SMU Law Review
Published four times each year, the SMU Law Review reaches law schools, attorneys, and judges throughout the United States and abroad. Each issue includes articles by prominent legal scholars and practitioners dealing with significant questions of local, national, and international law. In addition, articles by students analyze recent cases, statutes, and developments in the law. The SMU Law Review also sponsors the annual SMU Corporate Counsel Symposium on current developments in corporate law. The symposium attracts corporate practitioners from throughout the United States.
The SMU Law Review began in 1947 as Texas Law and Legislation. The journal then published under the name Southwestern Law Journal in 1948 and has been published as the SMU Law Review since 1992. All editing is done by student members of the board of editors and the staff of the SMU Law Review Association. The Association also publishes the Journal of Air Law and Commerce and the SMU Annual Texas Survey.
Current Issue: Volume 78, Issue 2 (2025)
Front Matter
Preface
Symposium PrefaceMadeleine Nelson235
Articles
A Critique of Findings on Gun Ownership, Use, and Imagined Use From the 2021 National Firearms Survey: Response to William EnglishDeborah Azrael, Joseph Blocher, Philip J. Cook, David Hemenway, and Matthew Miller239
Levels of Generality, the Limits of Originalism, and the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment JurisprudenceAmanda L. Tyler265
History's Identity CrisisAllison Orr Larsen293
The Mutability of Dangerousness: Domestic Violence and Second Amendment Restoration After RahimiF. Lee Francis319
The Persistence of Common Law Limits on Armed Travel in the Early Republic: Surety and Affray Laws in Historical ContextSaul Cornell343
Judge–Scholar Collaboration and the Second AmendmentAndrew Willinger and Eric Ruben397
Salerno and the Second AmendmentJacob D. Charles495
