Darrell Miller: Center for Firearms Law scholars highly cited in closely watched Second Amendment case

Scholarship by Duke Center for Firearms Law faculty is cited in a quarter of the 84 briefs filed in a major gun rights case before the Supreme Court, demonstrating the center’s emergence as a leading source on Second Amendment issues.

In New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, the first gun rights case to be decided since 2008’s District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court will rule on the constitutionality of New York’s “proper cause” law regulating handgun carry licenses. A total of 84 amicus briefs have been submitted ahead of Nov. 3 oral arguments in the closely watched case. Articles, essays, and other writings by Lanty L. Smith ’67 Professor Joseph Blocher and Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law and Associate Dean Darrell Miller are cited in support of more than 20 briefs filed in the case, as is their book, The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Sept. 2018, Cambridge University Press). Learn more here.