Law Students

What will be the Next Constitutional Amendment
It's been 37 years since the last contemporaneously proposed and ratified constitutional amendment (I'm setting the aside the 27th Amendment, with it's tortured 200-year history). There have been only two comparably long periods in our history without an amendment, the 61-year period between the 12th and the 13th Amendments, and the 43-year period between the 15th and the 16th Amendment...

Originalism and the Second Amendment
Yesterday I moderated a debate on the Second Amendment at UCLA Law between Alan Gura, the attorney representing Heller before the Supreme Court, and Jack Rakove, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who filed an amicus brief on behalf of the District of Columbia in DC v...

Individual Rights Forget Heller
By Jonathon Blevins, Legal Satyricon Second Amendment Correspondent As first reported here and here, the Second Amendment does not act (currently) as a restriction on the states’ power to regulate the right to keep and bear arms...

More Second Amendment cases
The National Rifle Association on Friday began its courthouse campaign to extend the Second Amendment in order to restrict gun control laws in San Francisco, Chicago and three Chicago suburbs...

AZ Marriage Amendment: Opposing legislators interviewed
The AZ Republic carries this report on the Arizona Marriage Amendment.  The latter part of the report consists of interviews with Sen. Paula Aboud, a lesbian who opposes the amendment, and Sen...

First Amendment Juggernaut
I’m beaming with pride at being called a “First Amendment Juggernaut” by the Citizen Media Law Project. Posted in First Amendment      

Parody is a Protected Form of Speech
Targets of criticism seek to shut down Internet sites that poke fun