Marc Jonathan Blitz
Associate Professor of Law
E-mail: Marc Blitz
Phone: (405) 208-5177
Office Hours:
Fridays, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, or by appointment
Courses:
Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II, Computer Law, Evidence, Legal Analysis, Administrative Law, National Security Law, Law of Alternative Dispute Resolution
Education:
B.A., Harvard University; Ph.D. (Political Science) University of Chicago; J.D., University of Chicago
Background:
Marc Jonathan Blitz’s scholarship focuses on constitutional protection for freedom of thought and freedom of expression, privacy, and national security law – and especially on how of each of these areas of law applies to emerging technologies. He has recently written articles on how privacy and First Amendment law should apply to public video surveillance, biometric identification methods, virtual reality technology, and library Internet systems.
As an attorney at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington D.C., his work focused on telecommunications, privacy law, computer law, intellectual property, constitutional law, and anti-terrorism security measures. While working in Washington, he was also one of the reporters for The Constitution Project’s Liberty and Security Initiative, and was one of the drafters of its Guidelines for Public Video Surveillance. Since 2006, he has also worked closely with the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) in Oklahoma City to organize symposia and other events on the legal framework for counterterrorism. He has frequently served as a television or radio commentator on constitutional law, privacy law, and national security law, and has participated in panel discussions on these subjects held by the Department of Homeland Security and by The Constitution Project and Georgetown University Law Center.
He was voted Professor of the Year by the Merit Scholars at the Law School in 2007 and was also the recipient in 2007 of a Priddy fellowship in which he explored the use of art and technology in teaching.
He also has substantial experience in Alternative Dispute Resolution, having worked as an ombudsperson for the University of Chicago, an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau, and a mediator with the Center for Conflict Resolution and in United States Postal Service’s REDRESS program. Among the subjects he teaches at OCU is Law of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
He has waited, across several reincarnations, for the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series.Articles and Essays:
- A First Amendment for Second Life: What Virtual Worlds Mean for the Law of Video Games, 11 VAND J. ENT & TECH. L. J. 779-821 (2009).
- The Freedom of 3D Thought: First Amendment Rights in Virtual Reality, 30 CARDOZO L. REV. 1141-1243 (2008).
- Constitutional Safeguards for Silent Experiments in Living: Libraries, the Right to Read, and a First Amendment Theory for an Unaccompanied Right to Receive Information, 74 UMKC L. REV. 799-882 (2006), reprinted in Rodney Smolla ed., 2007-08 FIRST AMENDMENT LAW HANDBOOK at 929-1015 (Thomson-West 2007).
- The Dangers of Fighting Terrorism with Technocommunitarianism: Constitutional Protections of Free Expression, Exploration, and Unmonitored Activity in Urban Spaces, 32 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 677-721 (2005).
- Video Surveillance and the Constitution of Public Space: Fitting the Fourth Amendment to a World that Tracks Image and Identity, 82 TEX. L. REV. 1349-1481 (2004).
Other Publications:
- The Where and Why of Intellectual Privacy, 87 TEX. L. REV. SEE ALSO 15-23 (2009).
- The New and Future Law of Counterterrorism – and the Historical Lessons that Support It, 33 OKLA. CITY U. L. REV 287 (2008).
- “Lane v. Wilson,” in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, David S. Tanenhaus, ed. (New York: MacMillan Reference USA/ Thomson-Gale 2008)
- “Hague v. CIO,” in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, David S. Tanenhaus, ed. (New York: MacMillan Reference USA/ Thomson-Gale 2008)
- “Paris Adult Theater I v. Slaton,” in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, David S. Tanenhaus, ed. (New York: MacMillan Reference USA/ Thomson-Gale 2008)
- “Amendments, Outside Article V” in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, David S. Tanenhaus, ed. (New York: MacMillan Reference USA/ Thomson-Gale 2008)
- All the World's a Screen: Video Searches and Fourth Amendment Privacy Protections, 31 SEARCH & SEIZURE L. REP. 49-56 (2004).
Scholarly Presentations:
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Three First Amendment Problems in Second Life, Roundtable on User-Generated Content and Virtual Worlds, Vanderbilt Journal of Technology and Entertainment Law, Nashville, Nov. 14, 2008.
- Google Earth, Google Sky, and the Global First Amendment, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Aug. 31, 2008, Boston
Address:
OCU School of Law
2501 N. Blackwelder
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73106