Academics for the Second Amendment
amicus curiae
Joseph Edward Olson, Counsel of Record Academics for the Second Amendment is a nonprofit association of law school professors dedicated to preserving the right to keep and bear arms. Joseph Edward Olson is a professor at the Hamline University School of Law, where he teaches business law. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on November 23, 2009. Abraham Lincoln’s hope that his age would see a “new birth of freedom” took tangible form in the Civil War amendments. The Nation and the Constitution as we know them…
