OPERATION PROTECT & DEFEND’S
ANNUAL MCLE LUNCHEON

A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT


SPEAKER:

Joseph Blocher – Professor, Duke Law School

Joseph Blocher, Joseph Blocher’s principal academic interests include federal and state constitutional law, the First and Second Amendments, legal history, and property. His current scholarship addresses issues of gun rights and regulation, free speech, the law of the territories, and the relationship between law and violence.

He has published articles on those and other topics in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law ReviewDuke Law Journal, Yale Journal of International Lawand other leading journals. He is co-author of  Free Speech Beyond Words (NYU Press, 2017) and The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He serves as Co-Director of the Center for Firearms Law, and has spoken before Congress and written for the New York TimesWashington PostSlate, Vox, and other public outlets.

He returned to his hometown of Durham to join the Duke Law faculty in 2009, and received the law school’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2012. Before coming to Duke, he clerked for Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Rosemary Barkett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He also practiced law at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he assisted the merits briefing for the District of Columbia in District of Columbia v. Heller.

Blocher received his B.A., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Rice University, and studied law and economic development as a Fulbright Scholar in Ghana and as a Gates Scholar at Cambridge University, where he received an M.Phil in Land Economy. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as comments editor of the Yale Law Journal, symposium editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review, notes editor of the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, participated in or directed several clinics, and was co-chair of the Legal Services Organization.

Date: Friday, January 27, 2023

MCLE Virtual Luncheon: 12:00-1:00 PM
Dialogue Training:
1:00-1:30 PM
Location:
Zoom
MCLE:
.75 hours of General Credit
Cost:
Free, with optional donation to OPD



Please register below no later than 9:00 p.m. 1/26/23, as the zoom link will be sent out via email the morning of the event.