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Conundrums of Constraint: United States v. Rahimi and the Future of the Bruen Test

July 21, 2024 On June 21, the Supreme Court decided United States v. Rahimi, overturning the Fifth Circuit’s application of the newly minted test for evaluating the...

Bianca Corgan

Constitutional Law Blog Essay

A Simple Way to Protect Domestic Violence Orders Against the Next Constitutional Challenge

July 3, 2024 Media reports of the Supreme Court’s decision this June in United States v. Rahimi have stated that the Court upheld the federal ban on...

Criminal Justice Recent Case

Range v. Attorney General

Third Circuit Holds that a Nonviolent Offender May Not Be Stripped of Second Amendment Rights.

Vol. 137 No. 3 January 2024

Second Amendment Blog Essay

How States Can Limit Gun Violence

May 18, 2023 In May 2022, a teenage shooter armed with an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle entered a Tops Supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and methodically killed...

Second Amendment Notes

Bruen’s Ricochet: Why Scored Live-Fire Requirements Violate the Second Amendment

Vol. 136 No. 5 March 2023 Introduction City of Boston residents who wish to carry a handgun for self-defense must apply for a License to Carry Firearms (LTC) with the...

Abortion Law Response

Racism, Abolition, and Historical Resemblance

Forum response to Professor Bridges' Foreword

Response to Race in the Roberts Court

Vol. 136 No. 1 November 2022

Dorothy E. Roberts

Abortion Law Foreword

Vol. 136 No. 1 November 2022 When it comes to people of color, the Roberts Court treats “racism” as if it is an objective fact — out there in the world, apparent to anyone who stumbles upon it. The Roberts Court invites observers to believe that it is just using simple common sense when it identifies, or refuses to identify, something as racism.

Khiara M. Bridges

Constitutional Law Essay

Public Carry and Criminal Law after Bruen

Vol. 135 No. 8 June 2022 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....

Eric Ruben

Second Amendment Essay

Inequality, Anti-Republicanism, and Our Unique Second Amendment

Vol. 135 No. 8 June 2022 Introduction What is the relationship between the Second Amendment right to bear arms and inequality? Scholarly silence suggests a conventional view that there is...

Bertrall L. Ross II

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