Published academic scholarship on the Second Amendment
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, The Bill of Rights as a Constitution, 100Yale L.J. 471-480 (1917). [HTML]
, Legal and Historical Aspects of the Militia, 26Harv. J. of L. & Pub. Pol'y 403-410 (1996). [HTML]
, The Relevance of the Framers' Intent, 19Emory L.J. 1140-1259 (1996). [HTML]
, Under Fire: The New Consensus on the Second Amendment, 45L. & Contemp. Probs. 163-198 (1986). [HTML]
, Strict Construction of Firearms Offenses: The Supreme Court and the Gun Control Act of 1968, 49Yale L. & Pol. Rev. 509-560 (1993). [HTML]
, Do Battered Women Have a Right to Bear Arms?, 11Texas L. Rev. 1125-1151 (1996). [HTML]
, Toward a Functional Framework for Interpreting the Second Amendment, 74Wis. B. Bull. 21-26 (Oct. 1980). [HTML]
, The Right to Bear Arms: A Reply, 53Det. L. Rev. 789-823 (1982). [HTML]
, The Right of the Individual to Bear Arms: A Recent Judicial Trend, 4Fordham L.J. 31-53 (1976). [HTML]
, Restoring the Balance: The Second Amendment Revisited, 5Santa Clara L. Rev. 1043 (2010).[http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=lawreview]
, The Right to Bear Arms in the Era of the Fourteenth Amendment: Gun Rights or Gun Regulation, 50Yale L.J. 995-1026 (1995). [HTML]
, The Fifth Auxiliary Right, 104Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1307-1335 (1995). [HTML]
, "Never Intended to be Applied to the White Population": Firearms Regulation and Racial Disparity--The Redeemed South's Legacy to a National Jurisprudence?, 70Georgetown L.J. 309-361 (1991). [HTML]
, The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration, 80Kansas J. of L. & Pub. Pol. 17-25 (1995). [HTML]
, The Racist Roots of Gun Control, 4Tenn. L. Rev. 679-757 (1994). [HTML]
, "Shall Issue": The New Wave of Concealed Handgun Permit Laws, 62So. Ill. U. L.J. 227-253 (1997). [HTML]
, Professional Discourse, The Second Amendment and the "Talking Head Constitutionalism" Counterrevolution: A Review Essay, 21Okla. City U. L. Rev. 191-245 (1996). [HTML]
, Palladium of Liberty? Causes and Consequences of the Federalization of State Militias in the Twentieth Century, 21Cumb. L. Rev. 961-1004 (1996). [HTML]
, Can the Simple Cite be Trusted?: Lower Court Interpretations of United States v. Miller and the Second Amendment, 26Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 185-214 (1996). [HTML]
, It Takes a Militia: A Communitarian Case for Compulsory Arms Bearing, 5Akron L. Rev. 1-92 (1995). [HTML]
, Clearing the Smoke From the Right to Bear Arms and the Second Amendment, 29Central L. J. 259-261, 273-275, 285-287, 295-296 (1874). [HTML]50k
, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms for Private and Public Defence, 1Touro Law Review 123-142 (1995). [HTML]
, "Use" and the Irresistible Impulse to Legislate, 12Stanford L. & Pol. Rev. 25-40 (1997). [HTML]
, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms: A Right to Self-Defense Against Criminals and Despots, 8St. Thomas L. Rev. 203-214 (1992). [HTML]
, Bearing Arms in State Bills of Rights, Judicial Interpretation, and Public Housing, 5U. Dayton L. Rev. 1-89 (1989). [HTML]
, Federal and State Constitutional Guarantees to Arms, 15Oklahoma L. Rev. 65-105 (1983). [HTML]
, The Right to Arms: Does the Constitution or the Predilection of Judges Reign?, 36Okla. City U. L. Rev. 177-241 (1982). [HTML]
, State Constitutions and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 7U. Dayton L. Rev. 5 (1989). [http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/27thes.htm]
, The Second Amendment in the Twentieth Century: Have You Seen Your Militia Lately?, 15Harv. L. Rev. 473-477 (1915). [HTML]
, The Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 28HTML]
, The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution Guarantees an Individual Right To Keep and Bear Arms, 97th Cong., 2d Sess. 83-109 (Comm. print 1982). [N.W. U. J. of Crim. L. & Crim. 764-806 (1995). [HTML]
, Gun Control and Economic Discrimination: The Melting-Point Case-in-Point, 85Howard L.J. 411-436 (1995). [HTML]
, Is the True Meaning of the Second Amendment Really Such a Riddle? Tracing the Historical "Origins of an Anglo-American Right", 39N. Ky. L. Rev. 63-96 (1982). [HTML]
, To Preserve Liberty--A Look at the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 10N. Ky. L. Rev. 113-140 (1982). [HTML]
, Gun Ownership: A Constitutional Right, 10Duke L.J. 113-178 (2002). [PDF]
, The Paradox of Auxiliary Rights: The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 52Santa Clara L. Rev. 1073 (2010). [http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/lawreview/vol50/iss4/2]
, Heller, the Second Amendment, and Reconstruction: Protecting All Freedmen or Only Militiamen, 50GMU Civ. Rts. L.J. 105-178 (1995). [HTML]
, Second Class Citizenship and the Second Amendment in the District of Columbia, 5Seton Hall Const. L.J. 341-434 (1995). [HTML]
, Personal Security, Personal Liberty, and "The Constitutional Right to Bear Arms": Visions of the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment, 5Tenn. L. Rev. 597-641 (1995). [HTML]
, Congress Interprets the Second Amendment: Declarations by a Co-Equal Branch on the Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 62Val. U. L.Rev. 131-207 (1991). [HTML]
, The Right of the People or the Power of the State: Bearing Arms, Arming Militias, and the Second Amendment, 26Baylor L. Rev. 629-688 (1989). [HTML]
, The Right to Bear Arms in Texas: The Intent of the Framers of the Bill of Rights, 41U. Dayton L. Rev. 91-124 (1989). [HTML]
, Encroachments of the Crown on the Liberty of the Subject: Pre-Revolutionary Origins of the Second Amendment, 15Law & Contemp. Probs. 151-162 (1986). [HTML]
, What the Framers Intended: A Linguistic Analysis of the Right to "Bear Arms", 49Vt. L. Rev. 255-320 (1985). [HTML]
, The Right to Bear Arms in the First State Bills of Rights: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Vermont, and Massachusetts, 49HTML]
, The Fourteenth Amendment and the Right To Keep and Bear Arms: The Intent of the Framers, 97th Cong., 2d Sess. 68-82 (Comm. print 1982). [N. Ky. L. Rev. 13-39 (1982). [HTML]
, To Keep and Bear Their Private Arms: The Adoption of the Second Amendment, 1787-1791, 10GMU L. Rev. 1-69 (1981). [HTML]
, The Jurisprudence of the Second and Fourteenth Amendments, 4J. of Law & Pol. 1-62 (1987). [HTML]
, The Second Amendment and the Historiography of the Bill of Rights, 4Cumb. L. Rev. 585-682 (1987). [HTML]
, The Firearms Owners' Protection Act: A Historical and Legal Perspective, 17Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 559-638 (1986). [HTML]
, Armed Citizens, Citizen Armies: Toward a Jurisprudence of the Second Amendment, 9HTML]
, Historical Bases of the Right To Keep and Bear Arms, 97th Cong., 2d Sess. 45-67 (Comm. print 1982). [U. Det. Mercy L. Rev.39 (2001). [HTML]
, Exposing the Second Amendment: Federal Preemption of State Militia Legislation 79Val. U. L. Rev. 107 (1991). [http://web.archive.org/web/20080212130913/http://www.gunlawsuits.org/defend/second/articles/anarchy.php]
, Arms, Anarchy and the Second Amendment, 26Santa Clara L. Rev. 1263 (2010). [http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/lawreview/vol50/iss4/6]
, Administering the Second Amendment: Law, Politics, and Taxonomy, 50Rutgers L. Rev. 97-197 (1997). [HTML]
, Principles and Passions: The Intersection of Abortion and Gun Rights, 50Rutgers L.J. 1-81 (1992). [HTML]
, Beyond the Second Amendment: An Individual Right to Arms Viewed Through the Ninth Amendment, 24J. Contemp. L. 353-379 (1994). [HTML]
, Gun Control: Separating Reality from Symbolism, 20Const. Comm. 87-104 (1992). [HTML]
, The Second Amendment and the Ideology of Self-Protection, 9Pub. Interest L. Rev. 31-46 (1992). [HTML]
, Bigotry, Symbolism and Ideology in the Battle over Gun Control,Am. J. of Crim. Law 113-167 (1991). [HTML]
, The Value of Civilian Handgun Possession as a Deterrent to Crime or a Defense Against Crime, 18L. & Contemp. Probs. 143-150 (1986). [HTML]
, The Second Amendment: A Dialogue, 49Mich. L. Rev. 204-273 (1983). [HTML]
, Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment, 82Tenn. L. Rev. 513-596 (1994). [HTML]
, Guns and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence or Pandemic of Propaganda?, 62BYU L. REV. 1359 (1998). [http://www.davekopel.org/2A/LawRev/19thcentury.htm]
, The Second Amendment in the Nineteenth Century,Mich. L. Rev. 1335-1362 (1995). [HTML]
, It Isn't About Duck Hunting: The British Origins of the Right to Arms, 93Qtl'y J. of Ideology 3-34 (1995). [HTML]
, The Ideology of Gun Ownership and Gun Control in the United States, 18N.Y. L. Sch. J. of Int. & Comp. L. 355-398 (1995). [HTML]
, Lethal Laws, 15J. of Contemp. L. 381-417 (1994). [HTML]
, Rational Basis Analysis of "Assault Weapon" Prohibition, 20St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 285-359 (1993). [http://www.davekopel.org/2A/LawRev/lrstlupl.htm]
, Peril or Protection? The Risks and Benefits of Handgun Prohibition, 12Asia Pac. L. Rev 26-52 (1993). [HTML]
, Japanese Gun Control, 12Temple Int'l & Comp. L.J. 1-50 (1991). [HTML]
, Canadian Gun Control: Should the United States Look North for a Solution to its Firearms Problem?, 5Santa Clara L. Rev. 1113 (2010). [http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/lawreview/vol50/iss4/4 ]
, State Court Standards of Review for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 50Temple L. Rev. 1177-1240 (1995). [HTML]
, A Tale of Three Cities: The Right to Bear Arms in State Supreme Courts, 68Seton Hall Legis. J. 737-775 (1995). [HTML]
, The Sullivan Principles: Protecting the Second Amendment from Civil Abuse, 56Maryland L. Rev. 438-554 (1997). [HTML]
, Communitarians, Neorepublicans, and Guns: Assessing the Case for Firearms Prohibition, 56Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 148-167 (1971). [HTML]
, The Right to Bear Arms: The Development of the American Experience, 48Yale L.J. 637-659 (1989). [HTML]
, The Embarrassing Second Amendment, 99Engage: The Journal of the Federalist Society’s Practice Groups No. 2at 30 (Sept. 2012). [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2071273]
, No Conservative Consensus Yet: Douglas Ginsburg, Brett Kavanaugh, and Diane Sykes on the Second Amendment, 13Fla. L. Rev. 487 (2011). [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1658198]
, Two Faces of Judicial Restraint (Or Are There More?) in McDonald v. Chicago, 63Ga. L. Rev. 1-76 (1996). [HTML]
, The Past and Future of the Individual's Right to Arms, 31Ala. L. Rev. 103-130 (1987). [HTML]
, The Second Amendment, Political Liberty, and the Right to Self-Preservation, 39Hastings Const. L.Q. 285-314 (1983). [HTML]
, The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms: The Common Law Tradition, 10Santa Clara L. Rev. 1221 (2010). [http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/lawreview/vol50/iss4/5]
, Heller as Hubris, and How McDonald v. City of Chicago May Well Change the Constitutional World as We Know It, 50Lincoln L. Rev. 1-25 (1990). [HTML]
, Who is the Militia--The Virginia Ratification Convention and the Right to Bear Arms, 19Forham L. Rev. 2113-2175 (2008). [PDF]
, Explaining Away the Obvious: The Infeasibility of Characterizing the Second Amendment as a Non-Individual Right, 76Hamline L. Rev. 399-465 (1999). [HTML]
, All the Way Down the Slippery Slope: Gun Prohibition in England and Some Lessons for Civil Liberties in America, 22Wash. U. L.Q. 1237- (1997). [http://lawreview.wustl.edu/inprint/75-3/753-4.html]
, Of Holocausts and Gun Control, 75Wm & Mary L. Rev. 1311-1403 (1997). [HTML]
, Guns, Words, and Constitutional Interpretation, 38Cap. U. L. Rev. 641-692 (1993). [HTML]
, Is There a Neutral Justification for Refusing to Implement the Second Amendment or is the Supreme Court Just "Gun Shy"?, 22Tenn. L. Rev. 461-512 (1995). [HTML]
, A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment, 62Tenn. L. Rev. 647-673 (1994). [HTML]
, The Right to Keep and Bear Arms under the Tennessee Constitution: A Case Study in Civic Republican Thought, 61Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1737-1768 (1995). [HTML]
, The Second Amendment and States' Rights: A Thought Experiment, 36Ky. L.J. 311-351 (2002). [HTML]
, Redefining the Second Amendment: The Antebellum Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Its Present Legacy , 91L. & Contemp. Probs. 125-141 (1986). [HTML]
, The Armed Citizen in the Early Republic, 49J. of Am. Hist. 599-614 (1982). [HTML]
, The Ideological Origins of the Second Amendment, 69Santa Clara L. Rev. 1095 (2010). [http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/lawreview/vol50/iss4/3]
, After Heller: What Now for the Second Amendment, 50 , In Search of the Lost Amendment: Challenging Federal Firearms Regulation Through the State's Right Interpretation of the Second Amendment, 23 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. -- (1995). [http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/issues/231/shelton.html]A.B.A. J. 554-557 (June 1965). [HTML]
, The Lost Amendment, 51A.B.A. J. 665-669 (July 1965). [HTML]
, The Lost Amendment, 51
(See information regarding the relevance of this Senate Report to congressional intent.), Committee Print I-IX, 1-175 (1982). [Menu]
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,Whether the Second Amendment Secures an Individual Right, (August 24, 2004). [Duke L.J. 1236-1255 (1994). [HTML]
, The Second Amendment and the Personal Right to Arms, 43Val. L. Rev. 1007-1039 (1994). [HTML]
, The History of the Second Amendment, 28STAN. L. REV. 199 (2009). [http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/stungun.pdf/]
, Nonlethal Self-Defense, (Almost Entirely) Nonlethal Weapons, and the Rights to Keep and Bear Arms and Defend Life, 62NYU L. Rev. 793- (1998). [http://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/volokh/]
, The Commonplace Second Amendment, 73NYU L. Rev. 831- (1998). [http://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/volokh/amazing.htm]
, The Amazing Vanishing Second Amendment, 73J. of L. Ed. -- (forthcoming 1998). [http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/2amteach.htm]
, The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes, 73Hastings Const. L.Q. 961-1001 (1975). [HTML]
, Standing Armies And Armed Citizens: An Historical Analysis of The Second Amendment, 2J. of Urb. Law 557-589 (1974). [HTML]
, A Reply to Advocates of Gun-Control Law, 52N.Y.U. L. Rev. 822-830 (1998). [HTML]
, The Unitary Second Amendment, 73Cornell L. Rev. 879-952 (1996). [HTML]
, The Militia Movement and Second Amendment Revolution: Conjuring with the People, 81Yale L.J. 551-615 (1991). [HTML]
, Civic Republicanism and the Citizen Militia: The Terrifying Second Amendment, 101[ Home ]