Associate Professor @SMULawSchool, Fellow @BrennanCenter. Writing on violence, guns, the 2A, and criminal law. Views are my own. RTs aren’t endorsements.
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New draft alert! "Scientific Context, Suicide Prevention, and the Second Amendment," forthcoming in @MinnesotaLawRev, reveals challenges of applying Bruen in an area of immense scientific progress, suicide-prevention laws. Comments welcome!
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What role do scholars play in shaping constitutional law?
In a new essay, Professor @ericmruben and @AndrewWillinger, executive director of @DukeFirearmsLaw, examine how legal scholarship is driving the Supreme Court’s approach to the Second Amendment.
Read: bit.ly/46sMDAL
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Professor @ericmruben was quoted in @ByChipBrownlee's "Supreme Court Blocks Mexico’s Lawsuit Against U.S. Gunmakers."
🔗 Read: thetrace.org/2025/06/supreme…
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In a new guest post today, @ericmruben considers whether state constitutional "strict scrutiny" amendments for gun rights - which have been enacted or proposed in a number of states since Bruen - are still relevant.
firearmslaw.duke.edu/2025/02…
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Excited to see my new article, “Stereotypes as Character Evidence,” published in the Stanford Law Review! Many thanks to the @StanLRev editors for their wonderful work on my article.
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Professor @ericmruben recently spoke with @NPR's @NinaTotenberg regarding a SCOTUS case about the regulation of 'ghost guns.'
🔗 Read or listen here: npr.org/2024/10/08/nx-s1-510…
Rahimi demonstrated for courts how they should be operating at a higher level of generality than the nitpicking historical analysis we’ve seen since Bruen.
That’s good, but how much will it really rein in courts that are adrift after Bruen? Not a lot, explains @JacobDCharles 👇
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NEW: SCOTUS's Rahimi decision leaves LOTS of open questions for state courts, which are where the bulk of 2nd Amendment litigation actually takes place. @ericmruben writes for @StateCourtRpt about this new landscape. @BrennanCenter @SMULawSchool statecourtreport.org/our-wor…
Overlooked: state cts resolve more 2A claims than fed cts and are extremely burdened by SCOTUS's ambiguous recent guidance.
I highlight that burden and how Rahimi does little to resolve it (even in DV cases) @statecourtrept @BrennanCenter @SMULawSchool
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Exciting to see Justice Jackson citing my work with Joseph in her concurrence. The opinions -- 103 pages' worth -- reflect an effort to climb out of the hole Bruen created. Ultimately, lower courts will still be adrift, and SCOTUS will have a lot more clean-up work to do.
Justice Jackson cited Brennan Center Fellow @ericmruben in her concurrence in U.S. v. Rahimi, repudiating some of the damage from Justice Thomas's disastrous decision in Bruen.
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SCOTUS’s opinion in Vidal v. Elster = rich text for the Court’s originalist turn. Lots of scuffling about how/if to use history. Barrett with scorching anti-originalist commentary. Sotomayor tag-teaming. All told, more signs of rifts in the originalist consensus. 👇🧵
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After this morning's "bump stock" ruling came down from the Supreme Court, our fellow and 2nd Amendment expert @ericmruben told @MSNBC, "the outcome of this opinion means that those bump stocks are now back in civilian hands until Congress acts."
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Important article alert 🚨@ericmruben recently published the first article to assess Bruen as it applies to suicide-prevention laws. Article linked below⤵️
Professor @ericmruben's article, "Scientific Context, Suicide Prevention, and the Second Amendment After Bruen," was published in the @MinnesotaLawRev.
"This Article is the first to assess Bruen as it applies to suicide prevention laws, and, in doing so, illuminates another form of change that complicates Bruen’s implementation: scientific progress."
🔗 Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Professor @ericmruben's article, "Scientific Context, Suicide Prevention, and the Second Amendment After Bruen," was published in the @MinnesotaLawRev.
"This Article is the first to assess Bruen as it applies to suicide prevention laws, and, in doing so, illuminates another form of change that complicates Bruen’s implementation: scientific progress."
🔗 Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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This paper examines how the #SupremeCourt's ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. #Bruen applies to #suicideprevention laws & the challenges posed by scientific progress.
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Bruen is having a big impact on policing illegal gun carrying. See how it’s unfolding in NYC 👇
NY courts are struggling to interpret gun laws in light of the Supreme Court's Bruen decision - my latest with comments from @adamwinkler @ericmruben et al nytimes.com/2024/03/16/nyreg…
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NY courts are struggling to interpret gun laws in light of the Supreme Court's Bruen decision - my latest with comments from @adamwinkler @ericmruben et al nytimes.com/2024/03/16/nyreg…
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Keeping with the theme of constitutional interpretation (and related methodological shortcomings), my article, "History as Precedent: Common Law Reasoning in Historical Investigation" is forthcoming in the @PennJCL! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Texas is too big, too interesting, and too important to surrender its history to nostalgia and whitewashing. I'm proud to be a charter member of the Alliance for Texas History.
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Excited to share my new article, Stereotypes as Evidence, forthcoming in @StanLRev. A draft is now up on SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=4734298. Comments much appreciated!
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#newlawrevarticles My paper, "Privacy Law's Role in an Information Economy," is available on @SSRN for any interested readers. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
