Professor Larson Cited in District Court Decision on D.C. Gun Law
Professor Carlton Larson was cited in a federal judge's opinion supporting the constitutionality of new gun control laws passed by the City of Washington, D.C., after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a previous firearm ban in District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008.
Judge Ricardo M. Urbina of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia cites Professor Larson as one of a group of legal scholars who concluded that the Supreme Court ruling in Heller did not intend to apply the standard of strict scrutiny to Second Amendment claims, making specific reference to Professor Larson's article "Four Exceptions in Search of a Theory: District of Columbia v. Heller and Judicial Ipse Dixit," first published in Hastings Law Journal in 2009.
Carlton Larson's research interests focus on constitutional law and legal history, with a strong emphasis on the 18th century.