JOSH BLACKMAN (202) 294-9003 225 Copper Creek Circle, Louisville, KY 40222
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EDUCATION George Mason University School of Law J.D. Magna Cum Laude, May 2009 Articles Editor, GEORGE MASON LAW REVIEW The Pennsylvania State University B.S. High Distinction (Magna Cum Laude) in Information Sciences & Technology, December 2005
ARTICLES 1. The Supreme Court’s New Battlefield, 90 TEXAS LAW REVIEW ___ (2012). 2. The Constitutionality of Social Cost, 34 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 1 (2011). 3. Original Citizenship, 159 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW PENNUMBRA 95 (2011). 4. Predicting Supreme Court Cases, 13 COLUMBIA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW ___ (2012). 5. Crowdsourcing A Prediction Market for the Supreme Court, 10 NORTHWESTERN JOURNAL TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ___ (2011) (with Adam Aft & Corey Carpenter).
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6. Pierson v. Post & The Natural Law, 51 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY 417 (2011). 7. Keeping Pandora’s Box Sealed, 8 GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 1 (2010) (with Ilya Shapiro). o Cited in Ezell v. City of Chicago, __F.3d __, 2011 WL 2623511 *12 (7th Cir. 2011). 8. Equal Protection from Eminent Domain, 56 LOYOLA LAW REVIEW 697 (2010). 9. Youngstown’s Fourth Tier. Is There A Zone of Insight Beyond the Zone of Twilight?, 40 MEMPHIS LAW REVIEW 541 (2010) (with Elizabeth Bahr). 10. The Tell-Tale Privileges or Immunities Clause, 2010 CATO SUP. CT. REV. 163 (2010) (with Alan Gura and Ilya Shapiro). 11. This Lemon Comes as a Lemon. The Lemon Test and the Pursuit of a Statute’s Secular Purpose, 20 GEORGE MASON CIVIL RIGHTS LAW JOURNAL 351 (2010). 12. Omniveillance, Google, Privacy in Public, and the Right to Your Digital Identity: A Tort for Recording and Disseminating an Individual's Image Over the Internet, 49 SANTA CLARA LAW REVIEW 313 (2009). o Excerpted in R. L. Campbell, LEGAL ISSUES IN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE 2010.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Judging the Constitutionality of Social Cost, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1894484.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE Pennsylvania State University School of Law (2010–2011) Fellow Federal Courts seminar taught twice (student evaluations available upon request). Mentored students in development of seminar papers that fulfilled upper-level writing requirement.
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE Judge Danny J. Boggs, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (2011-2012) Law Clerk Judge Kim R. Gibson, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (2009-2011) Law Clerk Department of Defense, DISA Office of the General Counsel (2008-2009) Law Clerk Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, Washington, D.C. (2008) Summer Associate Department of Defense, DISA Global Information Grid Network Support (2006-2007) Computer Scientist
ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE The Harlan Institute (www.HarlanInstitute.org) Co-Founder & President of a Washington, D.C. based 501(c)(3), dedicated to educating high school students about the rule of law and the Supreme Court through social media and interactive games. Organized, coordinated, and developed Supreme Court Fantasy League (FantasySCOTUS.org) for high school students to learn about the Constitution, in which over 1,000 students participate. Collaborated with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and her iCivics.org organization. FantasySCOTUS.net (Created the Internet’s First Supreme Court Fantasy League) Over 10,000 members make predictions for pending Supreme Court cases. Generates prediction market that accurately forecasts 75% of Supreme Court cases. o Empirical data to be published in the COLUMBIA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW. Featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The ABA Journal, and on CNN.com.
REFERENCES Professor Ilya Somin, George Mason University School of Law (703) 993-8069 -
[email protected] - 3301 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22201 Professor Ross Davies, George Mason University School of Law (703) 993-8049 -
[email protected] - 3301 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22201 Professor Randy Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center (202) 662-9936 -
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Professor David Flatto, Penn State School of Law (917) 721-5087 -
[email protected] - Lewis Katz Building, University Park, PA 16802 Professor Adam Winkler, UCLA School of Law (310) 463-2447 -
[email protected] - 385 Charles E. Young Dr., 1242 Law, Los Angeles, CA 90095 The Honorable Danny J. Boggs U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (502) 625-3900 - 220 Gene Snyder U.S. Courthouse, 601 W. Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202 The Honorable Kim R. Gibson U.S. District Court Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (814) 533-4514 - 104 Penn Traffic Building, 319 Washington Street, Johnstown, PA 15901
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