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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

Katharine T. Bartlett

Books

Jennifer L. Behrens

Articles & Essays

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

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

Articles & Essays

Joseph Blocher

Forthcoming

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)
  • Appraising Sandy’s Call to “Arms”: Success in the Academy … Not So Much in the Courts, Balkinization ()

James Boyle

Forthcoming

  • The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood (MIT Press, )

Books

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Unperson Of 2023Techdirt ()
  • Misunderestimating Openness, Paradox of Open: Responses, Open Future ()

Rachel Brewster

Chris Buccafusco

Forthcoming

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.)
  • Can Neuroscience Fix Trademark Surveys?, JOTWELL () (reviewing Zhihao Zhang, Maxwell Good, Vera Kulikov, Femke van Horen, Mark Bartholomew, Andrew S. Kayser & Ming Hsu, From Scanner to Court: A Neuroscientifically Informed "Reasonable Person" Test of Trademark Infringement, 9 Science Advances 1 (2023))
  • How Ed Sheeran's Serenade May Have Swayed the Jury, Law360 ()

Samuel W. Buell

Forthcoming

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 ()
  • Why Biden’s New School-Sports Rule Matters, The Atlantic ()

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

Articles & Essays

John M. de Figueiredo

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)
  • The Credit Markets Go Dark, 134 Yale Law Journal () (with Jared A. Ellias)

Works in Progress

  • Corporate Governance and the Rise of the Private Markets ()
  • The Dry Powder Problem ()
  • The Value of M&A Drafting () (with others)

Articles & Essays

Deborah A. DeMott

Articles & Essays

Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

  • Return to Sender?: Analyzing the 'Open Letter' on Civilian Control of the Military, 15 Harvard National Security Journal 77-118 ()

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

Nita A. Farahany

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

  • Neurotech at Work, in The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need From Harvard Business Review ()

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 ()
  • 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 ()

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

  • 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

Elana Fogel

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Plea Bargains: Efficient or Unjust?, 107 Judicature (, at 50) (with others)

Michael D. Frakes

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Brandon L. Garrett

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Books

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays

Crystal Grant

Articles & Essays

Sara Sternberg Greene

Forthcoming

  • Getting to Home: Collateral Consequences in the Rental Housing Market, 74 Duke Law Journal () (with others)
  • The Savings Mirage, in Law and the 100-Year Life (Abbe Gluck & Anne Alstott eds., )

Works in Progress

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

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • NC Hospitals Use Deceit to Sue Patients, Take Their Homes, Charlotte Observer () (with Barak Richman)

Lisa Kern Griffin

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

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

Articles & Essays

  • False Accuracy in Criminal Trials: The Limits and Costs of Cross Examination, 102 Texas Law Review 1011-1058 ()

Paul Grimm

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Battle for Your Brain: A Legal Scholar’s Argument for Protecting Brain Data and Cognitive Liberty, 107 Judicature (, at 44) (with Nita A. Farahany)
  • More Public Trust in Courts Needed to Fight Threats to Judges, Bloomberg Law ()
  • The Judiciary Is Under Attack. Lawyers Have a Duty to Defend ItBloomberg Law ()
  • Playing the Long Game: The Role of International Courts and Tribunals in the Russo-Ukrainian War, Judicature International (, at 1) (with others)
  • Uniform Standards Needed Now for Sexual Assault Prosecution Offices, Marine Corps Times () (with Meghan Tokash)
  • Is Disclosure and Certification of the Use of Generative AI Really Necessary?, 107 Judicature (, at 68) (with others)

Ben K. Grunwald

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Data-Driven Decarceration, Inquest ()

Laurence R. Helfer

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • Revisiting Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals () (with Başak Çalı)

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)

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.)

Jayne Huckerby

Articles & Essays

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)

Jennifer Jenkins

Books

Margaret H. Lemos

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

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

David F. Levi

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Free Speech on Campus: Examining the Campus Speech Debate Through a First Amendment Lens, 107 Judicature (, at 54) (with Geoffrey R. Stone)
  • Faith in Law, 107 Judicature (, at 62) (with Dallin H. Oaks)
  • New Ideas About How Judges Think, 106 Judicature (, at 32) (with others)

Marin K. Levy

Forthcoming

  • Written and Unwritten: The Rules, Internal Practices, and Customs of the United States Courts of Appeals (Cambridge University Press, ) (with Jon O. Newman)
  • Defining the Field of Judicial Administration, 36 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities ()
  • The Invention of the Judicial Administration State, 124 Michigan Law Review () (Reviewing Robert C. Post, The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921-1930 (2024))

Works in Progress

  • Governing the Judiciary ()
  • Local Rulemaking () (with Zach Clopton)
  • Local Rules () (with Zach Clopton)
  • State Representation on the Courts of Appeals ()

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)

Ryke Longest

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

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

H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr.

Articles & Essays

Noah Marks

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

  • Book Reviews, 46 Journal of the American Taxation Association 180-182 () (reviewing James R. Repetti, William H. Lyons, & Charlene D. Luke, Partnership Income Taxation (7th Ed. 2023))

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., )
  • Supreme ImproprietyLaw and Contemporary Problems ()

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 ()

Books

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 et al., Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights From Fifty Sitting Judges of the Federal Courts of Appeals, Harvard Law Review (forthcoming, 2023).

Tim Meyer

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • 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)
  • 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)

Michael Murphy

Works in Progress

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

Articles & Essays

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)
  • Peer Group Governance ()

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

Works in Progress

Books

Ashlee Paxton-Turner

Articles & Essays

Jonathan Petkun

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

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

  • Is the Constitution Obsolete?, North State Journal ()

Jedediah Purdy

Books

  • Walden (W.W. Norton, ) (editor)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • 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)
  • The Courts Should Be More Political, Not Less, New York Times ()

Shitong Qiao

Forthcoming

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

Jerome H. Reichman

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., )

Works in Progress

  • What Determines Military Legitimacy? Evidence from the Battle of Mosul in Iraq, 402 HiCN Working Paper Series 1- 37 () (with others)
  • Civilian Harm and Military Legitimacy in War () (with others)
  • Is There a "Right to Forget" Atrocities? The International Law on Memory with New Evidence from South Sudan () (with Olivia Wang)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Stephen E. Roady

Forthcoming

  • The Public Trust Doctrine, in Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy (T. Eichenberg, G. Hancock & M., Sutton eds., )

Articles & Essays

  • 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)

Emily Ryo

Articles & Essays

Richard L. Schmalbeck

Books

  • Federal Income Taxation (Aspen Publishing, 2004, 2d ed. 2007; Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 3d ed. 2011; Wolters Kluwer, 4th ed. 2015, 5th ed. 2018, 6th ed. ) (with others)

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

  • UCC § 2-510: A Commercial Law Blunder? ()
  • Money: A Functional Analysis ()
  • A Decision-Heuristics Approach to Corporate Governance and Risk-Taking () (with Lorilee A. Medders)
  • Enforcing Secondary Defaults: Should Harshness Limit Remedies for Non-Material Contract Breach?” ()
  • Money: Tangible, Intangible (Digital), and Legal Implications ()
  • Protection Gaps: How Complexity Increases Risk (And How Law Can Help) ()
  • Reexamining the Private Ordering of Accounting Disclosure ()

Articles & Essays

Neil Vidmar

Articles & Essays

Jonathan B. Wiener

Forthcoming

  • Practical Paths to Risk-Risk Analysis of Solar Radiation Modification () (with others)
  • Regulatory Learning Through Agency Action Under the Evidence-Based Policymaking Act () (with Lori S. Bennear)
  • SRM Monitoring: Goals, Needs, and Governance/Global Monitoring as a Governance Imperative for Solar Geoengineering () (with others)

Articles & Essays

Ernest A. Young

Forthcoming

  • Standing and Probabilistic InjuryMichigan 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 ()
  • Many Models of Process Federalism, in ()
  • Standing in State Court () (with Rebekah Strotman)

Articles & Essays

Lawrence A. Zelenak

Books

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Moore Thoughts, TaxProf Blog ()