Joshua Michael Blackman is an American lawyer who is employed as an associate professor of law at the

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where he focuses on constitutional law and the intersection of law and technology. He has authored one book and co-authored two others. 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

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under Judge Kim R. Gibson from 2009 to 2011. He then worked for the

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under Judge

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from 2011 to 2012.

Life and career

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

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, and subsequently for Judge

. In 2009 he launched (via his nonprofit, the Harlan Institute) FantasySCOTUS, a

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. In 2010, his personal blog was identified as a top 100 law blog by the

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, which took note of his claim to have co-developed an algorithm to predict the outcome of Supreme Court cases. Blackman joined the

in 2012, where he teaches property, constitutional law, and legal theory. He has appeared as a speaker for the

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, and is an adjunct scholar at the

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Court cases

In 2015, Blackman represented

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in their

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challenge to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations ban on 3D printed gun files. The lawsuit was settled in 2018.

CUNY incident

On March 29, 2018, at a

event hosted by

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, Blackman's presentation was disrupted by campus protesters. 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

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(DACA) program, although Blackman explained that he would support a DACA law that was passed by Congress.

Books

* Blackman, Josh, and Randy Barnett. ''Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare''. PublicAffairs, 2013. * Blackman, Josh. ''Unraveled: Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power''.

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, 2016. * Barnett, Randy E., and Josh Blackman. An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know.

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, 2020.

References

External links

* *
Posts by Blackman
on ''

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