Giving students historical perspective on their rights as citizens Most students first discover their Constitutional rights as teenagers. Sometimes they learn about their duties as citizens through active civic participation, such as campaigning for an issue they care...
The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has been named the 2024 recipient of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law by the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School. A ceremony will be held in her honor on April 4, 2024, at Duke University. Justice...
The N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby’s Task Force on ACEs-Informed Courts issued its final report on November 30, 2023. Chief Justice Newby, a member of the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School’s advisory board, established the task force in March...
Sandra Day O’Connor, who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1981 until her retirement in 2006, died Dec. 1 at age 93. She was the first female justice in the Court’s history. David F. Levi, president of the American Law Institute and the James B. Duke and...
In an article for Bloomberg Law published on Nov. 28, 2023, Judge Paul W. Grimm (ret.), director of the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law, commented on judges issuing individual standing orders regarding the use of GenAI programs like ChatGPT. “If a judge just sits...