Duke University School of Law

Duke Law welcomes LLM class of 2019

Students from 35 countries will learn about the U.S. legal system and specialized areas of law.
Kerry Abrams

Read about the Law School’s 15th dean, an innovative scholar and teacher and a decisive leader who listens, in Duke Law Magazine.
Meet the JD class of 2021

First-year students talk about the diverse paths that led them to Duke Law School.

Features

Professor Brandon Garrett

Garrett spearheads forensic experts’ amicus brief in support of Wrongful Convictions Clinic client’s appeal

Jessica ‘Zhanna’ Malekos Smith

Cybersecurity expert Malekos Smith appointed as inaugural Reuben Everett Cyber Scholar

Nancy Lauer

Lauer joins Environmental Law and Policy Clinic as Science and Policy Fellow

Faculty Scholarship

Brandon L. Garrett
The American Death Penalty Decline
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (with others)
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Brandon L. Garrett
The Reliable Application of Fingerprint Evidence
UCLA Law Review Discourse
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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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Brandon L. Garrett
Capital Jurors in an Era of Death Penalty Decline
Yale Law Journal Forum (with others)
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Maj. Gen. Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., USAF (Ret.)
Why Declarations of War Matter
Harvard Law School National Security Journal
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In The News

Brewster briefs congressional staff on showdown over WTO Appellate Body

Duke Government Relations

Podcast: Ward discusses preparing law students, lawyers and policymakers for “frontier technologies"

Listen: Huckerby participating in Oct. 17-20 Coursera Global Human Rights Teach-Out

Buell comments on Manafort cooperation agreement: “He’s not going to get that deal unless he can help Mueller make a case against one or more people"

Garrett on Washington Supreme Court striking down capital punishment: "We should pause to consider how the same reasoning in the Justice’s thoughtful opinion, extends to the death penalty in the rest of the country"

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UpcomingatDuke Law

Tariffs, Tempers, and Trade in The Trump Administration Oct 22 12:30 PM · Panel/Seminar/Colloquium

LGBTQ Legal Advocacy: A conversation with Gibson Dunn and The Trevor Project Oct 22 12:30 PM · Panel/Seminar/Colloquium

1L Internships in Sports & Entertainment Law Oct 22 12:30 PM · Panel/Seminar/Colloquium

Of Law and Politics - A Conversation with Professors Sachs and Purdy Oct 23 12:30 PM · Panel/Seminar/Colloquium

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» Students from 35 countries will learn about the U.S. legal system and specialized areas of law.
» First-year students talk about the diverse paths that led them to Duke Law School.
» Read about the Law School’s 15th dean, an innovative scholar and teacher and a decisive leader who listens, in Duke Law Magazine.