Eric Ruben

Associate Professor @SMULawSchool, Fellow @BrennanCenter. Writing on violence, guns, the 2A, and criminal law. Views are my own. RTs aren’t endorsements.

[Eric Ruben @ericmruben]

New draft alert! "Scientific Context, Suicide Prevention, and the Second Amendment," forthcoming in @MinnesotaLawRev, reveals challenges of applying Bruen in an area of immense scientific progress, suicide-prevention laws. Comments welcome!
https://t.co/dNaYliPcOW

[Eric Ruben @ericmruben]

@tommy_bennett Thanks!

[SMU Dedman School of Law @SMULawSchool]

What role do scholars play in shaping constitutional law?

In a new essay, Professor @ericmruben and @AndrewWillinger, executive director of @DukeFirearmsLaw, examine how legal scholarship is driving the Supreme Court’s approach to the Second Amendment.

Read: https://t.co/zhLx48IX5J

[SMU Dedman School of Law @SMULawSchool]

Professor @ericmruben was quoted in @ByChipBrownlee's "Supreme Court Blocks Mexico’s Lawsuit Against U.S. Gunmakers."

🔗 Read: https://t.co/uK4EKonas6

[Duke Center for Firearms Law @DukeFirearmsLaw]

In a new guest post today, @ericmruben considers whether state constitutional "strict scrutiny" amendments for gun rights - which have been enacted or proposed in a number of states since Bruen - are still relevant.
https://t.co/wecftUp7Bt

[Hillel Bavli @hjbavli]

Excited to see my new article, “Stereotypes as Character Evidence,” published in the Stanford Law Review! Many thanks to the @StanLRev editors for their wonderful work on my article.

[SMU Dedman School of Law @SMULawSchool]

Professor @ericmruben recently spoke with @NPR's @NinaTotenberg regarding a SCOTUS case about the regulation of 'ghost guns.'

🔗 Read or listen here: https://t.co/OYdy40WT8Y

[Eric Ruben @ericmruben]

@TheGNapp Congrats! My copy just arrived. Can’t wait to dive in!

[Eric Ruben @ericmruben]

@JacobDCharles @PennLRev Congrats, Jake! Well deserved!

[Eric Ruben @ericmruben]

Rahimi demonstrated for courts how they should be operating at a higher level of generality than the nitpicking historical analysis we’ve seen since Bruen.

That’s good, but how much will it really rein in courts that are adrift after Bruen? Not a lot, explains @JacobDCharles 👇

[Alicia Bannon @alicia_bannon]

NEW: SCOTUS's Rahimi decision leaves LOTS of open questions for state courts, which are where the bulk of 2nd Amendment litigation actually takes place. @ericmruben writes for @StateCourtRpt about this new landscape. @BrennanCenter @SMULawSchool https://t.co/Htj3BrNKLZ

[Eric Ruben @ericmruben]

Overlooked: state cts resolve more 2A claims than fed cts and are extremely burdened by SCOTUS's ambiguous recent guidance.

I highlight that burden and how Rahimi does little to resolve it (even in DV cases) @statecourtrept @BrennanCenter @SMULawSchool

https://t.co/gevaAjJ89v

[Eric Ruben @ericmruben]

@narosenblum @OrinKerr the selection bias here is especially striking in an opinion that goes to such lengths to argue that history and tradition minimizes judicial bias.

[Eric Ruben @ericmruben]

@IrateOverlord13 @BrennanCenter Thanks, Wes! I hope you are well.

[Eric Ruben @ericmruben]

Exciting to see Justice Jackson citing my work with Joseph in her concurrence. The opinions -- 103 pages' worth -- reflect an effort to climb out of the hole Bruen created. Ultimately, lower courts will still be adrift, and SCOTUS will have a lot more clean-up work to do.

[Brennan Center @BrennanCenter]

Justice Jackson cited Brennan Center Fellow @ericmruben in her concurrence in U.S. v. Rahimi, repudiating some of the damage from Justice Thomas's disastrous decision in Bruen.

[T.M. Wolf @tomTMwolf]

SCOTUS’s opinion in Vidal v. Elster = rich text for the Court’s originalist turn. Lots of scuffling about how/if to use history. Barrett with scorching anti-originalist commentary. Sotomayor tag-teaming. All told, more signs of rifts in the originalist consensus. 👇🧵

[Brennan Center @BrennanCenter]

After this morning's "bump stock" ruling came down from the Supreme Court, our fellow and 2nd Amendment expert @ericmruben told @MSNBC, "the outcome of this opinion means that those bump stocks are now back in civilian hands until Congress acts."

[Asheley Van Ness @asheleyvn]

Important article alert 🚨@ericmruben recently published the first article to assess Bruen as it applies to suicide-prevention laws. Article linked below⤵️

[Eric Ruben @ericmruben]

@asheleyvn Thanks!

[SMU Dedman School of Law @SMULawSchool]

Professor @ericmruben's article, "Scientific Context, Suicide Prevention, and the Second Amendment After Bruen," was published in the @MinnesotaLawRev.

"This Article is the first to assess Bruen as it applies to suicide prevention laws, and, in doing so, illuminates another form of change that complicates Bruen’s implementation: scientific progress."

🔗 Read: https://t.co/J0eEDAE9Iq

[SSRN @SSRN]

This paper examines how the #SupremeCourt's ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. #Bruen applies to #suicideprevention laws & the challenges posed by scientific progress.

Read: https://t.co/2IVoOszWGE
Subscribe: https://t.co/2YDg3t6B4p

@SMULawSchool @ericmruben