Jamie McWilliam: "Fixing" the Classical Legal Tradition Michael Ramsey - The Originalism Blog buff.ly/IzpvyIG

Happy to announce a new essay forthcoming in Nᴏᴛʀᴇ Dᴀᴍᴇ L. Rᴇᴠ. (Notre Dame Law Review) Reflection, which argues that our Founding-era history (particularly as described by Brian DeLay) supports a right to assemble firearms at home using both homemade and bought components. Read it here:

Texas Attorney General Aaron Reitz has a nice ring to it.

Thanks University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center for hosting this forum piece - the longer essay, forthcoming in Nᴏᴛʀᴇ Dᴀᴍᴇ L. Rᴇᴠ. (Notre Dame Law Review) Reflection, can be read here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Thanks Lawrence Solum for sharing!

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

Excited to see this one published! Also very cool to share an issue with one of my law school professors - Mark Tushnet.

Rahimi told us to look at the principles underlying the Second Amendment. Have you ever wondered what those principles are? How to derive them from history? Whether those principles support a right to concealed carry? Or to possess “assault weapons”? Do our historical principles

Considering RKBA derives largely from William of Orange’s Bill of Rights (An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, Etc.1 Will. & Mar. Sess. 2. c. 2) it’s fitting that this is being published by The College of William & Mary. Jamie McWilliam

"Distrust of the law of nature is predominantly modern." Edmond N. Cahn, 55 Yale L.J. 336, 337 (1946).

We over at the The New Digest are celebrating a big milestone today. It is our first citation by a Federal Court, this time in a dissenting opinion by Judge Matey of the Third Circuit ⬇️ Congrats to Adrian Vermeule!

This is just the best news. I’ve co-authored a few times with Jenn, whom I consider a mentor and a friend. Those experiences have allowed me to see, up close, how one of the greatest legal minds of our generation operates. Jenn will be an excellent judge. She is remarkably

Thanks to the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy Per Curiam for publishing my short piece on where "common use" fits in the Bruen analysis: journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/common-us…

Great short article from Pete Patterson on common use being an inquiry for the historical analysis, not the plain text "step." (I don't even concede it is a full step)

More news! Excited to announce that How Originalism Became "Our Law." And Why That Matters. is forthcoming in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy! Here it is: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… From the positivist’s perspective, originalism is “our law.” But how did "our law" come to be? I argue that

I sincerely believe one of the legal moves we ought to make, for the common good, is the reestablishment of the fee tail interest in real property. We aren't ready for it yet (too much foreign possession of real property, Blackrock, etc.). But we need to bring it back.

Happy to share that my next Article, “Equitable Regulatory Balancing,” is forthcoming in the Boston College Law Review. The Article lays out some equitable principles to bring order to the explosion of emergency-docket litigation in administrative law—particularly at the Supreme Court.

The Left lectured us for the last decade about the dangers of violence from the Right From the assassination attempts of President Trump To Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO, being murdered Now to Charlie Kirk The danger was actually on the Left

Charlie Kirk warned America about about assassination culture on the left, and the left responded by shooting him.

"The act accomplished according to law, is certainly accomplished according to justice, such that it is impossible that an act performed against justice can be performed according to the law." -- Pope Leo XIV