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Joseph Blocher
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 79
Citations - 423
Joseph Blocher is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Constitutional law & Supreme court. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 71 publications receiving 382 citations. Previous affiliations of Joseph Blocher include University of Notre Dame & University of Tulsa.
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Influence of land tenure practices on artisanal mining activity in Ghana
Frank K. Nyame,Joseph Blocher +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the issue of land tenure and how it influences artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activity in Ghana is examined and shown to contribute significantly towards proliferation of illegal ASM activity and hence potentially challenges attempts by governments and development partners to formalise the sector.
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Building on Custom: Land Tenure Policy and Economic Development in Ghana
TL;DR: In this paper, the intersection of customary and statutory land law in the land tenure policy of Ghana is discussed, and the authors argue that improving the current land-tenure policy demands integration of customary land law and customary authorities into the statutory system.
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Institutions in the Marketplace of Ideas
TL;DR: The New Institutional Economics (NIE) model as discussed by the authors is based on the free market for goods and services, but it does not take into account the transaction costs and institutions that populate and effectively regulate that market.
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Categoricalism and Balancing in First and Second Amendment Analysis
TL;DR: The least discussed element of District of Columbia v. Heller might ultimately be the most important: the battle between the majority and dissent over the use of categoricalism and balancing in the construction of constitutional doctrine as discussed by the authors.
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From Theory to Doctrine: An Empirical Analysis of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms after Heller
Eric Ruben,Joseph Blocher +1 more
TL;DR: The first comprehensive empirical analysis of post-Heller Second Amendment doctrine is presented in this paper. But although the doctrine has begun to mature in the decade since District of Columbia v. Heller, scholars, advocates, and judges disagree about (and sometimes simply do not know) how to characterize it.