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

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

Other Knight First Amendment Institute Blog · 2024 Cite

Instead of Gun Regulation, Let’s Try Innovation

Other The Hill · 2024 Cite

Gun Rights and Domestic Violence in Rahimi—Whose Traditions Does the Second Amendment Protect?

Other Balkinization · 2023 Cite

No, Red-Flag Gun Laws Don’t Violate Due Process Rights

A Supreme Court Head-Scratcher: Is a Colonial Musket ‘Analogous’ to an AR-15?

Other New York Times · 2022 Cite

Appraising Sandy’s Call to “Arms”: Success in the Academy … Not So Much in the Courts

Other Balkinization · 2022 Cite

Why Do States Ban “Electioneering” but Allow Guns at Polling Places?

Other Slate · 2021 Cite

Guns Are a Threat to the Body Politic

Other The Atlantic · 2021 Link to item Cite

American Cities Have Always Regulated Guns. Now, Most Can’t

Other Washington Post · 2021 Link to item Cite

SCOTUS Taking up 2nd Amendment Case Could Mean Cuts to Broad Swaths of Gun Regulation

Other TPM Cafe · 2021 Cite

The U.S. Stole Billions From Haiti. It’s Time to Give It Back

Other Slate · 2021 Link to item Cite

Why Is the Gun Debate So Difficult?

Other Duke Magazine · 2021 Link to item Cite

No, Courts Don’t Treat the Second Amendment as a ‘Second-Class Right’

Other Washington Post · 2021 Link to item Cite

The “Handgun Article” in Justice Powell’s Papers

Other Second Thoughts · 2019 Cite

Sure, Trump Can Buy Greenland. But Why Does He Think It’s up to Denmark?

Other Politico Magazine · 2019 Cite

Symposium: Disrupting the Consensus on Second Amendment Doctrine Would be a Mistake

Other SCOTUSblog · 2019 Cite

If Countries Won’t Take Refugees for Moral Reasons, Let’s Give Them Financial Incentives

Other Quartz · 2018 Cite

What Firearms Law and Regulatory Scholarship Can Learn from Each Other

Other The Regulatory Review · 2018 Cite