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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

Articles & Essays

  • An Organizational Theory of Corporate Law, 50 Journal of Corporation Law 567-616 () (with others)

Aslihan Asil

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Jennifer L. Behrens

Forthcoming

  • As They Think Best: A History of the 'One Crowded Hour' Autograph Manuscript, in Regulation and Imagination: Legal, Historical, and Literary Perspectives on Highway Robbery 131-140 (Ross E. Davies, )

Articles & Essays

  • Keeping Up with New Legal Titles, 117 Law Library Journal 436-437 () (reviewing Elie Mystal, Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America (2025))

      (reviewing Shirley A. Wiegand & Wayne A. Wiegand, Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland (2007))

Stuart M. Benjamin

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The FCC Chair's Unprecedented, and Constitutionally Problematic, Response to Jimmy Kimmel, Volokh Conspiracy ()
  • The New Administrative State?, 108 Judicature (, at 68) (with others)
  • Donald Trump Promising a Position to RFK Jr. Isn't Illegal, Volokh Conspiracy ()
  • The Supreme Court's Reasoning Prohibits the Deplatforming Limits That the Parties Care About, Volokh Conspiracy ()

Donald H. Beskind

Books

Joseph Blocher

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • Cheap Violence: Weapons and the Law () (with Brandon L. Garrett)
  • Gitlow as a Guide to Holmes ()
  • Gun Violence and Prescriptions for Repair: A Novel Non-Encounter Restorative Justice Intervention ()
  • The Least Violence Avoider () (with others)
  • The Two-Court Rule, Factual Dicta, and the Justices as Fact-Finders () (with Brandon L. Garrett)

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Brett Kavanaugh Is Leading the Supreme Court’s Embrace of Alternative Facts, Slate () (with Brandon L. Garrett)
  • Instead of Gun Regulation, Let’s Try Innovation, The Hill () (with Christopher Buccafusco)
  • “Murder the Media”: Press Freedom, Violence, and the Public Sphere, Knight First Amendment Institute Blog ()

Rachel Brewster

Articles & Essays

Chris Buccafusco

Forthcoming

  • How Big is Copyright’s Second Bite?: An Empirical Assessment of Copyright Reversion, Duke Law Journal () (with others)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Copyright Maximalism for the Public Good?, JOTWELL () (reviewing Benjamin Sobel, Copyright Accelerationism, 100 Chicago Kent Law Review (forthcoming 2025))
  • A Matter of Respect: It’s Time for Atlanta To Embrace a Shift in the Braves Name, Sports Business Journal () (with Marty Buccafusco)
  • Instead of Gun Regulation, Let’s Try Innovation, The Hill () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • The Textualist Supreme Court Misreads the Copyright Act Once Again, JOTWELL () (reviewing Peter Karol, What's The Use? The Structural Flaw Undermining Warhol v. Goldsmith, Journal of the Copyright Society (forthcoming 2024))
  • How Copyright Is Killing Creativity — Except Taylor Swift’s, The Hill () (with Glynn S. Lunney, Jr.)

Samuel W. Buell

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Supreme Court Assumes Joe Biden Won’t Abuse Its Horrific Immunity Ruling, Slate () (with Darrell A.H. Miller)
  • The One Story About Trump That Jack Smith Needs to Tell at the Supreme Court, Slate () (with Darrell A. H. Miller)

Doriane Coleman

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Wrong About Me and Wrongheaded About Duke, Chronicle (Duke) ()
  • Why Elite Women’s Sports Need to Be Based on Sex, Not Gender, Washington Post ()
  • XY Athletes in Women’s Olympic Boxing: The Paris 2024 Controversy Explained, Quillette ()
  • Title IX Sports Are Booming. They’re Also a Legal House of Cards, The Hill ()

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

Books

  • Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (Aspen Law & Business, Wolters Kluwer, Aspen Publishing 2022-, 1991, 2d ed. 1997, 3d ed. 2001, 4th ed. 2004, 5th ed. 2006, 6th ed. 2009, 7th ed. 2013, 8th ed. 2017, 9th ed. 2019, 10th ed. 2022, 11th ed. ) (with others)

Articles & Essays

Elisabeth de Fontenay

Articles & Essays

Deborah A. DeMott

Forthcoming

Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

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))

Kate Evans

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Protect Your Constitutional Rights: Don’t Fall for the Laken Riley Act’s Security Theater, The Hill () (with others)

Nita A. Farahany

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Congress Is Right to Want to Curtail Tiktok’s Power and Influence, The Guardian ()

Gina-Gail S. Fletcher

Forthcoming

  • Corporate Complicity in Voter Suppression: From Selma to Today, in Race, Racism, and the Law (Guy-Uriel Charles & Aziza Ahmed eds., ) (with H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr.)
  • 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

  • Regulating Compliance in a World of Decentralized Finance () (with others)
  • ESG Fraud: When Doing Good Goes Bad ()

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Racial Goals & Private Companies: What's Legal & What's Not, JOTWELL ()  (reviewing Atinuke Adediran, Racial Targets, 118 Northwestern University Law Review 1455 (2024))

Michael D. Frakes

Forthcoming

  • Unveiling the Biologics Patent Landscape, Northwestern University Law Review () (with Melissa F. Wasserman)

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Brandon L. Garrett

Forthcoming

  • The Oxford Handbook of AI and Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, ) (editor)
  • Applying History as Law: The Role of Historical Facts in Implementing Constitutional Doctrine, 104 Texas Law Review () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • Historical Facts and Constitutional Law: New Challenges for Originalist Doctrine, 75 Duke Law Journal () (with others)
  • The Brady Materiality Standard, 78 Stanford Law Review () (with Adam M. Gershowitz)
  • AI and Criminal Justice in the United States, in AI Evidence in Criminal Proceedings (Katalin Ligeti ed., )
  • Applying a Cost-Benefit Analysis to Geofence Searches, 65 Jurimetrics () (with others)
  • Compensating Exonerees in the United States, in Causes and Remedies of Wrongful Conviction: a Comparative Analysis (Giulia Lasagni & Luca Luparia eds., ) (with Luke Mears)
  • Eyewitness Identification, in Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence () (with Thomas Albright)

Works in Progress

  • Historians as Experts in Constitutional Law ()
  • In-House Testing () (with Gregory Mitchell)
  • Standards of Fact Review and Constitutional Litigation () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • Unboxing Plea Bargaining: The Durham, North Carolina Plea Tracking Project () (with others)
  • Judging Fingerprint Evidence ()
  • Testing AI () (with Cynthia Rudin)

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Brett Kavanaugh Is Leading the Supreme Court’s Embrace of Alternative Facts, Slate () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • Principles for Just and Rational Policing, 108 Judicature (, at 18) (with others)

Crystal Grant

Articles & Essays

Sara Sternberg Greene

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Why the Government Wants Us to Save — And Why It’s Not Working, Salon ()

Lisa Kern Griffin

Forthcoming

  • Honest Mistakes: Truth, Lies, and the Misleading Law of Questioning (Cambridge University Press, )

Ben K. Grunwald

Works in Progress

Laurence R. Helfer

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Donald L. Horowitz

Forthcoming

  • Territorial Configurations and Ethnic Divisions, in The Law and Politics of Federalism (Erin F. Delaney, )

Works in Progress

  • Ethnic Vote Pooling and Centripetal Politics () (with Helen Ting M.H.)

Books

Jayne Huckerby

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Suing the Taliban at the ICJ over Abuses of Afghan Women Isn’t a Panacea. Countries Must Do More Now, Just Security ()

Jennifer Jenkins

Books

Richard Katskee

Forthcoming

Coalter G. Lathrop

Books

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Reclaiming Authority: Forcing Seabed Mining Contractors to Choose Between the ISA and the USA, EJIL:Talk! () (with Franka Nodewald)
  • Crisis as Catalyst: Seabed Minerals and the (Un)Making of International Law, Just Security ()
  • The Latest Trump Threat to International Law: Unilaterally Mining the Area, EJIL:Talk! ()

Nancy Lauer

Articles & Essays

Margaret H. Lemos

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

David F. Levi

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Marin K. Levy

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • Rulemaking All the Way Down () (with Zachary D. Clopton)
  • Circuit Precedent () (with William Baude)
  • Raising the Judicial Alarm () (with Trevor Morrison)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • (In Defense of) Judicial Institutionalism, JOTWELL () (reviewing Rachel Bayefsky, Judicial Institutionalism, 109 Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2024))

H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr.

Forthcoming

  • Historical Facts and Constitutional Law: New Challenges for Originalist Doctrine, 75 Duke Law Journal () (with others)
  • Corporate Complicity in Voter Suppression: From Selma to Today, in Race, Racism, and the Law (Guy-Uriel Charles & Aziza Ahmed eds., ) (with Gina-Gail S. Fletcher)

Articles & Essays

Veronica Root Martinez

Forthcoming

  • Professional Responsibility: A Contemporary Approach (West Academic Publishing, 6th ed. )
  • Rethinking the “Fungible” Consultant, Law and Contemporary Problems ()
  • The Impact of Monitors on Organizational Culture, in Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Culture and Misconduct (B. van Rooij, N. Tobsch, and N. Lord eds., )
  • The Miscalculation of Corporate DEI Risk, University of Pennsylvania Law Review () (with Lisa Fairfax)
  • Purpose-Driven Compliance, Texas A&M Law Review ()
  • Diversity and Compliance, in Concise Encyclopedia of Compliance Law (J. Fanto ed., )
  • Monitors and Compliance, in Concise Encyclopedia of Compliance Law (J. Fanto ed., )

Works in Progress

  • Crime and Punishment: Corporate Criminal Prosecution and Corporate Misconduct () (with Syrena Shirley)
  • Regulating Compliance in a World of Decentralized Finance () (with others)
  • Building a Culture of Ethical Inclusion ()
  • Collaborative Compliance () (with Kevin E. Davis)
  • Data-Driven Compliance () (with Geeyong Min)
  • Motivating the Middle ()
  • The Economic Waste of Corporate Purpose ()

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • A Reflection on the OECD’s Report (Part II): Governments’ Assessments of Corporate Anti-Corruption Compliance, Compliance & Enforcement () (with Liz Carrasco)
  • A Reflection on the OECD’s Report (Part I): Companies’ Assessments of Anti-Corruption Compliance, Compliance & Enforcement () (with Liz Carrasco)

Tim Meyer

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Yaron Nili

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • Common Ownership Directors () (with others)
  • Declassifying Bylaws () (with others)
  • Funding Nonprofit Diversity and Innovation () (with Atinuke O. Adediran)
  • Hedge Fund Activism in Small Cap Companies () (with Kobi Kastiel)
  • The Curious Case of Corporate Relational Contracts () (with others)

Articles & Essays

Michelle Benedict Nowlin

Articles & Essays

Shu-yi Oei

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Ashlee Paxton-Turner

Forthcoming

  • Corporate Politicking & Consequences, Maryland Law Review ()

Jonathan Petkun

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

H. Jefferson Powell

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Symmetry and Constitutional Adjudication, Balkinization () (reviewing Zachary Price, Constitutional Symmetry: Judging in a Divided Republic (2024))
  • Is the Constitution Obsolete?, North State Journal ()

Jedediah Purdy

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays

  • A Democratic Rule of Law, 87 Law and Contemporary Problems 293-329 ()
  • Foreword, 88 Law and Contemporary Problems i-iii () (with Justin Deystone)
  • Foreword, 87 Law and Contemporary Problems i-v () (with Madhav Khosla)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • What Are We Living Through?: Three Competing Narratives of the Second Trump Administration, Boston Review () (with David Pozen)
  • On Constitutional Crisis, the Rule of Law, and the Fate of Democracy, LPE Blog ()
  • NC Voters Need to Know More About Judicial Candidates’ Stances, Not Less, News & Observer () (with Emily Coward)
  • Harris Can Win on the Economy, but She Needs a Stronger Message, New York Times () (A version of this article appears in print on September 15, 2024, Section SR, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Harris Needs a Stronger Message on the Economy)

Shitong Qiao

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Cleanup of China Evergrande Collapse Calls for Coordination and Clarity, Nikkei Asia ()

Arti K. Rai

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Future of Scientific Innovation, The Regulatory Review () (with Tasneem Mohammad)
  • Patent Puzzles After the Supreme Court’s 2024 Administrative Law Cases: Stare Decisis, Rulemaking, and Discretion, PatentlyO ()

Mara Revkin

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Emily Ryo

Articles & Essays

Bailey Sanders

Forthcoming

  • Religious Riders and the Sherman Act, Michigan Law Review ()

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Richard L. Schmalbeck

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

  • Make the GSTT Exemption Portable Between Spouses, 186 Tax Notes Federal 311-316 () (with Jay A. Soled)

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

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays

Laura M. Scott

Articles & Essays

Jonathan Seymour

Articles & Essays

Jonathan B. Wiener

Forthcoming

  • Advanced Introduction to Risk Regulation  (Cambridge University Press, 2017) (editor with Edward Balleisen, Lori Bennear & Kim Krawiec)
  • Space as Province, Property, and Planetary Protection: Risk and the Rise of the Interplanetary, in Province of All Mankind”? Property in Outer Space Under Public and Private International Law & Philosophy (Samantha Besson ed., )
  • Artificial General Intelligence and Existential Risk: Lessons from Climate Change Policy () (with K. Arden Rowell)
  • Unintended Consequences and Solar Radiation Modification () (with others)

Articles & Essays

Ernest A. Young

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Lawrence A. Zelenak

Forthcoming

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Moore Thoughts, TaxProf Blog ()

Alex Zhang

Forthcoming

  • Chinese Legal Research in a Nutshell (West Academic Publishing, )

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

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