David H. Gans @davidhgans.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Justice Jackson's concurring opinion in Barbara is fantastic. Absolutely thrilled to see the care and attention she gave to how Black Conventions shaped the 14th Amendment. This plants the seeds for a new jurisprudence and shows that paying heed to text & history requires a more inclusive history. 175
David H. Gans @davidhgans.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Thrilled that my article, Forgotten Framers: Black Conventions and the Second Founding, is forthcoming in the Stan. L. Rev. @stanlrev.bsky.social. It discusses Black Conventions held during Reconstruction and how these conventions are critical to a proper understanding of the 13, 14, & 15th Amdts. 434976
David H. Gans @davidhgans.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Text and history shows that the Equal Protection Clause affirmatively guarantees protection and forbids all forms of unequal protection, whether due to heavy-handed discrimination or state neglect. Read my latest, now in print, @denverlawreview.bsky.social: www.denverlawrev.org/_files/ugd/9... 040
David H. Gans @davidhgans.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Thrilled that my article on economic justice and the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments is out now in the George Washington Law Review. Read it here: www.gwlr.org/wp-content/u... 17214
David H. Gans @davidhgans.bsky.social · 11/02/2025The Framers wrote protection into the 14th Amdt, drawing on the idea that in return for allegiance, the government owes us protection. Read my symposium piece forthcoming in @denverlawreview.bsky.social on what has been lost by the erasure of the right to protection. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 063
David H. Gans @davidhgans.bsky.social · 10/02/2025My latest scholarship is on how the Supreme Court betrayed the text and history of the Fourteenth Amendment by writing the right of protection out of the Amendment. Read the piece, which is forthcoming in the Denver Law Review, here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... 052