Rule of Law

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

by Zachary Newkirk

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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In Conversation

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 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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Tightrope Act: Can new FISA court reforms address privacy concerns without impeding anti-terrorism efforts?

by Maj. Gen. Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. USAF (ret.)

Vol. 99 No. 2 (2015) | The Mass-Tort MDL Vortex

Although the revamping of bulk data-collection practices dominated headlines about the passage of the USA Freedom Act in June, the new law also contained reforms of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court […]

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