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Joseph Blocher, Center Co-Director

Joseph BlocherBlocher, the Lanty L. Smith ’67 Professor of Law, researches 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, sovereignty, and refugee law. He has published dozens of articles on those topics and co-authored Free Speech Beyond Words (NYU Press, 2017) and The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Darrell A. H. Miller, Center Co-Director

Darrel A. H. MillerMiller, the Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law, writes and teaches in the areas of civil rights, constitutional law, civil procedure, state and local government law, and legal history. His scholarship on the Second and Thirteenth Amendments has been published in leading law reviews and cited by the Supreme Court, federal Courts of Appeals and District Courts, and in congressional testimony and legal briefs. With Joseph Blocher, he is the author of The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Andrew M. Willinger ’16, Executive Director

Willinger joined the Center for Firearms Law as Executive Director in 2022, after practicing as a litigation associate at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in New York for three years. He writes and comments on Second Amendment decisions and issues related to firearms law. Willinger has been quoted and interviewed by CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, among other outlets, and his scholarship is forthcoming in the Washington University Law Review.

 

Ethan Margolis, Repository Manager

Margolis joined the Center as Repository Manager in 2023.  He manages the Center’s Repository of Historical Gun Laws and conducts archival research to identify historical gun regulations.  Margolis holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in History from North Carolina State University, and he received his Master of Library and Information Science degree from North Carolina Central University. 

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