Jacob D. Charles

Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law

24255 Pacific Coast Highway

Malibu, CA 90263

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (20)

1.

The Dead Hand of a Silent Past: Bruen, Gun Rights, and the Shackles of History

73 Duke Law Journal 67 (2023), Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023/7
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 25 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2023
Jacob D. Charles
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
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Bruen, Second Amendment, constitutional law, history, firearms law, Heller

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Securing Gun Rights by Statute: The Right To Keep and Bear Arms Outside the Constitution

120 Michigan Law Review 581 (2022), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory No. 2021-21
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 23 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2022
Jacob D. Charles
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
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firearms, gun rights, second amendment, popular constitutionalism, preemption, constitutional theory, concealed carry

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Firearms, Extreme Risk, and Legal Design: 'Red Flag' Laws and Due Process

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-10, Virginia Law Review, Vol. 106, pg. 1285, 2020
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 09 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2021
Joseph Blocher and Jacob D. Charles
Duke University School of Law and Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
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Due Process, Red Flag, Extreme Risk, Second Amendment

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The Trajectory of Federal Gun Crimes

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-69, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 21 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2022
Jacob D. Charles and Brandon L. Garrett
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Federal Criminal Law, Sentencing, Gun Crimes, Gun Violence, Second Amendment

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'A Map Is Not The Territory': The Theory and Future of Sensitive Places Doctrine

98 N.Y.U. L. Rev. Online 438 (2023), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-01, Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023/6
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2024
Joseph Blocher, Jacob D. Charles and Darrell A. H. Miller
Duke University School of Law, Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law and The University of Chicago Law School
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Bruen, Second Amendment, sensitive places, gun violence, firearms law, Heller

6.

Firearms Carceralism

108 Minnesota Law Review 2811 (2024), Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2024/24
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 20 Dec 2023
Jacob D. Charles
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
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criminal justice reform, gun violence, community violence, cvi, restorative justice, mandatory minimums

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On Sordid Sources in Second Amendment Litigation

76 Stanford Law Review Online 30 (2023), Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023/11
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2023
Jacob D. Charles
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
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Bruen, Second Amendment, firearms law, guns and race, history, tradition

8.

Pointing Guns

Texas Law Review, Vol. 99, No. 6, 2021, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-82
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 26 May 2021
Duke University School of Law, Duke University School of Law, Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law and The University of Chicago Law School
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The Debt Limit and The Constitution: How the Fourteenth Amendment Forbids Fiscal Obstructionism

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 62, 2013
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2013
Jacob D. Charles
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
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debt limit, Fourteenth Amendment, public debt clause, executive disregard, impoundment, Impoundment Control Act

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The New Outlawry

108 Columbia Law Review 1195 (2024), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2024-36, Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2024/17
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 10 Jun 2024 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2025
Jacob D. Charles and Darrell A. H. Miller
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law and The University of Chicago Law School
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Constructing a Constitutional Right: Borrowing and Second Amendment Design Choices

99 North Carolina Law Review 333 (2021), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-9
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2021
Jacob D. Charles
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
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Second Amendment, constitutional borrowing

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Time and Tradition in Second Amendment Law

51 Fordham Urban Law Journal 259 (2023)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2023
Jacob D. Charles
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
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tradition, second amendment, constitutional law, firearms law, bruen

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The Proceduralist Case for Judicial Review

Number of pages: 117 Posted: 21 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2013
Jacob D. Charles
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
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judicial review, proceduralism, democratic theory

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Defeasible Second Amendment Rights: Conceptualizing Gun Laws That Dispossess Prohibited Persons

83 Law & Contemporary Problems 53 (2020), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-55
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2021
Jacob D. Charles
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
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Violence and Nondelegation

135 Harvard Law Review Forum 463 (2022), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2022-37
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 23 Jun 2022
Jacob D. Charles and Darrell A. H. Miller
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law and The University of Chicago Law School
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delegation, nondelegation, constitutional law, violence, use of force

16.

Second Amendment Animus

116 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1 (2021), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2021-43
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Sep 2021
Jacob D. Charles
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
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Second Amendment, firearms law, animus

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Teaching Firearms Law: One Big Opportunity and Three Pedagogical Challenges

34 Wm & Mary Bill Rts. J. (forthcoming Dec. 2025), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2025-13, Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025/8
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 28 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2025
Joseph Blocher, Jacob D. Charles and Darrell A. H. Miller
Duke University School of Law, Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law and The University of Chicago Law School
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Second Amendment, Heller, Bruen, Constitutional law, Rahimi

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Salerno and the Second Amendment

78 SMU L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025), Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025/8
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 24 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2025
Jacob D. Charles
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
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Ancillary Rights

173 U. Penn. L. Rev. 1269 (2025)
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 22 May 2025
Jacob D. Charles
Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law
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Firearms Law and Scholarship Beyond Bullets and Bodies

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 19, pp. 165-177, 2023, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-61
Posted: 20 Oct 2023
Joseph Blocher, Jacob D. Charles and Darrell A. H. Miller
Duke University School of Law, Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law and The University of Chicago Law School

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