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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.

Kerry Abrams

Articles & Essays

Emilie K. Aguirre

Articles & Essays

  • Sustainability for People and the Planet: Placing Workers at the Center of Sustainability Research, in Handbook on the Business of Sustainability 189-214 (Gerard George, Martine R. Haas, Havovi Joshi, Anita M. McGahan & Paul Tracey eds., ) (with others)

Lawrence G. Baxter

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Jennifer L. Behrens

Works in Progress

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Timeline of “Terror”: Provenance of the “Blue John Gap” Autograph Manuscript, Terror of Blue John Gap Project ()

Stuart M. Benjamin

Books

Articles & Essays

Donald H. Beskind

Books

Joseph Blocher

Forthcoming

  • New Histories of Gun Rights and Regulation: Essays on the Place of Guns in American Law and Society (Oxford University Press, ) (editor with others)
  • The Second Amendment: Gun Rights and Regulation (Foundation Press, ) (with others)
  • "A Map Is Not The Territory”: The Theory and Future of the Sensitive Places Doctrine, New York University Law Review Online () (with others)
  • Does the Second Amendment Make Gun Politics Obsolete?, 55 Polity () (with Andrew Willinger)
  • Firearms Law and Scholarship Beyond Bodies and Bullets, Annual Review of Law and Social Science () (with others)
  • Manufacturing OutliersSupreme Court Review () (with Darrell A.H. Miller)
  • Second Amendment Sensitive Places: Protecting Democratic Community and Commerce, 98 New York University Law Review () (with Reva B. Siegel)
  • Beyond Felons: Other Prohibited Classes of Arms Possession, in New Histories of Gun Rights and Regulation: Essays on the Place of Guns in American Law and Society (Joseph Blocher, Jacob D. Charles, and Darrell A. H. Miller, eds., ) (with Caitlin Carberry)

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Daniel Seymour Bowling III

Articles & Essays

James Boyle

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Misunderestimating Openness, Paradox of Open: Responses, Open Future ()
  • A Love Letter to the Regular Pickup Game, Washington Post ()
  • Everything You Know About Section 230 Is Wrong (But Why?), Techdirt ()
  • Duke’s Sturgis Graduation Do-Over, UWIRE ()

Rachel Brewster

Works in Progress

  • Institution-Building in the International Anti-Corruption Regime: A Proposal for a Transnational Asset Recovery Mechanism () (with others)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Role of the FCPA in Transnational Litigation, Transnational Litigation Blog ()

Chris Buccafusco

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Samuel W. Buell

Forthcoming

  • Criminal Liability, in Research Handbook on Corporate Liability (M. Petrin and C. Witting, eds., )

Works in Progress

  • The Mirage of Individual Liability as the Answer to Corporate Fraud ()

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Doriane Coleman

Books

  • Torts: Doctrine and Process  (Duke University Press, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-23) (with Donald H. Beskind)

Issues Edited

  • Sex in Law, 85 Law and Contemporary Problems (No. 1, ) (with Kimberly D. Krawiec)
  • Two Americas, 85 Law and Contemporary Problems (No. 3, ) (with James E. Coleman, Jr.)

Articles & Essays

  • Conservatorship of Valerie N., 707 P.2d 760 (Cal. 1985), in Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten 66-93 (Seema Mohapatra and Lindsay F. Wiley eds., )
  • Foreword: Sex in Law, 85 Law and Contemporary Problems 1-8 () (with Kimberly D. Krawiec)
  • Foreword: Two Americas, 85 Law and Contemporary Problems i-xi ()
  • Sex Neutrality, 85 Law and Contemporary Problems 241-263 ()

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

James E. Coleman, Jr.

Issues Edited

  • Two Americas, 85 Law and Contemporary Problems (No. 3, ) (with Doriane Lambelet Coleman)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

James D. Cox

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Will the SEC’s Proposed Climate Disclosure Rule Come Up against Legal and Economic Challenges?, Resources () (with others)
  • Will It Float?: The Legitimacy of the SEC’s Authority for Climate Risk Disclosures, CLS Blue Sky Blog ()

John M. de Figueiredo

Forthcoming

  • The Timing of Lobbying, in Corruption, Business Law, and Business Ethics (Philip Nichols, ed., )

Articles & Essays

Elisabeth D. de Fontenay

Forthcoming

  • Side Letter GovernanceWashington University Law Review () (with Yaron Nili)
  • The Use of Debt in Corporate Finance, in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics: Corporate Law and Economics (A. Badawi ed., )

Works in Progress

Deborah A. DeMott

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Ofer Eldar

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Shane Ellison

Articles & Essays

  • Dismantling the Wall, 120 Michigan Law Review Online 1-21 () (with Anjum Gupta)
  • Hot Topics in Asylum Law, in Immigration Practice Pointers 451-462 (Rizwan Hassan ed., ) (with others)

Kate Evans

Nita A. Farahany

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Provide a Résumé, Cover Letter and Access to Your Brain? The Creepy Race to Read Workers’ Minds, Los Angeles Times ()
  • We Need a New Human Right to Cognitive Liberty, The Guardian () (with Zoë Corbyn)
  • A Round-Up of 2022 Neurotechnology Advances, Volokh Conspiracy ()
  • We Parents of Unvaccinated Children Need More Guidance, Washington Post ()
  • The Extent of Employee Surveillance Is Greater Than You KnowDuke Magazine ()
  • The Rise and Fall of the ‘’Warrior Gene’’ Defense, 371 Science () (with Gene E. Robinson)

Gina-Gail S. Fletcher

Forthcoming

  • 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

  • Corporatist Racial Equity () (with H. Timothy Lovelace)
  • Market Distortion as a Theory of Market Manipulation ()
  • Regulating Information Intermediaries ()
  • Unequal Access: Black Founders and the Venture Capital Funding Gap () (with Kristin N. Johnson)

Articles & Essays

  • The Future of AI Accountability in the Financial Markets, 24 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law 289-322 () (with Michelle M. Le)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Doing Well While Doing Good: Impact Investing & the Commodification of Marginalization, Jotwell ()  (reviewing Cary Martin Shelby, Profiting from Our Pain: Privileged Access to Social Impact Investing, 2021)

Michael D. Frakes

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Brandon L. Garrett

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Anne Gordon

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Sara Sternberg Greene

Forthcoming

  • Elderly Poverty, in Law and the 100-Year Life (Abbe Gluck & Anne Alstott, eds., )

Works in Progress

  • Broken Bootstraps ()
  • Getting to Home: Collateral Consequences in the Rental Housing Market () (with others)
  • Going Against the Record: How Algorithms Change the Way Landlords Make Exceptions for Bad Background Checks () (with others)
  • Looking for Fraud in All the Wrong Places ()
  • Old, Poor, and Left Behind ()

Articles & Essays

Lisa Kern Griffin

Works in Progress

  • Impersonating Accuracy: How Misperceptions of Cross Examination Perpetuate Error ()
  • Netflix Criminal Justice: Popular Culture, Procedural Violence, and the Potential for Empathy ()

Paul Grimm

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Ben K. Grunwald

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Data-Driven Decarceration, Inquest ()

Laurence R. Helfer

Forthcoming

  • African Sub-Regional Approaches to Human Rights, in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Human Rights Law (Neha Jain & Mila Versteeg ed., ) (with Jo Um Eom)
  • Contesting Sexual Orientation Rights Before the ECtHR, in International Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare (Siri Gloppen & Malcolm Langford eds., ) (with Clare Ryan)
  • State Silence in the European Human Rights System, in The Silence of States Across International Law (Danae Azaria, ed., ) (with Olivia C. Daniels)
  • The Meta Oversight Board's Human Rights Future, 44 Cardozo Law Review () (with Molly K. Land)
  • The Marrakesh VIP Treaty: Using the Tools of IP law to Advance Human Rights, in Improving Intellectual Property Law (Susy Frankel et al., eds., )
  • Treaty Withdrawals in a Turbulent World: A Retrospective on “Exiting Treaties” , in Leading Works in International Law (Donna Lyons, ed., )

Works in Progress

  • Automating Human Rights Adjudication () (with Veronica Fifak)
  • Institution-Building in the International Anti-Corruption Regime: A Proposal for a Transnational Asset Recovery Mechanism () (with others)
  • Revisiting Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals () (with Başak Çalı)

Articles & Essays

  • Book Reviews, 116 American Journal of International Law 206-210 () (reviewing Zoltán I. Búzás, Evading International Norms: Race and Rights in the Shadow of Legality (2021))
  • LGBT Rights as Mega-Politics: Litigating Before the ECtHR, 84 Law and Contemporary Problems 59-93 () (with Clare Ryan)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Toward Recognizing an International Human Right to Claim Innocence, Judicature International () (with others)
  • The Gender of Treaty Withdrawal: Lessons From the Istanbul Convention, EJIL: Talk! () (with Başak Çali)
  • Value Pluralism and Human Rights in Content Moderation, Lawfare () (with Molly K. Land)
  • Russia and the European Human Rights System: Doing the Right Thing … but for the Right Legal Reason?, EJIL:Talk! () (with Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou)
  • Ebb and Flow, 106 Judicature International () (with David Collins)
  • Walking Back Human Rights in Europe, 106 Judicature International () (with Erik Voeten)
  • Is the Facebook Oversight Board an International Human Rights Tribunal?, Lawfare () (with Molly K. Land)

Donald L. Horowitz

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Jayne Huckerby

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Toward Recognizing an International Human Right to Claim Innocence, Judicature International () (with others)

Trina Jones

Articles & Essays

  • 163 U.S. 537 Supreme Court of the United States: Plessy v. Ferguson No. 210, in Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law 85-103 (Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R. A. Lenhardt & Angela Onwuachi-Willig, eds., )

Jack Knight

Articles & Essays

Margaret H. Lemos

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • New Ideas About How Judges Think, 106 Judicature (, at 32) (with others)

David F. Levi

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Marin K. Levy

Forthcoming

  • The Rules, Internal Practices, and Unwritten Customs of the United States Courts of Appeals (Cambridge University Press, ) (with Jon O. Newman)
  • Judicial Management Inside the Courts, The Review of Litigation ()

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Visiting Judges Riding Circuit and Beyond, 106 Judicature (, at 20)
  • The Remains of the Day, or What Is Left After the Collapse of Constitutional Remedies, Balkinization () (reviewing Aziz Z. Huq, The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies (2021))

H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr.

Forthcoming

  • The World is on Our Side: The U.S. and the U.N. Race Convention (Cambridge University Press, )

Articles & Essays

Sarah H. Ludington

Articles & Essays

  • How Social Media Platforms Can Promote Compliance With the First Amendment, New York University Law Review Forum () (with others)

Veronica Root Martinez

Forthcoming

  • Building an Effective Ethics and Compliance Program (Edward Elgar Publishing, )
  • Building a Culture of Ethical Inclusion, Seattle Law Review ()

Books

  • Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and Compliance: Cases and Materials (West Academic Publishing, 5th ed. ) (with others)

Articles & Essays

Tim Meyer

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • How the US and EU Can Rewrite Trade Rules to Fight the Climate Crisis, Blog (Roosevelt Institute) () (Originally published in French in Le Grand Continent, and in Spanish in El Grand Continent, March 14, 2023) (with Todd N. Tucker)
  • The Case for Mandating Climate-Risk Disclosure, Project Syndicate () (with others)

Darrell A. H. Miller

Forthcoming

  • New Histories of Gun Rights and Regulation: Essays on the Place of Guns in American Law and Society (Oxford University Press, ) (editor with others)
  • The Second Amendment: Gun Rights and Regulation (Foundation Press, ) (with others)
  • "A Map Is Not The Territory”: The Theory and Future of the Sensitive Places Doctrine, New York University Law Review Online () (with others)
  • Common Good Gun Rights, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy () (Reviewing Adrian Vermeule, Common Good Constitutionalism (2022))
  • Firearms Law and Scholarship Beyond Bodies and Bullets, Annual Review of Law and Social Science () (with others)
  • Manufacturing OutliersSupreme Court Review () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • Prohibitions on Private Armies in State Constitutions, in New Histories of Gun Rights and Regulation: Essays on the Place of Guns in American Law and Society (Joseph Blocher, Jacob D. Charles, and Darrell A. H. Miller, eds., )

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Bruen and Constitutional Gnosticism, Balkinization ()
  • Facts Still Matter, Even Before This Supreme Court, Newsweek () (with others)
  • State Gun Regulations Are a Messy Patchwork. The Supreme Court’s Bruen Decision Won’t Help, The Hill () (with others)
  • A Supreme Court Head-Scratcher: Is a Colonial Musket ‘Analogous’ to an AR-15?, New York Times () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • The Next Front in the Fight Over Guns, Washington Post ()
  • Montgomery Facing Litigation for Renaming Street After Civil Rights Leader, SLoG ()
  • Conservatives Sound Like Anti-racists — When the Cause Is Gun Rights, Washington Post ()
  • The Reconstruction Amendments’ Canonical Texts, Balkinization ()
  • SCOTUS Taking up 2nd Amendment Case Could Mean Cuts to Broad Swaths of Gun Regulation, TPM Cafe () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • “Lineal Descendant” Analysis in Second Amendment Litigation, Harvard Law Review Blog ()

Lidiya Mishchenko

Articles & Essays

Michael Murphy

Forthcoming

  • How Working With Entrepreneurs Makes Law Students Into Happier, Healthier Lawyers, in ()

Works in Progress

  • Benefit LLCs: The Little Entities That Could? ()

Articles & Essays

  • Zooming Into the Future of Skills-Based Teaching, 23 Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law 240-257 () (with others)

Michelle Benedict Nowlin

Articles & Essays

Shu-yi Oei

Jonathan Petkun

Works in Progress

  • Nudges for Judges: An Empirical Analysis of the “Six-Month List” ()

H. Jefferson Powell

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • History, Rights, and Constitutional Law, Fifteeneightyfour Blog ()

Jedediah Purdy

Forthcoming

  • Walden (W.W. Norton, ) (editor)

Articles & Essays

  • Nature, in A Cultural History of Ideas in the Modern Age (Stefanos Geroulanos ed., )
  • The Promise of American Life, 253 The New Republic 46-50 () (reviewing Oliver Zunz, The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville, 2022) (Appears online with the title: Tocqueville’s Uneasy Vision of American Democracy)
  • After Carbon Democracy, 67 Dissent 51-60 () (with Alyssa Battistoni)
  • Who Are the People?, 69 Dissent 87-94 ()

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Constitutional Flaw That’s Killing American Democracy, The Atlantic ()
  • Democrats Need Patriotism Now More Than EverNew York Times () (A version of this article appears in print on July 3, 2022, Section SR, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: The Left Must Reclaim Patriotism)
  • The Republican Party Is Succeeding Because We Are Not a True DemocracyNew York Times () (A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 6, 2022, Section A, Page 23 of the New York edition with the headline: We’re Not a Real Democracy. That’s Why Jan. 6 Happened)

Shitong Qiao

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • How Technology Is Changing Justice in ChinaJudicature International () (with others)
  • A Rural-Urban Crossroads in Chinese Law: Qiao Shitong on the Development and Future of Chinese Eminent Domain, Bulletin -- Columbia Journal of Transnational Law () (with Marc Chien)
  • Breaking Old Land Monopoly in Hong Kong to Resolve the City’s Housing Crisis, South China Morning Post () (with Roderick M. Hills, Jr.)
  • Development Rights for All, 1 USALI Perspectives () (with Roderick M. Hills, Jr.)
  • Here Is How TDRs Outweigh Lantau Reclamation Plan, South China Morning Post (, at p2) (with Roderick M. Hills, Jr.)

Arti K. Rai

Articles & Essays

Sarah Bloom Raskin

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Jerome H. Reichman

Articles & Essays

Mara Revkin

Forthcoming

  • Managing Mixed Repatriation in a Legal Vacuum: Lessons Learned From Syria, 47 Yale Journal of International Law ()
  • No Peace Without Punishment? Reintegrating Islamic State “Collaborators” in Iraq, American Journal of Comparative Law () (with Kristen Kao)

Works in Progress

  • The Blind Spots of International Humanitarian Law () (with Orly Stern)
  • The Construction of Liability: How Civilians’ Insolvent in War Affects Their Victimization () (with Janina Dill)

Articles & Essays

Barak D. Richman

Books

Articles & Essays

  • Billing and Insurance–Related Administrative Costs: A Cross-National Analysis, 41 Health Affairs 1098-1106 () (with others)
  • Collective Bargaining: Physician Unions and Their Implications for Health Care, 57 Health Services Research 1214-1217 () (with others)
  • Consumer Law as an Axis of Economic Inequality, 102 Boston University Law Review 1169-1184 () (with others)
  • Noncompete Agreements — The Need for a Refresh, 387 New England Journal of Medicine 486-488 () (with others)
  • Professional Self-Regulation in Medicine: Will the Rise of Intelligent Tools Mean the End to Peer Review?, in The Future of Medical Device Regulation: Innovation and Protection 244-255 (I. Glenn Cohen, Timo Minssen, W. Nicholson Price II, Christopher Robertson, Carmel Shachar, eds., ) (with Anthony P. Weiss)
  • Restoring Physician Authority in an Era of Hospital Dominance, 328 JAMA 2400-2401 () (with Kevin A. Schulman)
  • Shopping for Healthcare: Can We Be Good Consumers?, 7 Health Management, Policy and Innovation ()
  • The Rise and Potential of Physician Unions, 328 JAMA 617-618 () (with others)
  • Will CMS Find Aducanumab Reasonable and Necessary for Alzheimer Disease After FDA Approval?, JAMA () (with others)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Hospitals Are a Problem. Competition Is the Answer, Politico ()
  • A Cancer Patient’s Brutal Commute, Wall Street Journal () (with Ateev Mehrotra)
  • Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice, Health Affairs Forefront () (with Regina E. Herzlinger)
  • Preparing Hospitals for the Next Pandemic, Harvard Business Review () (with Regina Herzlinger)

Stephen E. Roady

Richard L. Schmalbeck

Articles & Essays

  • Substance Over Form in Transfer Tax Adjudication, 55 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 609-643 () (with Jay A. Soled)

Steven L. Schwarcz

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Jonathan Seymour

Articles & Essays

Emily N. Strauss

Forthcoming

  • Suing SPACs, 96 Southern California Law Review ()

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Michael E. Tigar

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Supreme Court, Rights, and Judicial Abdication, MR Online ()

Jonathan B. Wiener

Forthcoming

  • Regulatory Learning Through Agency Implementation of the Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, Project on Retrospective Regulatory Analysis () (with others)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Brandee Woolard

Works in Progress

  • Protecting Intellectual Property When an Employee Leaves: Companion White Paper to Association of Corporate Counsel Panel on October 13, 2021 ()

Ernest A. Young

Forthcoming

  • Federalism and Loyalty, in The Law and Politics of Federalism (Erin Delaney ed., )

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Lawrence A. Zelenak

Books

Articles & Essays

Alex Zhang

Books

Articles & Essays

  • New Column: Librarians As Model Thinkers, 41 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 98-100 ()
  • Researching Chinese Animal Law, in Global Animal Law Research: Strategies and Resources (Alex Zhang & Katherine Siler, eds., )