Patrick J. Charles

Publications

• The Second Amendment and Heller’s “Sensitive Places” Carve-Out Post-Rahimi: A Historiography, Analysis, and Basic Framework
  58 UIC L. REV. (2025) · UIC Law Review · 2025
• But for a Free Press: A Response to Press Freedom Skeptics
  33 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 1073 (2025) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2025
• The Fugazi Second Amendment: Bruen's Text, History, and Tradition Problem and How to Fix It
  71 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 623 (2023) · Cleveland State Law Review · 2023
• Racist History and the Second Amendment: A Critical Commentary
  43 CARDOZO L. REV. 1343 (2022) · Cardozo Law Review · 2022

• The Faces of the Second Amendment Outside the Home, Take Three: Critiquing the Circuit Courts Use of History-in-Law
  67 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 197 (2019) · Cleveland State Law Review · 2019
• The Faces of the Second Amendment Outside the Home, Take Two: How We Got Here and Why it Matters
  64 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 373 (2016) · Cleveland State Law Review · 2016
• The Second Amendment in the Twenty-First Century: What Hath Heller Wrought?
  23 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 1143 (2015) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2015
• Weighing the Constitutionality of State Immigration Verification Laws in the Wake of Arizona v. United States
  27 J. CIV. RTS. & ECON. DEV. (2015) · Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development · 2015
• History in Law, Mythmaking, and Constitutional Legitimacy - Symposium: History and Meaning of the Constitution
  63 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 23 (2014) · Cleveland State Law Review · 2014
• The Faces of the Second Amendment Outside the Home: History versus Ahistorical Standards of Review
  60 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 1 (2012) · Cleveland State Law Review · 2012
• Recentering Foreign Affairs Preemption in Arizona v. United States: Federal Plenary Power, the Spheres of Government, and the Constitutionality of S.B. 1070
  60 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 133 (2012) · Cleveland State Law Review · 2012
• The Second Amendment in Historiographical Crisis: Why the Supreme Court Must Reevaluate the Embarrassing “Standard Model” Moving Forward
  39 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 1727 (2012) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2012
• Saving the Press Clause from Ruin: The Customary Orgins of a "Free Press" as Interface to the Present and Future
  2012 UTAH L. REV. (2012) · Utah Law Review · 2012
• Representation Without Documentation?: Unlawfully Present Aliens, Apportionment, the Doctrine of Allegiance, and the Law
  25 BYU J. PUB. L. 35 (2011) · Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law · 2011
• Restoring "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" in Our Constitutional Jurisprudence: An Exercise in Legal History
  20 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 457 (2011) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2011
• Scribble Scrabble, the Second Amendment, and Historical Guideposts: A Short Reply to Lawrence Rosenthal and Joyce Lee Malcolm
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2011
• Scribble Scrabble, the Second Amendment, and Historical Guideposts: A Short Reply to Lawrence Rosenthal and Joyce Lee Malcolm
  105 NW. U. L. REV. 1821 (2011) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2011
• Originalism, John Marshall, and the Necessary and Proper Clause: Resurrecting the Jurisprudence of Alexander Addison
  58 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 529 (2010) · Cleveland State Law Review · 2010

• Arms for Their Defence - An Historical, Legal and Textual Analysis of the English Right to Have Arms and Whether the Second Amendment Should Be Incorporated in McDonald v. City of Chicago
  57 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 351 (2009) · Cleveland State Law Review · 2009