The Second Amendment After Bruen
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In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court upended generations of firearm control laws in the case New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen. After Bruen, gun laws will be invalidated unless they are “consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition” of firearm regulation. Challenges to countless gun laws are now underway in federal courts. Scholars, litigators, and courts are now carefully scrutinizing the history of American firearm regulations—with the country’s gun laws hanging precariously in the balance. Join two SLS students as they present their research digging into some of the new questions opened up by Bruen. The panel will be moderated by Professor Eugene Volokh.
A reception will follow immediately after the lecture.
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Graham Ambrose is a third-year law student at Stanford. He serves as an editor of the Stanford Law Review and a Civil Justice Fellow at the Rhode Center on the Legal Profession. Before law school, Graham worked as a journalist in Iowa and Kentucky. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in history. |
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Chester Dubov is a third-year law student at Stanford, where he has served as an editor for the Stanford Law and Policy Review. Before law school he earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers-Newark, and his work has appeared in the Drunken Canal. He graduated with a degree in History from Princeton University. |
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Eugene Volokh teaches First Amendment law and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, tort law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy. Before coming to UCLA, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Volokh is the author of the textbooks The First Amendment and Related Statutes (6th ed. 2016), and Academic Legal Writing (5th ed. 2013), as well as over 90 law review articles. He is a member of The American Law Institute, a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, and the founder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy, a leading legal blog. His law review articles have been cited by opinions in eight Supreme Court cases and several hundred court opinions in total, as well as several thousand scholarly articles. |
