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Duke Immigrant Rights Clinic reflects on five years — and the future

The clinic's impact has been transformative for both its clients and the nearly 100 Duke Law School students who have enrolled since its launch

Brandon Garrett discusses clemency, exonerations, and what may be the imminent demise of the death penalty

In a radio interview with NC Newsline, Professor Garrett says public support for the death penalty has declined nationwide and predicts it ultimately will be abolished in North Carolina. "The death penalty doesn't really exist, except on paper, for the most part in this country," he said. Garrett recently published an op-ed on the topic in The News & Observer.

Sara Sternberg Greene is elected to The American Law Institute

Greene, a sociologist and legal scholar, employs qualitative empirical methods to study the relationship between law, poverty, and inequality, and ultimately optimize the impact of financial laws on law- and moderate-income families. One recent project focused on the deceitful and aggressive practices used by hospital systems to collect medical debt. The paper, reported by NBC News, ultimately helped lead to relief from lawsuits and property liens for thousands of patients in North Carolina.

Jayne Huckerby: Governments must hold themselves, not just the Taliban, to account on Afghan women's rights

Huckerby writes that the international community must take steps beyond suing the Taliban to curtail abuses of Afghan women

Article by Jonathan Wiener and Tyler Felgenhauer named among best of 2024 by the Environmental Law Institute

"The Evolving International Climate Change Regime" will be published in the Environmental Law Reporter

New $10 million gift to expand work of Bolch Judicial Institute

A $10 million gift from RaceTrac will honor the legacy of Carl and Susan Bass Bolch, who established the Institute in 2018

Celebrating 2024

Reflecting on some of our favorite memories of 2024 as we look forward to the promise of a new year

Paul Grimm writes that the bipartisan JUDGES Act would help ease severe shortages on the federal bench

Grimm writes that the bill addresses a critical shortage of federal judges that has impacted all aspects of American life

Duke Immigrant Rights Clinic reflects on five years — and the future

Brandon Garrett discusses clemency, exonerations, and what may be the imminent demise of the death penalty

Sara Sternberg Greene is elected to The American Law Institute

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Grunwald discusses his research on police retention and the law enforcement labor market.Legal Minds: Professor Ben

Notable & Quotable

January 12, 2025

"The fact is, if an order is legal then members of the armed forces have to obey it even if they find it morally reprehensible."

– Charles Dunlap in Politico

Politico

January 10, 2025

“The short-term insurance problem is making homeowners whole. The longer-term insurance problem, which can collapse quickly into the shorter-term one, is the risk to the entire financial system.”

– Sarah Bloom Raskin in The American Prospect

The American Prospect

January 05, 2025

"I think the Islamic State is going to be ready and looking for policies like travel bans targeting Muslims or people from Muslim-majority countries to fuel grievances in the United States and Europe."

– Mara Revkin on NPR

NPR

January 03, 2025

"States and the U.N. should — and in some cases legally must — right their own policies that have and continue to exacerbate the plight of women in Afghanistan."

– Jayne Huckerby in Just Security

Just Security

January 03, 2025

"With his action, Cooper acknowledged, in detailing a series of factors these cases implicated, the death penalty’s flaws and the responsibility of elected leaders to move away from this failed policy. His death row commutations, alongside other commutations and pardons, are part of a larger effort to move toward smarter approaches to public safety."

– Brandon Garrett in The News & Observer

The News & Observer

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