Publications & Resources

Judicature is a scholarly journal focused on the judiciary, the administration of justice, and the rule of law. Its mission is to create a forum for judges, practitioners, and academics to share scholarship, best practices, perspectives, and opinions. Past authors include Justice Stephen Breyer, Professor Michael Dorf, Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, and Jay Bilas. Read the latest edition at judicature.duke.edu.

The Bolch Judicial Institute has directly supported the publication of two editions of Duke Law School’s Law & Contemporary Problems, a quarterly, interdisciplinary, faculty-edited publication. L&CP uses a symposium format, generally publishing one symposium per issue on a topic of contemporary concern.

• Vol. 82 No. 2 “Judicial Institutions and Behavior” (2019)
• Vol. 84 No. 2 “Innovations in Complex Litigation and Settlement” (2021)

Duke Law School maintains a repository for scholarly articles, reports, and essays published by the Bolch Judicial Institute at scholarship.law.duke.edu/bolch. Guidelines and Best Practices documents on a variety of topics, including class actions, discovery, and mass-tort MDLs, can be also be accessed in the repository.

The Bolch Judicial Institute organized and recorded a series of oral history videos with Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in 2021-2022. The interviews were conducted primarily by lawyers and judges who had clerked for Judge Tjoflat after law school; topics included major events in the judge’s career and education and his interests.

Theses submitted by students enrolled in the Master of Judicial Studies program are collected and made accessible through the Duke Law Scholarship Repository, available at scholarship.law.duke.edu/mjs.