Videos

Nearly all of the Center’s events are recorded and made publicly available. In addition to our regular periodic events, the Center has recently started several video interview series.

Scholarship Series

For this series, we interview scholars with recent or forthcoming articles related to firearms law or the Second Amendment.

• Jake Charles interviews Greg Wallace, Professor of Law, Campbell University Law School
  • Article: E. Gregory Wallace, ‘Assault Weapon’ Lethality, 88 Tenn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021)
• Jake Charles interviews Akram Faizer, Professor of Law, Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law
  • Article: Mohamed A. Faizer, Applying the Privileges or Immunities Clause to Gun Rights: A Framework to Depolarize the Debate and Strengthen the Federal Judiciary, 64 St. Louis U. L.J. (2020)
• Jake Charles interviews Greg Magarian, Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law, Washington University St. Louis School of Law
  • Article: Gregory P. Magarian, Political and Non-Political Speech and Guns, 28 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 429 (2019)
• Jake Charles interviews Dru Stevenson, Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law-Houston
  • Article: Drury D. Stevenson, Gun Violence as an Obstacle to Educational Equality, 50 U. Memphis L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020)
• Darrell Miller interviews Shawn Fields, Assistant Professor of Law at Campbell University, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
  • Article: Shawn Fields, Second Amendment Sanctuaries, 115 Nw. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020)
• Joseph Blocher interviews Eric Ruben, Assistant Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law
  • Article: Eric Ruben, An Unstable Core: Self-Defense and the Second Amendment, 108 Calif. L. Rev. 63 (2019)

Covid & Guns Series

In this series,  we talked with experts on various aspects of firearms law & policy about the role of guns in the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Jake Charles interviews Phil Cook, ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Sociology, Duke University
• Jake Charles interviews David Yamane, Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University
• Jake Charles interviews Layla Soliman, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Atrium Health & Jack Rozel, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct Profess of Law, University of Pittsburgh
• Darrell Miller interviews Jennifer Carlson, Associate Professor, School of Sociology and School of Government & Public Policy, University of Arizona
• Jake Charles interviews Trent Steidley, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Denver
• Jake Charles interviews Jeff Swanson, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine
• Jake Charles interviews Dave Kopel, Adjunct Professor of Advanced Constitutional Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law

We also recorded a talk among the Center Directors about the issues raised by Covid, particularly in connection with gun store closure orders.

• Guns in Emergencies

Discussion Panels

As part of its efforts to bring scholars, practitioners, and community members together, the Center frequently hosts panel discussions on topics confronting firearms law.

• May 5, 2020: Corpus Linguistics, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
• March 2, 2020: Guns, Torts, and Market Regulation
• February 4, 2020: The Supreme Court’s Gun Docket
• December 23, 2019: The Second Amendment at the Supreme Court: A Conversation with Nina Totenberg
• November 1, 2019: Preventing Gun Violence with “Extreme Risk” Laws
• October 14, 2019: Guns and Domestic Violence: U.S. & International Human Rights Law Perspectives
• March 4, 2019: The Second Amendment & The Supreme Court
• February 28, 2019: The Second Amendment & The Prevention of Tyranny

Fall 2019 Symposium: Gun Rights & Regulation Outside the Home

The symposium on Guns Rights and Regulations Outside the Home on September 27, 2019 looked at the issues left open by the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller concerning whether and how the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms extends outside the home. Experts in the legal, historical, and empirical aspects of this question weighed in on the proper approach.

• Panel 1: The Second Amendment and Conflicting Interests
• Panel 2: Regulating People, Places, and Products
• Panel 3: Empirical and Theoretical Aspects of Firearms in Public
• Panel 4: Historical Conceptions of Second Amendment Rights Outside the Home