[Eugene Volokh, July 25, 2008 at 5:07pm] Trackbacks
UCLA Law Review Second Amendment Symposium:

I'm glad to say that, in the wake of the Heller decision, the UCLA Law Review will be putting on a symposium on the Second Amendment and related matters. The symposium will be Friday, January 23, 2009, and the articles will be published in the law review a few months later.

Our tentative participants are Phil Cook, Saul Cornell, Bob Cottrol, Dennis Henigan, Don Kates, Gary Kleck, David Konig, Sandy Levinson, Jens Ludwig, Nelson Lund, Joyce Malcolm, Mark Tushnet, Adam Winkler, me, and I hope a few others. Should be an interesting, balanced, and productive event, and a great conference volume.

(This was originally posted this morning, but I've reposted it because comments were for some reason not working on the original post.)

jim47:
will there be a podcast? (and yes i know i ask this every time someone posts about a panel)
7.25.2008 7:44pm
Brett Bellmore:
It's at least a little ironic to invite for balance people like Cornell, who would be quite sure to see to it that there wasn't balance if they were organizing the event.
7.26.2008 10:33am
juris_imprudent (mail):
Brett-

Ironic perhaps, but does anything better demonstrate the intellectual maturity of the respective positions.
7.27.2008 3:26pm
Greg Q (mail) (www):
I hope that, if you haven't read it already, you read “St. George Tucker’s Second Amendment: Deconstructing ‘The True Palladium of Liberty’,” by Stephen P. Halbrook (recommended by Dave Kopel) before the symposium.
And then make sure that Professor Cornell doesn't get away with the dishonesty that Stephen P. Halbrook caught him engaging in.
7.28.2008 2:14am
James Gibson (mail):
Given the list of participants this should be a more balanced symposium then the one done in 2000. Regardless of that fact however, for the enlightenment of those who have never attended such a symposium, what are the rules for such an event.

Do the participants have to give recite their "scholarly document" to a live audience or do they just have to submit a written copy for distribution. And if they have to give a live statement, do they then have to answer questions posed by the audience or do they simply leave the stage.

Put another way, I would love to attend if given the change to cross-examine the scholarly witnesses.
7.28.2008 4:25am