Duke Law Professor Nita Farahany shares key insights into her book, "The Battle for Your Brain," and makes her case for a codified right to cognitive liberty with Clinical Professor Jeff Ward, director of the Duke Center on Law & Tech. Transcript: https://bit.ly/3lDWShn

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New research co-authored by Duke Law Professor Ben Grunwald, a scholar of criminal procedure, criminal law, and empirical methods, discovered a trend in law enforcement agencies' posts on Facebook that could be perpetuating the myth of Black criminality. Transcript at https://bit.ly/3MSDZCe.

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In October 2023, students from three North Carolina law schools gathered at North Carolina Central University to participate in the fourth annual Legal Design Derby focused on access to justice. Co-hosted by the Duke Center on Law & Technology and the NCCU Tech Law & Policy Center, this human-centered design sprint provided students an opportunity to contribute their ideas to the new Legal Aid of North Carolina Innovation Lab.

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Last week, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of upholding a 1994 ban on persons with restraining orders having access to firearms. While the outcome in U.S. v. Rahimi wasn’t entirely unexpected, it did offer our first glimpse into how the conservative-majority Court would handle gun rights cases going forward.

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In the wake of a 2017 mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas, the Trump administration passed a regulation to ban bump stocks – a device that enables a semiautomatic rifle to fire rounds much like a machine gun. Last week, the conservative-majority Court struck down that ban, stating the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives overstepped its authority in classifying bump stocks as machine guns.

In this episode of the Duke Law Podcast, the Duke Center for Firearms Law unpacks the Court’s ruling and discusses whether it offers insights into how the justices might approach future Second Amendment and gun rights cases.

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