Scholars@Duke
Joseph Blocher

Joseph Blocher

Lanty L. Smith Distinguished Professor of Law
School of Law
blocher@law.duke.edu
Duke Law School Room 3174, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708-0360
Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works

Historians as Experts in Constitutional Law

Journal article Stanford Law Review · 2027 Cite

Standards of Fact Review in Constitutional Litigation

Journal article Columbia Law Review · 2027 Cite

The History and Tradition of Firearms Localism

Journal article Texas Law Review · 2027 Link to item Cite

The Ambitions of History and Tradition in and Beyond the Second Amendment

Journal article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2026 Link to item Cite

Cumulative Burdens on Second Amendment Rights

Journal article Boston University Law Review · 2026 Cite

Teaching Firearms Law: One Big Opportunity and Three Pedagogical Challenges

Journal article William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2025 Link to item Cite

Bruen in a Changing Judiciary

Journal article Duke Law Journal Online · 2025 Link to item Cite

Gitlow as a Guide to Holmes

Journal article Journal of Free Speech Law · 2025 Cite

Listening on Campus: Academic Freedom and its Audiences

Journal article Southern California Law Review · 2025 Link to item Cite

Originalism and Historical Fact-Finding

Journal article Georgetown Law Journal · 2024 Link to item Cite

Safe Storage Laws and Self-Defense from Heller to Bruen

Journal article North Carolina Law Review · 2024 Link to item Cite

“Murder the Media”: Press Freedom, Violence, and the Public Sphere

Other Knight First Amendment Institute Blog · 2024 Cite

The Least Violence Avoider

Journal article · 2024 Cite

Manufacturing Outliers

Journal article Supreme Court Review · 2023 Link to item Cite

Firearms Law and Scholarship Beyond Bullets and Bodies

Journal article Annual Review of Law and Social Science · 2023 Link to item Cite

Fact Stripping

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2023 Link to item Cite

"Second-Class" Rhetoric, Ideology, and Doctrinal Change

Journal article Georgetown Law Journal · 2022 Link to item Cite

Cities, Preemption, and the Statutory Second Amendment

Journal article University of Chicago Law Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

Constitutional Gun Litigation Beyond the Second Amendment

Journal article NYU Annual Survey of American Law · 2022 Link to item Cite

Race and Guns, Courts and Democracy

Journal article Harvard Law Review Forum · 2022 Link to item Cite

Pointing Guns

Journal article Texas Law Review · 2021 Link to item Cite

Two Concepts of Gun Liberty

Journal article Quinnipiac Law Review · 2021 Link to item Cite

Disuniformity of Federal Constitutional Rights

Journal article University of Illinois Law Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

King Leopold's Bonds and the Odious Debts Mystery

Journal article Virginia Journal of International Law · 2020 Link to item Cite

Domestic Violence and the Home-Centric Second Amendment

Journal article Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy · 2020 Link to item Cite

Why Did Belgium Pay Leopold’s Bonds?

Journal article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2020 Link to item Cite

Why Regulate Guns?

Journal article The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2020 Link to item Cite

True Threats, Self-Defense, and the Second Amendment

Journal article The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2020 Link to item Cite

The Geography of a Constitutional Right: Gun Rights Outside the Home

Journal article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2020 Link to item Cite

Free Speech and Justified True Belief

Journal article Harvard Law Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

Doctrinal Dynamism, Borrowing, and the Relationship Between Rules and Rights

Journal article William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2019 Link to item Cite

Bans

Journal article Yale Law Journal · 2019 Link to item Cite

Rights as Trumps of What?

Journal article Harvard Law Review Forum · 2019 Link to item Cite

Puerto Rico and the Right of Accession

Journal article Yale Journal of International Law · 2018 Link to item Cite

Puerto Rico and the Right of Accession

Journal article Yale Journal of International Law · 2018 Link to item Cite

Constitutional Implications of Firearm Restrictions for Veterans with Fiduciaries

Journal article Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research · 2018 Link to item Cite

The Second Amendment as Positive Law

Journal article Charleston Law Review · 2018 Link to item Cite

A Market for Sovereign Control

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2017 Link to item Cite

Markets and Sovereignty

Journal article Osgoode Hall Law Journal · 2017 Link to item Cite

Forced Secessions

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2017 Link to item Cite

Speech, Guns and Docs v. Glocks

Other ACSblog · 2017 Cite

Foreword: How to Think About Law and Markets

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2017 Link to item Cite

Competing for Refugees: A Market-Based Solution to a Humanitarian Crisis

Journal article Columbia Human Rights Law Review · 2016 Link to item Cite

The Death Penalty and the Fifth Amendment

Journal article Northwestern University Law Review · 2016 Link to item Cite

Lethality, Public Carry, and Adequate Alternatives

Journal article Harvard Journal on Legislation · 2016 Link to item Cite

Court-hacking Comes to North Carolina

Other News & Observer · 2016 Cite

Practice and Precedent in Historical Gloss Games

Journal article Georgetown Law Journal Online · 2016 Link to item Cite

New Problems for Subsidized Speech

Journal article William & Mary Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

Hunting and the Second Amendment

Journal article Notre Dame Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

Good Cause Requirements for Carrying Guns in Public

Journal article Harvard Law Review Forum · 2014 Link to item Cite

Selling State Borders

Journal article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

Gun Rights Talk

Journal article Boston University Law Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

Ukraine and Russia: "You Break It, You Bought It"

Journal article Financial History · 2014 Link to item Cite

Firearm Localism

Journal article Yale Law Journal · 2013 Link to item Cite

Implementing First Amendment Institutionalism

Journal article New England Law Review on Remand · 2013 Link to item Cite

The Right Not to Keep or Bear Arms

Journal article Stanford Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

Rights To and Not To

Journal article California Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

What We Fret About When We Fret About Bootstrapping

Journal article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2012 Link to item Cite

Public Discourse, Expert Knowledge, and the Press

Journal article Washington Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

Order Without Judges: Customary Adjudication

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2012 Link to item Cite

Reverse Incorporation of State Constitutional Law

Journal article Southern California Law Review · 2011 Link to item Cite

Viewpoint Neutrality and Government Speech

Journal article Boston College Law Review · 2011 Link to item Cite

Government Property and Government Speech

Journal article William & Mary Law Review · 2011 Link to item Cite

Popular Constitutionalism and the State Attorneys General

Journal article Harvard Law Review Forum · 2011 Link to item Cite

Constitutionalizing Local Politics

Journal article Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Amicus · 2011 Link to item Cite

Transforming Property Into Speech

Journal article Legal Workshop · 2011 Link to item Cite

Reputation as Property in Virtual Economies

Journal article Yale Law Journal Pocket Part · 2009 Link to item Cite

Categoricalism and Balancing in First and Second Amendment Analysis

Journal article New York University Law Review · 2009 Link to item Cite

Property and Speech in 'Summum'

Journal article Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy · 2009 Link to item Cite

Heller's Problematic Second Amendment Categoricalism

Journal article The Legal Workshop · 2009 Link to item Cite

Amending the Exceptions Clause

Journal article Minnesota Law Review · 2008 Link to item Cite

Questions About Tax Increment Financing in North Carolina

Journal article Community & Economic Development Bulletin · 2008 Link to item Cite

Institutions in the Marketplace of Ideas

Journal article Duke Law Journal · 2008 Link to item Cite

The Guantanamo Three Step

Journal article Yale Law Journal Pocket Part · 2007 Link to item Cite

Private Business as Public Good: Hotel Development and Kelo

Journal article Yale Law & Policy Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

Building on Custom: Land Tenure Policy and Economic Development in Ghana

Journal article Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal · 2006 Link to item Cite

Book Note

Journal article Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal · 2003 Link to item Cite