The Supreme Court is turning to history more than ever in deciding cases, and nowhere is this more apparent than with the Second Amendment. In 2022, in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, a six-justice majority of the Supreme Court ushered in a new era of history-and-tradition-focused jurisprudence when it comes […]
On September 23, 2022, the Center co-hosted a symposium in New York, in coordination with the New York University Law Review, on the theme of Gun Rights and Regulation after Bruen. The symposium was a tremendous success and the Center would like to thank all those who participated, attended in person, and tuned into the live stream. […]
We’re excited to share the essays from the Guns, Violence, and Democracy symposium that the Center co-hosted with the Harvard Law Review on March 25, 2022, which are now published in the Harvard Law Review Forum. The symposium addressed the ways that violence shapes U.S. democracy with an emphasis on the intersection between firearms and issues such as […]
We’re very excited to report a newly approved Section on Firearms Law through the American Association of Law Schools (AALS), which “has the dual responsibility of serving law schools and their deans as their institutional membership organization, and individual law school faculty and administrators as their learned society.” The new Section, launched just a few […]
After serving as the executive director since the Center opened in February 2019, Jake will be joining the faculty of Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law this summer. The Center’s subject-matter experts and founders, faculty co-directors Joseph and Darrell, will continue to oversee the mission and work of the Center, and they recently completed a […]
We are very excited to announce that Center leadership will be co-authoring a new law school casebook on the Second Amendment and firearms law (title TBD). The book will be published by Foundation Press and available (assuming all goes according to plan) in spring 2023. Fourteen years ago, the Supreme Court’s groundbreaking decision in District […]
The Center is hiring! We are looking for a new Executive Director to take over the role from Jake, who will be starting this summer as an Associate Professor of Law at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. The job description is below and application instructions can be found here: https://bit.ly/3FUJyZJ. We are happy to answer […]
When the Supreme Court granted review in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen this past April, Jake wrote about the basic contours of the case and the stakes it holds for the future of gun regulation. Now that we’re on the eve of oral arguments in the case, scheduled for Wednesday, November […]
Over the past few weeks, Joseph and Darrell have done some commentary on the relationship between guns and democratic institutions. Joseph Blocher & Alan Chen, Why Do States Ban “Electioneering” but Allow Guns at Polling Places?, Slate (Jan. 5., 2021) Olivia Li, The Gun Rights Rhetoric That Helped Seed the Insurrectionist Mindset, The Trace (Jan. […]
This morning, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York. The case concerned a New York City rule that forbid individuals with a premises license from transporting their firearms to shooting ranges and second homes outside the City. The City repealed the rule […]
