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PICTURED ABOVE: Judge Tjoflat (right) received the distinguished alumnus award from Duke University President Richard Brodhead in 2014. __ enior U.S. Circuit Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit...

Eric Tucker, a student fellow at the Bolch Judicial Institute, was the winner in the final round of the 2022 Dean’s Cup moot court competition.

Duke Law School Professor Emeritus Walter E. Dellinger III, a renowned constitutional lawyer, leading Supreme Court advocate, and acting solicitor general and assistant attorney general during the Clinton administration, died Feb. 16 at the age of 80. David F. Levi,...

Judge Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit will be a “virtual visitor” to Duke Law this month as part of the Bolch Judicial Institute’s Distinguished Judge in Residence program. As part of her residency, Judge Wood will join a course taught...

Judge J. Michelle Childs, a 2016 graduate of Duke Law School’s Master of Judicial Studies program and a recent nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, is reported to be under consideration for Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat...

nited States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke about his new book, The Authority of the Court and the Perils of Politics, and his views on judicial decision-making with David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law...

enior U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, the first Asian woman ever appointed to a lifetime position on the federal bench, recently published her first book, The First Fifteen: How Asian...

The Institute is seeking to hire a Law Fellow to assist in developing educational programs, symposia, conferences, publications, and scholarship relating to the rule of law, judicial independence, the administration of justice, and special topics in civil litigation,...

President Biden nominated Judge J. Michelle Childs, a 2016 graduate of Duke Law School’s Master of Judicial Studies program, to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on December 23, according to a statement released by the White...

he Bolch Judicial Institute hosted Duke Law's third annual Mass Tort MDL Certificate course in November, welcoming its most diverse group of attendees to date: 53 students representing 13 states, from Alabama to Wyoming, including two judges, the...