Joseph Greenlee

Joseph Greenlee

Director - Office of Litigation, NRA-ILA

Topics: Constitution • Civil Rights • Second Amendment • Founding Era & History • First Amendment • Fourteenth Amendment • Religious Liberties • Religious Liberty • Separation of Powers • State Courts • Supreme Court

Joseph Greenlee is the Director of the Office of Litigation at the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action. He is also a Research Associate at the Independence Institute and a Policy Advisor for Legal Affairs at the Heartland Institute.

Greenlee has worked on more than 90 constitutional law cases (representing a party or amicus curiae) and has filed more than 30 briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Greenlee has published 15 scholarly articles on firearms law. He has been cited in over 100 cases, including three United States Supreme Court cases, as well as decisions by five federal circuit courts of appeals, thirty district courts, the highest courts of five states and Puerto Rico, and three state appellate courts.

Greenlee has also authored dozens of short articles on the right to keep and bear arms, which have appeared in The Hill, Washington Post, Washington Times, and SCOTUSblog, among others.

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