AALS Hot Topic Program

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Session Type: AALS Hot Topic Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Hotel: Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel

Room: Delaware B

Floor: Lobby Level

This hot topic will discuss the future of the Second Amendment in the Supreme Court. In early December 2019, the Court heard oral arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. New York (NYSRPA), and its decision in that case may have major ramifications for the right to keep and bear arms. Thus far the Supreme Court has offered very little guidance to lower courts as they have grappled with more than one thousand Second Amendment challenges since the Court's blockbuster decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010). Our goal is to generate scholarly discussion about how the Court may decide NYSRPA and how it is likely to approach similar cases in the future.