Courts across the country are considering whether old racist laws should be considered part of the nation's legal tradition in challenges to modern gun control measures. Here, Halim Abdullah, left, ...

There is a hunger for tradition in the law and in our culture more generally. We see it in the law with the Supreme Court’s ...

On a Supreme Court where the conservative supermajority increasingly leans on history as a guide, a dispute may be simmering over how many modern cases can be resolved by looking to the nation’s past.

Ms. Murray is a law professor at New York University. Ms. Shaw is a contributing Opinion writer. The Supreme Court last week heard oral arguments in United States v. Rahimi, a challenge to a federal ...

As attorneys for the state of California prepared recently to defend in federal court a state law requiring background checks for ammunition purchases, they found themselves in an awkward position.