Journals
Duke Law is a leader in electronic publishing of legal scholarship and is actively involved in efforts to promote open access to legal information. We continue to make our journals widely accessible electronically and to give authors the ability to disseminate published articles.
We are proud to feature nine outstanding student-run journals that publish innovative articles by law professors and legal scholars from across the country and around the world.
Alaska Law Review
The Alaska Law Review is a scholarly publication that examines legal issues affecting the state of Alaska. Its editorial board is composed of second-and third-year law students from Duke University School of Law, and governed by a faculty advisory committee. The Alaska Law Review also publishes an annual "Year-in-Review," consisting of short summaries of significant court decisions from Alaska District Courts, the Alaska Court of Appeals, the Alaska Supreme Court, and the Ninth Circuit.
Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum
The Forum is a student-run publication presenting scholarship that examines environmental issues by drawing on legal, scientific, economic, and public policy resources. DELPF’s affiliations with the Nicholas School for the Environment and Earth Sciences, the Sanford School for Public Policy, and the Law School render it uniquely positioned to adapt to the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of environmental law. New journal members, both JD and non-JD, are selected based upon their writing skills, research ability, and interest in environmental policy.
» Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum website
Duke Forum for Law & Social Change
The Duke Forum for Law & Social Change (DFLSC) is the newest addition to the Duke Law family of journals. Created from a mission to bring concrete social issues to the forefront of the Duke Law community, DFLSC will feature articles covering a wide range of social issues, from immigration law and policy to poverty initiatives. While DFLSC will produce a yearly publication, it strives to become a "forum," by going beyond publication. DFLSC has already begun many of its forum initiatives. In early March, the DFLSC held its first Diversity Town Hall Forum, featuring several student organization presidents. To kick off the recent Admitted Students Weekend, DFLSC and the Office of the Dean presented the capacity-filled event Brown v. Board of Education: Past, Present, and Future, featuring three panelists who originally worked on the landmark Brown decision.
» Duke Forum for Law & Social Change website
Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law
The Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law draws upon the Law School's prominent faculty and its JD/LLM Program in International and Comparative Law. Every year, the journal admits several international practitioners enrolled in the Duke LLM program as its staff editors. The journal is edited by a student board and publishes articles from prominent international scholars and practitioners. Approximately one-third of the journal is devoted to student notes.
» Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law website
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy
The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy examines legal issues at the intersection of constitutional litigation and public policy. The journal is a useful resource for practitioners, judges, and legislators who are confronting new constitutional issues and constitutional and policy dimensions of recent and pending state and federal decisions and legislation. Students have the opportunity to write, edit, conduct in-depth legal research, and publish their work, including commentaries on recent Supreme Court decisions and student notes to be published online.
» Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy website
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
The Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy is an interdisciplinary publication devoted to a discussion of gender, sexuality, race, and class in the context of law and public policy. Comprised of 25-30 Duke Law student selected from the 1L Casenote Competition, the journal aims to foster debate, publish work largely overlooked by other law reviews, and encourage scholarship outside the bounds of conventional law school curricula.
» Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy website
Duke Law & Technology Review
The Duke Law & Technology Review (DLTR) is an online legal publication that focuses on the evolving intersection of law and technology. This area of study draws on a number of legal specialties: intellectual property, business law, free speech and privacy, telecommunications, and criminal law, each of which is undergoing doctrinal and practical changes as a result of new and emerging technologies. Unlike traditional journals, which focus primarily on lengthy scholarly articles, DLTR focuses on short, direct, and accessible pieces called "issue briefs" or “iBriefs.” In fact, the goal of an iBrief is to provide cutting edge legal insight both to lawyers and to non-legal professionals.
» Duke Law & Technology Review website
Duke Law Journal
The first issue of what was to become the Duke Law Journal was published in March 1951 as the Duke Bar Journal. Created to provide a medium for student expression, the Duke Bar Journal consisted entirely of student-written and student-edited work until 1953, when it began publishing faculty contributions. To reflect the inclusion of faculty scholarship, the Duke Bar Journal became the Duke Law Journal in 1957. In 1969, the Journal published its inaugural Administrative Law Symposium issue, a tradition that continues today.
Law & Contemporary Problems
Law and Contemporary Problems is a quarterly, interdisciplinary publication of Duke Law School. Recognizing that many fields in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities conduct research and analysis that can contribute to the improvement of law, L&CP’s purpose is to collect and publish articles of value from all disciplines, the study of which contributes to the development of law.
