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The Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law, which publishes Judicature, a scholarly journal focused on the judiciary, the administration of justice, and the rule of law, is welcoming several new Judicature editorial board members and a new editorial board chair. Judge...

rofessor Harold Hongju Koh of Yale Law School has been named the 2023 recipient of the Raphael Lemkin Rule of Law Guardian Medal by the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School. Professor Koh will be honored during a program on Monday, Oct. 9,...

The Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law is pleased to announce the appointment of Melinda Myers Vaughn as the Institute’s deputy director. In her role as deputy director, Vaughn will collaborate with the Institute’s director, leadership boards, and Duke Law School’s...

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...

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...

Benjamin B. Ferencz the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials and the inaugural recipient of the Lemkin Medal has died at the age of 103.

Duke Law School will welcome Judge Tayeba Parsa of Afghanistan as the first Bolch Judicial Institute Rule of Law Judicial Fellow in May 2023.