Videos tagged with Bolch Judicial Institute

  • David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute, congratulates the 2020 graduating class of Duke Law School’s Master of Judicial Studies program.

  • David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute and president of the American Law Institute, talks with top law school deans about how they made the rapid transition to online learning and what the coming months and years might hold for law schools and students. Featuring Kerry Abrams, the James B. Duke and Benjamin N.

  • Bolch Judicial Institute Director David F. Levi talks with leaders from the Legal Services Corporation and legal aid agencies about the challenges they face as they continue to provide critical legal aid to low-income communities during the coronavirus pandemic. Featuring Ronald Flagg and Lynn Jennings of the Legal Services Corporation; Raun Rasmussen of Legal Services NYC; Laura Tuggle of Southeast Louisiana Legal Services; and Yvonne Mariajimenez of Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County.

  • David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute, joins Hon. Dikgang Moseneke for a discussion of Moseneke’s recent memoir “My Own Liberator.” Dikgang Moseneke, Former Deputy Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, was born in 1947 in Pretoria, South Africa. He was arrested at age 15 for opposing apartheid, the state system of institutionalized racial segregation, and sentenced to 10 years in the prison rock quarry of Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa. His fellow political prisoners included future South African presidents Nelson Mandela and Jacob Zuma.

  • David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute, joins former Massachusetts Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall for a discussion of Marshall's trailblazing life in the judiciary. Born and raised in South Africa, Chief Justice Marshall came to the U.S. for graduate school and was unable to return to South Africa because of her anti-apartheid advocacy. She took U.S.

  • Why has judicial review in the United States evolved into such a vastly different concept than judicial review in the UK and most other common law jurisdictions? New Zealand Court of Appeal Justice David Collins offers a comparative analysis. Justice Collins is a 2018 graduate of Duke Law's Master of Judicial Studies program and is visiting Duke as the Bolch Judicial Institute's Distinguished Judge in Residence.

    Co-sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute and the Program in Public Law.

  • Retired United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy received the inaugural Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law on April 11, 2019, during a ceremony with Duke Law alumni and leaders from the North Carolina judiciary and legal community. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Judge Allyson K. Duncan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and Bolch Judicial Institute Director David F. Levi were among the speakers.

  • David Levi (Director of the Bolch Judicial Institute), Judge Jeffrey Sutton (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Judge Joan Larsen (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Judge Allison Eid (United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit), and Justice Goodwin Liu (Supreme Court of California) discuss Judge Sutton's book, "51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law." (Oxford University Press, 2018).

    Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute.

  • Judge Jon O. Newman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit discusses Federal Sentencing: the Good, the Bad, and the Awful. Judge Newman serves as the inaugural Distinguished Judge in Residence at the Bolch Judicial Institute during the week of October 29, 2018.

    Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute.

    Appearing: Jon O. Newman (2d Cir.), speaker; Marin Levy (Duke Law School), introductions.

  • David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute and Levi Family Professor of Law and Judicial Studies, and Judge Jon O. Newman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, discuss Judge Newman's life in the judiciary, his recent book, and what he thinks should to be done to improve the U.S. justice system. Judge Newman served as the inaugural Distinguished Judge in Residence at the Bolch Judicial Institute during the week of October 29, 2018.

    Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute.