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Race and the Law Essay

Parchment Rights

Vol. 135 No. 8 June 2022 Introduction Like many places in central Louisiana, Grant Parish became a haven for oil and gas prospecting in the late 1890s. Once speculators discovered...
  • Franita Tolson
Second Amendment Essay

Racist Gun Laws and the Second Amendment

Vol. 135 No. 8 June 2022 For a significant portion of American history, gun laws bore the ugly taint of racism. The founding generation that wrote the Second Amendment had...
  • Adam Winkler
Constitutional Law Recent Case

United States v. Perez

Second Circuit Rules Prohibition of Firearms Possession by Undocumented Immigrants Passes Intermediate Scrutiny

Vol. 135 No. 4 February 2022
Constitutional Law Blog Essay

“Lineal Descendant” Analysis in Second Amendment Litigation

April 7, 2021 Second Amendment doctrine—perhaps more than any other constitutional right save the Seventh Amendment civil jury—has become intensely preoccupied with genealogy. Ever since Chief Justice...
  • Darrell A. H. Miller
Constitutional Law Leading Case

New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. City of New York

Vol. 134 No. 1 November 2020 After the grand but doctrinally vacant pronouncements of District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Supreme Court rejected nearly...
Constitutional Law Blog Essay

The Supreme Court is Poised to Blow A Giant Hole in Gun Control. Here’s How the Liberal Justices Can Intervene.

October 21, 2019 Lost in the shuffle of a busy October at the Supreme Court—one filled with high profile developments concerning the right to abortion and the treatment of LGBT...
  • Aaron Tang
Second Amendment Recent Case

Young v. Hawaii

Ninth Circuit Panel Holds Open-Carry Law Infringes Core Right to Bear Arms in Public.

Vol. 132 No. 7 May 2019
Second Amendment Blog Essay

Why the Latest Ruling in the Sandy Hook Shooting Litigation Matters

March 18, 2019 Last week the Connecticut Supreme Court issued a decision in the ongoing litigation brought by plaintiffs representing the twenty children and six adults shot dead...
  • Heidi Li Feldman
Constitutional Law Blog Essay

Corpus Linguistics and the Second Amendment

August 7, 2018 Big Data rekindles the debate over the original meaning of the Second Amendment The Second Amendment provides: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to...
  • Josh Blackman
  • James C. Phillips
Constitutional Law Blog Essay

The Second Amendment and Second-Class Rights

March 5, 2018 Advocates for gun rights feel oppressed.  It has been a decade since the Supreme Court found in District of Columbia v. Heller that the...
  • Darrell A. H. Miller
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