Conferences & Webinars

August 2, 2024 – Historian Roundtable Discussion

• Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC

• Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Guns and Society (CSGS) at Wesleyan University

May 23-24, 2024 – Sixth Annual Firearms Law Works-in-Progress Conference

• Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC

• Co-sponsored with the University of Wyoming College of Law Firearms Research Center

• See our summary of the conference here

November 3, 2023 – Symposium: History, Tradition, and Analogical Reasoning (hosted with the Notre Dame Law Review)

Essays from Participants forthcoming. Videos by panel:

• Panel 1 - Analogical Reasoning and Operationalizing the Historical Record

• Panel 2 - The Challenges of Reasoning by Analogy to History

• Panel 3 - Litigating Under Bruen

• Panel 4 - Traditionalism and Historical Fluctuation

September 23, 2022 – Symposium: Gun Rights and Regulation after Bruen (hosted with the NYU Law Review)

Essays available here. Videos by panel:

• Keynote discussion - Criminal Justice and Prosecutorial Discretion in the Wake of Bruen

• Panel 2 - Bruen’s Methodology and Practical Consequences for Legislation and Criminal Law

• Panel 3 - Sensitive Places and the Challenges of Applying Bruen in the Lower Courts

• Panel 4 - After Bruen: Implications for Law Enforcement, Stare Decisis, and Supreme Court Legitimacy

June 24, 2022 – Firearms Law Works-in-Progress Workshop

Blog Posts from Participants

• Dru Stevenson, The Original Version of the Second Amendment: Religiously Scrupulous of Bearing Arms

• Peter Salib and Guha Krishnamurthi, Gun Rights (Still) Aren’t Trumps

• E.J. Morera and K. Alexander Adams, Empirically Testing Waiting Period Restrictions to Challenge the Underlying Legal Paradigm

• K. Alexander Adams, Are There Any Red Flags for ‘Red Flag Laws’?

• Joshua Aiken, What the Panthers Meant By Self-Defense: Race, Violence, and Gun Control

March 25, 2022 – Symposium: Guns, Violence, and Democracy

Essays from Participants

• Joseph Blocher & Reva B. Siegel, Race and Guns, Courts and Democracy

• Aziz Huq, Caitlin Loftus & Robert Vargas, Governing Through Gun Crime: How Chicago Funded Police After the 2020 BLM Protests

• Darrell A.H. Miller & Jacob D. Charles, Violence and Nondelegation

• Bertrall L. Ross II, Inequality, Anti-Republicanism, and Our Unique Second Amendment

• Eric Ruben, Public Carry and Criminal Law after Bruen

• Leila Nadya Sadat, Torture in Our Schools?

• Franita Tolson, Parchment Rights

• Adam Winkler, Racist Gun Laws and the Second Amendment

March 18, 2022 – Conference: Privatizing the Gun Debate

Blog Posts from Participants

• Ilya Somin, Property Rights, Gun Rights, and Takings

• Lars Noah, Does the Threat of Tort Liability Unduly Burden the Right to Bear Arms?

• Dru Stevenson, Guns and Banks: New Laws & Policies

• Jonathan Lowy, The Road to The Sandy Hook Settlement

• Heidi Li Feldman, Public Nuisance Liability and the Irrelevance of the Second Amendment

• Jody Madeira, A New Call to Arms: Rewriting Second Amendment Threats

November 19, 2021 – Roundtable – Race and Guns in America

Essays from Participants

• Daniel S. Harawa, The Racial Justice Gambit

• Margareth Etienne, Disarming the Police: Blue Lives, Black Lives and Guns

• Lindsay Livingston, From Self-Defense to Self-Deputization: Defensive Gun Use and the Performance of Reasonable Belief

• Gregory S. Parks, When CRT Meets 2A

• Angela R. Riley, Native Nations and The Right to Bear Arms in a Post McGirt World

• Pratheepan Gulasekaram, “The People”, Citizenship, and Firearms

• Patrick J. Charles, Some Thoughts on Addressing Racist History in the Second Amendment Context

• Kami Chavis, The Dangerous Expansion of Stand-Your-Ground Laws and its Racial Implications

• David E. Olson, Illegal Firearm Possession: A Reflection on Policies and Practices that May Miss the Mark and Exacerbate Racial Disparity in the Justice System

• Brennan Gardner Rivas, The Problem with Assumptions: Reassessing the Historical Gun Policies of Arkansas and Tennessee