Student Scholarship
Students at Duke Law have ample opportunity to pursue their academic research interests. Work from independent studies and capstone projects often results in a publishable paper and the Student Scholarship Workshop provides a forum where students present drafts and receive feedback from faculty and peers alike. In addition, Duke has created a Summer Student Scholarship Grant, which gives students an opportunity to spend a summer doing creative and in-depth research to produce a paper that will be submitted for publication outside of the Law School.
The Student Scholarship Workshop is a forum for all JD, LLM, and SJD students to present written works to each other, with the goals of:
- Developing arguments for a student note, research paper, or other work,
- Improving writing skills,
- Learning to provide critical feedback, and
- Participating in intellectually stimulating discussions.
The workshop series will meet most Tuesdays over lunch during the spring semester in room 3171. Students are welcome to present works at all stages of the writing process, ranging from outlines to rough drafts to final papers (though you do not need to present in order to participate).
Select list of Student Scholarship
- Jessica Waddle, Restoring the Sanctity of the Home by Reforming Knock-and-Talk Procedure presented April 7, 2016
- Amelia DeGory, The Jurisdiction Difficulties of Defining Charter School Teachers Unions Under Current Labor Law presented March 31, 2016
- Andrew Gershenfeld, "Re-Conceptualizing Privacy Law in the Age of Drones, Twitter, and Terrorism: The Coming Demise of Katz and the Rebirth of Privacy in the 21st Century" presented March 3, 2016
- Shanna Rifkin, Safeguarding the ADA's Anti-Discrimination Mandate: Subjecting Arrests to Title II Coverage presented February 18, 2016
- Christine Ryan, Toward an Anti-Stereotyping Approach to Abortion Rights at the European Court of Human Rights presented February 4, 2016
- Ben Sarbey, Definitions of Death: Brain Death and What Matters in a Person presented January 21, 2016
- Nicole Blumenkehl, Out of Tune Ivory Policy: Unintended Consequences for Musicians presented November 19, 2014
- Cornelia J.B. Gordon, No Justice Within the Law: The Murder of Wyatt Outlaw and Its Absence from the Legal-Historical Record, presented November 10, 2014
- Tatiana Sainati, Comparing Class Actions and Pilot Judgments: How the Procedures of the U.S. Class Action can Help Safeguard the Right of Individual Access in the Pilot Judgment Procedures at the European Court of Human Rights, presented January 30, 2014
- Mark Horosko, We Don't Live There Anymore: Unilaterally Adopted Forum Selection Bylaws and Shareholder Consent After Boilermakers v. Chevron, presented December 4, 2013
- Kyle M. Druding, In Search of Monsters Abroad: Serving Summonses on Foreign Organizations Under Rule 4 and Fifth Amendment Due Process, presented November 5, 2013
- Meishu Wang, Official Merit Promotion System and Its Impact on Climate Change Mitigation Policy in China: Will Chinese Central Government’s "Iron Hand" Work?, presented October 23, 2013
- Daniel Rice, The Riddle of Ruth Bryan Owen, presented September 25, 2013
- Jake Charles, The Proceduralist Case for Judicial Review, presented September 11, 2013
Duke Law School has created a summer grant program to support student scholarship. Our hope is that the opportunity to spend a summer researching and writing, with faculty support, will encourage students to undertake more creative and in-depth research for papers, and will enable students to develop scholarship for submission to journals outside of Duke Law School.
Description of Grant
Duke Law School will offer summer grants of $2500 each to support students committed to developing publishable scholarship. These grants will enable students to devote a summer to researching and writing with faculty supervision. Grant recipients will be expected to make a presentation of their research and paper in the fall semester following receipt of the grant. There is no specified limit on the number of grants that can be awarded. Grants will be awarded to students in support of research projects that will significantly further the student’s career or educational objectives and will lead to high quality, publishable work.
Grant Eligibility
- Any currently enrolled student, including a current third-year student, may submit a grant proposal, though proposals from first-year and second-year students are preferred. A proposal submitted by a third-year student should demonstrate that the student will have sufficient time to devote to research and writing if he or she is also taking a bar exam during the same summer.
- If a first-year student is awarded a grant before knowing whether he or she will be selected for a journal, the student must be committed to completing the proposed project regardless of journal selection. Students may not use summer grants to support work in a journal casenote competition, but may use grants to support work on a journal note after the student is selected for a journal, and the work completed pursuant to the grant may be used as the basis for a note, if approved by the journal.
- A student may use a summer grant to support work on an individual capstone project, independent study project, or other for-credit project with permission of the faculty member awarding credit for the project.
- Only students who plan to make the research and writing project their primary summer focus will be eligible for the grant. Students who are undertaking full-time jobs for the summer are not eligible for these grants. However, students would not be disqualified from taking on limited work to cover living expenses not covered by the grant. A partial grant may be available to students attending one of the Duke Summer Institutes in Transnational Law.
- Students receiving grants will work under the supervision of one or more faculty members. Each proposal should identify a faculty supervisor, and each student should discuss the proposal with his or her faculty supervisor before submitting it. Each student is responsible for working with his or her faculty supervisor to schedule a presentation of his or her research and paper in the fall semester following receipt of the grant.
Grant Proposal Process
- Each grant proposal should include
- a detailed written description of the research and writing project;
- the name of the faculty supervisor;
- a statement of the student’s summer plans, including possible employment, preparation for the bar exam, and other time commitments;
- a CV and transcript.
- The nature and scope of the proposed paper are left to the student and supervising faculty member to develop. There is no prescribed length. It is expected that the student will be committed to developing a publishable piece of scholarship, though the publishable piece need not be completed during the initial summer of work. The student and supervising faculty member will develop the timeline for completing the scholarship.
- While the anticipated amount of each grant is $2500, a proposal may request additional support for specific, identified research costs beyond those normally incurred in a research project.
The Student Scholarship Workshop is a forum for all JD, LLM, and SJD students to present written works to each other, with the goals of:
- Developing arguments for a student note, research paper, or other work,
- Improving writing skills,
- Learning to provide critical feedback, and
- Participating in intellectually stimulating discussions.
The workshop series will meet most Tuesdays over lunch during the spring semester in room 3171. Students are welcome to present works at all stages of the writing process, ranging from outlines to rough drafts to final papers (though you do not need to present in order to participate).
Select list of Student Scholarship
- Jessica Waddle, Restoring the Sanctity of the Home by Reforming Knock-and-Talk Procedure presented April 7, 2016
- Amelia DeGory, The Jurisdiction Difficulties of Defining Charter School Teachers Unions Under Current Labor Law presented March 31, 2016
- Andrew Gershenfeld, "Re-Conceptualizing Privacy Law in the Age of Drones, Twitter, and Terrorism: The Coming Demise of Katz and the Rebirth of Privacy in the 21st Century" presented March 3, 2016
- Shanna Rifkin, Safeguarding the ADA's Anti-Discrimination Mandate: Subjecting Arrests to Title II Coverage presented February 18, 2016
- Christine Ryan, Toward an Anti-Stereotyping Approach to Abortion Rights at the European Court of Human Rights presented February 4, 2016
- Ben Sarbey, Definitions of Death: Brain Death and What Matters in a Person presented January 21, 2016
- Nicole Blumenkehl, Out of Tune Ivory Policy: Unintended Consequences for Musicians presented November 19, 2014
- Cornelia J.B. Gordon, No Justice Within the Law: The Murder of Wyatt Outlaw and Its Absence from the Legal-Historical Record, presented November 10, 2014
- Tatiana Sainati, Comparing Class Actions and Pilot Judgments: How the Procedures of the U.S. Class Action can Help Safeguard the Right of Individual Access in the Pilot Judgment Procedures at the European Court of Human Rights, presented January 30, 2014
- Mark Horosko, We Don't Live There Anymore: Unilaterally Adopted Forum Selection Bylaws and Shareholder Consent After Boilermakers v. Chevron, presented December 4, 2013
- Kyle M. Druding, In Search of Monsters Abroad: Serving Summonses on Foreign Organizations Under Rule 4 and Fifth Amendment Due Process, presented November 5, 2013
- Meishu Wang, Official Merit Promotion System and Its Impact on Climate Change Mitigation Policy in China: Will Chinese Central Government’s "Iron Hand" Work?, presented October 23, 2013
- Daniel Rice, The Riddle of Ruth Bryan Owen, presented September 25, 2013
- Jake Charles, The Proceduralist Case for Judicial Review, presented September 11, 2013
Duke Law School has created a summer grant program to support student scholarship. Our hope is that the opportunity to spend a summer researching and writing, with faculty support, will encourage students to undertake more creative and in-depth research for papers, and will enable students to develop scholarship for submission to journals outside of Duke Law School.
Description of Grant
Duke Law School will offer summer grants of $2500 each to support students committed to developing publishable scholarship. These grants will enable students to devote a summer to researching and writing with faculty supervision. Grant recipients will be expected to make a presentation of their research and paper in the fall semester following receipt of the grant. There is no specified limit on the number of grants that can be awarded. Grants will be awarded to students in support of research projects that will significantly further the student’s career or educational objectives and will lead to high quality, publishable work.
Grant Eligibility
- Any currently enrolled student, including a current third-year student, may submit a grant proposal, though proposals from first-year and second-year students are preferred. A proposal submitted by a third-year student should demonstrate that the student will have sufficient time to devote to research and writing if he or she is also taking a bar exam during the same summer.
- If a first-year student is awarded a grant before knowing whether he or she will be selected for a journal, the student must be committed to completing the proposed project regardless of journal selection. Students may not use summer grants to support work in a journal casenote competition, but may use grants to support work on a journal note after the student is selected for a journal, and the work completed pursuant to the grant may be used as the basis for a note, if approved by the journal.
- A student may use a summer grant to support work on an individual capstone project, independent study project, or other for-credit project with permission of the faculty member awarding credit for the project.
- Only students who plan to make the research and writing project their primary summer focus will be eligible for the grant. Students who are undertaking full-time jobs for the summer are not eligible for these grants. However, students would not be disqualified from taking on limited work to cover living expenses not covered by the grant. A partial grant may be available to students attending one of the Duke Summer Institutes in Transnational Law.
- Students receiving grants will work under the supervision of one or more faculty members. Each proposal should identify a faculty supervisor, and each student should discuss the proposal with his or her faculty supervisor before submitting it. Each student is responsible for working with his or her faculty supervisor to schedule a presentation of his or her research and paper in the fall semester following receipt of the grant.
Grant Proposal Process
- Each grant proposal should include
- a detailed written description of the research and writing project;
- the name of the faculty supervisor;
- a statement of the student’s summer plans, including possible employment, preparation for the bar exam, and other time commitments;
- a CV and transcript.
- The nature and scope of the proposed paper are left to the student and supervising faculty member to develop. There is no prescribed length. It is expected that the student will be committed to developing a publishable piece of scholarship, though the publishable piece need not be completed during the initial summer of work. The student and supervising faculty member will develop the timeline for completing the scholarship.
- While the anticipated amount of each grant is $2500, a proposal may request additional support for specific, identified research costs beyond those normally incurred in a research project.