Positive Second Amendment - Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller

Provides the first comprehensive post-Heller account of the Second Amendment as constitutional law - dispelling many myths along the way.

List of contents

Introduction: the gun debate and the Constitution; 1. Gun rights and regulation in American history; 2. Militias, private purposes, and the road to Heller; 3. Understanding Heller; 4. Heller's aftermath: 'a vast Terra Incognita'; 5. The constitutional grammar of the Second Amendment; 6. What is the Second Amendment for?; 7. Second Amendment law and the gun debate.

About the author

Joseph Blocher is Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. As an associate at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, he co-authored the briefs for the District of Columbia in District of Columbia v. Heller. His Second Amendment scholarship has been published in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, NYU Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, and many other journals.Darrell A. H. Miller is the Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Oxford University and is a former Marshall Scholar. His scholarship has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Courts of Appeals, the United States District Courts, and in congressional testimony and legal briefs.

Summary

There are few issues in American law and politics as intensely debated as gun rights and regulation. No book has offered an account of the Second Amendment as comprehensive, readable, and scholarly as this one. It will be of interest to anyone who cares about politics, law, and the constitution.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Blocher, Joseph Miller Blocher, Blocher Joseph, Darrell A. H. Miller, Darrell A.H. Miller
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781316611289
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61128-9
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; Cambridge Studies on Civil Rig; Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, LAW / Constitutional, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Constitution: government & the state, Central / national / federal government, Central government, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general