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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

Forthcoming

  • Profiting from Prediction, California Law Review () (with others)
  • Converging on Disclosure, Duke Law Journal Online () (with Veronica Root Martinez)
  • Disrupting Venture Innovation, Journal of Corporation Law () (with Michael J. Burstein)

Works in Progress

  • When Purpose Broadens: Employee Experiences of Organizational Transitions Toward Sustainability () (with others)
  • Narrative Inversion: How Win-Win Framing and Measurement Shape Conflict Over Social Initiatives () (with Julie Yen)
  • Guarding Purpose () (with Veronica Root Martinez)

Articles & Essays

Aslihan Asil

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Jennifer L. Behrens

Articles & Essays

Stuart M. Benjamin

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Brendan Carr and the Fog of War, Volokh Conspiracy ()
  • 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 H. Beskind

Books

  • Torts: Doctrine and Process  (Duke University Press, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023; Carolina Academic Press 2024-2025, 2025-26, 2026-27) (with Doriane Lambelet Coleman)
  • Problems in Trial Advocacy (NITA, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, ) (with Anthony J. Bocchino)

Robert Bishop

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Joseph Blocher

Forthcoming

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Brett Kavanaugh Is Leading the Supreme Court’s Embrace of Alternative Facts, Slate () (with Brandon L. Garrett)

James Boyle

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Celebrating the Public Domain, 18 Landslide (, at 7) (with Jennifer Jenkins)

Rachel Brewster

Articles & Essays

Chris Buccafusco

Forthcoming

  • Intellectual Property Sandboxes, Boston University Law Review () (with others)
  • Style Marks, University of Chicago Law Review () (with Sari Mazzurco)

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • How the Washington Commanders Mishandled Selling T-Shirts with the Team’s Old Name and Logo, MS Now () (with Jon J. Lee)
  • Generative Fair Use for All, JOTWELL () (reviewing Katrina Geddes, Engineering Semiotic Democracy, __ FIU L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026))
  • 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)

Samuel W. Buell

Works in Progress

Books

Articles & Essays

Doriane Coleman

Books

  • Torts: Doctrine and Process  (Duke University Press, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-23; Carolina Academic Press, 2024-2025, 2025-26, 2026-27) (with Donald H. Beskind)

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

John M. de Figueiredo

Works in Progress

Elisabeth de Fontenay

Works in Progress

Books

Articles & Essays

Deborah A. DeMott

Forthcoming

Books

Articles & Essays

Shane Ellison

Articles & Essays

Kate Evans

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Congress Must Hold the Line: ICE Cannot Be Allowed to Break Into Our Homes, The Hill () (with Elana Fogel)
  • 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

Joshua M. Feinzig

Forthcoming

  • Closing Adjudicative Discretion, Cornell Law Review ()
  • Consensus and Constraint in MDL Procedure, 110 Judicature ()

Works in Progress

  • Coordinate Sequential Procedure ()
  • The (New) Institutional Decision ()

Gina-Gail S. Fletcher

Forthcoming

  • Securities Litigation: Enforcement and Compliance (West Academic Publishing, 6th ed. ) (with others)
  • Benchmark Providers, in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia on Securities Law and Regulation (Iris Chui et al. eds., )
  • Profiting from Prediction, California Law Review () (with others)
  • Regulating DeFi Platforms, 111 Minnesota Law Review () (with others)
  • Coordinated Retail Trading, William & Mary Law Review ()
  • 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

  • Disclosure and Manipulation ()
  • Market Distortion as a Theory of Manipulation ()
  • Predicting Manipulation ()
  • Private Market Manipulation ()
  • The Issuer Case Against Mandatory Arbitration () (with Nicole Iannarone)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Regulating Technology in Financial Markets, Regulatory Review () (with Jackson Ruprecht)
  • 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

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Brandon L. Garrett

Forthcoming

  • Historical Facts: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of History and the Erosion of Fact-Finding (Harvard University Press, ) (with Joseph Blocher)
  • The Oxford Handbook of AI and Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, ) (editor)
  • Historians as Experts in Constitutional Law, 79 Stanford Law Review () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • Standards of Fact Review in Constitutional Litigation, 127 Columbia Law Review () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • The Brady Checklist, 62 Wake Forest Law Review () (with Adam M. Gershowitz)

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Brett Kavanaugh Is Leading the Supreme Court’s Embrace of Alternative Facts, Slate () (with Joseph Blocher)

Crystal Grant

Articles & Essays

Sara Sternberg Greene

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The War on Fraud Is Really a War on the Poor, The Hill ()
  • 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, )

Laurence R. Helfer

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Has the U.S. Actually Withdrawn From the World Health Organization?, Just Security () (with Jean Galbraith)

Donald L. Horowitz

Forthcoming

  • Ethnic Vote Pooling and Centripetal Politics () (with Helen Ting M.H.)
  • Territorial Configurations and Ethnic Divisions, in The Law and Politics of Federalism (Erin F. Delaney, )

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

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Celebrating the Public Domain, 18 Landslide (, at 7) (with James Boyle)

Richard Katskee

Articles & Essays

Nancy Lauer

Articles & Essays

Margaret H. Lemos

Articles & Essays

David F. Levi

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Marin K. Levy

Forthcoming

  • Rulemaking All the Way Down, New York University Law Review () (with Zachary D. Clopton)
  • A “Judge’s Judge”, Academia Puertorriqueña de Jurisprudencia y Legislación ()

Works in Progress

  • Magistrate Judges () (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

  • Weapons of Corporate Warfare, 115 California Law Review () (with Cathy Hwang)
  • Banking on Civil Rights, 73 UCLA Law Review () (with Martin L. Sybblis)
  • 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

Sarah H. Ludington

Forthcoming

  • The First Amendment as a Sword and Shield for Local Governments , in Fight Back: How States Can Counter Authoritarianism 33-44 (Erwin Chemerinsky & Aziz Z. Huq, eds., 2027) (with Joseph Blocher)

Veronica Root Martinez

Forthcoming

  • Innovation-Driven Compliance, Villanova Law Review () (with Geeyoung Min)
  • Collaborative Compliance, UC Law Review () (with Kevin E. Davis)
  • Middle Management: A Mission Critical Risk?, Boston University Law Review ()
  • Profiting from Prediction, California Law Review () (with others)
  • The Board's Education Through Compliance Consultants, Law and Contemporary Problems ()
  • Regulating DeFi Platforms, 111 Minnesota Law Review () (with others)
  • Converging on Disclosure, Duke Law Journal Online () (with Emilie Aguirre)
  • Diversity and Compliance, in Concise Encyclopedia of Compliance Law (J. Fanto ed., )
  • Independent Compliance Monitors, in Concise Encyclopedia of Compliance Law (J. Fanto ed., )
  • Independent Monitorships, 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)

Works in Progress

  • Guarding Purpose () (with Emilie Aguirre)
  • Crime and Punishment: Corporate Criminal Prosecution and Corporate Misconduct () (with Syrena Shirley)

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Binance Probe Exemplifies the Perils of ‘Surface Remediation’, Bloomberg Law ()
  • How Boards Can Make the Most of Compliance Consultants, The CLS Blue Sky Blog ()
  • The Miscalculation of Corporate DEI Risk, Compliance & Enforcement () (with Lisa M. Fairfax)
  • Independent Monitorships, Corporate Culture, and the Limits of Compliance Reform, The CLS Blue Sky Blog ()
  • Purpose-Driven Compliance, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance ()
  • Are Corporate Monitors Really “Off the Table”? Not Quite., Compliance & Enforcement ()
  • 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

Terrence Neal

Articles & Essays

Cynthia Nicoletti

Works in Progress

  • Freedom’s Narrow Path ()

Articles & Essays

Yaron Nili

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Michelle Benedict Nowlin

Shu-yi Oei

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • A New Framework for Taxpayer Rights () (with others)
  • The OECD and the Digital Economy “Rat” ()

Articles & Essays

Jonathan Petkun

Articles & Essays

Keith Porcaro

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Rising Legal Tech Giants Will Dominate—Not Democratize—Practice, Bloomberg Law ()

H. Jefferson Powell

Books

Articles & Essays

  • Introduction, in Judging the Judges ix-xxi (John T. Noonan, Jr., )
  • The Supreme Court's Ideal Audience, 18 ConLaw NOW 117-130 ()

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Symmetry and Constitutional Adjudication, Balkinization () (reviewing Zachary Price, Constitutional Symmetry: Judging in a Divided Republic (2024))

Jedediah Purdy

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays

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

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • What Are We Living Through in Trump 2.0? Here Are 3 Possibilities, New York Times () (with others)
  • What Are We Living Through?: Three Competing Narratives of the Second Trump Administration, Boston Review () (with David Pozen)
  • Ecology in an Era of Fragmentation, 72 Dissent (, at 115)
  • 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)

Shitong Qiao

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Arti K. Rai

Forthcoming

  • Intellectual Property Sandboxes, Boston University Law Review () (with others)

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Congress Must Repair USPTO's Inter Partes Review Process, Law360 Expert Analysis () (with others)
  • The Future of Scientific Innovation, The Regulatory Review () (with Tasneem Mohammad)

Mara Revkin

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Emily Ryo

Forthcoming

  • Weaponizing Immigration Detention, Iowa Law Review () (with others)

Articles & Essays

Bailey Sanders

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Richard L. Schmalbeck

Works in Progress

Books

Articles & Essays

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

Steven L. Schwarcz

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays

Laura M. Scott

Articles & Essays

Jonathan Seymour

Articles & Essays

Neil S. Siegel

Articles & Essays

  • Balkin Amid Balkanization: Constitutional Construction, the Uses of History, and Interpretive Discretion in a Divided Country, 13 Texas A&M Law Review 625-644 ()

Jonathan B. Wiener

Forthcoming

  • Advanced Introduction to Risk Regulation (Edward Elgar Publications, ) (with K. Arden Rowell)
  • Planetary Policies for Defense Against Asteroids and Protection Against Contamination, in Space Risk Management: Securing Progress for Humanity (Saquib Hyat-Khan & Kurt Engemann eds/, ) (with others)
  • An International Monitoring System for Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Geoengineering: Technical and Institutional Capacity Needs () (with others)
  • Interplanetary Law () (with Chase Hamilton)
  • Rethinking Adaptive Regulation of Emerging Technologies, Risks, and Reactions: Combining Mitigation and Adaptation () (with K. Arden Rowell)
  • Space as Province, Property, and Planetary Protection: Risk and the Rise of the Interplanetary, in Property in Outer Space in International Law and Philosophy: The “Province of All Mankind”? (Samantha Besson ed., )

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Risk-Risk Analysis and SRM: Moving Beyond Misunderstanding, SRM360 () (with others)

Ernest A. Young

Forthcoming

  • Teaching for Constitutional Conversations, in (H.W. Perry ed., )

Works in Progress

Books

Articles & Essays

Lawrence A. Zelenak

Forthcoming

Books

Alex Zhang

Forthcoming

  • Chinese Media Law (William S. Hein, )
  • Chinese Legal Research in a Nutshell (West Academic Publishing, )
  • Open Access 2.0: Developing a Reflexive, Contextual Open Access Portal for China Studies in the Age of AI, in Automation to Artificial Intelligence: Smart Knowledge Environments with Disruptive Technologies in Libraries (Barbara Holland, ed., )

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays