Videos tagged with Constitutional Law

  • A discussion and Q&A with thought leaders on the merits, issues, and trade-offs of defunding-to-reallocate budget initiatives.

    Appearing: Brandon Garrett (Duke Law), moderator; James Burch (Anti Police-Terror Project), Darrell Miller (Duke Law), and Christy Lopez (Georgetown Law), panelists.

  • In this episode, Joseph Blocher talks with Natalie Nanasi of the SMU Dedman School of Law, about her article "Disarming Domestic Abusers", forthcoming in the Harvard Law & Policy Review.

    Article is available on SSRN at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3339061

    Presented by the Duke Center for Firearms Law.

    Appearing: Natalie Nanasi (SMU Dedman School of Law) and Joseph Blocher (Duke Law).

  • In this episode, Jake Charles talks with Greg Wallace, Campbell University School of Law, about his forthcoming article: "Assault Weapon" Lethality, to be published in the Tennessee Law Review.

    Available for reading on SSRN at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3625076

    Presented by the Duke Center for Firearms Law.

    Appearing: Jacob D. Charles (Duke Law) and E. Greg Wallace (Campbell University School of Law).

  • In this episode, Jake Charles talks with Akram Faizer, Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law, about his forthcoming article: Applying the Privileges or Immunities Clause to Gun Rights: A Framework to Depolarize the Debate and Strengthen the Federal Judiciary, to be published in the St. Louis University Law Journal.

    Available for reading at: https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lj/vol64/iss3/7/

    Presented by the Duke Center for Firearms Law.

  • In this episode, Jake Charles talks with Greg Magarian of the Washington University School of Law, about his article "Political and Non-Political Speech and Guns", recently published in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal.

    Available for viewing on at: https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol28/iss2/8/

    Presented by the Duke Center for Firearms Law

    Appearing: Gregory P. Magarian (Washington University School of Law) and Jacob D. Charles (Duke Law).

  • Host David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute and president of The American Law Institute, and four distinguished colleagues address another ‘plague’ — police brutality and the use of excessive force — following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020. Featuring Lori Lightfoot, mayor of Chicago; Art Acevedo, chief of the Houston Police Department; Barry Friedman, Jacob D.

  • On June 15, 2020, in a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Duke Law faculty reflect on how this ruling might strengthen claims for employment discrimination.

    Appearing: Trina Jones (Duke Law), Carolyn McAllaster (Duke Law) and Ames Simmons (Duke Law)

    Originally recorded on June 18, 2020.

  • On June 15, 2020, in a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Duke Law faculty discuss Justice Gorsuch’s interpretation of the word ‘sex’ in this decision.

    Appearing: Trina Jones (Duke Law), Carolyn McAllaster (Duke Law) and James Coleman (Duke Law)

    Originally recorded on June 18, 2020.

  • On June 15, 2020, in a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Duke Law faculty discuss implications of the ruling for current law and future constitutional challenges.

    Appearing: Trina Jones (Duke Law), Carolyn McAllaster (Duke Law) and Ames Simmons (Duke Law)

    Originally recorded on June 18, 2020.

  • On June 15, 2020, in a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Duke Law faculty discuss marginalized persons that remain excluded from the ruling’s protections.

    Appearing: Trina Jones (Duke Law), Carolyn McAllaster (Duke Law) and Ames Simmons (Duke Law)

    Originally recorded on June 18, 2020.

  • On June 15, 2020, in a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Duke Law faculty discuss how the ruling might impact President Trump’s recent orders rolling back health care protections for transgender people.

    Appearing: Trina Jones (Duke Law), Carolyn McAllaster (Duke Law) and Ames Simmons (Duke Law)

    Originally recorded on June 18, 2020.

  • On June 15, 2020, in a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Duke Law faculty discuss Justice Gorsuch’s opinion.

    Appearing: Trina Jones (Duke Law), Carolyn McAllaster (Duke Law) and Ames Simmons (Duke Law)

    Originally recorded on June 18, 2020.

  • On June 15, 2020, in a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Professor Trina Jones calls the decision “a glimmer of hope” in the midst of an assault on rights.

    Appearing: Trina Jones (Duke Law), Carolyn McAllaster (Duke Law) and James Coleman (Duke Law)

    Originally recorded on June 18, 2020.

  • On June 15, 2020, in a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Duke Law faculty share their reactions to the historic decision.

    Appearing: Trina Jones (Duke Law), Carolyn McAllaster (Duke Law) and Ames Simmons (Duke Law)

    Originally recorded on June 18, 2020.

  • On June 15, 2020, in a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Duke Law faculty share potential insights for students in the Supreme Court’s historic decision.

    Appearing: Trina Jones (Duke Law), Carolyn McAllaster (Duke Law) and Ames Simmons (Duke Law).

    Originally recorded on June 18, 2020.

  • In this series, hosted by the Center for Firearms Law, we talk with scholars about new or forthcoming academic publications relating to firearms law or the Second Amendment. In this episode, Darrell Miller talks with Shawn Fields of Campbell Law School about his article, Second Amendment Sanctuaries, forthcoming in the Northwestern Law Review.

    View the article on SSRN at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3536682

    Presented by the Duke Center for Firearms Law.

  • In this episode, Jake Charles talked with Dru Stevenson of South Texas College of Law about his forthcoming article Gun Violence as an Obstacle to Educational Equality, forthcoming in the University of Memphis Law Review.

    Available for viewing on SSRN at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3492793

    Presented by the Duke Center for Firearms Law

    Appearing: Jacob D. Charles (Duke Law) and Dru Stevenson (South Texas College of Law-Houston)

  • In this series, hosted by the Center for Firearms Law, we talk with experts on various aspects of firearms law & policy about the role of guns in the ongoing pandemic. This interview with Jennifer Carlson (University of Arizona) discusses the perceptions and practices of gun dealers during Covid.

    Presented by the Duke Center for Firearms Law

    Appearing: Jennifer Carlson (University of Arizona) and Darrell A.H. Miller (Duke Law)

    Originally recorded on May 19, 2020.

  • In this series, hosted by the Center for Firearms Law, we talk with scholars about new or forthcoming academic publications relating to firearms law or the Second Amendment. Faculty co-director Joseph Blocher discusses Eric Ruben’s recent article in the California Law Review, “An Unstable Core: Self-Defense and the Second Amendment.”

    Presented by the Duke Center for Firearms Law

    Appearing: Joseph Blocher (Duke Law) and Eric Ruben (SMU Dedman School of Law)

  • In this series, hosted by the Center for Firearms Law, we talk with experts on various aspects of firearms law & policy about the role of guns in the ongoing pandemic. This interview with Trent Steidley (University of Denver) discusses firearms sales and background checks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Presented by the Duke Center for Firearms Law

    Appearing: Trent Steidley (University of Denver) and Jacob D. Charles (Duke Law)

    Originally recorded on May 6, 2020.

  • In this series, hosted by the Center for Firearms Law, we talk with experts on various aspects of firearms law & policy about the role of guns in the ongoing pandemic. This interview with Prof. Jeff Swanson discusses the potential for increased risks of firearm suicide during the pandemic.

    Presented by the Duke Center for Firearms Law

    Appearing: Jeffrey Swanson (Duke University School of Medicine) and Jacob D. Charles (Duke Law)

    Originally recorded on May 4, 2020.

  • In this series, hosted by the Center for Firearms Law, we talk with experts on various aspects of firearms law & policy about the role of guns in the ongoing pandemic.

    Dave Kopel is Research Director of the Independence Institute; an Associate Policy Analyst with the Cato Institute, in Washington; and adjunct Professor of Advanced Constitutional Law at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law.

  • Constitutional interpretation has increasingly turned to history and a close reading of the text to decipher meaning.

  • Center for Firearms Law leadership discuss the Second Amendment implications of state and local orders that require businesses, including gun stores, to shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Appearing: Jacob D. Charles, Executive Director, Center for Firearms Law, and Professors Joseph Blocher and Darrell A. H. Miller, Co-Directors, Duke Center for Firearms Law

    For more discussion of these issues, visit the Center’s blog: https://sites.law.duke.edu/secondthoughts/

  • David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute, joins Hon. Dikgang Moseneke for a discussion of Moseneke’s recent memoir “My Own Liberator.” Dikgang Moseneke, Former Deputy Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, was born in 1947 in Pretoria, South Africa. He was arrested at age 15 for opposing apartheid, the state system of institutionalized racial segregation, and sentenced to 10 years in the prison rock quarry of Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa. His fellow political prisoners included future South African presidents Nelson Mandela and Jacob Zuma.