Discussing constitutional law with a Supreme Court justice is a law student’s dream — and for some lucky third-year Duke Law students, that dream was their spring break reality. From March 11 to 15 this year, 15 students learned from the best: Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. and Professor David F. Levi, former dean of Continue Reading »
Duke’s oldest law journal, Law & Contemporary Problems, has published several thesis papers written by judges who are graduates of the Bolch Judicial Institute’s Master of Judicial Studies program. The papers comprise a special edition of the journal titled The Study of Judicial Institutions: A View from the Inside (Vol. 82 No. 2), and journal Continue Reading »
Nearly 50 federal judges from across the country attended a survey course geared toward helping judges understand and anticipate the ways in which cutting-edge technologies are currently affecting — and likely to affect — the legal world. The program, “Law and Technology for Judges,” was co-hosted by the Bolch Judicial Institute and the Federal Judicial Continue Reading »
The spring 2019 EDRM workshop/forum, held at Duke University Law School on May 15-17, 2019, examined issues and challenges involving e-discovery and technology, including GDPR compliance, TAR guidelines, and proportionality. Over the course of the workshop, 54 participants worked in small groups on eight different EDRM projects. According to EDRM’s director Jim Waldron, the workshop’s Continue Reading »
Judge Allyson Duncan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit spoke was the commencement speaker for the Duke Law Class of 2019. A member of the Bolch Judicial Institute Advisory Board, Duncan is a 1975 Duke Law graduate and a Duke University trustee. She shared lessons learned from her remarkable career as Continue Reading »
Retired United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy received the inaugural Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law on April 11, 2019, during a ceremony with Duke Law alumni and leaders from the North Carolina judiciary and legal community. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Judge Allyson K. Duncan of the U.S. Court Continue Reading »
by Jeff Ward The following article appeared in the Spring 2019 edition of Judicature. With recent and dramatic advances in the capacities of machine learning, we are now beginning to see artificial intelligence (AI) tools come into their own. This matters for our judiciary, not only because the courts are embedded in an increasingly AI-rich Continue Reading »
Following is selected coverage of the 2019 Bolch Prize ceremony. CSPAN CSPAN is scheduled to broadcast full coverage of the Bolch Prize ceremony on Monday, May 27, 2019, at 10 a.m. Eastern, and will re-broadcast the program several times afterward. Check CSPAN’s website for details and program alerts. Duke Chronicle: Law must protect human freedom, Continue Reading »
Bloomberg Law covered the Bolch Prize ceremony, at which U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (Retired) received the inaugural Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law. From the article by Andrew Ballard: The rule of law, fundamental to freedom and democracy, is being chipped away, according to former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Continue Reading »
NC Policy Watch covered the Bolch Prize ceremony and noted that the award’s inaugural recipient, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (retired) was honored for a career that embodied the ideals of the rule of law as well as his efforts to promote the rule of law worldwide. From the article by Melissa Continue Reading »
John Rabiej, deputy director of the Bolch Judicial Institute, and Jim Waldron, director of EDRM, the e-discovery organization operated by the Bolch Judicial Institute, spoke at the Yale Law School Workshop on Court Records Access, which was sponsored jointly by Yale’s Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic (MFIA) and its Collaboration for Research Integrity and Continue Reading »
