This highlight focuses on recently-published pieces of law student scholarship. With the end of the academic year, we are going to run a short series highlighting new student notes on firearms-related topics. First, a note by rising third-year student Morgan Band in the Fordham Law Review evaluates the “Concealed Carry Improvement Act” that New York passed shortly […]
Bruen itself is not clear on how many laws, or laws from what time period specifically, are needed to establish a historical tradition of regulation. The opinion tells us it is “doubtful” that three colonial-era regulations “could suffice to show a tradition of public-carry regulation,” and suggests that laws from the Founding era are accorded […]
Earlier this month, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Finnish authorities violated the European Convention on Human Rights by failing to take sufficient steps to prevent a school shooting. (h/t Larry Helfer) From the Registrar of Court’s summary of the facts: The perpetrator had been given a gun licence by the local police […]
