About the Institute
The Legalize Dueling Institute is an independent, nonpartisan research body devoted to a single policy question: whether managed, fully consensual attrition can durably reduce American violence. Our answer is published, modeled, and open to challenge. Our motto is our method: Rigor. Consent. Attrition.
What we do
The Institute publishes. It does not schedule, host, officiate, or attend engagements; it models them, footnotes them, and projects their aggregate consequences with confidence intervals. We hold that America's violence problem is, at bottom, an inventory problem, and that inventory responds to subtraction. We further hold — and have defended at length1 — that a calmer America is a better America: slower to escalate, quicker to de-escalate, better at living alongside itself.
Everything the Institute proposes rests on one cornerstone, stated wherever we are given a wall: participation is for consenting adults only, at their own notarized initiative, revocable to the count of ten. The Institute has no other product and no other premise.
The advisory board
Dr. Margaret Pemberton‑Ashe
Senior Fellow, Generational Outcomes
Col. (Ret.) Dewitt Farrow
Chair, Historical Precedent
Dr. Lionel Osgood‑Whitt
Director, Attrition Economics
Prof. Henrietta Vail
Senior Fellow, Consent Studies
Mr. Barnaby Quince, C.P.A.
Treasurer
Dr. Prudence Marsh
Fellow, Tranquility Metrics
“We spent two centuries assuming the inclination would fade if ignored. It has not. The Framework is what taking it seriously looks like.” Dr. Prudence Marsh · Fellow, Tranquility Metrics
Open positions
| Position | Term | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Junior Fellow, Attrition Economics | 2 yrs | Renewable upon review |
| Notary of Consent (Municipal) | Ongoing | Multiple openings; travel required; must be prepared to halt proceedings without hesitation |
| Registrar of Outcomes | Ongoing | Records management; discretion; state filing experience preferred |
| Archivist, Registry of Correspondence | Ongoing | Maintains the Register of Objections (Form LD‑9) |
Applications are accepted by post and answered in the order received.
Coverage
The Institute makes its fellows available for comment on the Framework, the Attrition Model™, and the historical record. Journalists are directed first to Working Paper No. 12; inquiries beyond its scope are answered in writing.2