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Volume 74, Issue 5 is Now Live

February 17, 2025

DLJ Volume 74, Issue 5 is available online. These articles and notes address systemic racism, fair notice, and gun rights.

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Volume 75 DLJ and DLJO are now accepting submissions.

February 1, 2025

Volume 75 DLJ and DLJO are now accepting article submissions. Apply now here or learn more here.

Volume 74, Issue 4 is Now Live

January 10, 2025

DLJ Volume 74, Issue 4 is available online. Two articles and two student notes explore modern challenges: deterring corporate lawbreaking abroad, appealing immigration bond decisions, providing fair trials in the digital age, and enforcing speedy trial protections.

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DLJ Student Essay Explores Algorithmic Evidence

January 10, 2025

Meghna Melkote & Madhavi Nambiar, Research Editors for Volume 74, explore how courts can enhance procedural justice by acknowledging the dangers of algorithmic evidence and providing defendants expert assistance when faced with it.

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CURRENT ISSUE

Volume 74, Issue 6 (March 2025)

The Road to Slow Deportation

Elana Fogel & Kate Evans | PDF

Justice on the Home Front: Domestic Prosecution of Foreign Combatants During Wartime

Katherine K. French | PDF

Reforming H-2A: Protecting Migrant Workers Before Arrival on U.S. Farms

Isabella J. Cheng | PDF

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Volume 74 (Fall 2024)

Mass Tort Litigation, Chapter 11, and Good Faith: Let Not Perfect be the Enemy of Pretty, Pretty Good

Lawrence Ponoroff | PDF

Predatory Decarceration

Elenore Wade | PDF

Access to Algorithmic Justice: Defending a Right to Expert Assistance for Indigent Defendants

Meghna Melkote & Madhavi Nambiar | PDF

Guns, Judges, and Trump

Rebecca Brown, Lee Epstein, and Mitu Gulati | PDF

Volume 73 (Spring 2024)

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

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