Guns The Second Amendment vs. the Seventh Amendment: The Distinction Between Substantive and Procedural Rights Substantive rights have a core that can be meaningfully interpreted and protected; they ...

Although the affinities between the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and the Seventh Amendment right to civil jury trial seem strong, there are crucial differences. The first concerns ...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, on the heels of two United States Supreme Court decisions and widespread academic support, a major development in constitutional law was afoot: judicial review of ...

What can civil procedure in the legal arena teach us about relationships? If you are a law student, lawyer, or know someone who is, you have probably heard the hardest, most boring course in law ...

Established in 1933, Law and Contemporary Problems is Duke Law School's oldest journal. During the first 40 years of publication, the quarterly journal was entirely edited and managed by faculty. In ...

The prevailing view has been that there is no underlying substantive change to the legal principles that govern claims of sexual harassment and that, with the right policies and a robust internal ...

Internet technologies have enabled new ways of committing crimes and have moved "old" crimes such as fraud online- this has created interesting challenges to substantive criminal law. These challenges ...