Yale Law School
127 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208215
New Haven, CT 06520-8215
steven.duke@yale.edu
EDUCATION:
LL.M. Yale Law School, 1961
J.D. University of Arizona, 1959
B.S. Arizona State University, 1956
PRESENT POSITION:
Professor of Law, Yale Law School
FORMER POSITIONS:
Law of Science and Technology Professor (1982-2003)
Professor of Law (1966-82), Associate Professor (1965-66)
Assistant Professor (1961-64), Yale Law School
Law Clerk to Justice William O. Douglas, Supreme Court of the United States (1959-1960)
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS:
Arizona State University (Spring Term, 1985-86)
University of California (Hastings) (1981-82)
University of California (Berkeley) (1965-66)
SUMMER TEACHING:
San Francisco (1996); Santa Clara (1996, 1995, 1994, 1993); Golden Gate (1996, 1992); San Diego (1991, 1988, 1979); Fordham (1985, 1984); North Carolina (1981); Colorado (1978); Texas (1977); Michigan (1968); Stanford (1965); New York University (1962)
BAR MEMBERSHIPS:
Supreme Court of the United States; Second, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and District of Colombia Circuit Courts of Appeals
Arizona, Connecticut District, Eastern District of New York; Tax Court
SUBJECTS TAUGHT:
Criminal Law, Federal Crimes, Drug Policy, Criminal Procedure, Convicting the Innocent; Evidence Civil Procedure, Adversary System, Trials and Appeals, Professional Responsibility, Criminal Justice Reform: Prosecutor and Public Defender, White Collar Crime, Scientific Evidence, Law of Conspiracy, Effective Assistance of Counsel, Guilty Pleas, Tax Penalties and Prosecutions
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Counsel in Maryland v. Blake, 126 S. Ct. 602 (2005)(amicus brief); Iowa v. Tovar, 541 U.S. 77 (2003) (amicus brief); Alabama v. Shelton, 535 U.S. 654 (2002) (amicus brief and oral argument); Apprendi v. New Jersey, 520 U.S. 466 (2000) (amicus brief); United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984), 839 F.2d 1401 (10th Cir. 1988); Maxwell v. Bishop, 398 U.S. 262 (1970) (amicus brief); United States v. Jackson, 390 U.S. 570 (1968); Malloy v. Hogan, 378 U.S. 1 (1964) (on brief); United States v. Bonito, 57 F.3d 167 (2d Cir. 1995); Rosado v. Civiletti, 621 F. 2d 1179 (2d Cir. 1980); Commonwealth v. Geraway, 301 N.E.2d 814 (Mass. 1973); United States v. Pacelli, 491 F.2d 1108 (2d Cir. 1974); Whitney v. S.E.C., 604 F.2d 676 (D.C. Cir. 1979); Alessi v. United States, 593 F.2d 476 (2d Cir. 1979); United States v. Miller, 411 F.2d 285 (2d Cir. 1969); and many other criminal cases (since 1964).
Counsel in various civil cases, arbitrations, N.Y.S.E. and grand jury investigations (since 1966).
Connecticut Commission on Medico-Legal Investigations (since 1977)
Commentator, Court TV, NBC News, NBC Today Show, PBS, History Channel
Fellow, Connecticut Bar Foundation
Board of Visitors, Fordham Law School (1987-2000)
Board of Review, William O. Douglas Inquiry Into the Status of the Individual, Center for Study of Democratic Institutions (1979-81)
Associate Reporter, A.B.A. Standards Relating to the Function of the Trial Judge (1972)
Consultant, National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws (1970)
Woodbridge, CT School Board (1969-71)
Director, New Haven Legal Assistance Association (1968-70)
Consultant and Contributor to Oaks, The Criminal Justice Act in the Federal District Courts (1968)
Deputy Public Defender, Phoenix, Arizona (1966)
PUBLICATIONS:
Does Miranda Protect the Innocent or the Guilty?__Chapman Law Review (2007) (forthcoming).
A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Conversational versus Eyewitness Testimony in Criminal Convictions (with Lee and Pager), 44 Amer. Crim. L. Rev. 1 (2007)
Eyewitness Testimony Doesn't Make It True, Hartford Courant, June 11, 2006
Article Portrayed Both Defendant and Lawyer in Negative Light, Yale Daily News, October 8, 2005
State Medical Marijuana Laws and the Raich Case (Drug Policy Alliance, June 2005)
Issues in Legalization, in Jefferson Fish, ed., Drugs and Society: U.S. Drug Policy (2005)
Review of Husak, Legalize This: The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs, Development in Practice (England, 2002)
End the Drug War, 68 Social Research 875 (2001)
Drug Policy Alternatives II -- Differing Proposals, 28 Fordham Urban L.J. 207 (2000)
The Drug War and the Constitution (Lynch ed.), After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century (CATO Inst. 2000)
Blame in the Lee Case, New York Times, September 19, 2000 (letter)
Clinton Deserves Due Process, Too, New York Times, June 9, 1998 (letter)
Forms of Legalization, in Jefferson Fish, ed., How to Legalize Drugs (1998)
Legalizing Drugs Would Reduce Crime, in Charles P. Cozic, ed., Illegal Drugs (1998)
Prohibition Hurts Rather Than Helps, 2 Yale Federalist Forum 1 (October 14, 1997)
Review of Rothwax, Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice, New York Times Book Review (March 31, 1996)
The Drug War is Lost, National Review (Feb. 12, 1996)
Legalizing Drugs Would Benefit the United States, in Swisher, ed., Legalizing Drugs (Greenhaven Press, 1996) (with Albert Gross)
Less Welfare: More Crime, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Boston Globe (Jan. 14, 1996) (with Richard St. John)
Welfare Cuts Could Ignite Crime Wave, San Francisco Chronicle (January 11, 1996) and the New Haven Register (Jan. 21, 1996) (with St. John)
In Federal Court Too, New York Times (Oct. 10, 1995) (letter)
Drug Prohibition: An Unnatural Disaster, 27 Connecticut L. Rev. 571 (1995)
Facts Do Matter: A Reply to Professor Wisotsky, 27 Connecticut L. Rev. 651 (1995)
Statistical Trends Can Distract and Mislead: A Reply to Professor Loken, 27 Connecticut L. Rev. 693 (1995)
A Different Approach to The War on Drugs, 3 The Yale Journal of Ethics 4 (Spring, 1995)
The Simpson Trial: Cases of Feuding Lawyers Seldom Reach Public Eye, Los Angeles Times (Jan. 24, 1995)
Regulate Tobacco, Regulate All Drugs, New York Times (July 24, 1994) (with Albert Gross)
Smoking Out A Drug Policy, Orange County Register (July 24, 1994) (with Albert Gross)
The Drug Quagmire, Yale Law Report (Spring, 1994) (with Albert Gross)
Still The One, The New Republic p. 4 (June 13, 1994) (letter)
Criminogenics: How the Drug War Causes Crime, Cato Policy Report (May/June, 1994)
Casualties of War, Reason (Feb. 1994)
The Failed Crusade, Sacramento News and Review (Jan. 6, 1994)
To Reduce Crime, Legalize Drugs, Chicago Tribune (Jan. 5, 1994)
How Legalization Would Cut Crime, Los Angeles Times (Dec. 21, 1993)
America's Longest War: Rethinking Our Tragic Crusade Against Drugs (with Albert Gross) (Tarcher/Putnam, 1993)
Clinton and Crime, 10 Yale J. on Reg. 575 (1993)
Justice Douglas and the Criminal Law, in Wasby (ed.), He Shall Not Pass this Way Again (1990)
Review of Bazelon, Questioning Authority, Book World, Washington Post (Jan. 24, 1988)
Making Leon Worse, 95 Yale L.J. 1405 (1986)
Burger Court Hostile to Criminal Defendants, Virginia Law Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 12, p.1 (Feb. 1, 1985) (with P. Malone)
An Overzealous Supreme Court, The Washington Post, p. C5 (Oct. 18, 1984) (with P. Malone)
Legality in the Second Circuit, The Second Circuit Review, 49 Brooklyn Law Review 911 (1983)
The Interpretive Struggle Over the Voluntariness Concept, National L.J., Aug. 22, 1983
Judge Kaufman is Wrong for the Organized Crime Commission, New York Times (Aug. 7, 1983) (letter)
Entrapment Defense Languishes in Permanent State of Confusion, National L.J., March 21, 1983
Superior Orders, 2 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 745 (1983)
Tax Offenses, 2 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 683 (1983)
Review of Simon, Independent Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas, 28 New York Law School L. Rev. 285 (1981)
Conspiracy, Complicity, Corporations, and Federal Code Reform, in Abramovsky (ed.), Criminal Law and The Corporate Counsel 147 (1981)
Federal Complicity and Conspiracy Statutes, in Abramovsky (ed.), Criminal Law and the Corporate Counsel 193 (1981)
Bail Reform for the Eighties: A Reply to Senator Kennedy, 49 Fordham L. Rev. 40 (1980)
S. 1437 Passes the Buck to Local Prosecutors, The Center Magazine 23 (March/April, 1979)
Civil Procedure, The Second Circuit Review, 45 Brooklyn L. Rev. 847 (1979)
Rights of Government Employees, in William O. Douglas Inquiry Into the Status of The Individual 151 (1979)
Mr. Justice Douglas, 11 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties L. Rev. 241 (1976)
A Tribute to Mr. Justice Douglas, 9 Akron L. Rev. 399 (1976)
The Right to Appointed Counsel: Argersinger and Beyond, 12 American Criminal L. Rev. 601 (1975)
Mr. Justice Douglas, Newsweek, p. 4 (Dec. 8, 1975) (letter)
John D. Lyons-A Student's Recollections, 15 Arizona L. Rev. 589 (1973)
Consultant's Report on Federal Revenue Offenses, 2 Working Papers of the National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws 744 (1970)
Postscript to a Fiasco of Justice, Argosy (May, 1970)
Prosecutions for Attempts to Evade Income Tax: A Discordant View of A Procedural Hybrid, 76 Yale L.J. 1 (1966)
Foreign Authors, Inventors, and the Income Tax, 72 Yale L.J. 1093 (1963)
Workmen's Compensation, Survey of Arizona Law (1958)
AWARDS:
Editor-in-Chief, Arizona Law Review, 1958-59
H. L. Mencken Book Award (1994) (honorable mention)
Secretary of State's Public Service Award (2004)
Arizona College of Law Alumni Achievement Award (1975)