These past few weeks have seen a flurry of good panels, speakers, and meals. We’ve got another good event coming up: at lunch this next Thursday there’ll be a debate on one of the year’s biggest biggest cases: Parker v. District of Columbia, 478 F.3d 370 (D.C. Cir. 2007). In Parker, the D.C. Circuit held parts of the District’s strict gun laws unconstitutional. In doing so, it became the first major court in the country to strike down a statute based on the individual-rights interpretation of the Second Amendment. The case is almost certain to go to the Supreme Court and has already created a big stir in legal circles.

For our debate on Thursday, we’ll have Clark Neily, Senior Attorney at the Institute for Justice and co-counsel to the plaintiffs (the gun-owners, in this case); and Mark Tushnet, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law here at HLS, and author of Out of Range: Why the Constitution Can’t End the Battle over Guns.

So come to Austin North at 12:00 on Thursday, September 27. You won’t be disappointed!

–Jeff