John Inazu is a Fellow in Public Law and Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University School of Law. His teaching and scholarship focus on the First Amendment freedoms of speech, assembly, and religion. More broadly, he is interested in the intersection of political theory, theology, and public law.

Mr. Inazu holds a J.D. from Duke University School of Law and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He clerked for the Honorable Roger Wollman on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and served for four years as an associate general counsel for the Department of the Air Force at the Pentagon.

He and his wife, Caroline, are the proud parents of two beautiful daughters, Lauren (age two) and Hana (age six months).