Professor Darrell A.H. Miller and William Taylor, Senior Appellate Counsel at Everytown for Gun Safety, will be discussing the oral arguments in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York litigation. They will also discuss what gun control and Second Amendment litigation will look like going forward. 

Darrell A. H. Miller writes and teaches in the areas of civil rights, constitutional law, civil procedure, state and local government law, and legal history. His scholarship has been published in leading law reviews such as the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, and has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States and in congressional testimony and legal briefs. With Joseph Blocher, he’s the author of The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2018). When not visiting Chicago, he is the Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law at Duke Law School.

William Taylor joined Everytown as a Senior Counsel focusing on Second Amendment litigation in March 2018. Before then, he served, for more than five years, as an Assistant Attorney General in the Litigation Bureau at the New York Attorney General’s Office, where he represented the state and its agencies and officers in a wide variety of civil actions, with a particular focus on Second Amendment litigation. He was lead counsel in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Cuomo, in which the district court upheld New York’s restrictions on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines against a Second Amendment challenge, a decision later affirmed on appeal.