Rule of Law

Speaking, Listening, and the Rule of Law: Free Speech on Campus

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Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?

A university is a very noisy place and by design. […] We revel in and celebrate the cacophony of many voices, and the collision of ideas and beliefs.

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A brief moment in the sun

A Brief Moment in the Sun: The Reconstruction-Era Courts of the Freedman’s Bureau

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Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?

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 […]

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Roundtable: The State of the Judiciary

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Vol. 101 No. 3 (2017) | Bold and Persistent Reform

These 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 […]

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