The University of Maine
University of Kentucky College of Law
William & Mary Law School
Brigham Young University Law School
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Georgia State University College of Law
University of Cincinnati College of Law
Presumptively Awful: How The Federal Government Is Failing To Protect The Constitutional Rights Of Those Adjudicated As Mentally Ill, As Illustrated By The § 922(G)(4) Circuit Split,
2022
Pepperdine University
Presumptively Awful: How The Federal Government Is Failing To Protect The Constitutional Rights Of Those Adjudicated As Mentally Ill, As Illustrated By The § 922(G)(4) Circuit Split, Kaitlyn M. Rubcich
Pepperdine Law Review
The Third, Sixth, and Ninth Circuits are split as to whether the 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(4) federal firearms ban violates the Second Amendment rights of those who were once adjudicated as mentally ill but have since returned to good mental health. In Beers v. Attorney General, the Third Circuit applied its own unique framework and held that § 922(g)(4) is constitutional. Meanwhile, the Sixth Circuit applied intermediate scrutiny in Tyler v. Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Department and deemed the statute unconstitutional, while in Mai v. United States, the Ninth Circuit also applied intermediate scrutiny but held ...
Corpus Linguistics Criticisms Of Heller Misuse Corpus Linguistics,
2022
Southern Methodist University
Corpus Linguistics Criticisms Of Heller Misuse Corpus Linguistics, Michael Showalter
SMU Law Review Forum
A number of linguistics experts have asserted that new corpus-linguistics evidence undermines the U.S. Supreme Court’s conclusion in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment phrase keep and bear arms means to possess and carry weapons. At the time of ratification, the term bear arms carried both an idiomatic sense meaning “to serve as a soldier” and a literal sense meaning “to carry weapons.” The Heller majority concluded that the Second Amendment uses the literal sense, partly because the idiomatic reading has the absurd implication of causing the Amendment to protect a right to serve as ...
In Defense Of Self And Home: The Problems With Limiting Second Amendment Rights For Young Adults Based On Their Age,
2022
University of Cincinnati College of Law
In Defense Of Self And Home: The Problems With Limiting Second Amendment Rights For Young Adults Based On Their Age, Andrew White
University of Cincinnati Law Review
No abstract provided.
Nysrpa V. Bruen And The Future Of The Sensitive Places Doctrine: Rejecting The Ahistorical Government Security Approach,
2022
Everytown for Gun Safety
Nysrpa V. Bruen And The Future Of The Sensitive Places Doctrine: Rejecting The Ahistorical Government Security Approach, Carina Bentata Gryting, Mark Anthony Frassetto
Boston College Law Review
On November 3, 2021, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, a Second Amendment case challenging New York’s concealed carry licensing system. The justices’ questions focused not only on who may obtain a license to carry a firearm in public, but also where those with a license may or may not bring their weapons. These questions acknowledged that the Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller provided a carveout for firearms restrictions in “sensitive places,” providing “schools and government buildings” as just two examples. In the fourteen years ...
Young Guns: The Constitutionality Of Raising The Minimum Purchase Age For Firearms To Twenty-One,
2022
Boston College Law School
Young Guns: The Constitutionality Of Raising The Minimum Purchase Age For Firearms To Twenty-One, Zachary S. Halpern
Boston College Law Review
In 2008, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the United States Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects the right of “law-abiding, responsible citizens” to keep and bear arms to defend their home. The Court’s decision in Heller, however, left novel questions about the scope of the right unanswered, including at what age it vests. Federal law prohibits federally-licensed dealers from selling handguns to persons under twenty-one, but it permits persons over eighteen to possess and use handguns and acquire them through private sales. In 2018, in response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School ...
Disgust And Guns: Conduct, Identity, And Second Amendment Animus,
2022
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Disgust And Guns: Conduct, Identity, And Second Amendment Animus, William D. Araiza
Northwestern University Law Review
In Second Amendment Animus, Professor Jacob Charles examines whether the burgeoning doctrine of unconstitutional animus should play any role in adjudicating Second Amendment claims. This Essay responds to Professor Charles’s important work. While it concludes that he is likely correct to reject animus as a grounding for Second Amendment claims, it points out areas where the analysis is more nuanced than he suggests. After considering Professor Charles’s analysis, the Essay examines the Second Amendment animus issue through the theoretical lens provided by Professor Martha Nussbaum’s work on disgust as a motivating factor for the types of exclusionary ...
Federally Mandated Online Sales Tax: A Logistical Solution For The Future Of E-Commerce,
2022
Depaul University College of Law
Federally Mandated Online Sales Tax: A Logistical Solution For The Future Of E-Commerce, Daniel O'Connor
DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Economic Structural Transformation And Litigation: Evidence From Chinese Provinces, To Economic Change And Restructuring,
2022
Drake University Law School
Economic Structural Transformation And Litigation: Evidence From Chinese Provinces, To Economic Change And Restructuring, Doug Bujakowski, Joan Schmit
DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The "Business Interruption" Insurance Coverage Conundrum: Covid-19 Presents A Challenge,
2022
University of North Dakota School of Law
The "Business Interruption" Insurance Coverage Conundrum: Covid-19 Presents A Challenge, Paul E. Traynor
DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Misalighned Incentives In Markets: Envisioning Finance That Benefits All Of Society,
2022
University of Calgary
Misalighned Incentives In Markets: Envisioning Finance That Benefits All Of Society, Dr. Ryan Clements
DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Constitutional Right To Carry Firearms On Campus,
2022
William & Mary Law School
The Constitutional Right To Carry Firearms On Campus, Jared A. Tuck
William & Mary Law Review
Do individuals have the fundamental right under the Second Amendment to carry firearms on the campus of a public university? Additionally, can a public university totally ban firearms on its campus without impeding on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms protected by the Second Amendment? This Note will argue that individuals have a narrow, but constitutionally guaranteed, right to carry firearms on the campus of a public university. Therefore, it is beyond the power of states and public universities to totally ban firearms from campus premises.
Securing Gun Rights By Statute: The Right To Keep And Bear Arms Outside The Constitution,
2022
Duke University School of Law
Securing Gun Rights By Statute: The Right To Keep And Bear Arms Outside The Constitution, Jacob D. Charles
Michigan Law Review
In popular and professional discourse, debate about the right to keep and bear arms most often revolves around the Second Amendment. But that narrow reference ignores a vast and expansive nonconstitutional legal regime privileging guns and their owners. This collection of nonconstitutional gun rights confers broad powers and immunities on gun owners that go far beyond those required by the Constitution, like rights to bring guns on private property against an owner’s wishes and to carry a concealed firearm in public with no training or background check. This Article catalogues this set of expansive laws and critically assesses them ...
Monsanto: Creator Of Cancer Liability,
2022
DePaul University
Monsanto: Creator Of Cancer Liability
DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Impact Of Corporate Response To Controversial Presidential Statements Or Policies,
2022
DePaul University
Impact Of Corporate Response To Controversial Presidential Statements Or Policies
DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Personalized Smart Guns: A Futuristic Dream Or A Pragmatic Solution?,
2022
Duke Law
Personalized Smart Guns: A Futuristic Dream Or A Pragmatic Solution?, Andres Paciuc
Duke Law & Technology Review
No abstract provided.
Securing Gun Rights By Statute: The Right To Keep And Bear Arms Outside The Constitution,
2022
Duke Law School
Securing Gun Rights By Statute: The Right To Keep And Bear Arms Outside The Constitution, Jacob D. Charles
Faculty Scholarship
In popular and professional discourse, debate about the right to keep and bear arms most often revolves around the Second Amendment. But that narrow reference ignores a vast and expansive nonconstitutional legal regime privileging guns and their owners. This collection of nonconstitutional gun rights confers broad powers and immunities on gun owners that go far beyond those required by the Constitution, like rights to bring guns on private property against an owner’s wishes and to carry a concealed firearm in public with no training or background check. This Article catalogues this set of expansive laws and critically assesses them ...
Cities, Preemption, And The Statutory Second Amendment,
2022
Duke Law School
Cities, Preemption, And The Statutory Second Amendment, Joseph Blocher
Faculty Scholarship
Although the Second Amendment tends to dominate the discussion about legal limits on gun regulation, nothing has done more to shape the state of urban gun law than state preemption laws, which fully or partially limit cities’ ability to regulate guns at the local level. The goals of this short Essay are to shed light on this “Statutory Second Amendment” and to provide a basic framework for evaluating it.
Common Use, Lineage, And Lethality,
2022
Duke Law School
Common Use, Lineage, And Lethality, Darrell A. H. Miller, Jennifer Tucker
Faculty Scholarship
Political and legal debates over assault rifles, large-capacity magazines, and other lethal technology are characterized by increasing rancor and hostility. Lack of a common vocabulary to describe the topics of debate, much less facilitate a constructive dialogue, only aggravates this trend. Sorely missing from the current debate is a shared vocabulary for what the public policy and the constitutional doctrine are aiming to achieve. Part I of this Article outlines the state of Second Amendment doctrine with respect to which and what type of arms are protected, and the confused language and goals of that doctrine. Part II provides a ...
"Second-Class" Rhetoric, Ideology, And Doctrinal Change,
2022
Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
"Second-Class" Rhetoric, Ideology, And Doctrinal Change, Eric M. Ruben, Joseph Blocher
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
A common refrain in current constitutional discourse is that lawmakers and judges are systematically disfavoring certain rights. This allegation has been made about the rights to free speech and free exercise of religion, but it is most prominent in debates about the right to keep and bear arms. Such “second-class” treatment, the argument goes, signals that the Supreme Court must intervene aggressively to police the disrespected rights. Past empirical work casts doubt on the descriptive claim that judges and policymakers are disrespecting the Second Amendment, but that simply highlights how little we know about how the second-class argument functions as ...
Regulating Armed Private Militia Gatherings: A Constitutional State-Level Proposal To Promote Public Safety In A Post-Heller World,
2021
William & Mary Law School
Regulating Armed Private Militia Gatherings: A Constitutional State-Level Proposal To Promote Public Safety In A Post-Heller World, Sean Tenaglia
William & Mary Law Review
“Yesterday, in my view, was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation.” President Joseph R. Biden spoke these words following the January 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol Building that left five people, including a police officer, dead. The mob that stormed the Capitol sought to prevent Congress from certifying then-President-elect Biden’s Electoral College victory. In the weeks following the riot, investigators began arresting rioters associated with extremist right-wing militia groups, such as the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters. While January 6, 2021, can accurately be labeled a dark day in American history ...
