In Conversation
by David F. Levi, Allison Eid, Joan Larsen, Goodwin Liu and Jeffrey S. Sutton
Vol. 103 No. 1 | Navigating Rough SeasJudge Jeffrey Sutton is one of our most respected and admired federal appellate judges. He has served on the Sixth Circuit, with chambers in Columbus, Ohio, since his appointment to […]
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Sergeant Isaac Woodard had just completed a three-year tour in a segregated unit of the United States Army. He boarded a Greyhound bus in Augusta, Ga., that would take him […]
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My title is “The Emergence of the American Constitutional Law Tradition,” and what I want us to think about today is the process by which American constitutional law came to […]
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The following is an excerpt from 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law (© 2018 by Jeffrey Sutton, published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.) […]
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In 1870, Maria Mitchell, an African American woman in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, did something that she could not have done when she was enslaved: She “talked for her rights.” […]
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At the annual meeting of the American Law Institute (ALI) in May, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., presented the Henry J. Friendly medal to his colleague on the Court, […]
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AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS ACADEMIC YEAR, DAVID F. LEVI, DEAN OF DUKE LAW SCHOOL AND THE FORMER CHIEF U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, OFFERED CONVOCATION […]
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When he was 16 years old during the summer of 1866, a recently freed slave named Alfred Jefferson rode his employer’s horse without permission. A local criminal judge in Bradford […]
In Conversation
by David F. Levi, H. Jefferson Powell, Margaret H. Lemos, Carolyn B. Kuhl, Don R. Willett and Ernest A. Young
Vol. 101 No. 3 | Bold and Persistent ReformThese are interesting times for the judiciary. Tackling questions of judicial independence, the balance of powers, judicial selection methods, and more, a panel of Duke Law faculty and alumni judges […]
