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The Second Amendment As A Fundamental Right, Timothy Zick Oct 2019

The Second Amendment As A Fundamental Right, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

The Second Amendment has been suffering from an inferiority complex. Litigants, scholars, and judges have complained that the right to keep and bear arms is not being afforded the respect and dignity befitting a “fundamental” constitutional right. They have asserted that, both on its own terms and relative to rights in the same general class, the Second Amendment has been disrespected, under-enforced, and orphaned. They have argued that courts have treated the Second Amendment as “peripheral,” “fringe,” “anachronistic,” “second rate,” and “second-class.” The Second Amendment has been described as “the Rodney Dangerfield of the Bill of Rights” and even compared …


Arming Public Protests, Timothy Zick Oct 2019

Arming Public Protests, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

Public protests have become armed events, with protesters and counter-protesters openly carrying firearms—generally pursuant to state law. Many view the presence of firearms at protest events as wholly incompatible with the exercise of First Amendment free speech and assembly rights. Although the Supreme Court has yet to decide whether there is a Second Amendment right to openly carry firearms in public, all but a small handful of states in the United States provide some legal protection for open carry. Taking the law as it currently stands, this Article provides a comprehensive assessment of the options available to officials who seek …


Brief Of Constitutional Law Professors As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondent, Vincent Levy, Timothy Zick, Gregory P. Magarian Sep 2019

Brief Of Constitutional Law Professors As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondent, Vincent Levy, Timothy Zick, Gregory P. Magarian

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


“Facebook In The Flesh”, Timothy Zick Sep 2019

“Facebook In The Flesh”, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


The First Amendment And The World, Timothy Zick Sep 2019

The First Amendment And The World, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


The First Amendment In Trans-Border Perspective: Toward A More Cosmopolitan Orientation, Timothy Zick Sep 2019

The First Amendment In Trans-Border Perspective: Toward A More Cosmopolitan Orientation, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

This Article examines the First Amendment’s critical trans-border dimension—its application to speech, association, press, and religious activities that cross or occur beyond territorial borders. Judicial and scholarly analysis of this aspect of the First Amendment has been limited, at least as compared to consideration of more domestic or purely local concerns. This Article identifies two basic orientations with respect to the First Amendment—the provincial and the cosmopolitan. The provincial orientation, which is the traditional account, generally views the First Amendment rather narrowly—i.e., as a collection of local liberties or a set of limitations on domestic governance. First Amendment provincialism does …


Space, Place, And Speech: The Expressive Topography, Timothy Zick Sep 2019

Space, Place, And Speech: The Expressive Topography, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


Rights Dynamism, Timothy Zick Sep 2019

Rights Dynamism, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


Recovering The Assembly Clause, Timothy Zick Sep 2019

Recovering The Assembly Clause, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


Property, Place, And Public Discourse, Timothy Zick Sep 2019

Property, Place, And Public Discourse, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


Professional Rights Speech, Timothy Zick Sep 2019

Professional Rights Speech, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

Some regulations of professional-client communications raise important, but sofar largely overlooked, constitutional concerns. Three recent examples of professional speech regulation-restrictions on physician inquiries regarding firearms, "reparative" therapy bans, and compelled abortion disclosures-highlight an important intersection between professional speech and constitutional rights. In each of the three examples, state regulations implicate a non-expressive constitutional right--the right to bear arms, equality, and abortion. States are actively, sometimes even aggressively, using their licensing authority to limit and structure conversations between professionals and their clients regarding constitutional rights. The author contends that government regulation of "professional rights speech" should be subjected to heightened First …


Our Exceptional Constitution, Timothy Zick Sep 2019

Our Exceptional Constitution, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


Marbury Ascendant: The Rehnquist Court And The Power To "Say What The Law Is", Timothy Zick Sep 2019

Marbury Ascendant: The Rehnquist Court And The Power To "Say What The Law Is", Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


Cross Burning, Cockfighting, And Symbolic Meaning: Toward A First Amendment Ethnography, Timothy Zick Sep 2019

Cross Burning, Cockfighting, And Symbolic Meaning: Toward A First Amendment Ethnography, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


Congress, The Internet, And The Intractable Pornography Problem: The Child Online Protection Act Of 1998, Timothy Zick Sep 2019

Congress, The Internet, And The Intractable Pornography Problem: The Child Online Protection Act Of 1998, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


Be It Resolved . . ., Timothy Zick Sep 2019

Be It Resolved . . ., Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


An Anthem For Ows?, Timothy Zick Sep 2019

An Anthem For Ows?, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.