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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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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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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, 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 […]
