I spoke at this seminar last week in Washington, D.C.
JoshCasts of my two talks–one on social cost, and one on McDonald with Ilya Shapiro, are available here.
Josh Blackman is a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. His participation in the seminar is as a young legal academic. His law degree is from George Mason University School of Law. He has published 12 law review articles, was cited by the 7th Circuit in Ezell v. Chicago, and will begin as an Assistant Professor at South Texas College of Law in August 2012. Mr. Blackman’s topic this morning is “The Second Amendment’s Social Costs.”
Josh Blackman: The Second Amendment’s Social Costs
Suggested advance reading:
(1) Josh Blackman, The Constitutionality of Social Cost, 34 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 1 (2011).
Ilya Shapiro and Josh Blackman are long-lost brothers who found each other as grown ups; at least it seems like that. Mr. Shapiro is Senior Fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the CATO SUPREME COURT REVIEW. His law degree is from University of Chicago, and he clerked for the Honorable E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. Before joining Cato, Mr. Shapiro worked at Cleary Gottlieb and at Patton Boggs, and he was an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School. He has contributed to many academic, popular, and professional publications. He regularly provides commentary for various television and radio outlets, and he appeared on “The Colbert Report” in the wake of McDonald. … Mr. Blackman is a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. His law degree is from George Mason. He has published 12 law review articles, was cited by the 7th Circuit in Ezell v. Chicago, and will begin as an Assistant Professor at South Texas College of Law in August 2012. Their topic this afternoon is “Justice Thomas’ Concurrence in McDonald: What It — and therefore the Privileges or Immunities Clause — Means for Future RKBA-related Litigation.”
Suggested advance reading:
(1) Josh Blackman & Ilya Shapiro, Keeping Pandora’s Box Sealed: Privileges or Immunities, The Constitution in 2020, and Properly Extending the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to the States,” 8 GEO J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 1 (2010).
Video of our talks are available here and here.
Also, Judge Silberman had some choice remarks about the Heller litigation. I will abstain from any comments.
Guest speaker at the Circle of 2nd Amendment Friendship Dinner:
The Honorable Laurence H. Silberman, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Judge Silberman authored Parker v. D.C., which was upheld in D.C. v. Heller.Judge Silberman’s speech is HERE.
