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We are delighted to announce that Tyler Kendall has joined the Wilson Center as our new Research Director! Tyler brings extensive experience in research design and administration as well as a deep commitment to social justice. Learn more at wcsj.law.duke.edu/news/tyler-ken…

Prof. Stuart Benjamin writes for Volokh Conspiracy (reason) on the application of federal law and the First Amendment to campaign promises bit.ly/3yW4fqO

Prof. Neil Siegel’s latest book argues that the structural purpose of the U.S. Constitution is to empower the federal gov. to solve collective-action problems for the states. The first chapter “Foundations: McCulloch” is free to read until Sept. 2 🔗 bit.ly/3yTeAUC

WATCH: Interested in a legal career working with children? Duke Criminal Defense Clinic’s Lauren Fine ’11 talks with the ABA Litigation Section on her path to becoming a youth defender and shares advice 🔗 bit.ly/3Mm7J9l

“The court has yet to weigh in squarely on what kinds of guns can be prohibited,” Duke Law prof Joseph Blocher, co-director of Duke Center for Firearms Law, says of a potential Supreme Court case on the right to have an AR-15. msn.com/en-us/news/us/…

.Duke Center for Firearms Law’s Prof. Joseph Blocher tells The Wall Street Journal (The Wall Street Journal) the Supreme Court hasn't yet addressed restrictions on specific guns as challenges to AR-15 bans rise through courts 🔗 on.wsj.com/4cJaLPx

This week in Interesting Engineering, our Faculty Director Brandon Garrett was featured, discussing how despite scientific advances, a lack of standards and quality controls for crime labs are still problems worldwide. interestingengineering.com/culture/junk-s…

📺WATCH: Arti Rai, Professor of Law and Faculty Director at Duke Law, explains the far-reaching harm caused by brand-name drug companies' patent thickets.

.Duke Center for Firearms Law Exec Dir Andrew Willinger tells The Trace a 4th Circuit challenge to Maryland’s assault weapons ban could attract Supreme Court review bit.ly/3Z5rHN4

Is teaching in your future? Duke Law National Security’s Prof. Charles J. Dunlap Jr. posts advice on moving from JAG or private practice to a career in academia bit.ly/3AJBKNF

We've had a busy month at the Wilson Center! Check out our latest updates in our newsletter at duke.is/WilsonAugustNe….

Kudos to Duke Law’s Brendan Genaw ’26, Timothy Southam ’25 & Lauren Beizer JD/MA ’26 on being selected to take part in the prestigious 2024-2025 Scholars Cohort at the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy. 👏👏 Learn more about Scholars Program healthpolicy.duke.edu/scholars.

.Duke Center for Firearms Law Exec Dir Andrew Willinger: Judges “grasping on to different pieces of Rahimi” as courts digest the gun ruling's impact 🔗 bit.ly/3MoGmeG

Prof. Neil Siegel’s new book a “wide-ranging, inquisitive, and nuanced” work that “pursue(s) its thesis without losing sight of other foundational legal values” 🔗 bit.ly/4g5dxS2

NEW: In “Safe Storage Laws and Self-Defense From Heller to Bruen,” Duke Center for Firearms Law Prof. Joseph Blocher explores one of the most underappreciated—and indefensible—holdings of SCOTUS’ historic case ‘District of Columbia v. Heller.’ (N.C. Law Review, 2024) 👉 duke.is/w/nsyp

Prof. Steven Schwarcz’s new paper offers systematic framework for regulating fintech-driven innovations 🔗 bit.ly/4e3n1eI

Prof. Elisabeth de Fontenay’s new paper argues that the $1.5 trillion private credit market is having negative effects on the economy 🔗 bloom.bg/3TeOe6d

NEW: “The Rise of Private Equity Continuation Funds” by Profs. Yaron Nili (linili, Duke Law) & Kobi Kastiel (Harvard Law School) is the first comprehensive study of this emerging practice and major segment of investment activity in the U.S. (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2024) 👉 duke.is/r/j6rn

NEW: Duke Law’s Shitong Qiao (Shitong Qiao) & Peking U’s Yu Zeng offer a unique mixed-methods look at the formation of neighborhood communities in China’s megacities in “Communities Built on Political Trust: Theory and Evidence from China” (Urban Studies Journal, 2024) 👉 duke.is/6/ddjn

NEW: Profs. Emily Ryo (Duke Law) & @cmlevesque (Kenyon College) explore practice of ‘Immigration Detention as Racialised Wealth Extraction’ in “Immigration Detention and Social Harm: The Collateral Impacts of Migrant Incarceration.” (Dr Michelle Peterie, 2024) 👉 duke.is/r/rwhc