Bibliography

Forthcoming

  • "A Map Is Not The Territory”: The Theory and Future of the Sensitive Places Doctrine, New York University Law Review Online (forthcoming) (with others)
  • Does the Second Amendment Make Gun Politics Obsolete?, 55 Polity (forthcoming) (with Andrew Willinger)
  • Firearms Law and Scholarship Beyond Bodies and Bullets, Annual Review of Law and Social Science (forthcoming) (with others)
  • Guided By History: Protecting the Public Sphere From Weapons Threats Under Bruen, 98 New York University Law Review (forthcoming) (with Reva B. Siegel)
  • Manufacturing OutliersSupreme Court Review (forthcoming) (with Darrell A.H. Miller)
  • New Histories of Gun Rights and Regulation: Essays on the Place of Guns in American Law and Society (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) (editor with others)
  • The Second Amendment: Gun Rights and Regulation (Foundation Press, forthcoming) (with others)
  • Beyond Felons: Other Prohibited Classes of Arms Possession, in New Histories of Gun Rights and Regulation: Essays on the Place of Guns in American Law and Society (Joseph Blocher, Jacob D. Charles, and Darrell A. H. Miller, eds., forthcoming) (with Caitlin Carberry)

Works in Progress

Books

Articles & Essays

Issues Edited

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Appraising Sandy’s Call to “Arms”: Success in the Academy … Not So Much in the Courts, Balkinization ()
  • A Supreme Court Head-Scratcher: Is a Colonial Musket ‘Analogous’ to an AR-15?, New York Times () (with Darrell A.H. Miller)
  • No, Red-Flag Gun Laws Don’t Violate Due Process Rights, Washington Post () (with Jake Charles)
  • No, Courts Don’t Treat the Second Amendment as a ‘Second-Class Right’Washington Post () (with Eric Ruben)
  • The U.S. Stole Billions From Haiti. It’s Time to Give It BackSlate () (with Mitu Gulati)
  • Why Is the Gun Debate So Difficult?Duke Magazine ()
  • SCOTUS Taking up 2nd Amendment Case Could Mean Cuts to Broad Swaths of Gun Regulation, TPM Cafe () (with Darrell A.H. Miller)
  • American Cities Have Always Regulated Guns. Now, Most Can’tWashington Post ()
  • Guns Are a Threat to the Body Politic: The Atlantic () (with Reva Siegel)
  • Why Do States Ban “Electioneering” but Allow Guns at Polling Places?, Slate () (with Alan Chen)
  • Symposium: Disrupting the Consensus on Second Amendment Doctrine Would be a Mistake, SCOTUSblog () (with Eric Ruben)
  • Sure, Trump Can Buy Greenland. But Why Does He Think It’s up to Denmark?, Politico Magazine () (with Mitu Gulati)
  • The “Handgun Article” in Justice Powell’s Papers, Second Thoughts ()
  • What Firearms Law and Regulatory Scholarship Can Learn from Each Other, The Regulatory Review () (with Darrell A.H. Miller)
  • If Countries Won’t Take Refugees for Moral Reasons, Let’s Give Them Financial Incentives, Quartz () (with Mitu Gulati)
  • The Fourth Circuit's "Assault Weapons" Ruling: Alternative Holdings and Alternative Weapons, ACSblog ()
  • Speech, Guns and Docs v. Glocks, ACSblog ()
  • Court-hacking Comes to North Carolina, News & Observer () (with Neil Seigel)
  • We Can Regulate Guns at the Local Level, Too, New York Times ()
  • Guest Post: Ukraine and Russia-You Break It, You Bought It, ericposner.com () (with Mitu Gulati)
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