Joseph Blocher

Duke University School of Law

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1.

Puerto Rico and the Right of Accession

Yale Journal of International Law, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-47
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 19 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2017
Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati and Mitu Gulati
Duke University School of Law and Duke UniversityUniversity of Virginia School of Law
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Puerto Rico, International Law, Constitutional Law, Insular Cases, Sovereign Debt, Self Determination

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A Market for Sovereign Control

66 Duke Law Journal 797 (2017)
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2019
Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati and Mitu Gulati
Duke University School of Law and Duke UniversityUniversity of Virginia School of Law
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international law, secession, market for control, sovereign debt

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Selling State Borders

162 U. Pa. L. Rev. 241 (2014)
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 30 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2015
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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Borders, Interstate Compacts, Federalism, Alienability, Commodification, Sovereignty

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When Guns Threaten the Public Sphere: A New Account of Public Safety Regulation Under Heller

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 116, 2021, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2021-05
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 20 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2021
Joseph Blocher and Reva Siegel
Duke University School of Law and Yale University - Law School
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Second Amendment, gun regulation, public safety, common law, equality, democracy, voting, domestic violence, brandishing, intimidation, school shootings, fear, polarization, Heller, policing, armed protest, violence, militia, race, open carry, public carry, Capitol riot, Michigan legislature

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From Theory to Doctrine: An Empirical Analysis of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms after Heller

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 67, No. 7, 2018, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series 2018-35
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 24 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2018
Eric Ruben and Joseph Blocher
SMU Dedman School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Second Amendment, keep and bear arms, Heller, gun control, constitutional interpretation, content analysis, empirical methods, legal method

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Institutions in the Marketplace of Ideas

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 57, No. 4, February 2008
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 27 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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First Amendment, New Institutional Economics, Free Speech, Marketplace of Ideas

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

Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, Vol. 9, p. 177, 2006
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 May 2007
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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Law and Development, Ghana, Law and Economics, Property, Customary Law

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The Right Not to Keep or Bear Arms

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 64, pg.1, 2012
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 21 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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Second Amendment, First Amendment, Heller v. District of Columbia

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Transferable Sovereignty

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-4
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 08 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2019
Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati and Mitu Gulati
Duke University School of Law and Duke UniversityUniversity of Virginia School of Law
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sovereignty, property, colonialism, independence, human rights, self determination, markets, law and economics, refugees, immigration

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

Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2015-48
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 17 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2017
Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati and Mitu Gulati
Duke University School of Law and Duke UniversityUniversity of Virginia School of Law
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refugees, international law, sovereignty, burden-sharing

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Firearms, Extreme Risk, and Legal Design: 'Red Flag' Laws and Due Process

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-10, Virginia Law Review, Vol. 106, pg. 1285, 2020
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 09 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2021
Joseph Blocher and Jacob D. Charles
Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Due Process, Red Flag, Extreme Risk, Second Amendment

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Can Greece Be Expelled from the Eurozone? Toward a Default Rule on Expulsion from International Organizations

Filling the Gaps in Governance: The Case of Europe 127-150 (European University Institute 2016)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 17 May 2016 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2016
Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati, Mitu Gulati and Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University School of Law, Duke UniversityUniversity of Virginia School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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expulsion, treaty, international organizations, withdrawal, international law, eurozone

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School Naming Rights and the First Amendment's Perfect Storm

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 96, 2007
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 14 Mar 2007
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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First Amendment, Commercial Speech, Government Speech, School Law

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Rights To and Not To

100 Cal. L. Rev. 761 (2012)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 12 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2015
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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Constitutional law, rights, autonomy

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The Death Penalty and the Fifth Amendment

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 111, 2016, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2015-52
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 29 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2016
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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death penalty, capital punishment, Fifth Amendment, Eighth Amendment, cruel and unusual, originalism, textualism

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

Financial History, p. 28, Fall 2014
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 22 Oct 2014
Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati and Mitu Gulati
Duke University School of Law and Duke UniversityUniversity of Virginia School of Law
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market for sovereign control, secession, international law

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Navassa: Property, Sovereignty, and the Law of the Territories

Yale Law Journal, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-43, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2021-20, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2021-39
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 07 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2021
Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati and Mitu Gulati
Duke University School of Law and Duke UniversityUniversity of Virginia School of Law
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Navassa, Haiti, Insular Cases, Property, Sovereignty, Reparations

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Why Regulate Guns?

48(4) J.L. Med. & Ethics (Forthcoming 2020), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-38
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 08 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2021
Joseph Blocher and Reva Siegel
Duke University School of Law and Yale University - Law School
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King Leopold's Bonds and the Odious Debts Mystery

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-59, Virginia Journal of International Law, 2020
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2019
Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati, Mitu Gulati and Kim Oosterlinck
Duke University School of Law, Duke UniversityUniversity of Virginia School of Law and Université Libre de Bruxelles - SBS-EM, CEB
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Odious Debts, Sovereign Debt, Human Rights

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Combatant Status Review Tribunals: Flawed Answers to the Wrong Question

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 116, p. 667, 2006
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Mar 2007
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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Guantanamo, Combatant Status Review Tribunal, Prisoner of War, Geneva Convention

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The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Introduction)

The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press 2018), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-5
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Nov 2018
Joseph Blocher and Darrell A. H. Miller
Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Second Amendment, right to keep and bear arms, constitutional law, constitutional interpretation, originalism, District of Columbia v. Heller, gun policy, gun violence, gun control

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Schrödinger’s Cross: The Quantum Mechanics of the Establishment Clause

Virginia Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 23 Aug 2010
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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Establishment Clause, First Amendment, endorsement test, Schrodinger

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Markets and Sovereignty

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Markets and Sovereignty

Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19/2017, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-16
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2017
Mitu Gulati, Mitu Gulati and Joseph Blocher
Duke UniversityUniversity of Virginia School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Sovereignty, markets

Markets and Sovereignty

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-36
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2016
Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati and Mitu Gulati
Duke University School of Law and Duke UniversityUniversity of Virginia School of Law
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commodification, inalienability, sovereignty, the market for sovereign control

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Free Speech and Justified True Belief

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-6
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 25 Jan 2019
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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First Amendment, free speech, epistemology, knowledge, sociology, marketplace of ideas, professions, Plato

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Pointing Guns

Texas Law Review, Vol. 99, No. 6, 2021, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-82
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 26 May 2021
Joseph Blocher, Samuel W. Buell, Jacob D. Charles and Darrell A. H. Miller
Duke University School of Law, Duke University School of Law, Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Bans

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 129, 2019, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-24
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 09 Apr 2019
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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Constitutional Law, Doctrine, Rules, Trumps, First Amendment, Second Amendment, Takings

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Gun Rights Talk

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 813, 2014
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 22 Dec 2015
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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Second Amendent, gun control, rights talk, rhetoric

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Reverse Incorporation of State Constitutional Law

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 84, pg. 323, 2011
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 05 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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Constitutional law, constitutional interpretation, state constitutional law

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Why Did Belgium Pay Leopold's Bonds?

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-73
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 22 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2019
Kim Oosterlinck, Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati and Mitu Gulati
Université Libre de Bruxelles - SBS-EM, CEB, Duke University School of Law and Duke UniversityUniversity of Virginia School of Law
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sin bonds, sovereign debt, odious debt, King Leopold, Congo Free State

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Government Viewpoint and Government Speech

Boston College Law Review, Vol. 52, 2011
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 06 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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First Amendment, government speech

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Private Business as Public Good: Hotel Development and Kelo

Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 24, No. 363, 2006
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Dec 2007
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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public good, hotel, kelo, economic development, eminent domain, externality, subsidy

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Popular Constitutionalism and the State Attorneys General

Harvard Law Review Forum, Vol. 122, p. 108, 2011
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 07 Apr 2011
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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Constitutional law, state attorney general, popular constitutionalism

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Nonsense and the Freedom of Speech: What Meaning Means for the First Amendment

62 Duke L.J. 1423 (2014)
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 01 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2016
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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First Amendment, language, art, representation, analytic philosophy, Wittgenstein

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Historical Gun Laws Targeting 'Dangerous' Groups and Outsiders

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-80
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 19 Nov 2020
Joseph Blocher and Catie Carberry
Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law, Students
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Government Property and Government Speech

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 52, 2011
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 06 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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First Amendment, government speech, property

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Public Discourse, Expert Knowledge, and the Press

Washington Law Review, Vol. 87, 2012
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 May 2012
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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First Amendment, Press, Speech

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What is Gun Control? Direct Burdens, Incidental Burdens, and the Boundaries of the Second Amendment

83 University of Chicago Law Review 295 , Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-27
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 30 Apr 2016
Joseph Blocher and Darrell A. H. Miller
Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Second Amendment, firearms, First Amendment, marketplace, constitutional law, constitution, gun control, guns, Heller, McDonald, free speech, self defense

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

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 2020, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-19
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Mar 2019
Joseph Blocher and Luke Morgan
Duke University School of Law and Independent
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constitutional law, rights, First Amendment, borrowing, dynamism, comparative law, doctrine

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What Does Puerto Rican Citizenship Mean for Puerto Rico's Legal Status?

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series 2018-37
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 21 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2018
Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati and Mitu Gulati
Duke University School of Law and Duke UniversityUniversity of Virginia School of Law
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Puerto Rico, Citizenship, Statehood

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Forced Secessions

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-48
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Sep 2016
Joseph Blocher, Mitu Gulati and Mitu Gulati
Duke University School of Law and Duke UniversityUniversity of Virginia School of Law
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International Law, Secession, Expulsion, Colonization, Reparations

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Disuniformity of Federal Constitutional Rights

University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-3
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Jan 2019
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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constitutional rights, state constitutional law, federal constitutional law, interpretation, doctrine, federalism

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Lethality, Public Carry, and Adequate Alternatives

53 Harvard Journal on Legislation 279, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-26
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 Apr 2016
Joseph Blocher and Darrell A. H. Miller
Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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guns, Second Amendment, First Amendment, smartguns, firearms, constitution, constitutional law, Bill of Rights, adequate alternatives, nonlethal, weapons

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Firearm Localism

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 123, No. 82, 2013
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 22 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2016
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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Second Amendment, gun control, localism, federalism, constitutional interpretation

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What We Fret About When We Fret About Bootstrapping

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 75, p. 145, 2012
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 04 Apr 2012
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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Bootstrapping, Commerce Clause, health care challenge

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Constitutional Gun Litigation Beyond the Second Amendment

NYU Annual Survey of American Law, Vol. 77, No. 2, 2022
Number of pages: 21
Joseph Blocher and Noah Levine
Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Second Amendment, firearms, due process, takings, free speech, First Amendment, gun policy

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You Can Lead A Horse to Water: Heller and the Future of Second Amendment Scholarship

Duke Law Journal Online
Number of pages: 7
Eric Ruben and Joseph Blocher
SMU Dedman School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Second Amendment, constitutional law, firearms

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Cities, Preemption, and the Statutory Second Amendment

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 88, 2022
Number of pages: 22
Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
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Second Amendment, preemption, gun rights, gun regulation, Heller, Chicago