May 9 2025 Publication Federalist Society Review The Supreme Court's 2023 Term: Return to Original Meaning or a Dangerous "Paradigm Shift"? Zack Smith, Donald A. Daugherty Each Supreme Court term over the past several years seems to produce more momentous decisions...
Mar 26 2025 Topics Civil Rights • Federal Courts • Second Amendment Blog Post Eleventh Circuit Conservatives Split on Gun Sales to Young Adults: Pryor v. Brasher in NRA v. Bondi Nelson Lund Legal debates between leftists and conservatives are rarely as interesting as “intramural” debates between conservatives....
Mar 19 2025 Publication Federalist Society Review The Past Is Not a Foreign Country: How a Historical Critique of Originalism Misses That the Past Is Prologue Stephen B. Presser A review of Jonathan Gienapp, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (2024) This review is...
Nov 13 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Massachusetts High Court Strikes Down Switchblade Ban under Bruen Tim Rosenberger In Commonwealth v. Canjura,[1] the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court addressed whether the state's prohibition on...
Aug 1 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Hawaii Supreme Court Rejects Bruen as Inconsistent With “Aloha Spirit” Amy E. Swearer In a recent opinion, the Supreme Court of Hawaii held that the Hawaii state constitution...
Jun 23 2023 Publication Federalist Society Review Textualism in Alabama Jay Mitchell Textualism is alive and well in Alabama. This interpretive doctrine teaches that legal texts have...
May 18 2023 Publication Federalist Society Review Originalism Carries On Donald A. Daugherty A review of Erwin Chemerinsky, A Momentous Year in the Supreme Court: October Term 2021...
Mar 15 2023 Publication Federalist Society Review Text-and-History or Means-End Scrutiny? A Response to Professor Nelson Lund's Critique of Bruen Stephen P. Halbrook Professor Nelson Lund’s “Bruen’s Preliminary Preservation of the Second Amendment,” recently published in the Federalist...
Nov 8 2022 Publication Federalist Society Review Bruen’s Preliminary Preservation of the Second Amendment Nelson Lund A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right...
May 20 2022 Topics Second Amendment Blog Post Student Blog Initiative The False Halcyon of Heller: The Federal Juridical Response to Second Amendment Rights Raymond Yang On the narrowest reading, District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago...
The Supreme Court's 2023 Term: Return to Original Meaning or a Dangerous "Paradigm Shift"?
Zack Smith, Donald A. Daugherty
Each Supreme Court term over the past several years seems to produce more momentous decisions...
Topics
Eleventh Circuit Conservatives Split on Gun Sales to Young Adults: Pryor v. Brasher in NRA v. Bondi
Legal debates between leftists and conservatives are rarely as interesting as “intramural” debates between conservatives....
The Past Is Not a Foreign Country: How a Historical Critique of Originalism Misses That the Past Is Prologue
Stephen B. Presser
A review of Jonathan Gienapp, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (2024) This review is...
Massachusetts High Court Strikes Down Switchblade Ban under Bruen
Tim Rosenberger
In Commonwealth v. Canjura,[1] the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court addressed whether the state's prohibition on...
Hawaii Supreme Court Rejects Bruen as Inconsistent With “Aloha Spirit”
Amy E. Swearer
In a recent opinion, the Supreme Court of Hawaii held that the Hawaii state constitution...
Textualism in Alabama
Jay Mitchell
Textualism is alive and well in Alabama. This interpretive doctrine teaches that legal texts have...
Originalism Carries On
Donald A. Daugherty
A review of Erwin Chemerinsky, A Momentous Year in the Supreme Court: October Term 2021...
Text-and-History or Means-End Scrutiny? A Response to Professor Nelson Lund's Critique of Bruen
Stephen P. Halbrook
Professor Nelson Lund’s “Bruen’s Preliminary Preservation of the Second Amendment,” recently published in the Federalist...
Bruen’s Preliminary Preservation of the Second Amendment
Nelson Lund
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right...
Topics
The False Halcyon of Heller: The Federal Juridical Response to Second Amendment Rights
On the narrowest reading, District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago...