法律史哲学博士

杜克大学的历史系拥有一批在法律机构，法律文化和法律与社会之间的关系方面具有专业知识的学者。我们最大的优势在于美国法律史。杜克大学的历史学家关注的领域包括美国南部的法律权威与社会等级制之间的关系，包括基于种族和性别的划分，十九世纪和二十世纪商业和信用体系的监管以及美国早期的财产法。在美国以外，该系拥有众多教职员工，其研究与这个不断发展的充满活力的领域重叠。杜克大学现在拥有历史学家，他们致力于意大利文艺复兴时期，早期的现代德文，早期的大英帝国，十八世纪的加勒比海，十九世纪的法文，十七世纪至二十世纪的西非穆斯林
The history department at Duke has an unusually strong cohort of scholars with expertise in the history of legal institutions, legal culture, and the relationship between law and society. Our greatest strength lies in American legal history. Duke historians focus on areas as various as the relationship between legal authority and social hierarchies in the American South, including divisions based on race and gender, regulation of business and the credit system in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and early American property law. Outside of the United States, the department boasts numerous faculty whose research overlaps with this growing and dynamic field. Duke now has historians who grapple with legal development in Renaissance Italy, early modern Germany, the early modern British Empire, the eighteenth-century Caribbean, nineteenth-century France, Muslim West Africa from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, and twentieth-century Brazil, especially with regard to labor law, as well as the impact of maritime law on modern warfare. Although the interpretive concerns and methodological approaches of these scholars differ significantly, they all tend to focus on the interactions between legal institutions, doctrines, and values on the one hand and economic, social and cultural experience on the other.