by Eric Surber | May 23, 2023 | Latest News
This summer, 21 active judges and justices begin two years of rigorous study to complete a Master of Judicial Studies degree at Duke Law. A hallmark of this program is the diversity of judges and justices that make up each cohort. Not only are the jurists from...
by Eric Surber | May 10, 2023 | Latest News, Trauma-Informed Courts
The Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School has received a $120,000 grant from the North Carolina Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (NC IOLTA) to support the first-ever day-long trauma education program as part of orientation for all newly elected North Carolina...
by Eric Surber | Apr 19, 2023 | Latest News
Senior Judge David G. Campbell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, Judge J. Michelle Childs (LLM’16) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Chilton Varner, partner, King & Spalding, have joined the Bolch Judicial...
by Eric Surber | Apr 13, 2023 | Latest News, Trauma-Informed Courts
Amelia Ashton Thorn, assistant director at the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School, spoke about her work on the N.C. Chief Justice’s Task Force on ACEs-Informed Courts in an interview with WHQR, an NPR affiliate station based in Wilmington, North Carolina....
by Eric Surber | Apr 12, 2023 | Latest News
Benjamin B. Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials and the inaugural recipient of the Bolch Judicial Institute’s Lemkin Rule of Law Guardian Medal, died on Friday, April 7, 2023, at the age of 103. [Pictured Above: Benjamin Ferencz at the...