Scholarship Highlight: 2019 Center Symposium Articles

We are very excited that the articles from our 2019 Symposium, Gun Rights and Regulation Outside the Home, have now been published by Law & Contemporary Problems. We’re grateful for all the terrific contributors and to the excellent L&CP student editors. Little did we know that the open issues we identified more than a year ago during that Symposium (which you can watch, here) would remain open issues today. With the Supreme Court’s composition set to change in the near future, resolution may come sooner rather than later.

Check out the pieces below:

Foreword, Joseph Blocher, Jacob D. Charles & Darrell A. H. Miller, The Geography of a Constitutional Right: Gun Rights Outside the Home

• Josh Blackman, The Right to Code and Share Arms
• Jud Campbell, Natural Rights, Positive Rights, and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
• Jacob D. Charles, Defeasible Second Amendment Rights: Conceptualizing Gun Laws That Dispossess Prohibited Persons
• Saul Cornell, History, Text, Tradition, and the Future of Second Amendment Jurisprudence: Limits on Armed Travel under Anglo-American Law, 1688–1868
• Brannon P. Denning, Have Gun—Will Travel?
• John J. Donohue, The Swerve to “Guns Everywhere”: A Legal and Empirical Evaluation
• Mary Anne Franks, The Second Amendment’s Safe Space, or the Constitutionalization of Fragility
• Nicholas J. Johnson, Defiance, Concealed Carry, and Race
• Gregory P. Magarian, Conflicting Reports: When Gun Rights Threaten Free Speech
• Joyce Lee Malcolm, The Right to Carry Your Gun Outside: A Snapshot History
• Megan Miller & John Pepper, Assessing the Effect of Firearms Regulations Using Partial Identification Methods: A Case Study of the Impact of Stand Your Ground Laws on Violent Crime
• Robert J. Spitzer, Gun Accessories and the Second Amendment: Assault Weapons, Magazines, and Silencers