Conferences
Since its inception in early 2019, the Center has held numerous conferences, symposia, workshops, colloquia, and other gatherings. Many of those events have generated articles published in law reviews, and others have led to essay collections that we have published on the Center’s blog, Second Thoughts. This page does not have every panel discussion the Center has hosted, but just the ones for which participants produced written products. Our Videos page has the recordings for all Center discussion panels and other events that were recorded, including those that did not produce writings.
Below are links to the presentations, articles, and blog posts that have arisen from these large Center-sponsored events.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
November 3, 2023 – Symposium: History, Tradition, and Analogical Reasoning
Hosted with the Notre Dame Law Review in South Bend, Indiana
PAST EVENTS:
September 23, 2022 – Symposium: Gun Rights and Regulation after Bruen (hosted with the NYU Law Review)
Essays from Participants forthcoming
June 24, 2022 – Firearms Law Works-in-Progress Workshop
Blog Posts from Participants
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
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
June 25, 2021: Colloquium: Corpus Linguistics and the Second Amendment
Blog Posts from Participants
- Kevin Tobia, Dueling Dictionaries and Clashing Corpora
- Anya Bernstein, More than Words
- Stephen Mouritsen, Corpora and Historical Texts
- William Baude, Heller Survives the Corpus
- Dennis Baron, Corpus Linguistics, Public Meaning, and the Second Amendment
- James Phillips, Some Thoughts on Methodology
- Neal Goldfarb, Regarding the Strength of the Corpus Evidence (and Noting Issues the Evidence Doesn’t Resolve)
- Kari Sullivan, The “Strange” Syntax of the Second Amendment
- Gregory Wallace, Corpus Linguistics and the Meaning of “Bear Arms”
October 9, 2020 – Symposium: The Second Amendment’s Next Chapter
Panel Presentations
- Panel 1: The Shape of the Right
- Moderator: Kate Shaw
- Panelists: Alice Ristroph, Renee Lettow Lerner, and Darrell Miller
- Panel 2: The Power to Regulate
- Moderator: Abbe Gluck
- Panelists: Reva Siegel & Joseph Blocher, Nelson Lund, Brannon Denning, and Jake Charles
- Keynote: A Discussion with U.S. Senator Chris Murphy About His New Book, “The Violence Inside Us”
- Panel 3: Theory and Conflict
- Moderator: Joseph Blocher
- Panelists: Mike Dorf, Robert Leider, and Dave Kopel
- Panel 4: Firearms and Chicago
- Moderator: Sanford Levinson
- Panelists: Stephanie Kollmann, Zach Fardon, Kofi Ademola
Published Articles
July 24, 2020 – Firearms Law Works-in-Progress Workshop
Blog Posts from Participants
April 24, 2020 – Colloquium: Localism, Popular Constitutionalism, Preemption, and Firearms
Blog posts from Participants
- Shawn Fields, Second Amendment Sanctuaries
- Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Local Immigration Non-enforcement and Local Gun Deregulation
- Dave Fagundes & Darrell Miller, Do Local Governments Have Second Amendment Rights?
- Rick Su, The Two Sides of Sanctuary
- Ken Stahl, Contagion and Partisan Federalism
- Sarah Swan, Targeting Community Character
- Richard Briffault, “Sanctuary” and Local Government Law
- Rich Schragger, Second Amendment Sanctuaries and the Difference Between Home Rule, Local Recalcitrance, and Interposition
September 27, 2019 – Symposium: Gun Rights and Regulation Outside the Home
Panel Presentations
- Panel 1: The Second Amendment and Conflicting Interests
- Moderator: Joseph Blocher
- Panelists: Gregory P. Magarian, Josh Blackman, Mary Anne Franks
- Panel 2: Regulating People, Places, and Products
- Moderator: Kate Shaw
- Panelists: Brannon Denning, Robert J. Spitzer, Jacob D. Charles
- Panel 3: Empirical and Theoretical Aspects of Firearms in Public
- Moderator: Philip J. Cook
- Panelists: John Pepper, John J. Donohue III, Nicholas Johnson
- Panel 4: Historical Conceptions of Second Amendment Rights Outside the Home
- Moderator: Darrell A. H. Miller
- Panelists: Saul Cornell, Jud Campbell, Joyce Lee Malcolm
Published Articles
- Joseph Blocher, Jacob D. Charles, and 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 and 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
August 2, 2019 – Firearms Law Works-in-Progress Workshop
Blog Posts from Participants
- Dru Stevenson, Firearms Law Workshop Mini-Symposium, Part I: Going Gunless
- Jennifer Carlson, Firearms Law Workshop Mini-Symposium, Part II: Gun Politics in Blue
- Timothy Zick, Firearms Law Workshop Mini-Symposium, Part III: Framing the Second Amendment: Gun Rights, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
- Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Firearms Law Workshop Mini-Symposium, Part IV: Regulation, Not Rights: the Early History of a National Firearms Industry
- Nicholas Mosvick, Firearms Law Workshop Mini-Symposium, Part V: The Use of the Second Amendment to Reject Conscription
- Cody Jacobs, Firearms Law Workshop Mini-Symposium, Part VI: Guns in the Private Square
- Jake Charles, Firearms Law Workshop Mini-Symposium, Part VII: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms Outside the Second Amendment
