Scholarship Series

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

• Jake Charles interviews Lars Noah, Chesterfield Smith Eminent Scholar and Professor of Law, University of Florida Law
  • Article: Lars Noah, Time to Bite the Bullet?: How an Emboldened FDA Could Take Aim at the Firearms Industry, 53 Conn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021)

• Jake Charles interviews David Patton, Executive Director of the Federal Defenders of New York
  • Article: David E. Patton, Criminal Justice Reform and Guns: The Irresistible Movement Meets the Immovable Object, 69 Emory L. J. 1011 (2020).

• Jake Charles interviews Kristin Goss, the Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Firearms Law and Matt Lacombe, Assistant Professor of Political Science, at Barnard College-Columbia University
  • Article: Kristin A. Goss & Matthew J. Lacombe, Do Courts Change Politics? Heller and the Limits of Policy Feedback Effects, 69 Emory L. J. 881 (2020)

• Jake Charles interviews Jane Stoever, Clinical Professor of Law at University of California, Irvine School of Law, Director of UCI Law’s Domestic Violence Clinic and of the UCI Initiative to End Family Violence
  • Article: Jane K. Stoever, Firearms and Domestic Violence Fatalities: Preventable Deaths, 53 Fam. L. Q. (2019)

• Joseph Blocher interviews Sheila Simon, Assistant Professor of Law, SIU School of Law
  • Article: Sheila Simon, On Target? Assessing Gun Sanctuary Ordinances that Conflict with State Law, 122 W. Va. L. Rev. 817 (2020)

• Jake Charles interviews George Mocsary, Professor of Law, University of Wyoming College of Law
  • Scholarship: Casebook chapters from Nicholas J. Johnson, David B. Kopel, George A. Mocsary, E. Gregory Wallace, Firearms Law and the Second Amendment (2020)

• Joseph Blocher interviews Natalie Nanasi, Director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women and Assistant Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
  • Article: Natalie Nanasi, Disarming Domestic Abusers, Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. (forthcoming)

• 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)