Parchment Rights
Vol. 135 No. 8
Introduction Like many places in central Louisiana, Grant Parish became a haven for oil and gas prospecting in the late 1890s. Once speculators discovered...
Second Amendment
Governing Through Gun Crime: How Chicago Funded Police After the 2020 BLM Protests
Vol. 135 No. 8
Gun violence is the number one issue plaguing the city in this moment. — Mayor Lori Lightfoot, July 15, 2021 There can be no...
Violence and Nondelegation
Vol. 135 No. 8
Introduction Debates over delegation are experiencing a renaissance. These debates presuppose an initial distribution of constitutional authority between actors that cannot be redistributed, or...
Torture in Our Schools?
Vol. 135 No. 8
Nothing can fix what that day broke inside of me and in every child in that school. My biggest fear walking into school every...
Race and Guns, Courts and Democracy
Vol. 135 No. 8
Is racism in gun regulation reason to look to the Supreme Court to expand Second Amendment rights? While discussion of race and guns recurs...
United States v. Perez
Second Circuit Rules Prohibition of Firearms Possession by Undocumented Immigrants Passes Intermediate Scrutiny
Vol. 135 No. 4
“Lineal Descendant” Analysis in Second Amendment Litigation
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...
New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. City of New York
Vol. 134 No. 1
After the grand but doctrinally vacant pronouncements of District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Supreme Court rejected nearly...
The Supreme Court is Poised to Blow A Giant Hole in Gun Control. Here’s How the Liberal Justices Can Intervene.
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...
Young v. Hawaii
Ninth Circuit Panel Holds Open-Carry Law Infringes Core Right to Bear Arms in Public.
Vol. 132 No. 7