Josh Blackman
Born	Joshua Michael Blackman
Academic background
Education	Pennsylvania State University (BS) George Mason University (JD)
Academic work
Discipline	Constitutional Law
Institutions	South Texas College of Law Cato Institute
Website	Personal Website,South Texas College of Law Biography

Joshua Michael Blackman is an American lawyer. He is a professor at South Texas College of Law in Houston, where he serves as the Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law. He focuses on constitutional law and the intersection of law and technology. He has authored one book and co-authored two others.^[1]

Blackman attendedPennsylvania State University, and graduated in 2005 with a BS in Information Sciences and Technology. He then attended George Mason Law School, (now theAntonin Scalia Law School), graduating with aJD in 2009. After finishing law school, Blackman clerked for judgeKim R. Gibson inJohnstown, Pennsylvania, and subsequently for JudgeDanny Julian Boggs.^[2]

In 2009 he launched (via his nonprofit, the Harlan Institute^[3])FantasySCOTUS, aUnited States Supreme Courtprediction market.^[4] In 2010, his personal blog was identified as a top 100 law blog by theAmerican 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 theSouth Texas College of Law in 2012 as an assistant professor, and was promoted through the ranks, becoming a full professor in 2018 and the Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law in 2023.^[1][2] He teaches property, constitutional law, and legal theory.^{[citation needed]} He has appeared as a speaker for theFederalist Society,^[6] and is an adjunct scholar at theCato Institute.^[7]

Blackman is listed as a contributor to theHeritage Foundation'sProject 2025 policy document.^[8]

In 2015, Blackman representedDefense Distributed in theirFirst Amendmentchallenge to theInternational Traffic in Arms Regulations ban on 3D printed gun files.^[9] The lawsuit was settled in 2018.^[10]

On March 29, 2018, at aFederalist Society event hosted byCUNY Law School, Blackman's presentation was disrupted by campus protesters.^[11] 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 theDeferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, although Blackman explained that he would support a DACA law that was passed by Congress.^[12]

• Blackman, Josh, andRandy Barnett.Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare. PublicAffairs, 2013.ISBN 978-1610393287^[13][14][15]
• Blackman, Josh.Unraveled: Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power.Cambridge University Press, 2016.ISBN 978-1107169012^[16]
• Barnett, Randy E., and Josh Blackman. An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know.Wolters Kluwer, 2020.ISBN 978-1543813906

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• Posts by Blackman onThe Volokh Conspiracy blog

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