Dru Stevenson, Professor of Law

  The following table provides a comprehensive, structured catalog of academic blog posts and online essays regarding firearms law and policy authored by Professor Dru Stevenson (South Texas College of Law Houston), formatted specifically for easy data extraction and analysis. Duke Center for Firearms Law: Second Thoughts Blog Title Blog / Website Date Subtopic Link In the End, Vullo Prevails Against the N.R.A. Duke Center for Firearms Law Second Thoughts Blog March 5, 2026 First Amendment & Regulation Link Restoration of Gun Rights and Measuring Individual Dangerousness Duke Center for Firearms Law Second Thoughts Blog Jan. 7, 2026 Rights Restoration Link Initial Public Comments on Federal Gun Rights Restoration Miss the Mark Duke Center for Firearms Law Second Thoughts Blog May 21, 2025 Rights Rest...

Imagine you are in a high-stakes competition—perhaps a game of chess or a professional sports match. You’ve trained for years and you know the rules by heart. But as the match begins, you realize something unsettling: your opponent has a playbook you’ve never seen. In fact, they have a library of thousands of past matches that you aren't allowed to look at. They can cite these past moves to the referee to win the game, while you are left guessing in the dark. For decades, this wasn’t a metaphor; it was the reality for immigration lawyers in the United States. Every year, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issues tens of thousands of decisions. Most of them are "unpublished," meaning they aren't printed in the official law books. But the government’s lawyers had them. They could search them, find the ones that helped their case, and use them against immigrants who had no way of seeing the "secret law" being used against them. In 2021, a group of legal ai...