Josh Blackman is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston, where he holds the Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law. He is the author or editor of multiple books, including The Heritage Guide to the Constitution. A prolific scholar, Blackman’s more than seven dozen law review articles have been cited more than a thousand times. He also regularly appears in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, and other leading national publications and broadcast outlets. In 2024, Blackman was selected as the 2024 Jurist of the Year by the Texas Review of Law & Politics, received the inaugural Edwin Meese III Originalism Award in 2022, and was awarded the inaugural Joseph Story Award in 2018.

Blackman is the president of the Harlan Institute and founder of FantasySCOTUS, a U.S. Supreme Court prediction market. He earned his J.D. from the George Mason University School of Law. Blackman blogs at the Volokh Conspiracy and can be found @JoshMBlackman.