New Histories of Gun Rights and Regulation
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"In 2008, the Supreme Court issued a groundbreaking opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller. Relying heavily on historical sources, the Court concluded that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a personal right to keep and bear arms for purposes unrelated to a government-run militia. Heller not only marked the judicial culmination of a decades-long historical dispute, but also ushered in a new wave of legal challenges that in turn raised the need for further scholarship on the historical scope of gun rights and regulation in Anglo-American history. In hundreds of cases…mehr

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"In 2008, the Supreme Court issued a groundbreaking opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller. Relying heavily on historical sources, the Court concluded that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a personal right to keep and bear arms for purposes unrelated to a government-run militia. Heller not only marked the judicial culmination of a decades-long historical dispute, but also ushered in a new wave of legal challenges that in turn raised the need for further scholarship on the historical scope of gun rights and regulation in Anglo-American history. In hundreds of cases over the next fifteen years, judges relied on both historical research and contemporary evidence in evaluating the constitutionality of gun laws designed to address contemporary problems of the most visceral kind"--
Autorenporträt
Joseph Blocher is the Lanty L. Smith '67 Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke Law School and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Firearms Law. He has published dozens of articles on constitutional law in leading law reviews and public outlets, testified before Congress, and received the law school's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2012. Jacob D. Charles is an Associate Professor of Law at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law and previously served as the inaugural executive director of Duke Law School's Center for Firearms Law. He has published more than a dozen academic articles on the Second Amendment. Darrell A. H. Miller is the Melvin G. Shimm Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke Law School and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Firearms Law. His scholarship on the Second Amendment has been published in leading law reviews and has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States and in congressional testimony and legal briefs.