Joseph Blocher

Publications

• Historical Facts and Constitutional Law: New Challenges for Lawyers, Judges, and Scholars
  75 DUKE L.J. 1243 (2026) · Duke Law Journal · 2026
• Bruen in a Changing Judiciary
  74 DUKE L.J. 139 (2025) · Duke Law Journal · 2025
• A Critique of Findings on Gun Ownership, Use, and Imagined Use From the 2021 National Firearms Survey: Response to William English
  78 SMU L. REV. 239 (2025) · SMU Law Review · 2025
• Teaching Firearms Law: One Big Opportunity and Three Pedagogical Challenges
  34 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 407 (2025) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2025
• Safe Storage and Self-Defense from <i>Heller</i> to <i>Bruen</i>
  102 N. C. L. REV. 1353 (2024) · North Carolina Law Review · 2024
• Originalism and Historical Fact-Finding
  112 GEO. L.J. (2024) · Georgetown Law Journal · 2024
• Fact Stripping
  73 DUKE L.J. (2023) · Duke Law Journal · 2023
• Cities, Preemption, and the Statutory Second Amendment
  89 U. CHI. L. REV. (2022) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2022
• Manufacturing Outliers
  2022 SUP. CT. REV. (2022) · Supreme Court Review · 2022
• “Second-Class” Rhetoric, Ideology, and Doctrinal Change
  110 GEO. L.J. (2022) · Georgetown Law Journal · 2022
• When Guns Threaten the Public Sphere: A New Account of Public Safety Under Heller
  116 NW. U. L. REV. 139 (2021) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2021
• Why Did Belgium Pay Leopold’s Bonds?
  83 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 49 (2020) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2020
• The Geography of a Constitutional Right: Gun Rights Outside the Home
  83 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. i (2020) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2020
• Domestic Violence and the Home-Centric Second Amendment
  27 DUKE J. GENDER L. & POL'Y 45 (2020) · Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy · 2020
• Transferable Sovereignty: Lessons from the History of the Congo Free State
  69 DUKE L.J. 1219 (2020) · Duke Law Journal · 2020
• “The Road I Can’t Help Travelling”: Holmes on Truth and Persuadability
  51 SETON HALL L. REV. (2020) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2020
• Doctrinal Dynamism, Borrowing, and the Relationship Between Rules and Rights
  28 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 319 (2020) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2020

• Bans
  129 YALE L.J. 308 (2019) · Yale Law Journal · 2019
• What does Puerto Rican Citizenship Mean for Puerto Rico’s Legal Status?
  67 DUKE L.J. 122 (2018) · Duke Law Journal · 2018
• You Can Lead A Horse to Water: Heller and the Future of Second Amendment Scholarship
  68 DUKE L.J. 1 (2018) · Duke Law Journal · 2018
• From Theory to Doctrine: An Empirical Analysis of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms After Heller
  67 DUKE L.J. 1433 (2018) · Duke Law Journal · 2018
• Puerto Rico and the Right of Accession
  43 YALE J. INT'L L. (2018) · Yale Journal of International Law · 2018
• Forced Secessions
  80 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 215 (2017) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2017
• Foreword: How to Think About Law and Markets
  80 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. (2017) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2017
• A Market for Sovereign Control
  66 DUKE L.J. 797 (2017) · Duke Law Journal · 2017
• The Death Penalty and the Fifth Amendment
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2016
• The Death Penalty and the Fifth Amendment
  111 NW. U. L. REV. 275 (2016) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2016
• Hunting and the Second Amendment
  91 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 133 (2015) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2015
• What Is Gun Control? Direct Burdens, Incidental Burdens, and the Boundaries of the Second Amendment
  83 U. CHI. L. REV. (2015) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2015
• New Approaches to Old Questions in Gun Scholarship
  50 TULSA L. REV. 477 (2015) · Tulsa Law Review · 2015
• New Problems for Subsidized Speech
  56 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1083 (2015) · William & Mary Law Review · 2015
• Nonsense and the Freedom of Speech: What Meaning Means for the First Amendment
  63 DUKE L.J. 1423 (2014) · Duke Law Journal · 2014
• Building on Custom: Land Tenure Policy and Economic Development in Ghana
  9 YALE HUM. RTS. & DEV. L.J. 166 (2014) · Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal · 2014
• Firearm Localism
  123 YALE L.J. 82 (2013) · Yale Law Journal · 2013
• What We Fret About When We Fret About Bootstrapping
  75 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 145 (2012) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2012
• Order Without Judges: Customary Adjudication
  62 DUKE L.J. 579 (2012) · Duke Law Journal · 2012
• Public Discourse, Expert Knowledge, and the Press
  87 WASH. L. REV. 409 (2012) · Washington Law Review · 2012
• The Right Not to Keep or Bear Arms
  64 STAN. L. REV. (2012) · Stanford Law Review · 2012
• Rights To and Not To
  100 CAL. L. REV. 761 (2012) · California Law Review · 2012
• What State Constitutional Law Can Tell Us About the Federal Constitution
  115 DICK. L. REV. 1035 (2011) · Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003) · 2011
• Roberts' Rules: The Assertiveness of Rules-Based Jurisprudence
  46 TULSA L. REV. 431 (2011) · Tulsa Law Review · 2011
• Government Property and Government Speech
  52 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1413 (2011) · William & Mary Law Review · 2011

• Property and Speech in Summum
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2009
• Institutions in the Marketplace of Ideas
  57 DUKE L.J. 821 (2008) · Duke Law Journal · 2008
• Amending the Exceptions Clause
  92 MINN. L. REV. 971 (2008) · Minnesota Law Review · 2008
• Combatant Status Review Tribunals: Flawed Answers to the Wrong Question
  116 YALE L.J. 667 (2006) · Yale Law Journal · 2006
• Private Business as Public Good: Hotel Development and Kelo
  24 YALE L. & POL'Y REV. 363 (2006) · Yale Law & Policy Review · 2006