Rule of Law
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Advancing the Rule of Law
by David F. Levi, Samuel A. Alito, Anthony M. Kennedy and Allyson K. Duncan
Vol. 103 No. 2 (2019) | Pay NCAA athletes?Excerpts from the 2019 Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law ceremony On April 11, 2019, the Bolch Judicial Institute presented its inaugural Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law […]
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51 Imperfect Solutions: State and Federal Judges Consider the Role of State Constitutions
by David F. Levi, Joan Larsen, Allison Eid, Goodwin Liu and Jeffrey S. Sutton
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | 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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A Blinding, An Awakening, and a Journey Through Civil Rights History
Vol. 103 No. 2 (2019) | Pay NCAA athletes?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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The Emergence of the American Constitutional Law Tradition
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasMy title is āThe Emergence of the American Constitutional Law Tradition,ā and what I want us to think about today is the process by which American constitutional law came to […]
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Change Agents: Looking to State Constitutions for Rights Innovations
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightThe following is an excerpt from 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law (Ā© 2018 by Jeffrey Sutton, published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.) […]
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How Freed Slaves Extended the Reach of Federal Courts and Expanded our Understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightIn 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 ātalked for her rights.ā […]
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A Friendly Award: Chief Justice Roberts Presents Justice Ginsburg with The Henry J. Friendly Medal at the 2018 ALI Annual Meeting
Vol. 102 No. 3 (2018) | Crowdsourcing and Data AnalyticsAt 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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Speaking, Listening, and the Rule of Law: Free Speech on Campus
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: The Reconstruction-Era Courts of the Freedmanās Bureau
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 employerās horse without permission. A local criminal judge in Bradford […]
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Roundtable: The State of the Judiciary
by David F. Levi, H. Jefferson Powell, Don R. Willett, Ernest A. Young, Margaret H. Lemos and Carolyn B. Kuhl
Vol. 101 No. 3 (2017) | 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 […]