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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.

Emilie K. Aguirre

Forthcoming

Jennifer L. Behrens

Forthcoming

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Timeline of “Terror”: Provenance of the “Blue John Gap” Autograph Manuscript, Terror of Blue John Gap Project ()

Stuart M. Benjamin

Forthcoming

Books

Articles & Essays

Donald H. Beskind

Books

Articles & Essays

Joseph Blocher

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • “Murder the Media”: Press Freedom, Violence, and the Public Sphere, Knight First Amendment Institute Blog ()
  • Gun Rights and Domestic Violence in Rahimi—Whose Traditions Does the Second Amendment Protect?, Balkinization () (with Reva Siegel)
  • Appraising Sandy’s Call to “Arms”: Success in the Academy … Not So Much in the Courts, Balkinization ()
  • A Supreme Court Head-Scratcher: Is a Colonial Musket ‘Analogous’ to an AR-15?, New York Times () (with Darrell A.H. Miller)
  • No, Red-Flag Gun Laws Don’t Violate Due Process Rights, Washington Post () (with Jake Charles)

James Boyle

Forthcoming

  • The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood (MIT Press, )

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Unperson Of 2023Techdirt ()
  • Misunderestimating Openness, Paradox of Open: Responses, Open Future ()

Rachel Brewster

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Role of the FCPA in Transnational Litigation, Transnational Litigation Blog ()

Chris Buccafusco

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Can Neuroscience Fix Trademark Surveys?, JOTWELL () (reviewing Zhihao Zhang, Maxwell Good, Vera Kulikov, Femke van Horen, Mark Bartholomew, Andrew S. Kayser & Ming Hsu, From Scanner to Court: A Neuroscientifically Informed "Reasonable Person" Test of Trademark Infringement, 9 Science Advances 1 (2023))
  • How Ed Sheeran's Serenade May Have Swayed the Jury, Law360 ()

Samuel W. Buell

Forthcoming

Books

Articles & Essays

Doriane Coleman

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Why Biden’s New School-Sports Rule Matters, The Atlantic ()

James E. Coleman, Jr.

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Our Courts Are Plagued With Inequality. Judges Have a Chance to Address It., Charlotte Observer () (with Emily Coward)

James D. Cox

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Will the SEC’s Proposed Climate Disclosure Rule Come Up against Legal and Economic Challenges?, Resources () (with others)
  • Will It Float?: The Legitimacy of the SEC’s Authority for Climate Risk Disclosures, CLS Blue Sky Blog ()

John M. de Figueiredo

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Elisabeth D. de Fontenay

Forthcoming

  • Research Handbook on the Structure of Private Equity and Venture Capital (Edward Elgar Publishing, ) (editor with Brian Broughman)

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Deborah A. DeMott

Articles & Essays

Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

  • Return to Sender?: Analyzing the 'Open Letter' on Civilian Control of the Military, 15 Harvard National Security Journal 77-118 ()

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Book Reviews: Airpower in the War Against ISIS, 112 Joint Force Quarterly (, at 122)  (reviewing Benjamin S. Lambeth, Airpower in the War Against ISIS (2021)

Shane Ellison

Forthcoming

Kate Evans

Articles & Essays

Nita A. Farahany

Articles & Essays

  • Neurotech at Work, in The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need From Harvard Business Review ()

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Congress Is Right to Want to Curtail Tiktok’s Power and Influence, The Guardian ()
  • Human Values in a Digital Age, 382 Science (, at 523) (reviewing Wendy H. Wong, We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023))
  • 'Cognitive Liberty' Is the Human Right We Need to Talk About, Time ()
  • This Is the Battle for Your Brain at Work, Fast Company ()
  • TikTok Is Part of China’s Cognitive Warfare Campaign, Guardian ()
  • Provide a Résumé, Cover Letter and Access to Your Brain? The Creepy Race to Read Workers’ Minds, Los Angeles Times ()
  • We Need a New Human Right to Cognitive Liberty, The Guardian () (with Zoë Corbyn)
  • A Round-Up of 2022 Neurotechnology Advances, Volokh Conspiracy ()
  • We Parents of Unvaccinated Children Need More Guidance, Washington Post ()

Gina-Gail S. Fletcher

Forthcoming

  • The Limits of Transparency: Regulating AI in the Financial Markets, in Research Handbook of Artificial Intelligence & the Law (K. Johnson & C. Reyes eds., )

Works in Progress

  • Corporatist Racial Equity () (with H. Timothy Lovelace)
  • Market Distortion as a Theory of Market Manipulation ()
  • Regulating Information Intermediaries ()
  • Unequal Access: Black Founders and the Venture Capital Funding Gap () (with Kristin N. Johnson)

Michael D. Frakes

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Brandon L. Garrett

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays

Crystal Grant

Articles & Essays

Sara Sternberg Greene

Forthcoming

  • The Savings Mirage, in Law and the 100-Year Life (Abbe Gluck & Anne Alstott eds., )

Works in Progress

  • Centering Fraud ()
  • Justice Without Law(yers)?: Race, Class, and the Problem of Informality () (with Guy Charles)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Duke Law Researchers: NC Hospitals Use Deceit to Sue Patients, Take Their Homes, Charlotte Observer () (with Barak Richman)
  • Courtrooms Where No One Knows the LawLaw and Political Economy Project Blog ()

Lisa Kern Griffin

Forthcoming

  • The Limits of Lie Detection: Honesty Without Accuracy in the Criminal Justice Process (Cambridge University Press, )
  • False Accuracy in Criminal Trials: The Limits and Costs of Cross Examination, 102 Texas Law Review ()

Works in Progress

  • Netflix Criminal Justice: Popular Culture, Procedural Violence, and the Potential for Empathy ()

Paul Grimm

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Ben K. Grunwald

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Data-Driven Decarceration, Inquest ()

Laurence R. Helfer

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • Automating Human Rights Adjudication () (with Veronica Fifak)
  • Revisiting Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals () (with Başak Çalı)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Toward Recognizing an International Human Right to Claim Innocence, Judicature International () (with others)
  • The Gender of Treaty Withdrawal: Lessons From the Istanbul Convention, EJIL: Talk! () (with Başak Çali)
  • Value Pluralism and Human Rights in Content Moderation, Lawfare () (with Molly K. Land)
  • Russia and the European Human Rights System: Doing the Right Thing … but for the Right Legal Reason?, EJIL:Talk! () (with Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou)

Donald L. Horowitz

Works in Progress

  • Federalism, Regional Autonomy, and Ethnic Conflict: Politics and Law ()

Books

Articles & Essays

  • Afterward, in Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia 271-277 (Helen Ting M.H. & Donald L. Horowitz eds., ) (with Helen Ting M.H.)
  • Electoral System Reform, in Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia 175-204 (Helen Ting M.H. & Donald L. Horowitz eds., )
  • Introduction, in Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia 1-13 (Helen Ting M.H. & Donald L. Horowitz eds., ) (with Helen Ting M.H.)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Jayne Huckerby

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Appropriating Rights: Who Rewrites Rights and How?, OpenGlobalRights () (with Sarah Knuckey)
  • Toward Recognizing an International Human Right to Claim Innocence, Judicature International () (with others)

Margaret H. Lemos

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • New Ideas About How Judges Think, 106 Judicature (, at 32) (with others)

David F. Levi

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • New Ideas About How Judges Think, 106 Judicature (, at 32) (with others)
  • Losing Faith: Why Public Distrust in the Judiciary Matters — And What Judges Can Do About It, 106 Judicature (, at 70) (with others)
  • Reforming the Electoral Count Act, Safeguarding the Vote, 106 Judicature (, at 16) (with others)

Marin K. Levy

Forthcoming

  • Written and Unwritten: The Rules, Internal Practices, and Customs of the United States Courts of Appeals (Cambridge University Press, ) (with Jon O. Newman)

Works in Progress

  • Local Rules () (with Zach Clopton)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Business of the Supreme Court Law Clerks, JOTWELL ()   (reviewing Tracy E. George, Albert Yoon, & Mitu Gulati, Some are More Equal Than Others: U.S. Supreme Court Clerkships, Univ. of Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2023-10, available at SSRN (Feb. 23, 2023)
  • Visiting Judges Riding Circuit and Beyond, 106 Judicature (, at 20)
  • Open Road? Ford Reroutes Personal Jurisdiction, 105 Judicature (, at 76) (with others)

Ryke Longest

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Opinion: A Call to Forever Preserve The Point on Topsail Island, Star News Online ()

Veronica Root Martinez

Forthcoming

Books

  • Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and Compliance: Cases and Materials (West Academic Publishing, 5th ed. ) (with others)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Do the DOJ’s Sticks and Carrots Actually Work?, Compliance & Enforcement ()
  • A Better Understanding of How to Improve Demographic Diversity in Federal Appellate Law Clerk Hiring, JOTWELL () (reviewing Jeremy Fogel, Mary Hoopes, & Goodwin Liu. Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights From Fifty Sitting Judges of the Federal Courts of Appeals, Harvard Law Review (forthcoimg, 2023).

Tim Meyer

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The New U.S.-Taiwan Trade Agreement and Its Approval, Lawfare () (with Kathleen Claussen)
  • How the US and EU Can Rewrite Trade Rules to Fight the Climate Crisis, Blog (Roosevelt Institute) () (Originally published in French in Le Grand Continent, and in Spanish in El Grand Continent, March 14, 2023) (with Todd N. Tucker)
  • The Case for Mandating Climate-Risk Disclosure, Project Syndicate () (with others)
  • The President’s (and USTR’s) Trade Agreement Authority: From Fisheries to IPEF, Lawfare () (with Kathleen Claussen)

Darrell A. H. Miller

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Bruen and Constitutional Gnosticism, Balkinization ()
  • Facts Still Matter, Even Before This Supreme Court, Newsweek () (with others)
  • State Gun Regulations Are a Messy Patchwork. The Supreme Court’s Bruen Decision Won’t Help, The Hill () (with others)
  • A Supreme Court Head-Scratcher: Is a Colonial Musket ‘Analogous’ to an AR-15?, New York Times () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • The Next Front in the Fight Over Guns, Washington Post ()

Michael Murphy

Works in Progress

  • Benefit LLCs: The Little Entities That Could? ()

Articles & Essays

Michelle Benedict Nowlin

Articles & Essays

  • Transdisciplinary Doctoral Training to Address Global Sustainability Challenges , 3 PLOS Sustain Transform, article e0000091, 1-5 (2024) (with others)
  • Enhanced U.S.-Canadian Collaboration on Marine Migratory Species, 53 Environmental Law Reporter 10911-10920 () (with others)
  • Transboundary Marine Species at Risk & Their Recovery in a Changing Climate: Workshop Report () (with others)

Shu-yi Oei

Books

Ashlee Paxton-Turner

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Jonathan Petkun

Works in Progress

H. Jefferson Powell

Books

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • History, Rights, and Constitutional Law, Fifteeneightyfour Blog ()

Jedediah Purdy

Books

  • Walden (W.W. Norton, ) (editor)

Articles & Essays

  • Nature, in A Cultural History of Ideas in the Modern Age (Stefanos Geroulanos ed., )
  • The Possible Futures of American Democracy, 2023 Utah Law Review 1009-1021 ()
  • The Promise of American Life, 253 The New Republic 46-50 () (reviewing Oliver Zunz, The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville, 2022) (Appears online with the title: Tocqueville’s Uneasy Vision of American Democracy)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • We’ve Been Thinking About America’s Trust Collapse All Wrong, The Atlantic ()
  • Raymond Williams’s Resources for Hope, 70 Dissent (, at 86)
  • The Courts Should Be More Political, Not Less, New York Times ()
  • The Constitutional Flaw That’s Killing American Democracy, The Atlantic ()
  • Democrats Need Patriotism Now More Than EverNew York Times () (A version of this article appears in print on July 3, 2022, Section SR, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: The Left Must Reclaim Patriotism)
  • Who Are the People?, 69 Dissent (, at 86)

Shitong Qiao

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Arti K. Rai

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Jerome H. Reichman

Articles & Essays

Mara Revkin

Forthcoming

  • Law and Violence in the Middle East, in Oxford Handbook on Law and Authoritarianism (Cora Chan, Madhav Khosla, Benjamin Liebman & Mark Tushnet, eds., )

Works in Progress

  • What Determines Military Legitimacy? Evidence from the Battle of Mosul in Iraq, HiCN Working Paper Series 2023-402 () (with others)
  • Civilian Harm and Military Legitimacy in War () (with others)
  • Is There a "Right to Forget" Atrocities? The International Law on Memory with New Evidence from South Sudan () (with Olivia Wang)

Articles & Essays

Barak D. Richman

Forthcoming

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Duke Law Researchers: NC Hospitals Use Deceit to Sue Patients, Take Their Homes, Charlotte Observer () (with Sara Sternberg Greene)
  • It’s Ok to Ask for Help: An Antitrust Rooney Rule, ProMarket ()
  • Hospitals Are a Problem. Competition Is the Answer, Politico ()

Stephen E. Roady

Articles & Essays

  • Enhanced U.S.-Canadian Collaboration on Marine Migratory Species, 53 Environmental Law Reporter 10911-10920 () (with others)
  • Transboundary Marine Species at Risk & Their Recovery in a Changing Climate: Workshop Report () (with others)

Emily Ryo

Forthcoming

  • Immigration Detention as Racialised Wealth Extraction, in Immigration Detention and Social Harm: The Collateral Impacts of Migrant Incarceration (Michelle Peterie ed., ) (with Christopher Levesque)

Articles & Essays

Richard L. Schmalbeck

Books

  • Federal Income Taxation (Aspen Publishing, 2004, 2d ed. 2007; Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 3d ed. 2011; Wolters Kluwer, 4th ed. 2015, 5th ed. 2018, 6th ed. ) (with others)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • IRS Reform Has Arrived: How New Funding Is Fast-Tracking Progress, The Hill () (with others)

Steven L. Schwarcz

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • A Decision-Heuristics Approach to Corporate Governance and Risk-Taking () (with Lorilee A. Medders)
  • Enforcing Secondary Defaults: Should Harshness Limit Remedies for Non-Material Contract Breach?” ()
  • Money: Tangible, Intangible (Digital), and Legal Implications ()
  • Protection Gaps: How Complexity Increases Risk (And How Law Can Help) ()
  • Reexamining the Private Ordering of Accounting Disclosure ()
  • UCC § 2-510: A Commercial Law Blunder? ()

Articles & Essays

Michael E. Tigar

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Supreme Court, Rights, and Judicial Abdication, MR Online ()

Neil Vidmar

Articles & Essays

Jonathan B. Wiener

Forthcoming

  • Improving Risk Governance via Two-Way Policy Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Solar Geoengineering and Gene Drives () (with others)
  • Practical Paths to Risk-Risk Analysis of Solar Radiation Modification () (with others)
  • Regulatory Learning Through Agency Action Under the Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, Project on Retrospective Regulatory Analysis () (with others)
  • The Evolving International Climate Change Regime: Mitigation, Adaptation, Reflection, Texas A&M Law Review () (with Tyler Felgenhauer)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Climate Change and the Supreme Court, 210 Resources (, at 22) (with others)

Ernest A. Young

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • Dying Constitutionalism and the Lost Years of the Fourteenth Amendment ()
  • Many Models of Process Federalism, in ()
  • Standing in State Court () (with Rebekah Strotman)

Lawrence A. Zelenak

Books

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays