JOHN D.
INAZU
Box 90360
Duke University School of Law
Durham, NC 27708
(919) 724-2073
inazu@law.duke.edu
EDUCATION
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, Ph.D. (Political Science), 2009
Fields: Political Theory and Public Law
Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Multiyear Fellowship
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, M.A. (Political Science), 2007
Duke University School of Law, J.D., 2000
(Cum Laude)
Duke University, B.S.E. (Civil
Engineering), 1997 (Cum Laude)
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL
EMPLOYMENT
Duke University School of Law
Fellow, Program in Public Law
(2009 – present)
Consultant, Center for the Study of the Public
Domain (2009)
Instructor, Religion and Liberal Democracy (2010)
Ellis & Winters, LLP
Special Counsel (2009)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Teaching Fellow (2006 – 2008)
Instructor, First Amendment (2007 – 2008)
Judge Roger L. Wollman
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth
Circuit
Law Clerk (2004-2005)
Office of the Air Force General Counsel (National
Security & Military Affairs)
Associate General Counsel (2003 –
2004)
• Detailed to special investigation of sexual assault at
the Air Force Academy
• Led legal review of policies and practices of the Civil
Air Patrol
• Counsel to military witnesses providing testimony to the
9/11 Commission
Office of the Air Force General Counsel (Acquisition)
Associate General Counsel (2000 – 2003)
Chief, Bid Protests (2002 – 2003)
• Served as lead attorney for the Air Force in
over 100 bid protests
• Successfully defended over $1 billion of Air Force
procurements
• Managed and coauthored litigation risk assessment of $300
million cost
overrun on international development contract involving
NATO AWACS
• Counsel to agency review of $450 million logistics
support procurement
• Principal legal advisor to rewrite of Air Force
contracting regulations
PUBLICATIONS
The Strange Origins of the Constitutional Right of
Association, 77 Tenn. L. Rev. -- (forthcoming)
The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly, 84 Tul. L. Rev.
565 (2010)
Making Sense of Schaumburg: Seeking Coherence
in First Amendment Charitable Solicitation Law, 92
Marq. L. Rev. 551 (2009)
No Future Without (Personal) Forgiveness: Reexamining
the Role of Forgiveness in Transitional Justice, 10
Hum. Rts. Rev. 309 (2009)
Boeing v. Roche and the Benefit Theory
of Allocability: Unlocking Lockheed or
Ignoring Northrop?, 32 Pub. Cont. L.J. 39
(2002)
WORKS IN PROGRESS
The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly
(completed book manuscript)
The Limits of Integrity: Dworkin's Interpretive Theory
and the Public Reason Problem (completed draft)
Constitutional Salience Revisited (completed
draft)
The Unsettling "Well-Settled" Law of Freedom of
Association (completed draft)
Rethinking Religious Group Autonomy (completed
draft)
Teaching Law and Scripture (completed draft)
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“The Unsettling ‘Well-Settled’ Law of Freedom of
Association” (2010)
Duke University School of Law Faculty Workshop
“The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly”
UNC Chapel Hill School of Law Faculty Workshop (2009)
“Personal Forgiveness in Transitional Justice”
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association (2008)
“The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly”
Harvard Graduate Conference in Political Theory (2007)
Respondent to Elizabeth Kiss, “Righting Wrongs: Two Visions
of Transitional Justice,” Duke-UNC Political Theory
Colloquium (2006)
SELECTED LEGAL BRIEFS AND REPORTS
Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, Brief Amicus Curiae of
the Pacific Justice Institute and Christian Service
Charities in Support of Petitioner Christian Legal Society
(with Peter Lepiscopo)
The Report of the Working Group Concerning Deterrence of
and Response to Incidents of Sexual Assault at the U.S. Air
Force Academy, June 2003 (principal drafter of two
sections)
Litigation Risk Assessment for NATO AWACS Mid-Term EMD
Restructure,
October 18, 2002 (principal drafter)
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Blacknall Memorial Presbyterian Church (Durham,
NC)
Director of Youth Ministries (2006 - 2008)
Youth Ministry Volunteer (2005 – 2006, 2008 – present)
First Evangelical Free Church (Sioux
Falls, SD)
Youth Ministry Volunteer (2004 – 2005)
The Falls Church Episcopal (Falls Church,
VA)
Volunteer Worship Leader (2002 – 2004)
Youth Ministry Volunteer (2000 – 2001)
Center for Public
Justice (Washington, D.C.)
Participant in Civitas Summer Leadership Seminar (2005)
Presidential Classroom (Washington,
D.C.)
Volunteer Instructor (2004)
Durham and Chapel Hill Young Life (Durham,
NC)
Volunteer Leader (1997 – 2000)
Team Leader (1998 – 1999)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Meritorious Service Medal w/ oak leaf cluster (2003, 2004)
Air Force General Counsel’s Honors Program (2000 – 2004)
Second Place, American Bar Association and Public Contract
Law Journal Writing Competition (2002)
Air Force ROTC Distinguished Graduate (1997)
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Colorado Bar
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
REFERENCES
Available upon
request.