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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.

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)

Jennifer L. Behrens

Forthcoming

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

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

Stuart M. Benjamin

Forthcoming

Books

Articles & Essays

Donald H. Beskind

Books

Joseph Blocher

Forthcoming

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Gun Rights and Domestic Violence in Rahimi—Whose Traditions Does the Second Amendment Protect?, Balkinization () (with Reva Siegel)
  • Appraising Sandy’s Call to “Arms”: Success in the Academy … Not So Much in the Courts, Balkinization ()
  • A Supreme Court Head-Scratcher: Is a Colonial Musket ‘Analogous’ to an AR-15?, New York Times () (with Darrell A.H. Miller)
  • No, Red-Flag Gun Laws Don’t Violate Due Process Rights, Washington Post () (with Jake Charles)

James Boyle

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Misunderestimating Openness, Paradox of Open: Responses, Open Future ()
  • A Love Letter to the Regular Pickup Game, Washington Post ()

Rachel Brewster

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

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

Chris Buccafusco

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • How Ed Sheeran's Serenade May Have Swayed the Jury, Law360 ()

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

James D. Cox

Articles & Essays

  • SOX's Impact on the Quality of Financial Reporting, 78 Business Lawyer 685-704 ()

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., )

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Elisabeth D. de Fontenay

Forthcoming

  • Research Handbook on the Structure of Private Equity and Venture Capital (Edward Elgar Publishing, ) (editor with Brian Broughman)
  • Law and Courts in an Age of Debt, University of Pennsylvania Law Review () (with Jared A. Ellias)

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Deborah A. DeMott

Articles & Essays

Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Shane Ellison

Forthcoming

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

Articles & Essays

Nita A. Farahany

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Human Values in a Digital Age, 382 Science (, at 523) (reviewing Wendy H. Wong, We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023))
  • 'Cognitive Liberty' Is the Human Right We Need to Talk About, Time ()
  • This Is the Battle for Your Brain at Work, Fast Company ()
  • TikTok Is Part of China’s Cognitive Warfare Campaign, Guardian ()
  • 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 ()

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)

Michael D. Frakes

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Brandon L. Garrett

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays

Anne Gordon

Articles & Essays

Crystal Grant

Articles & Essays

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

Forthcoming

  • False Accuracy in Criminal Trials: The Limits and Costs of Cross Examination, 102 Texas Law Review ()

Works in Progress

  • Netflix Criminal Justice: Popular Culture, Procedural Violence, and the Potential for Empathy ()

Paul Grimm

Forthcoming

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Ben K. Grunwald

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Data-Driven Decarceration, Inquest ()

Laurence R. Helfer

Forthcoming

  • Human Rights Litigation Before Sub-Regional Courts in East and West Africa, in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Human Rights Law (Neha Jain & Mila Versteeg eds., ) (with Jo Un 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)
  • 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)
  • Revisiting Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals () (with Başak Çalı)

Articles & Essays

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)

Donald L. Horowitz

Works in Progress

  • Federalism, Regional Autonomy, and Ethnic Conflict: Politics and Law ()

Books

Articles & Essays

  • Afterward, in Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia 271-277 (Helen Ting M.H. & Donald L. Horowitz eds., ) (with Helen Ting M.H.)
  • Electoral System Reform, in Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia 175-204 (Helen Ting M.H. & Donald L. Horowitz eds., )
  • Introduction, in Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia 1-13 (Helen Ting M.H. & Donald L. Horowitz eds., ) (with Helen Ting M.H.)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Jayne Huckerby

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Appropriating Rights: Who Rewrites Rights and How?, OpenGlobalRights () (with Sarah Knuckey)
  • 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

  • New Ideas About How Judges Think, 106 Judicature (, at 32) (with others)
  • Losing Faith: Why Public Distrust in the Judiciary Matters — And What Judges Can Do About It, 106 Judicature (, at 70) (with others)
  • Reforming the Electoral Count Act, Safeguarding the Vote, 106 Judicature (, at 16) (with others)
  • Leaving Afghanistan, 105 Judicature International ( (30-45)) (with others)
  • The Supreme Court Isn’t Broken. Even if It Were, Adding Justices Would Be a Bad Idea, Washington Post () (with Thomas B. Griffith)

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 ()

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Business of the Supreme Court Law Clerks, JOTWELL ()   (reviewing Tracy E. George, Albert Yoon, & Mitu Gulati, Some are More Equal Than Others: U.S. Supreme Court Clerkships, Univ. of Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2023-10, available at SSRN (Feb. 23, 2023)
  • 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))

Ryke Longest

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

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

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, )
  • Supreme Impropriety, Law and Contemporary Problems ()

Books

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

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Do the DOJ’s Sticks and Carrots Actually Work?, Compliance & Enforcement ()
  • A Better Understanding of How to Improve Demographic Diversity in Federal Appellate Law Clerk Hiring, JOTWELL () (reviewing Jeremy Fogel, Mary Hoopes, & Goodwin Liu. Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights From Fifty Sitting Judges of the Federal Courts of Appeals, Harvard Law Review (forthcoimg, 2023).

Tim Meyer

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The New U.S.-Taiwan Trade Agreement and Its Approval, Lawfare () (with Kathleen Claussen)
  • 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

  • The Second Amendment: Gun Rights and Regulation (Foundation Press, ) (with others)
  • Common Good Gun Rights, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy () (Reviewing Adrian Vermeule, Common Good Constitutionalism (2022))
  • "A Map Is Not The Territory”: The Theory and Future of the Sensitive Places Doctrine, New York University Law Review Online () (with others)
  • Technology, Tradition, and “The Terror of the People", Notre Dame Law Review () (with others)
  • The New Outlawry, Columbia Law Review () (with Jacob Charles)

Books

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 ()

Michael Murphy

Works in Progress

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

Articles & Essays

Michelle Benedict Nowlin

Articles & Essays

Shu-yi Oei

Articles & Essays

Ashlee Paxton-Turner

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Jonathan Petkun

Works in Progress

  • What Determines Military Legitimacy? Evidence from the Battle of Mosul in Iraq, HiCN Working Paper Series  2023-402 () (with others)
  • 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)

Books

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 Courts Should Be More Political, Not Less, New York Times ()
  • The Constitutional Flaw That’s Killing American Democracy, The Atlantic ()
  • Democrats Need Patriotism Now More Than Ever, New 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 Democracy, New 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

  • The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China (Cambridge University Press, )

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • How Technology Is Changing Justice in China, Judicature 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.)

Arti K. Rai

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Jerome H. Reichman

Forthcoming

  • Protecting Sub-Patentable Innovation: The Case for Codified Liability Rules, UC Davis Law Review () (with Ana Santos Rutschman)

Articles & Essays

Mara Revkin

Forthcoming

  • Law and Violence in the Middle East, in Oxford Handbook on Law and Authoritarianism (Cora Chan, Madhav Khosla, Benjamin Liebman & Mark Tushnet, eds., )
  • No Peace Without Punishment? Reintegrating Islamic State “Collaborators” in Iraq, American Journal of Comparative Law () (with Kristen Kao)

Works in Progress

  • What Determines Military Legitimacy? Evidence from the Battle of Mosul in Iraq, HiCN Working Paper Series 2023-402 () (with others)
  • Is There a "Right to Forget" Atrocities? The International Law on Memory with New Evidence from South Sudan () (with Olivia Wang)
  • Law, Morality, and Blame: Attitudes Toward Civilian Casualties in Mosul () (with Janina Dill)
  • The Blind Spots of International Humanitarian Law () (with Orly Stern)

Articles & Essays

Barak D. Richman

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • It’s Ok to Ask for Help: An Antitrust Rooney Rule, ProMarket ()
  • Hospitals Are a Problem. Competition Is the Answer, Politico ()

Stephen E. Roady

Articles & Essays

Emily Ryo

Articles & Essays

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

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

Ernest A. Young

Forthcoming

  • Standing and Probabilistic Injury, Michigan Law Review () (with Curtis A. Bradley)
  • Federalism and Loyalty, in The Law and Politics of Federalism (Erin Delaney ed., )

Works in Progress

  • Dying Constitutionalism and the Lost Years of the Fourteenth Amendment ()
  • State Sovereign Immunity After the Revolution ()
  • Many Models of Process Federalism, in ()
  • Standing in State Court () (with Rebekah Strotman)

Articles & Essays

Lawrence A. Zelenak

Books

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays

  • 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 ()
  • Stanley S. Surrey: A Life in Taxes, 175 Tax Notes Federal 741-749 () (with Ajay K. Mehrotra)
  • The Two "Two Americas" of Trump and Romney, 85 Law and Contemporary Problems 87-100 ()

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., )

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