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04 Feb

The Supreme Court's Gun Docket

February 4, 2020    
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Last December, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a Second Amendment case for the first time in nearly a decade-New York State Rifle & [...]
02 Mar

Guns, Torts, and Market Regulation

March 2, 2020    
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Guns can be-and perhaps increasingly are-regulated outside the process we usually envision in which laws get debated and passed through the legislature. Through lawsuits asserting [...]
05 May

Corpus Linguistics, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

May 5, 2020    
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Constitutional interpretation has increasingly turned to history and a close reading of the text to decipher meaning. Scholars have begun mining newly available databases containing [...]
03 Sep

Race, Policing, and Guns

September 3, 2020    
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
In the ongoing national conversations about policing, protest, racism, and violence, the role of guns plays an important part. And with gun purchasing, carrying, and [...]
10 Nov

Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race

November 10, 2020    
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Professor Jennifer Carlson will join us to discuss her recently published book, Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race. Drawing [...]
09 Feb

Guns, Democracy, and Elections

February 9, 2021    
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
The 2020 election and its aftermath have raised new questions about the role and place of firearms in election-related activities and democratic institutions. Join us [...]
12 Apr

The Second Amendment and the State's Monopoly on Violence

April 12, 2021    
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Many of the recent debates over police violence, the Capitol insurrection, and the events surrounding last summer's antiracism protests have centered on the connections between [...]