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Volume 74, Issue 4 is Now Live

January 10, 2024

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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Volume 74, Issue 3 is Now Live

December 3, 2024

DLJ Volume 74, Issue 3 is available online. Three articles and one student note are featured, on topics ranging from antitrust to climate justice. 

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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. 

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CURRENT ISSUE

Volume 74, Issue 4 (Dec 2025)

Transnational Corporate Law Litigation

William J. Moon | PDF

Discretionary Immigration Detention

Mary Holper | PDF

Caught in the Content Tornado: How to Protect Violent-Crime Trials From the Prejudicial Effects of Live Streaming

Katie Grace Frisbee | PDF

Hell Comes with High Water: Hurricanes, Climate Change, and Louisiana’s Dire Warning About the Erosion of Our Speedy Trial Right

Robert F. Cerise | PDF

DLJ ONLINE

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 | Forthcoming

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