Saul Cornell

Publications

• The Early American Tradition of Arms Regulation: Common Law, Common Weapons, and Common Use
  75 DUKE L.J. 109 (2026) · Duke Law Journal · 2026
• The Founders’ Common Law and <em>Bruen</em>’s Text, History, and Tradition Test: From History ‘Lite’ to History Right
  73 BUFF. L. REV. 651 (2025) · Buffalo Law Review · 2025
• The Persistence of Common Law Limits on Armed Travel in the Early Republic: Surety and Affray Laws in Historical Context
  78 SMU L. REV. 343 (2025) · SMU Law Review · 2025
• Age Restrictions and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 1791–1868
  Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present) · 2024
• Learning to Read Like an Eighteenth-Century Lawyer: The Historical Critique of Originalism Revisited
  33 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 439 (2024) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2024
• Constitutional Mischiefs and Constitutional Remedies: Making Sense of Limits on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the Founding Era
  51 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 25 (2023) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2023
• History and Tradition or Fantasy and Fiction: Which Version of the Past Will the Supreme Court Choose in NYSRPA v. Bruen?
  49 UC L. CONST. Q. 145 (2022) · UC Law Constitutional Quarterly · 2022
• President Madison's Living Constitution: Fixation, Liquidation, and Constitutional Politics in the Jeffersonian Era
  89 FORDHAM L. REV. 1761 (2021) · Fordham Law Review · 2021
• History, Text, Tradition, and the Future of Second Amendment Jurisprudence: Limits on Armed Travel under Anglo-American Law, 1688–1868
  83 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 73 (2020) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2020

• The Right to Keep and Carry Arms in Anglo-American Law: Preserving Liberty and Keeping the Peace
  80 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 11 (2017) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2017
• “Half Cocked”: The Persistence of Anachronism and Presentism in the Academic Debate Over the Second Amendment
  106 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY (2016) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 2016
• “To Assemble Together for Their Common Good”: History, Ethnography, and the Original Meanings of the Rights of Assembly and Speech
  84 FORDHAM L. REV. 915 (2015) · Fordham Law Review · 2015
• Conflict, Consensus & Constitutional Meaning: The Enduring Legacy of Charles Beard
  29 CONST. COMMENT. 383 (2014) · Constitutional Commentary · 2014
• Meaning and Understanding in the History of Constitutional Ideas: The Intellectual History Alternative to Originalism
  82 FORDHAM L. REV. 721 (2013) · Fordham Law Review · 2013
• The People's Constitution vs. The Lawyer's Constitution: Popular Constitutionalism and the Original Debate over Originalism
  23 YALE J. L. & HUMAN. 295 (2013) · Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities · 2013
• The Right to Carry Firearms Outside of the Home: Separating Historical Myths from Historical Realities
  39 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 1695 (2012) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2012
• The Right to Bear Arms in the Era of the Fourteenth Amendment: Gun Rights or Gun Regulation
  50 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 1043 (2010) · Santa Clara Law Review · 2010

• St. George Tucker's Lecture Notes, the Second Amendment, and Originalist Methodology: A Critical Comment
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2009
• The Original Meaning of Original Understanding: a Neo-blackstonian Critique
  67 MD. L. REV. 150 (2007) · Maryland Law Review · 2007
• Mobs, Militias, and Magistrates: Popular Constitutionalism and the Whiskey Rebellion
  81 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 883 (2006) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2006
• St. George Tucker and the Second Amendment: Original Understandings and Modern Misunderstandings
  47 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1123 (2006) · William & Mary Law Review · 2006
• A Well Regulated Right: The Early American Origins of Gun Control
  73 FORDHAM L. REV. 487 (2004) · Fordham Law Review · 2004

• Commonplace or Anachronism: The Standard Model, the Second Amendment, and the Problem of History in Contemporary Constitutional Theory
  16 CONST. COMMENT. 221 (1999) · Constitutional Commentary · 1999