Duke University School of Law

Defending free speech

First Amendment Clinic caps off successful first year, readies new Campus Speech Database.
D.C. Institute offers introduction to law school

Duke Law faculty to teach alongside U.S. Senator and former White House counsel
The tech issue

Teaching lawyers to lead the way with a focus on ethics and interdisciplinary engagement.
Convocation 2019

Judge Allyson Duncan '75 tells grads to value "serendipity," seize opportunities that come their way.
Forging paths and making connections

Duke's Pre-Law Undergraduate Scholars Program offers networking and experiential learning opportunities

Features

Associate Clinical Professor Jeff Ward

Ward to teach in program that combats erosion of ethical norms by studying Nazi-era professionals

Professor Steven Schwarcz

Schwarcz conferred distinguished honorary professorship at U.K.’s Durham University, delivers keynote lecture

Charles Ray Finch

Wrongful Convictions Clinic secures release of Charles Ray Finch after 43 years in prison

Faculty Scholarship

Brandon L. Garrett
Capital Jurors in an Era of Death Penalty Decline
Yale Law Journal Forum (with others)
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Lisa Kern Griffin
State Incentives, Plea Bargaining Regulation, and the Failed Market for Indigent Defense
Law & Contemporary Problems
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Ben Grunwald
Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago: Looking Back a Decade Later
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (with Andrew V. Papachristos)
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Sara Sternberg Greene
A Theory of Poverty: Legal Immobility
Washington University Law Review
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Ernest A. Young
Against Amendments
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy
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In The News

Dunlap urges Americans to educate themselves on Memorial Day and honor veterans who sacrificed their lives

C-SPAN to air full broadcast Monday of 2019 Bolch Prize ceremony featuring recipient Justice Anthony Kennedy (ret.), Justice Samuel Alito, Judge Allyson Duncan '75, and David Levi

Finch leaves prison after federal judge vacates murder conviction; Coleman, Wrongful Convictions Clinic alums on hand to witness release

Charles Ray Finch is freed from prison after 43 years, thanks to work of Coleman, Lau, Newman, and Wrongful Convictions Clinic students

WITN Greenville

Coleman reacts to federal court ordering release of Wrongful Convictions Clinic client Finch: “We feel an enormous sense of vindication”

The Wilson Times

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UpcomingatDuke Law

Judicial Law-Tech Course May 29 9:00 AM · Conference/Symposium

Duke Law in Your City: New York May 29 6:00 PM · Alumni/Reunion

Duke Law in Your City: Washington DC Jun 4 6:00 PM · Alumni/Reunion

Duke Law in Your City: San Francisco Jun 6 6:00 PM · Alumni/Reunion

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» Teaching lawyers to lead the way with a focus on ethics and interdisciplinary engagement
» First Amendment Clinic caps off successful first year, readies new Campus Speech Database
» Judge Allyson Duncan '75 tells grads to value "serendipity," seize opportunities that come their way
» Duke Law faculty to teach alongside U.S. Senator and former White House counsel
» Duke's Pre-Law Undergraduate Scholars Program offers networking and experiential learning opportunities