by dukelawweb | Feb 19, 2009 | Latest News
Feb. 18, 2009 — The attempt to empirically track how judges make decisions has emerged as a new and somewhat controversial area of study by social scientists and legal scholars over the last quarter century. A Duke Law conference on Feb. 6 brought together leading...
by dukelawweb | Jan 20, 2009 | Latest News
by dukelawweb | Nov 17, 2008 | Latest News
Nov. 17, 2008 — Delivering Duke’s annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture on Nov. 11, Judge William Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit closely examined the meaning of the word “all,” which appears four times in the...
by dukelawweb | Jan 9, 2008 | Latest News
Jan. 9, 2008 ― The American jury system works, according to Duke Law Professor Neil Vidmar. While public perception of jury behavior may be shaped by controversial verdicts such as O.J. Simpson’s acquittal or the award of nearly $3 million in punitive damages to an...
