Josh Blackman

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Josh Blackman
Born
Joshua Michael Blackman
Academic background
EducationPennsylvania State University (BS)
George Mason University (JD)
Academic work
DisciplineConstitutional Law
InstitutionsSouth Texas College of Law
Cato Institute
WebsitePersonal Website, South Texas College of Law Biography

Joshua Michael Blackman is an American lawyer who is employed as an associate professor of law at the South Texas College of Law where he focuses on constitutional law and the intersection of law and technology. He has authored one book and co-authored two others.[1]

After attending Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, and the Antonin Scalia Law School (then George Mason University Law School) in Arlington, Virginia, Blackman worked as a law clerk for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania under Judge Kim R. Gibson from 2009 to 2011. He then worked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit under Judge Danny Julian Boggs from 2011 to 2012.[citation needed]

Life and career[edit]

Blackman attended Pennsylvania State University, and graduated in 2005 with a BS in Information Sciences and Technology in 2005. He then attended George Mason Law School, (now the Antonin Scalia Law School), graduating with a JD in 2009. After finishing law school, Blackman clerked for judge Kim R. Gibson in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and subsequently for Judge Danny Julian Boggs.[2]

In 2009 he launched (via his nonprofit, the Harlan Institute[3]) FantasySCOTUS, a United States Supreme Court prediction market.[4] In 2010, his personal blog was identified as a top 100 law blog by the American Bar Association, which took note of his claim to have co-developed an algorithm to predict the outcome of Supreme Court cases.[5]

Blackman joined the South Texas College of Law in 2012,[1] where he teaches property, constitutional law, and legal theory.[citation needed] He has appeared as a speaker for the Federalist Society,[6] and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.[7]

Court cases[edit]

In 2015, Blackman represented Defense Distributed in their First Amendment challenge to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations ban on 3D printed gun files.[8] The lawsuit was settled in 2018.[9]

CUNY incident[edit]

On March 29, 2018, at a Federalist Society event hosted by CUNY Law School, Blackman's presentation was disrupted by campus protesters.[10] Blackman later shared a video of the incident, in which he was heckled and shouted down for approximately ten minutes before the protestors left the room. Some of the protestors objected to Blackman's support for President Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, although Blackman explained that he would support a DACA law that was passed by Congress.[11]

Books[edit]

  • Blackman, Josh, and Randy Barnett. Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare. PublicAffairs, 2013. ISBN 978-1610393287[12][13][14]
  • Blackman, Josh. Unraveled: Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power. Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1107169012[15]
  • Barnett, Randy E., and Josh Blackman. An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know. Wolters Kluwer, 2020. ISBN 978-1543813906

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Josh Blackman". South Texas College of Law. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
  2. ^ "Josh Blackman C.V." Google Docs. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  3. ^ Mears, Bill (November 23, 2010). "'Fantasy' website helps students learn about Supreme Court". cnn.com. Archived from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  4. ^ Mears, Bill (December 16, 2009). "Frustrated with fantasy football? Try the Supreme Court". CNN. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  5. ^ "ABA Blawg 100 Awards for 2010". ABAJournal.com. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  6. ^ "Prof. Josh Blackman". fedsoc.org. The Federalist Society. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
  7. ^ "Josh Blackman". www.cato.org. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
  8. ^ Root, Cody (August 28, 2018). "Defense Distributed Lawyer Josh Blackman on 3D-Printed Guns and Free Speech: Podcast". Reason. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  9. ^ Blocher, Joseph; Miller, Darrell; Charles, Jake (November 19, 2019). "Litigation Highlight: State of Washington v. United States Department of State | Second Thoughts". Duke Center for Firearms Law. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
  10. ^ Blackman, Josh. "Silencing of a Conservative Speaker". www.americanbar.org. American Bar Association. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
  11. ^ Jaschik, Scott (April 16, 2018). "Shouting Down Talk on Campus Free Speech". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  12. ^ Melloan, George (September 11, 2013). "Book Review: 'Unprecedented' by Josh Blackman & 'The Last Line of Defense' by Ken Cuccinelli". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
  13. ^ "Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare by Josh Blackman (book review)". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
  14. ^ Epps, Garrett (September 16, 2013). "Reagan's Court v. the Libertarians': A new crop of Supreme Court books show Chief Justice Roberts siding with his hero's ghost—for now". The American Prospect.
  15. ^ Cook, Edwin (January 19, 2019). "Review of Unraveled". Journal of Church and State. 61 (1): 159–161. doi:10.1093/jcs/csy085.

External links[edit]

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