EVENT: David Gans discusses key 2nd Amendment case at Georgetown Law panel
November 13th at 12:30 p.m. CAC’s David Gans spoke on a panel entitled “A Vain and Idle Enactment: Could McDonald v. Chicago Un-Slaughter the Privileges or Immunities Clause?”
Panelists included Alan Gura, the Lead Counsel in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago; Randy Barnett, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center; and Kurt Lash, James P. Bradley Chair of Constitutional Law, Loyola Law School.
The panel was sponsored by the Georgetown Law Journal, the Georgetown Law chapters of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies, and the Georgetown Law Militia.
Additional information and a webcast can be found here.
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