Paths Forward from the Age of Gun Violence: Industry Accountability and the Modern Second Amendment
GIFFORDS Law Center held its 2024 Second Amendment Symposium, Paths Forward from the Age of Gun Violence: Industry Accountability and the Modern Second Amendment, in Buffalo, NY, on September 27, 2024.
The event was hosted at the Center for Tomorrow of the University of Buffalo School of Law in collaboration with the Buffalo Law Review.
For an overview of the event, see below, or check out the full symposium agenda.
AGENDA
- Panel 1 | Multidisciplinary Efforts to Combat Gun Violence
- Patricia Logan-Greene, Associate Professor University at Buffalo School of Social Work
- Judith Olin, Director, Family Violence and Women’s Rights Clinic, University at Buffalo School of Law
- Lindsay Hahn, Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo
- Heather Warnken, Executive Director, Center for Criminal Justice Reform, University of Baltimore School of Law
- Moderator: Kelly Percival, Litigation Attorney, GIFFORDS Law Center
- Panel 2 | Rahimi and Bruen: Searching for “Principles” in an “Unprincipled Body of Law”
- Jake Charles, Associate Professor, Pepperdine Law
- Shira Feldman, Director of Constitutional Litigation, Brady
- Yvin Shin, Legal Associate – Project Manager, March For Our Lives
- Megan Walsh, Director of Gun Violence Prevention Law Clinic, Minnesota Law
- Moderator: Kevin Schascheck, Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School
- Keynote | Stories of Resiliency and Community in the Wake of the Tops Shooting
- John Elmore, Attorney
- Kristen Elmore-Garcia, Attorney
- Jennifer Tucker, Director of Center for the Study of Guns and Society at Wesleyan University
- LaVonne Ansari, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Community Health Center of Buffalo, Inc.
- Moderator: Leigh Rome, Senior Litigation Attorney and Pro Bono Manager, GIFFORDS Law Center
- Panel 3 | Affirmative Litigation and Industry Accountability
- Rose Carmen Goldberg, Associate Director of Policy and Programs at the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford Law School
- Erin Davis, Director of Litigation, Brady
- Heidi Li Feldman, Professor, Georgetown Law
- Hillel Y. Levin, Professor, University of Georgia Law
- Moderator: Lekha Menon, Litigation Attorney, GIFFORDS Law Center
- Breakout Rooms
- Room 1: Marketing and Modern American Gun Culture
- Featured Speaker: Aimee Huff, Associate Professor, Oregon State University
- Room 2: Historian Roundtable: “Regulatory Tradition” After Rahimi
- Featured Speakers: Saul Cornell, Professor, Fordham University
- Brennan Gardner Rivas, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Wesleyan University
- Kellen Heniford, Litigation Researcher, Everytown
- Kari Still, Law & Policy Advisor at Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions
- Room 3: Rust, Boeing, and Death By Safety Culture
- Featured Speakers: Brittany Farr, Assistant Professor, NYU School of Law
- Elise Maizel, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University College of Law
- Room 1: Marketing and Modern American Gun Culture
- Panel 4 | Administrative Law and Guns: Executive Power and Accountability
- William Araiza, Professor, Brooklyn Law School
- Benjamin Cavataro, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University Law School
- Lisa Heinzerling, Professor, Georgetown Law
- Tess Saperstein, Attorney, Arnold & Porter
- Moderator: David Pucino, Legal Director & Deputy Chief Counsel, GIFFORDS Law Center
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER SYMPOSIUMS
2024 Buffalo, NY
Paths Forward from the Age of Gun Violence: Industry Accountability and the Modern Second Amendment
Hosted at University of Buffalo School of Law.
2023 MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Aiming for Answers: Balancing Rights, Safety, and Justice in a Post-Bruen America
Hosted at University of Minnesota Law School.
2023 chicago, il
Litigating the Second Amendment: Gun Safety Advocacy in the Wake of Heller and Bruen
Hosted at University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign College of Law.
2022 los angeles, ca
“Guns Everywhere: Individual Rights and Communal Harms after NYSRPA v. Bruen“
Hosted at University of California-Los Angeles School of Law.
2021 davis, ca
“The Second Amendment at the Supreme Court: ‘700 Years of History’ and the Modern Effects of Guns in Public“
Hosted at University of California-Davis School of Law.
2019 san francisco, ca
“Heller at 10: A Symposium on the Last and Next Decade of the Modern Second Amendment“
Hosted at University of California-Hastings School of Law.
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