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Prof. Lawrence Explores the Benefits of the Texas Two-Step in Volume 74's first Duke Law Journal Online piece.

October 2024

DLJO is excited to announce the publication of Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus Lawrence Ponoroff’s article, Mass Tort Litigation, Chapter 11, and Good Faith: Let Not Perfect be the Enemy of Pretty, Pretty Good. In it, he takes the contrarian view that the Texas Two-Step is not inherently evil and might simply represent the latest development in the management of mass tort claims through the bankruptcy system. 

Read more here.

Volume 74 Publishes First Issue

October 2, 2024

DLJ Volume 74, Issue 1 is now live! It features nine authors across four pieces, including two student notes. Thank you to our staff editors, editorial board, and executive board for their hard work on this issue.

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Volume 74 Prepares for a New Year on DLJ

May 28, 2024

DLJ officially completed Volume 73 this month. We are grateful to our staff editors, who now comprise the executive and editorial boards of Volume 74, for their generous help, support, and community. Cheers to another Volume! See their interim masthead here.

Prof. Miller & Willinger Discuss Bruen and Their Essays in Duke Law Journal Online

March 26, 2024

On March 6, Duke Law Journal and the Duke Center for Firearms Law hosted a panel featuring Professor Darrell A.H. Miller and Andrew Willinger, Executive Director of the Duke Center for Firearms Law, as they engaged questions about NYSRPA v. Bruen and charted the future course of Second Amendment jurisprudence. Learn more and view a recording of their discussion here.

CURRENT ISSUE

Volume 74, Issue 1 (Oct 2024)

Abortion Disorientation

Greer Donley & Caroline Kelly | PDF

Secrecy by Stipulation

Nora Freeman Engstrom, David Freeman Engstrom, Jonah B. Gelbach, Austin Peters & Aaron Schaffer-Neitz | PDF

Restoring the Citizenship of the Soldier

Chandler B. Cole | PDF

The Limits of the Bank Service Company Act

Jacob Cunningham | PDF

DLJ ONLINE

Volume 73 (Spring 2024)

Volume 73 (Spring 2024)

Volume 74 Publishes First Issue

October 2, 2024

DLJ Volume 74, Issue 1 is now live! It features nine authors across four pieces, including two student notes. Thank you to our staff editors, editorial board, and executive board for their hard work on this issue.

Read the issue here

Historical Analogy and the Role Morality of Reason-Giving

Darrell A. H. Miller | PDF

Missing Pieces: Gaps in the Record of Early American Decisional Law

Andrew Willinger | PDF

"Just the Facts, Ma'am"? A Response to Professors Blocher and Garrett

Haley N. Proctor | PDF

The Precarious Art of Classifying Facts

Allison Orr Larsen | PDF

Corpus Linguistics and the Original Public Meaning of the Sixteenth Amendment

Thomas R. Lee, Lawrence B. Solum, James C. Phillips & Jesse A. Egbert | PDF

Volume 73 (Fall 2023)

Creditors Strike Back: The Return of the Cooperation Agreement

Samir D. Parikh | PDF

Inside the Internet

Nick Merrill & Tejas N. Narechania | PDF

101 Lawyers: Attorney Appearances in Twitter v. Musk

Andrew K. Jennings | PDF

All Grown Up: Qualified Immunity, Student Rights, and the Way Forward

Matthew McKnight & Angela Guo | PDF

Looking Backward to Move Forward: Ending the "History and Tradition" of Gun Violence Against the LGBTQ+ Community

Brett V. Ries | PDF

Duke Law Journal
Volume 74
Executive Team

Gabriela Nagle Alverio

Gabriela Nagle Alverio

Editor-In-Chief

Maddi Larmore

Maddi Larmore

Executive Editor

Katie Grace Frisbee

Katie Grace Frisbee

Senior Research Editor

James A. Mullen

James A. Mullen

Managing Editor

Thomas Moy

Thomas Moy

Executive Editor

Timothy J. Southam

Timothy J. Southam

Senior Research Editor

Quentin C. Colo

Quentin C. Colo

Executive Editor

Michael DeLuca

Michael DeLuca

Senior Articles Editor

Melana Dayanim

Melana Dayanim

Special Projects Editor

Emily Yan-Yee Fung

Emily Yan-Yee Fung

Executive Editor

Chandler B. Cole

Chandler B. Cole

Senior Notes Editor

Natalie E. Leon

Natalie E. Leon

Membership Editor