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Sentencing Law and Policy
How much will guns and drugs come up during the Holder hearings?
Main January 13, 2009How much will guns and drugs come up during the Holder hearings?Confirmation hearings for Attorney-General nominee Eric Holder are scheduled to start this Thursday, and there is…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Assailing the unjustified Second Amendment limits inHeller
Main January 11, 2009Assailing the unjustified Second Amendment limits in HellerAs Randy Barnett notes here, "Nelson Lund has just uploaded to SSRN a new and important criticism of Justice Scalia's…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“The New Second Amendment: A Bark Worse Than Its Right”
Main January 6, 2009"The New Second Amendment: A Bark Worse Than Its Right"I just noticed this notable new commentary, with the same title of this post, by UCLA Law Prof…
Sentencing Law and Policy
What might 2009 have in store for . . . Second Amendment jurisprudence?
Main January 2, 2009What might 2009 have in store for . . . Second Amendment jurisprudence?Due to the Supreme Court's remarkable work in Heller (and all of the pre- and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Seeking SCOTUS speculations during the Justices holiday break
Main December 19, 2008Seeking SCOTUS speculations during the Justices holiday breakLast year around this time, wehad the Supreme Court's then-fresh opinion in Gall and Kimbrough to keep us warm through…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
More–Much More–on Privilages or Immunities
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I posted last week on Gans and Kendall's (The Constitutional Accountability Project) excellent report The Gem of the Constitution: The Text and History of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Are the modern Second Amendment and Fourth Amendment on a collision course?
Main December 10, 2008Are the modern Second Amendment and Fourth Amendment on a collision course?Though not (yet) a true sentencing issue, my deep interest in post-Heller gun litigation and my…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Lots for sentencing fans inHarvard Law ReviewSCOTUS issue
Main November 24, 2008Lots for sentencing fans in Harvard Law Review SCOTUS issueAs all top-shelf law geeks know, online the November issue of the Harvard Law Review is always devoted…
Sentencing Law and Policy
What if no lower court judges participate in a “Second Amendment Revolution”
Main November 24, 2008What if no lower court judges participate in a "Second Amendment Revolution"Thanks to How Appealing, I saw this article in the latest issue of the Harvard Law…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The legal backstory ofHeller
Main November 20, 2008The legal backstory of HellerOver at Reason online, one can now find this lengthy article telling the backstory of the case that resulting the the Heller ruling.…