Guns
Public Carry and Criminal Law after Bruen
Introduction Gun rights supporters appear to be on the cusp of achieving a decades-long goal: defanging licensing laws nationwide for carrying handguns in public. More than twenty states have removed…
Legal History
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Race and the Law
Parchment Rights
Introduction Like many places in central Louisiana, Grant Parish became a haven for oil and gas prospecting in the late 1890s. Once speculators discovered the rich reserves, they hoped the…
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Second Amendment
Inequality, Anti-Republicanism, and Our Unique Second Amendment
Introduction What is the relationship between the Second Amendment right to bear arms and inequality? Scholarly silence suggests a conventional view that there is no relationship between the two. In…
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First Amendment
Blasphemy and the Original Meaning of the First Amendment
Until well into the twentieth century, American law recognized blasphemy as proscribable speech. The blackletter rule was clear. Constitutional liberty entailed a right to articulate views on religion, but not…
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Constitutional Law
Price and Sovereignty
[W]e must not overlook the actual fact that dominion over things is also imperium over our fellow human beings. — Professor Morris R. Cohen, Property and SovereigntyMorris R. Cohen, Property…
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Property
Turning Neighbors Into Nuisances
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Legal History
The Agreement and the Girmitiya
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Fifth Amendment
Decryption Originalism: The Lessons of Burr
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Copyright
Legal Internalism In Modern Histories of Copyright
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Unjust Enrichment
Aloha ‘Āina: Native Hawaiian Land Restitution
Chapter Four