Duke Forum for Law & Social Change

The <em><strong>Duke Forum for Law &amp; Social Change</strong></em> is a student-edited publication of Duke Law School, published since 2009 and featuring contributions from its annual symposium. Beyond publication, the Forum strives to provide a meaningful arena within the Duke Law community for ongoing discussion of social change and related issues.

List of Papers (Total 59)

Making Law Students Client-Ready: A New Model in Legal Education

Journal Staff

Understanding the Legal Landscape of Discrimination Against Muslim Students in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: A Guide for Lawyers

A Human Rights Based Approach to Refugees: A Look at the Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Responses from Germany and the United States

Racial Disparities in Traffic Stop Outcomes

Separate and Legally Unequal – How The Demonization of Immigrants Affects United States Policy

Journal Staff

Assuming the Risk of Death: Implications of the Olivia Brown Case

Diffusion of Knowledge: The Ignored Goal of Public Education

Improving Access to Justice in Developing and Post-Conflict Countries: Practical Examples from the Field

Innocent Until Proven Guilty?: Examining the Constitutionality of Public Housing Evictions Based on Criminal Activity

Journal Staff

Lawyers and Their Elusive Pursuit of Happiness: Does it Matter?

“High Functioning”: Successful Professionals with Severe Mental Illness

Journal Staff

Sometimes it is Better Not to be Unique: The U.S. Department of State View on Intercountry Adoption and Child Trafficking and Why it Should Change

Treatment of International Human Rights Violations in the United States

Human Rights Through the ATS After Kiobel: Partial Extraterritoriality, Misconceptions, and Elusive and Problematic Judicially-Created Criteria

The Judicial Expansion of American Exceptionalism

Journal Staff

Pass the Change, Please: Stymieing America’s Childhood Health Crisis with Local Foods in Schools

“No Body Left Behind”: Re-Orienting School-Based Childhood Obesity Interventions

Zoning and Licensing to Regulate the Retail Environment and Achieve Public Health Goals

A Conditional Funding Strategy to Address the Modern Food Environment: From Public Health Prevention to State and Local Preemption

New Frontiers in Obesity Control: Innovative Public Health Legal Interventions