Duke Center for Firearms Law

Jim12 · Mar 4, 2021

Duke [University] Center for Firearms Law

https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/about/about-the-center/

From its website:

"About the Center

Launched in 2019, the Center has a two-fold mission:

To help support and build the scholarly field of firearms law; and
To serve as a balanced and reliable resource on firearms law for scholars, judges, lawyers, policymakers, journalists, and interested citizens.

The Center carries out its mission through the dissemination and support of reliable, balanced, and insightful scholarship and programming on firearms law. Our goal is that this scholarship and programming will be useful to a broad array of academic and popular audiences. Throughout the year, the Center organizes and hosts conferences and workshops, shapes and encourages scholars and scholarship, and develops teaching materials...."

Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/about/newsletter/

Repository of Historical Gun Laws: https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/repository/search-the-repository/

Events: https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/events/

Teaching Resources: https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/teaching-resources/

jcutonilli · Mar 4, 2021

They definitely are not balanced. They are definitively anti-gun, but not rabidly anti-gun. You could have an intelligent conversation with them about firearms law, but they would approach it from an anti-gun perspective. One nice this is their blog, which they provide updates to 2A SCOTUS cases. https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/secondthoughts/

Jim12 · Feb 16, 2022

DUKE CENTER FOR FIREARMS LAW

Privatizing the Gun Debate – Conference at Duke Law on March 18th

By Jake Charles on February 16, 2022
Categories: Lawsuits, PLCAA, Second Amendment, Tort Claims

We are very excited to announce that the Center will be hosting a conference at Duke Law School on Friday, March 18th on the theme Privatizing the Gun Debate. The conference will explore the ways in which private actors are increasingly taking on a major role in the gun debate. These actors participate not just through public protests, advocacy, and lobbying, but also through more formal mechanisms like civil litigation and business policies.

The conference will convene scholars and practitioners for a series of panels to discuss several themes in the movement to regulate guns outside legislative channels. One theme will focus on civil lawsuits and tort law as a regulatory mechanism. Cases arise against gun manufacturers in mass shooting cases, like those stemming from the Sandy Hook and Sutherland Springs shootings, but also take place in other contexts. For example cities like Gary, Indiana have sued for harms caused by urban gun violence. Citizens have sued municipalities for failing to act to redress gun violence, such as the Powell v. Illinois lawsuit in Chicago. Furthermore, some scholars have suggested that businesses may incur civil liability for failing to permit guns on their premises. Related themes might touch on civil lawsuits against companies like Armslist that are blocked the Communications Decency Act or agreements like restrictive covenants that seek to keep guns off certain private property.

We have assembled a terrific group of distinguished panelists, including;

New York State Senator Zellnor Myrie
Ian Ayres
Brannon Denning
Heidi Feldman
Alla Lefkowitz
Jon Lowy
Jody Madeira
Julia Mahoney
Linda Mullenix
Lars Noah
Dru Stevenson
Fred Vars

The keynote address will be delivered by Alejandro Celorio, Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico and is titled, “The Missing Link: Corporate Responsibility in Arms Trafficking.”

We anticipate livestreaming the event through the Zoom webinar format and will update this post with a registration link when it is available.

Below is the schedule for the conference, which runs from 9:00am to 4:15pm on March 18th.

9:10am-10:25am – Panel One: Civil Liability for Gun Misuse
10:30am-11:45am – Panel Two: PLCAA and its Discontents

Keynote address by Alejandro Celorio: 12:30pm – 1:30pm

The Missing Link: Corporate Responsibility in Arms Trafficking

1:40pm-2:55pm – Panel Three: The Second Amendment and Tort Liability
3:00pm-4:15pm – Panel Four: Private Property and Gun Regulation

https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2022/0...-debate-conference-at-duke-law-on-march-18th/

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