Josh Blackman

South Texas College of Law Houston

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1303 San Jacinto Street

Houston, TX 77002

United States

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1.

A General Approach for Predicting the Behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2017
Daniel Martin Katz, Michael James Bommarito and Josh Blackman
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, 273 Ventures and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 5,487 (3,368)
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United States Supreme Court, Machine Learning, Law and Social Science, Quantitative Legal Prediction, SCOTUS prediction, artificial intelligence and law, online learning, judicial prediction, random forest

2.

Sweeping and Forcing the President into Section 3

Josh Blackman & Seth Barrett Tillman, Sweeping and Forcing the President into Section 3, 28 TEX. REV. L. & POL. 350-600 (2024)
Number of pages: 251 Posted: 19 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2024
Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman
South Texas College of Law Houston and National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
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Is the President an 'Officer of the United States' for Purposes of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Josh Blackman & Seth Barrett Tillman, Is the President an ‘officer of the United States’ for Purposes of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, 15(1) N.Y.U. J.L. & LIBERTY 1 (2021)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2022
Seth Barrett Tillman and Josh Blackman
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 3,522 (7,092)
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The Irrepressible Myth of Jacobson v. Massachusetts

Buffalo Law Review Vol. 70, No. 113 (2021)
Number of pages: 140 Posted: 23 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2022
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 3,107 (8,665)

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Constitutional Law, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, Buck v. Bell, Sherbert v. Verner, Roe v. Wade, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo

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Offices and Officers of the Constitution, Part III: The Appointments, Impeachment, Commissions, and Oath or Affirmation Clauses

Seth Barrett Tillman and Josh Blackman, Offices and Officers of the Constitution, Part III: The Appointments, Impeachment, Commissions, and Oath or Affirmation Clauses, 62(4) S. TEX. L. REV. 349–454 (2023);
Number of pages: 106 Posted: 12 May 2023 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2023
Seth Barrett Tillman and Josh Blackman
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 2,046 (16,815)

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The Irrepressible Myth of Cooper v. Aaron

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 107, 2019
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 21 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 20 May 2019
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 1,775 (21,067)
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Cooper v. Aaron, Judicial Supremacy, Judicial Universality, Marbury v. Madison, Ableman v. Booth

7.

The Shooting Cycle

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 46, 2014
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 06 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2014
Josh Blackman and Shelby Baird
South Texas College of Law Houston and Yale University
Downloads 1,758 (21,388)

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Guns, Safety, Mass Shootings

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The “Essential” Free Exercise Clause

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 44, 2021, Liberty & Law Center Research Paper No. 20-04
Number of pages: 124 Posted: 09 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2021
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 1,653 (23,490)
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rights, pandemic, COVID-19, religious worship, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Second Amendment

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Omniveillance, Google, Privacy in Public, and the Right to Your Digital Identity: A Tort for Recording and Disseminating an Individual's Image over the Internet

Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 49, p. 313
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 05 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2012
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 1,564 (25,572)
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Privacy, Privacy in Public, Internet, Technology, Google

10.

The 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, and 3D Printed Guns

81 Tennessee Law Review 479 (2014)
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 15 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2014
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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First Amendment, Second Amendment, Constitutional Law, 3D Guns, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms

11.

When Was the State of Nature? A Lockean Response to Rousseau's Critiques

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 May 2009
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 1,225 (36,615)

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Locke, Rousseau, State of Nature, Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Hobbes, Grotius, Pufendorf

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Keeping Pandora’s Box Sealed: Privileges or Immunities, The Constitution in 2020, and Properly Extending the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to the States

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 8, 2010
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 10 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2010
Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro
South Texas College of Law Houston and Manhattan Institute
Downloads 1,177 (38,838)
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Reviewing The Three Trump Appointees: Ex Ante and Ex Post

1 Texas A&M Journal of Law and Civil Governance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 Jan 2024
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 1,154 (40,079)

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Supreme Court, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Merits Docket, Shadow Docket, Thomas, Alito, Scalia

14.

From Being One L to Teaching One L

Chapter in Beyond One L (Carolina Academic Press, 2019)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 28 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2019
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 1,075 (44,391)

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law school, One L

15.

Much Ado About Dictum; or, How to Evade Precedent Without Really Trying: The Distinction between Holding and Dictum

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2009
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 993 (49,504)
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Holding, Dictum, Jurisprudence, Realism, Pragmatism, Formalism

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Originalism and Stare Decisis in the Lower Courts

13 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 44 (2020)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2020
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 962 (51,774)

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Constitutional Law, Originalism, Stare Decisis, Lower Courts

17.

Corpus Linguistics and Heller

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 609, 2021
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 27 Oct 2021
James Cleith Phillips and Josh Blackman
Brigham Young University and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 933 (53,996)

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Self-Plagiarism

Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 641, 2018
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 18 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2019
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 924 (54,736)

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Self-Plagiarism, Ethics, Publishing

19.

#Heckled

First Amendment Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2020
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 24 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2020
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 895 (57,154)

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First Amendment, Campus Free Speech, Campus Protest, Heckler's Veto

20.

Presidential Maladministration

2018 Illinois Law Review 397
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 22 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2018
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 774 (69,544)
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The Path of Big Data and the Law

Chapter in "Big Data and the Law" (West Academic Press, 2014)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 Sep 2013
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 730 (75,141)

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22.

The Constitutionality of Social Cost

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 34, 2011
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 21 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2011
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 727 (75,566)

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The Constitutionality of DAPA Part II: Faithfully Executing the Law

19 Texas Review of Law & Politics 215 (2015)
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 16 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2015
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 706 (78,414)
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DAPA, DACA, Immigration, Constitutionality

24.

Abortion and Religious Liberty

Texas Review of Law & Politics, Vol. 27, 2023
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2023
Josh Blackman, Howard Slugh and Tal Fortgang
South Texas College of Law Houston, Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty and Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty
Downloads 683 (81,757)

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Abortion, Religious Liberty, RFRA, Dobbs

25.

Judicial Courage

Texas Review of Law & Politics, Vol. 26, No. 355, 2022
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 15 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2022
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 641 (88,904)

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Supreme Court, Constitution, Courage

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Offices and Officers of the Constitution, Part I: An Introduction

Seth Barrett Tillman & Josh Blackman, Offices and Officers of the Constitution, Part I: An Introduction, 61(3) S. TEX. L. REV. 309–19 (2021)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2022
Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman
South Texas College of Law Houston and National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
Downloads 623 (92,038)
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Offices, Officers, Constitution, Office under the United States, Officers of the United States, Office under the Authority of the United States, Public Trusts

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Reply: A Pause for State Courts Considering Model Rule 8.4(G) The First Amendment and 'Conduct Related to the Practice of Law'

30 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 241 (2017)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2017
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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The Process of Marriage Equality

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The Process of Marriage Equality

Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol.43, No.2, pp. 243-335, 2016, Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-28
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 12 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2016
Josh Blackman and Howard Wasserman
South Texas College of Law Houston and Florida International University (FIU) - College of Law
Downloads 448 (136,702)

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Same-sex marriage, Equal Protection, Due Process, Fourteenth Amendment, Constitution, Civil Rights, Procedure, Jurisdiction

The Process of Marriage Equality

Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 243-335, 2016, Florida International University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-33
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 13 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2016
Josh Blackman and Howard Wasserman
South Texas College of Law Houston and Florida International University (FIU) - College of Law
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Procedure, Marriage Equality, Jurisdiction, Fourteenth Amendment, Civil Rights, Constitution

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Justice John Marshall Harlan: Lectures on Constitutional Law, 1897-98

81 George Washington Law Review Arguendo 12 (2013)., Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-05
Number of pages: 338 Posted: 11 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2013
Brian L. Frye, Josh Blackman and Michael McCloskey
University of Kentucky - J. David Rosenberg College of Law, South Texas College of Law Houston and The Harlan Institute for Constitutional Studies
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Justice John Marshall Harlan, Justice Harlan, Constitutional Law

30.

Crowdsourcing Accurately and Robustly Predicts Supreme Court Decisions

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 13 Dec 2017
Daniel Martin Katz, Michael James Bommarito and Josh Blackman
Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law, 273 Ventures and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 592 (98,176)
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judicial prediction, crowdsourcing, legal prediction, judicial crowdsourcing, legal analytics, legal data, model thinking, quantitative legal prediction

31.

The 'Essential' Second Amendment

Texas Review of Law & Politics, Vol. 26, No. 160 (2022)
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 22 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2022
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 591 (98,403)

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Second Amendment, Supreme Court

32.

Gridlock

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 130, 2016, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 01 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2016
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Outfoxed: Pierson v. Post and the Natural Law

American Journal of Legal History, Vol. 51, p. 95, 2011
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 May 2009 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2011
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Property, Pierson, Post, Natural Law, Locke, Grotius, Pufendorf, Blackstone, Barbeyrac, Hunting, Fox, Pierson v. Post

34.

The Constitutionality of DAPA Part I: Congressional Acquiescence to Deferred Action

103 Georgetown Law Journal Online 96 (2015)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2015
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 541 (109,967)

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DAPA, DACA, Immigration, Constitutionality

35.

This Lemon Comes as a Lemon. The Lemon Test and the Pursuit of a Statute's Secular Purpose

George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal (CRLJ), Vol. 20, 2010
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 18 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2010
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 519 (115,711)

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First Amendment, Lemon Test, Freedom of Religion, Originalism, Textualism, Legislative History

36.

Original Citizenship

University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra, Vol. 159, p. 95, 2010
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Dec 2010
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 484 (125,966)

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Citizenship, Declaration of Independence, 14th Amendment, Constitution

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Undone: The New Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare

23 Texas Review of Law & Politics 3 (2019)
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2019
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 463 (132,848)
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The Tell-Tale Privileges or Immunities Clause

Cato Supreme Court Review
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2010
Alan Gura, Ilya Shapiro and Josh Blackman
Gura & Possessky, PLLC, Manhattan Institute and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 460 (133,888)
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McDonald, Heller, 2nd Amendment, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Liberty

39.

Justice John Marshall Harlan Professor of Law

81 George Washington Law Review 1063 (2013)
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 13 May 2009 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2013
Josh Blackman, Brian L. Frye and Michael McCloskey
South Texas College of Law Houston, University of Kentucky - J. David Rosenberg College of Law and The Harlan Institute for Constitutional Studies
Downloads 460 (133,888)
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Legal History, Supreme Court History, Harlan, John Marshall Harlan, Justice Harlan, George Washington Unversity, Supreme Court Justice

40.

Coping With A Court One Disagrees With

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Oct 2024
Randy E. Barnett and Josh Blackman
Georgetown University Law Center and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 453 (136,441)

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Heller, Second Amendment, Originalism, Stevens, Breyer, Posner, Wilkinson

42.

The Once and Future Privileges or Immunities Clause

George Mason Law Review, Vol. 26, No. 1207, 2019
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Ilya Shapiro and Josh Blackman
Manhattan Institute and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 428 (145,759)

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43.

Gridlock and Executive Power

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 16 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2014
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 423 (147,797)

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Executive Power, Separation of Powers, Federalism, Article II, Presidential Power, Noel Canning, Affordable Care Act

44.

State Judicial Sovereignty

2016University of Illinois Law Review 2033
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 16 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2016
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 421 (148,671)

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Jurisdiction, Federal Courts, Exclusive Jurisdiction, Concurrent Jurisdiction, Article III

45.

October Term 2019 in Review: Blue June

08/26/20 U. Chi. L. Rev. Online *1
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 Oct 2020
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Kagan, Kagan Court, Court Packing, Notorious RBG

46.

Robot, Esq.

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 09 Jan 2013
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 403 (156,287)

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What Happens if the Biden Administration Prosecutes and Convicts Donald Trump of Violating 18 U.S.C. § 2383?

2021 U. ILL. L. REV. ONLINE: BIDEN 100 DAYS 190 (Apr. 30, 2021)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 May 2021
Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman
South Texas College of Law Houston and National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
Downloads 399 (158,009)

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Constitution, Trump, Biden, Prosecution, Insurrection

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FantasySCOTUS: Crowdsourcing a Prediction Market for the Supreme Court

Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property, Vol. 10, p. 125, 2012
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2012
Josh Blackman, Adam Aft and Corey M. Carpenter
South Texas College of Law Houston, George Mason University - School of Law, Alumni and George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School
Downloads 398 (158,413)

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Supreme Court, Prediction Market, Wisdom of the Crowds

49.

Collective Liberty

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 67, April 2016
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 28 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2016
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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The Right to Code and Share Arms

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 83, No. 1, 2020
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Oct 2020
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 366 (173,916)

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Second Amendment, 3D-Printed Guns, Right to Keep and Bear Arms

51.

SCOTUS after Scalia

NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2017
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 10 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2017
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 351 (182,144)

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Supreme Court, Scalia, Originalism, Formalism, Incrementalism, Institutionalism

52.

Presidential Subpoenas during the Burr Trials

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 Aug 2020
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 344 (186,211)

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Constitutional Law, Separation of Powers, Burr, Marshall

53.

The 9th Circuit's Contrived Comedy of Errors in Washington v. Trump

95 Texas Law Review See Also __ (2017 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Feb 2017
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 344 (186,822)

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constitutional law, separation of powers, executive order

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Equal Protection from Eminent Domain: Protecting the Home of Olech’s Class of One

Loyola Law Review, Vol. 55, p. 697, 2009
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 18 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2010
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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What Happens if Data is Speech?

16 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Heightened Scrutiny 25 (2014)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 30 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2014
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 291 (222,720)
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Offices and Officers of the Constitution, Part IV: The 'Office . . . under the United States' Drafting Convention

Seth Barrett Tillman and Josh Blackman, Offices and Officers of the Constitution, Part IV: The “Office . . . under the United States” Drafting Convention, 62(4) S. TEX. L. REV. 455–532 (2023)
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 12 May 2023 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2023
Seth Barrett Tillman and Josh Blackman
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law and South Texas College of Law Houston
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Bilateral Judicial Reform

Texas A&M Journal of Law and Civil Governance (Forthcoming 2024)
Number of pages: 151 Posted: 02 Jul 2024 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2025
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Obamacare & Man at Yale

University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 01 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2014
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Supreme Court, Constitution, Obamacare

59.

Originalism at the Right Time?

Texas Law Review, Vol. See Also 90, No. 269, 2012
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 30 Apr 2012
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Originalism, Sex Discrimination, Gender Equality, Semantic Originalism, Balkin, Calabresi, Scalia, Ginsburg, Kagan

60.

The Unresolved Threshold Issues in the Emoluments Clauses Litigation: The President Has Three Bodies and There Is No Cause of Action for Ultra Vires Conduct

20 GEO. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 163 (2022)
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 06 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 16 May 2022
Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman
South Texas College of Law Houston and National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
Downloads 258 (251,932)
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Emoluments, Foreign Emoluments Clause, Domestic Emoluments Clause, Capacity, Equity, Equitable Cause of Action

61.

Back To The Future of Originalism

Chapman Law Review, Vol. 16, 2013
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2013
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 251 (259,069)

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NFIB v. Sebelius, Obamacare, health care cases, popular constitutionalism

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Offices and Officers of the Constitution, Part II: The Four Approaches

61(3) S. TEX. L. REV. 321–429 (2021)
Number of pages: 110 Posted: 01 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2022
Seth Barrett Tillman and Josh Blackman
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law and South Texas College of Law Houston
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Offices, Officers, Constitution, Office under the United States, Officers of the United States, Office under the Authority of the United States, Public Trusts

63.

Popular Constitutionalism and the Affordable Care Act

Public Affairs Quarterly, Volume 27, Number 3, July 2013
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2013
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 226 (287,120)
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ABA Model Rule 8.4(g) in the States

68 Catholic University Law Review 629, 2019
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Feb 2020
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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ABA Model Rule 8.4(g), First Amendment, Legal Ethics

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The Burden of Judging

8 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 1105
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 11 Nov 2014
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 212 (306,508)

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Constitutional Law, Rational Basis Test, Footnote Four, Economic Liberty

66.

The Travel Bans

2017-18 Cato Supreme Court Review 29 (2018)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 09 Oct 2018
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 211 (306,508)
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Presidential Speech

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 01 May 2018
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 192 (334,581)

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Constitutional Law, President, Speech, Tweets, First Amendment

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Unreviewable: The Final Installment of the 'Epic' Obamacare Trilogy

2021 Cato Supreme Court Review __
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 Dec 2021
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 187 (342,798)

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Obamacare, ACA, California v. Texas

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The Power to Exclude

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 04 Nov 2018
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 187 (342,798)

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Immigration, Power to Exclude, Necessary and Proper

70.

The Legal Resistance

9 Faulkner Law Review 45 (2017)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 26 Sep 2018
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Legal Resistance

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Youngstown’s Fourth Tier: Is There A Zone of Insight Beyond the Zone of Twilight?

University of Memphis Law Review, Vol. 40, p. 541, 2010
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 13 May 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2010
Elizabeth Bahr and Josh Blackman
affiliation not provided to SSRN and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 179 (356,683)

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The Supreme Court’s New Battlefield

Texas Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 1207, 2012
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 30 Apr 2012
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 171 (371,316)

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originalism, Heller, second amendment, Scalia, Winkler, gun control

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Improper Commandeering

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2019
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 30 May 2019
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 169 (377,065)

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Restoring the Lost Confirmation

83 University of Chicago Law Review Online 18 2016
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 09 Aug 2016
Randy E. Barnett and Josh Blackman
Georgetown University Law Center and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 168 (377,065)

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The Domestic Establishment Clause

Forthcoming in 23 Roger Williams University Law Review
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 10 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 13 May 2018
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 167 (379,053)

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Polling The Health Care Cases

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 17 Jul 2012
Josh Blackman, Adam Aft and Corey M. Carpenter
South Texas College of Law Houston, George Mason University - School of Law, Alumni and George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School
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Supreme Court, NFIB v. Sebelius, the health care cases, empirical legal studies, the will of the people, health care

77.

Immigration Inside the Law

Washburn Law Journal, Vol. 55, 2015
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 29 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2016
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 154 (406,300)

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Immigration, Constitution, DAPA, OLC

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Students for Fair Admissions v. Universities for Division, Exclusion, and Inequity: The Petitions, the Arguments, and the Decision

SMU Law Review, Vol. 77, No. 187, 2024
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Jun 2024
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Students for Fair Admission, Affirmative Action, DEI, Harvard, UNC

79.

The Saving Construction at 5 Years

11 U. St. Thomas J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 72 (2017).
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Mar 2018
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Obamacare, Affordable Care Act, NFIB v. Sebelius

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Government by Blog Post

11 Florida International University Law Review 389 (2016).
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Aug 2016
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Popular Constitutionalism after Kelo

George Mason Law Review, Vol. 23, No. __, 2016 Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 03 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2016
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Kelo, Popular Constitutionalism, Eminent Domain, Public Use

82.

A Historical Record of Special Counsels Before Watergate

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Nov 2024
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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83.

Five Unanswered Questions from Trump v. Hawaii

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 51, No. 139, 2019
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 May 2019
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Supreme Court, immigration, due process, constitutional law

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Technology, Social Media, and Professional Ethics

University of Dayton Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 63, 2020
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2020
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Legal ethics

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Judging the Constitutionality of Social Cost

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 25 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2011
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Constitution, Tiers of Scrutiny, Rational Basis, Strict Scrutiny, Social cost

86.

Defiance and Surrender

59 South Texas Law Review 157 (2018)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 20 Jun 2018
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Foreign Emoluments Clause, Emoluments, Separation of Powers

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A Brief History of Judging: From the Big Bang to Cosmic Constitutional Theory

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 21 Nov 2012
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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88.

Remembering Professor Ronald Rotunda

Chapman Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 11 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2019
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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89.

What We Did and Did Not Argue in United States v. Trump

Seth Barrett Tillman & Josh Blackman, What We Did and Did Not Argue in United States v. Trump, 2024 Harv. J.L & Pub. Pol’y Per Curiam 25.
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 15 Aug 2024
Seth Barrett Tillman and Josh Blackman
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law and South Texas College of Law Houston
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Emoluments Clauses Litigation

Number of pages: 2 Posted: 21 Dec 2021
Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman
South Texas College of Law Houston and National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law
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Jack Smith—there He Goes Again / the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Should Reject His Past Political Justifications to Expedite His Latest Appeal

Posted: 26 Aug 2024
Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman
South Texas College of Law Houston and National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth) - Faculty of Law

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United States v. Texas (Scalia, J., Concurring)

2015-2016 Cato Supreme Court Review 79
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Sep 2016
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston
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My Own Theory of the Law

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2012
Josh Blackman
South Texas College of Law Houston

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