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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

Katharine T. Bartlett

Books

Jennifer L. Behrens

Articles & Essays

Stuart M. Benjamin

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • 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

  • Torts: Doctrine and Process  (Duke University Press, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023; Carolina Academic Press 2024-2025) (with Doriane Lambelet Coleman)

Joseph Blocher

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • Applying History as Law: The Role of Historical Facts in Implementing Constitutional Doctrine () (with Brandon L. Garrett)
  • Finding Holmes in Gitlow ()
  • Gun Violence and Prescriptions for Repair: A Novel Non-Encounter Restorative Justice Intervention ()
  • Making History () (with Brandon L. Garrett)
  • The Early Years of the First and Second Amendments ()
  • The Least Violence Avoider () (with others)
  • When the Justices Question Facts () (with Brandon L. Garrett)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • 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 ()
  • Gun Rights and Domestic Violence in Rahimi—Whose Traditions Does the Second Amendment Protect?, Balkinization () (with Reva Siegel)

James Boyle

Books

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Rachel Brewster

Forthcoming

Chris Buccafusco

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Instead of Gun Regulation, Let’s Try Innovation, The Hill () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • 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

Books

Articles & Essays

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

Articles & Essays

John M. de Figueiredo

Articles & Essays

Elisabeth de Fontenay

Forthcoming

  • Corporate Governance in the Private-Markets Era, in The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance ()

Works in Progress

  • Corporate Governance and the Rise of the Private Markets ()
  • The Dry Powder Problem ()

Articles & Essays

Deborah A. DeMott

Forthcoming

  • Elgar Handbook of Agency and Intermediation (Edward Elgar Publishing, ) (editor with Tan Cheng Han)
  • An Overview of Agency Doctrine, in Elgar Handbook of Agency and Intermediation (Deborah DeMott & Tan Cheng Han eds., ) (with Tan Cheng Han)

Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

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))

Shane Ellison

Articles & Essays

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

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Congress Is Right to Want to Curtail Tiktok’s Power and Influence, The Guardian ()
  • The Battle for Your Brain: A Legal Scholar’s Argument for Protecting Brain Data and Cognitive Liberty, 107 Judicature (, at 44) (with Paul W. Grimm)
  • Human Values in a Digital Age, 382 Science (, at 523) (reviewing Wendy H. Wong, We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (2023))
  • 'Cognitive Liberty' Is the Human Right We Need to Talk About, Time ()

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., )

Articles & Essays

Michael D. Frakes

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Brandon L. Garrett

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Sara Sternberg Greene

Works in Progress

  • Centering Fraud in Poverty Law ()
  • Justice Without Law(yers)?: Race, Class, and the Problem of Informality () (with Guy Charles)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Why the Government Wants Us to Save — And Why It’s Not Working, Salon ()
  • NC Hospitals Use Deceit to Sue Patients, Take Their Homes, Charlotte Observer () (with Barak Richman)

Lisa Kern Griffin

Forthcoming

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

Articles & Essays

Paul Grimm

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Ben K. Grunwald

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Laurence R. Helfer

Forthcoming

Donald L. Horowitz

Forthcoming

  • The Promise and Perils of Devolution: Federalism, Regional Autonomy, and Ethnic Conflict (Oxford University Press, )
  • Territorial Configurations and Ethnic Divisions, in The Law and Politics of Federalism (Erin F. Delaney, )

Works in Progress

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

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

Articles & Essays

Richard Katskee

Articles & Essays

  • Taking Liberties: The Supreme Court’s New Hierarchy of Rights and Its Victims, 127 West Virginia Law Review 173-200 ()

Jack Knight

Books

Allison Korn

Articles & Essays

  • The Persistent Disaster, 31 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies  91-139 ()

Margaret H. Lemos

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

David F. Levi

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Marin K. Levy

Forthcoming

  • Defining the Field of Judicial Administration, 36 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities ()
  • Judicial Reform from the Inside Out, 101 Notre Dame Law Review () (with Daniel Epps)

Works in Progress

  • Local Rulemaking () (with Zachary D. Clopton)
  • Local Rules () (with Zachary D. Clopton)
  • Raising the Judicial Alarm () (with Trevor Morrison)
  • State Representation on the Courts of Appeals ()

Articles & Essays

Ryke Longest

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Opinion: A Call to Forever Preserve The Point on Topsail Island, Star News Online ()

H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr.

Forthcoming

  • 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

Noah Marks

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., )
  • 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

  • A Tale of Two Self-Regulatory Regimes () (with Nicole Iannarone)
  • Building a Culture of Ethical Inclusion ()
  • Collaborative Compliance () (with Kevin E. Davis)
  • Data-Driven Compliance () (with Geeyong Min)
  • Firm-Driven Compliance ()
  • Motivating the Middle ()
  • The Economic Waste of Corporate Purpose ()

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Do the DOJ’s Sticks and Carrots Actually Work?, Compliance & Enforcement ()

Tim Meyer

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Legal Authority (or Lack Thereof) for Trump’s TariffsVerfassungsblog ()
  • How ‘Economic Security’ Is Re-Shaping Presidential Power, Just Security () (with Kathleen Claussen)
  • The New U.S.-Taiwan Trade Agreement and Its Approval, Lawfare () (with Kathleen Claussen)

Peggy Nicholson

Yaron Nili

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

  • Transdisciplinary Doctoral Training to Address Global Sustainability Challenges , 3 PLOS Sustain Transform, article e0000091, 1-5 (2024) (with others)
  • Enhanced U.S.-Canadian Collaboration on Marine Migratory Species, 53 Environmental Law Reporter 10911-10920 () (with others)
  • Transboundary Marine Species at Risk & Their Recovery in a Changing Climate: Workshop Report () (with others)

Shu-yi Oei

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Ashlee Paxton-Turner

Forthcoming

  • Corporate Politicking & Consequences, Maryland Law Review ()

Jonathan Petkun

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

H. Jefferson Powell

Books

Articles & Essays

  • The Harlan Court: A Constitutional Alternate History, 102 North Carolina Law Review 1381-1402 ()

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

Works in Progress

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • 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)
  • We’ve Been Thinking About America’s Trust Collapse All Wrong, The Atlantic ()
  • Raymond Williams’s Resources for Hope, 70 Dissent (, at 86)

Shitong Qiao

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

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

Arti K. Rai

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Jerome H. Reichman

Mara Revkin

Forthcoming

  • The Dangerous Rise of Dual-Use Objects in WarYale Law Journal () (with others)
  • Law and Violence in the Middle East, in Oxford Handbook on Law and Authoritarianism (Cora Chan, Madhav Khosla, Benjamin Liebman & Mark Tushnet, eds., )

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Thomas D. Rowe, Jr.

Books

  • Civil Procedure (Foundation Press, 1st 2004, 2d ed. 2008, 3d ed. 2012, 4th ed. 2016, 5th ed. 2020, 6th ed. ) (with others)

Emily Ryo

Articles & Essays

Bailey Sanders

Forthcoming

  • The Market Limits of Free Exercise, Michigan Law Review ()

Works in Progress

  • Antitrust’s Abortion Blindspot ()
  • Hidden Religious Restrictions & Section 5 of the FTC Act ()
  • Market Power, Home Production Substitutes and Female Labor Supply ()

Books

Articles & Essays

Richard L. Schmalbeck

Articles & Essays

  • Make the GSTT Exemption Portable Between Spouses, 186 Tax Notes Federal 311-316 () (with Jay A. Soled)
  • Declaratory Judgments and Charitable Borders, 184 Tax Notes Federal 2017-2090 ()

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • IRS Reform Has Arrived: How New Funding Is Fast-Tracking Progress, The Hill () (with others)

Christopher H. Schroeder

Books

  • Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy  (Little, Brown, 1992, 2nd ed. 1996; Aspen Publishers, 3rd ed. 2000, 4th ed. 2003, 5th ed. 2006; Wolters Kluwer, 6th ed. 2009, 7th ed. 2013, 8th ed. 2018, 9th ed. 2022; Aspen Publishing, 10th ed. 2024) (with others)

Steven L. Schwarcz

Works in Progress

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays

Jonathan Seymour

Articles & Essays

  • Bankruptcy Appeal Barriers, 82 Washington and Lee Law Review 87-188 ()
  • Bankruptcy in Conflict, 98 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 561-602 ()

Jonathan B. Wiener

Forthcoming

  • 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)
  • Interplanetary Risk Regulation, Chicago Journal of International Law () (with Chase Hamilton)
  • Multi-Risk Governance of Solar Radiation Modification, European Journal of Risk Regulation () (with others)
  • The International Risk Governance Council: Reflections on a Twenty-Year Experiment in Support of Improved Risk Governance () (with others)
  • Unintended Consequences and Solar Radiation Modification () (with others)

Articles & Essays

Ernest A. Young

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Lawrence A. Zelenak

Forthcoming

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays

  • Why Nix a Tip Tax Now?, 185 Tax Notes Federal 237-249 ()
  • Stanley Surrey and Taxing Unrealized Appreciation, 86 Law and Contemporary Problems 153-165 ()
  • Reading the Taxpayers' Brief in Moore, 112 Tax Notes International 77-82 ()
  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Tax Shelters, 108 Iowa Law Review Online 130-143 ()

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Moore Thoughts, TaxProf Blog ()
  • Moore May be Less (Than it Might Have Been), 181 Tax Notes Federal (, at 2159)

Alex Zhang

Forthcoming

  • Chinese Legal Research in a Nutshell (West Academic Publishing, )
  • A Century of Law Library Services at Duke Law, in Organizational Structures for Academic Law Libraries: Past, Present, and Future ()
  • Natural Language Processing Driven Citation Analysis of Legal Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities, in Trends and Innovations in Library & Information Science: A Multidisciplinary Approach () (with J. Luo)

Works in Progress