Duke University School of Law

$10 million gift establishes Carl and Susan Bolch Judicial Institute

The Bolch Judicial Institute will be dedicated to bettering the human condition through studying and promoting the rule of law.
Kerry Abrams selected as next dean of Duke Law School

Abrams, vice provost for faculty affairs and professor of law at the University of Virginia, is a leading scholar of immigration and family law.
The history of firearms regulation

Professors Blocher and Miller compile comprehensive historical gun law database.
A Singular Dean

David F. Levi’s transformative leadership of Duke Law School

Features

Prof. Laurence Helfer

Transplanting International Courts: Helfer offers case study of an international court in a developing country context

Professor Lawrence Zelenak

Figuring Out the Tax: Zelenak’s new book recounts the early development of U.S. federal income tax

Kevin Zhao '18

Zhao '18 submits amicus to N.C. Supreme Court for Children's Law Clinic

Faculty Scholarship

Laurence R. Helfer
Customary International Law: An Instrument Choice Perspective
Michigan Journal of International Law (with Ingrid Wuerth)
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Trina Jones
Foreword: Race and Reform in Twenty-First Century America
Law and Contemporary Problems (with others)
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Curtis A. Bradley
Presidential War Powers as a Two-Level Dynamic: International Law, Domestic Law, and Practice-Based Legal Change
New York University Law Review (with Jean Galbraith)
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Mitu Gulati
How Bayesian are Judges?
Nevada Law Journal (with others)
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Mitu Gulati
Custom in Our Courts: Reconciling Theory with Reality in the Debate About Erie Railroad and Customary International Law
Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law (with Nikki C. Gutierrez)
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In The News

Longest advises students in award-winning sustainability efforts

Farahany discusses legal and ethical implications of Arizona law dictating use of separated couples' frozen embryos

NPR: Here & Now

Students in joint Duke Law/UNC Law class develop proposals for Venezuelan debt restructuring

Griffin comments on Libby pardon

Buell comments on involvement of New York U.S. Attorney in Trump investigation

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UpcomingatDuke Law

Exam Study Break: Massages Apr 23 11:30 AM · Health/Wellness

Exam Study Break: Therapy Dogs Apr 25 1:00 PM · Health/Wellness

Exam Study Break: Massages Apr 26 11:30 AM · Health/Wellness

Exam Study Break: Massages May 1 11:30 AM · Health/Wellness

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» Professors Blocher and Miller compile comprehensive historical gun law database.
» The Bolch Judicial Institute will be dedicated to bettering the human condition through studying and promoting the rule of law.
» David F. Levi’s transformative leadership of Duke Law School
» Abrams, vice provost for faculty affairs and professor of law at the University of Virginia, is a leading scholar of immigration and family law.