Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights, and Policy - Online Chapters

These are the online Chapters of the law school casebook Firearms Law and the Second Amendment Regulation Rights and Policy by Nicholas J Johnson David B Kopel George A Mocsary and Michael P O\u27Shea Aspen Publishers Chapter 12 Social Science Chapter 13 International Law Chapter 14 Comparative Law Chapter 15 InDepth Explanation of Firearms and AmmunitionChapter 12 presents empirical data and studies on firearm use and misuse Most of the chapter involves criminological issues like gun use in crime resisting crime and guns as deterrents to crime The chapter also covers many facets of the debates about gun control or gun ownership as strategies for reducing crime In addition to the strictly criminological issues it presents information on suicide and accidents Chapter 13 covers international law principles and documents involving selfdefense and firearms control The chapter like modern international law generally deals with both relations between nations and interactions between states and individuals The chapter covers modern international law conventions classical international law based on the treatises of scholars such as Grotius Pufendorf and Vattel who helped found the global system of international law in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries the right of resistance under international law especially resistance to genocide and the perspective of Harold Koh former Legal Adviser to the US State Department on how and why international gun control should be implemented Chapter 14 compares and contrasts the domestic noninternational gun laws of various nations and examining the possible effects of those different laws Chapter 15 provides a detailed explanation of the various types of firearms and ammunition including how they function It also provides some basics about the many types of nonfirearm armshttps://scholarship.law.uwyo.edu/book_chapters/1000/thumbnail.jp

International Law

pThis online chapter covers internationallaw principles and documents involving selfdefense and firearms control International law traditionally dealt with relations between nations but has expanded to cover interactions between states and individuals brbrppPart A covers the leading international legal conventions on the right of selfdefense or gun control the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the UN Programme of Action against the illicit trade in small arms the Firearms Protocol and International Tracing Instrument the Arms Trade Treaty and the UN\u27s International Standards on Arms Control ISACS Part A also covers the work of various UN bodies such as the Human Rights CouncilbrbrppPart B focuses on major regional firearms agreements These include CIFTA applying to the western hemisphere including the United States the European Firearms Directive and the Nairobi ProtocolbrbrppPart C steps back from current issues to examine the foundations of international law and the individual and collective rights of selfdefense This Part presents the writings of Suarez Grotius Pufendorf Vattel and other founders of international law From the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries these geniuses created what we today call ÔÇ£classical international lawÔÇØbrbrppPart D addresses the most important international law problem of the last century genocide To what extent if any does international law provide for forceful resistance to mass murder For forceful resistance to other violations of human rightsbrbrppLastly Part E presents arguments for whether and how international gun control should be implemented The Part also examines how ÔÇ£norms entrepreneursÔÇØ use international law in service of gun control or gun rights brphttps://scholarship.law.uwyo.edu/book_chapters/1004/thumbnail.jp