 19-31 (2010)
  • If We Don't Get Civil Gideon: Trying to Make the Best of the Civil-justice Market, 37 Fordham Urban Law Journal 347-356 (2010)
  • Sonia, What's a Nice Person Like You Doing in Company Like That?, 44 Creighton Law Review 107-113 (2010)

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  • The "Unwritten Constitution" and Unwritten Law, 2013 University of Illinois Law Review (forthcoming)

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  • How Congress Should Fix Personal Jurisdiction (January 19, 2013)
  • Alternative Theories of the Crime
  • Arms and Agents of the State
  • Full Faith and Credit to Laws
  • The Feigned Issue in the Federal System

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  • Conflict Resolution at a Medieval English Fair, in Eine Grenze in Bewegung: Öffentliche und private Justiz im Handels- und Seerecht (Schriften des Historischen Kollegs Kolloquien 81, Albrecht Cordes & Serge Dauchy eds., 2012)
  • Constitutional Backdrops, 80 George Washington Law Review 1813-1888 (2012)

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  • Endangered Species Protection in a Changing Climate, in Adapting to Climate Change (Carl Bauer & Lance Gunderson eds., forthcoming) (with Camille Parmesan et al.)

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  • Drinking Water: A History (Overlook Press, 2012)
  • Concepts and Insights in Environmental Law and Policy (Foundation Press 2003, 2d ed. 2007, 3d ed. 2010) (with Barton Thompson, Jr.)
  • International Environmental Law and Policy (Foundation Press 1998, 2d ed. 2002, 3d ed. 2007, 4th ed. 2010, 5th ed. 2011) (with Durwood Zaelke & David Hunter)
  • The Practice and Policy of Environmental Law (Foundation Press, 2008, 2d ed. 2010) (with J.B. Ruhl & John Nagle).

Supplements

  • Teacher's Manual and Treaty Supplement to International Environmental Law and Policy (4th ed. 2010) (with Durwood Zaelke & David Hunter)

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  • Our Water System Withstood Hurricane Sandy, but the Threats Aren't Over, Washington Post, November 9, 2012, at B03.

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  • Keeping Faith with the Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2010) (with Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan)

Supplements

  • Environmental Law: Statutory and Case Supplement with Internet Guide(2007-2011) (with Robert C. Percival)
  • Environmental Law: Statutory and Case Supplement, 2011-2012 (Aspen Publishers, 2011) (with Richard V. Percival)

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  • Public Choice and Environmental Policy, in Research Handbook on Public Choice and Public Law 450-485 (Daniel A. Farber & Anne Joseph O'Connell eds., 2010)
  • The United States Failure to Act, in Economic Thought and U.S. Climate Change Policy 21-44 (David Driesen ed., MIT Press 2010) (with Robert Glicksman)

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  • Rollover Risk: Ideating a US Debt Default
  • Special - Purpose Entities in National Finance
  • The Protection Puzzle: Is Insurance Systemically Risky? (with Daniel Schwarcz)

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  • Collective Action Federalism and Its Discontents, 92 Texas Law Review (forthcoming 2013)
  • More Law than Politics: The Chief, the "Mandate," Legality, and Statesmanship, in The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court's Decision and Its Implications (Nathaniel Persily, Gillian E. Metzger & Trevor W. Morrison eds., forthcoming 2013)
  • The New Texualism, Progressive Constitutionalism, and Abortion Rights: A Reply to Jeffrey Rosen, 25 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (forthcoming 2013)

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  • Not the Power to Destroy or Dragoon: Unity in Taxing and Spending under the General Welfare Clause (2012) (with Robert D. Cooter)

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Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Does CNN Deserve to be Reelected?, Huffington Post (November 8, 2012, 2:44 PM)
  • Romney, Women, and the Supreme Court, Huffington Post (November 5, 2012, 9:10 AM)

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  • Individualized Education Program in, Special Education Advocacy ch. 5 (Ruth Colker & Julie Waterstone eds., 2011) (with Brenda Berlin)
  • School Discipline and Students with Special Needs in, Special Education Advocacy ch. 7 (Ruth Colker & Julie Waterstone eds., 2011) (with Julie Waterstone)
  • Legal Analysis of the Changes to the Wake County School Board's Diversity Policy, in Updates in Public Education: Discrimination, Diversity, & Discipline (2010)
  • The Fundamental Right to Educational Opportunities: Two Students' Attempt to Enforce Their Constitutional Rights, Trial Briefs (2010) (with Erwin Byrd)

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  • Let Suspension Ruling Set a New School Course, Raleigh News & Observer, December 2, 2010 (with Erwin Byrd & Lewis Pitts)

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  • The Supreme Court and the Constitutional Structure (West Publishing, 2012)

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  • U.S. Income Tax -- 100 Years Old, and Almost Never Happened, The Globe and Mail (April 11, 2013, 5:00am)
  • When We Loved Form 1040, New York Times (April 1, 2013 at A19)