Our annual Second Amendment Symposium will be held on April 10, 2026, at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder.
Please check this page for updates.
Every year, our team brings together leading scholars, legal practitioners, social scientists, survivors, and community stakeholders for a one-of-its-kind gathering on the Second Amendment. Alongside our attorneys, attendees examine critical issues at the intersection of gun violence prevention, industry regulation, and Second Amendment jurisprudence. The event features a series of panel discussions led by subject-matter experts, offering various perspectives on the legal, historical, and societal dimensions of guns and gun violence in the United States.
Stay tuned for this year’s symposium theme at University of Colorado Law School in Boulder.
Over the years, the Second Amendment Symposium has brought together a diverse and interdisciplinary group of speakers. Our panelists have included legal scholars, historians, public health professionals, technical firearms experts, practitioners, and frontline advocates—together offering a wide range of perspectives and proposed solutions to the urgent challenges of gun violence facing our communities today.
Interested in presenting at the upcoming Second Amendment Symposium? Please contact us at symposium@giffords.org.
Our symposiums offer a dynamic mix of programming—including keynote panels, roundtable discussions, and breakout sessions —designed to foster meaningful engagement with both the issues and the experts.
This year, we’re proud to host the symposium at the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Stay tuned for the lineup of events.
Each year, we collaborate with a law review at the symposium’s host institution to publish a dedicated print and online volume of articles related to the Second Amendment theme covered by the symposium.
Interested in publishing scholarship for the upcoming Second Amendment Symposium? Please contact us at symposium@giffords.org.
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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