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Judicature

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Bolch Judicial Institute
Duke Law School

Diane P. Wood is a Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.

Written by Diane P. Wood

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Current Challenges Facing the Judiciary

Vol. 109 No. 1 (2025) | Celebrating a Decade at Duke
Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse (US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit) |

Thirteen Fiefdoms: Inside the United States Courts of Appeals

Vol. 108 No. 2 (2024) | Judges Under Siege?
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Shortlisted

Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New Trails
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Losing Faith: Why Public Trust in the Judiciary Matters

Vol. 106 No. 2 (2022) | Losing faith?
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Judge of All Trades: Further Thoughts on Specialized Courts

Vol. 99 No. 3 (2015) | Fixing Discovery
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A Report from the 2015 United States–United Kingdom Legal Exchange

Vol. 100 No. 2 (2016) | A Judge in Public Life
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A(nother) New Plan for Clerkship Hiring

by Diane Wood and Aaron Nielson

Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World Right
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Remembering Irving Goldberg

Select Articles (Pre-2015) | Volumes 1-98