[Editor's note: This comment is in response to a comment by Professor Eugene Volokh on following law review article: Pratheepan Gulasekaram, "The People" of the Second Amendment: Citizenship and the Right To Bear Arms, 85 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1521 (2010). Professor Volokh's comment is also available on the Legal Workshop.]… Read More »
[Editor's note: This comment is in response to the following law review article: Pratheepan Gulasekaram, "The People" of the Second Amendment: Citizenship and the Right To Bear Arms, 85 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1521 (2010). Professor Gulasekaram's response is also available on the Legal Workshop.]
I read with interest “The People”… Read More »
Introduction
In my Note, I propose an alternative to the presidential signing statement that has been hotly debated in the literature in recent years. By re-examining an often-forgotten constitutional method for enacting laws, I conclude that when the President has certain doubts about the constitutionality of a bill Congress has… Read More »
Owning a stun gun or Taser is a crime in seven states and several cities. Carrying irritant sprays, such as pepper spray or Mace, is probably illegal in several jurisdictions. Even possessing irritant sprays at home is illegal in Massachusetts if you’re not a citizen.
Yet in most of these… Read More »
Joseph Blocher
- Duke University School of Law
Until very recently, Second Amendment scholarship has focused almost exclusively on the question of whether the amendment protects an “individual” right to bear arms unrelated to any militia service. In District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court answered this question in the affirmative for the first time. But operationalizing that… Read More »