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, sovereignty, and the relationship between law and violence.

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.

Adam Chilton is a professor of law and the Walter Mander Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School. Adam’s primary research interests lie at the intersection of international law, comparative law, and empirical legal studies.

Adam’s ongoing projects include documenting the development and enforcement of competition law regimes around the world, studying how bilateral labor agreements can be used to promote international labor migration, and researching how to improve the quality of life in India’s slums.

Adam received a BA and MA in political science from Yale University. After college, Adam worked as a management consultant for BCG. He then went to Harvard University, where he earned a JD and a PhD in political science. Before joining the faculty, Adam taught at the Law School as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law.

Andrew Keane Woods is a professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law.

Professor Woods’s teaching and research interests include cybersecurity, the regulation of technology, and international law, both public and private. His scholarship has been selected for the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum, and his articles have appeared or are forthcoming in: the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Harvard International Law Journal, the Virginia Journal of International Law, and the Chicago Journal of International Law. His work has been cited in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and NPR. Professor Woods is a contributing editor of the Lawfare blog, and has written for the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Financial Times, and Slate.

In Spring 2017, Professor Woods was a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where he taught a class on law and policy in the technology sector. Before that, he was an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University (at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society) and a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School. He holds an AB from Brown University, magna cum laude; a JD from Harvard Law School, cum laude; and a PhD in Politics from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar.

Prof. Daniel Epps is an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. Professor Epps received his AB summa cum laude with highest distinction in Philosophy from Duke University and his JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was Articles Co-Chair of the Harvard Law Review and won the John M. Olin Law & Economics prize. After law school, he clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States.

His research concerns the intersection of criminal justice, constitutional law, and federal courts. His scholarship has been published in the nation’s leading law journals, including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, NYU Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He’s also a leading expert on the Supreme Court who is regularly quoted in the national media. His writing for popular audiences has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vox, and The Atlantic. His proposal to reform the Supreme Court (developed with Ganesh Sitaraman) was endorsed by presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and was widely discussed in the media.

Danielle D’Onfro is an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law where she teaches Property, Advanced Private Law, Corporations, and Corporate Compliance. Her research applies private law theory to business associations and their capital structure. Her writing about debt contracts covers both consumer and commercial debt. Her article, Limited Liability Property, analyzes the property claims inherent to secured debt and the obligations that come with those claims. In Corporate Stewardship, she proposes a decentralized individual liability regime to improve the efficiency of corporate compliance. In Corporations as Commodities, she uses property theory to study the controversy about the purpose of the corporation. Her more recent research explores formalities in consumer finance and the application of the law of bailment to digital storage. Her popular writing has appeared in theWashington Post, SCOTUSBlog, and Take Care.

Professor D’Onfro earned her BA in classics from Columbia College and her JD from Harvard Law School. After law school, she clerked for Judge Allyson K. Duncan on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Before joining the faculty, she was a senior associate in the Debt Finance and Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring Groups at WilmerHale in Washington, DC and Boston, Massachusetts.

Marin K. Levy’s principal academic interests include judicial administration, civil procedure, remedies, and federal courts. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and California Law Review, among other scholarly journals, and has been discussed in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, and other public outlets. Levy is also a co-author of Federal Standards of Review: Appellate Court Review of District Court Decisions and Agency Actions (2nd ed.) with Judge Harry T. Edwards and Linda A. Elliott.

Levy joined the Duke Law faculty in 2009, and received the law school’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2017. She currently serves as the Director of Duke’s Program in Public Law, and is a faculty advisor to the Bolch Judicial Institute. Prior to coming to Duke, she served as a law clerk to Judge José A. Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and was an associate at Jenner & Block LLP in Washington, D.C.

Levy received her J.D. in 2007 from Yale Law School, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review. She is a 2004 graduate of the University of Cambridge, where she earned an M.Phil in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. Levy received a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics and in English from Yale College in 2003, graduating cum laude with distinction in both majors.

William Ortman is an Assistant Professor of Law and the Edward M. Wise Research Scholar at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he teaches Evidence and Criminal Law. His scholarship examines the legal and institutional design of criminal justice, with a particular focus on plea bargaining. His academic work has appeared in leading law journals, including the Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Since joining Wayne Law in 2016, Ortman has been voted Professor of the Year by the school’s upper-level students three times, in 2018, 2019 and 2020, and by its first-year students once, in 2021. Earlier in his career, Ortman taught legal research and writing as a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School. Before that, he spent six years as a criminal defense lawyer and commercial litigator in Des Moines, Iowa. He earned a JD with highest honors from the University of Chicago and a BA with highest honors from Swarthmore College.

Christopher C. Lund is a professor of law at Wayne State University Law School, where he teaches a variety of courses, including Torts, Contracts, Constitutional Law, Religious Liberty in the United States and Evidence. He has been voted Professor of the Year seven times.

Lund’s academic work has been cited extensively by courts and commentators. In the Supreme Court’s recent decision about the constitutionality of a WWI memorial cross, for example, Justice Alito’s majority opinion cited one of his articles while Justice Ginsburg’s dissent cited a brief he had written for the case. In another case, Justice Stephen Breyer brought up another of Lund’s briefs at oral argument, calling it “very excellent.” Lund is regularly called on for his expertise by media outlets, civil rights organizations and religious groups. He is currently chair-elect of the Section on Constitutional Law of the Association of American Law Schools, after earlier stints as chair of both the Section on Law and Religion and the Section on New Law Professors.

Lund joined Wayne University Law School in 2009 from the Mississippi College School of Law. Before teaching, he clerked for the Hon. Karen Nelson Moore on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, served as the Madison Fellow at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and practiced law at Dechert LLP in Philadelphia. Lund earned his law degree with high honors from the University of Texas School of Law and his bachelor’s from Rice University, summa cum laude, with majors in mathematics and psychology.