Gun Rights and Regulation in the Contemporary U.S.

Featured Speaker: Professor Jacob Charles

Headlines announce the daily toll of gun deaths and
injuries throughout the United States, and court
decisions continue to assess how the Constitution’s
Second Amendment restricts the choices available
to lawmakers to counteract these harms. This
lecture will cover the state of contemporary Second
Amendment law, with a focus on how the Supreme
Court’s recent decisions affect different areas of
gun regulation, from firearms licensing laws and
prohibitions on gun possession for certain individuals
to the locations where government can permissibly
outlaw guns and the types of weapons government
can prohibit.

Presenter Biography

Jacob D. Charles is Associate Professor
of Law at the Pepperdine University Caruso
School of Law and an Affiliated Scholar with the
Center for Firearms Law at Duke University School
of Law. He is the author of numerous articles on
firearms law and the co-author of a forthcoming
law-school textbook on the Second Amendment.

Coordinator: Mark Evans