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Featured Videos
Star Rule of Law Series | Attacks on Judges: What Can We Do?
Civility and the Courts: A Bolch Prize Conversation at Duke Law
Bolch Prize 2026 | Honoring David F. Levi at Duke Law
Understanding the Rule of Law (Short)
Why Judges Have Lifetime Appointments — Explained (Short)
Why State Court Judicial Elections Matter (Short)
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Recent Programs & Conversations
- Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law: Honoring David F. Levi at Duke Law
- Democracy = The Ultimate Group Project
- Civility and the Courts: A Bolch Prize Conversation at Duke Law
- Star Rule of Law Series | Attacks on Judges: What Can We Do?
- How the Supreme Court is Reshaping the Role of Government Agencies in Our Everyday Lives
Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law
- 2026 Bolch Prize Ceremony | Honoring David F. Levi
- 2025 Bolch Prize | A Conversation with Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani
- 2025 Bolch Prize Ceremony | Honoring Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani
- 2024 Bolch Prize Ceremony | Honoring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
- 2024 Bolch Prize | Panel Discussion with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s Former Law Clerks
- 2023 Bolch Prize Ceremony | Honoring the International Association of Women Judges
- 2022 Bolch Prize Ceremony | Honoring Judge J. Clifford Wallace
- 2020-21 Bolch Prize Ceremony | Honoring Hon. Dikgang Moseneke & Hon. Margaret H. Marshall
- 2019 Bolch Prize | Anthony M. Kennedy
Judgment Calls & Judicial Conversations
- Bolch Institute | Judgment Calls: A Conversation with Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat
- Bolch Institute | Judgment Calls: A Conversation with Judge Jacqueline Nguyen
- Bolch Institute | Judgment Calls: A Conversation with Judge Andrew Oldham
- Bolch Institute | Judgment Calls: A Conversation with Hon. Dikgang Moseneke
- Bolch Institute | Judgment Calls: Conversation with Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall
- Bolch Institute | Judicial Review: A Conversation with Justice David Collins
- David Collins | Why Nine: A Conversation on Court Packing
- Bolch Institute | 51 Imperfect Solutions: A Judicial Roundtable
- Bolch Institute | David F. Levi & Jon O. Newman, Judgment Calls
- Bolch Institute | Jon O. Newman, Federal Sentencing: The Good, the Bad & the Awful
Master of Judicial Studies
- Hon. Carla Archie (Duke LLM ’20) talks about writing her master's thesis on recidivism
- Hon. Betsy Chestney (Duke LLM ’20) talks about writing her master's thesis on judicial behavior
- Hon. Sam Thumma (Duke LLM ’20) talks about writing his master's thesis on anti-lenity statutes
- Bolch Institute | Congratulations to the Master of Judicial Studies Class of 2020!
Civics Break and Rule of Law Explainers
- Civics Break Modules
- Module 1: The Rule of Law and the Foundations of the Judiciary
- Module 2: The Job of Judging
- Module 3: The Courts and You
- Civics Break Shorts
- Democracy = The Ultimate Group Project
- Why Judges Have Lifetime Appointments — Explained
- Why State Court Judicial Elections Matter
- Understanding the Rule of Law
Lemkin Rule of Law Guardian
Courts, Democracy & Public Trust
- Bolch Institute | Afghan Women Judges in Crisis: A Discussion with IAWJ Judges
- North Carolina Supreme Court Candidates Forum
- Jennie Lee Anderson and David Kessler discuss best practices regarding proportional discovery
- Richard Gergel | Unexampled Courage: An Untold Story of American Civil Rights History
- Bolch Institute | Fees, Fines, Bail & the Destitution Pipeline: What Can State Courts Do?
- Duke Law Journal | Conversation with Profs. Brandon Garrett, Joseph Blocher, and Judge Paul W. Grimm
Coping with COVID
- Coping with COVID | The Plague of Excessive Force; Working Together to Find a Cure
- Coping with COVID: When is it Safe to Work?
- Coping with COVID: Jury Trials, Mediations, and Complex Litigation
- Coping with COVID: Leadership Perspectives from the Private Sector
- Bolch Institute | Coping with COVID: How Law Schools are Educating Students & Fostering Community
- Bolch Institute | Coping with COVID: Legal Services Organizations on the Front Lines
- Bolch Institute | Coping with COVID: How Courts are Preserving Access to Justice