February 22, 2010 7:38AM # Keeping Pandora’s Box Sealed By [Ilya Shapiro](https://www.cato.org/people/ilya-shapiro) --- SHARE The moment everyone was waiting for has arrived: The article Josh Blackman and I wrote, “[Keeping Pandora’s Box Sealed: Privileges or Immunities, *The Constitution in 2020*, and Properly Extending the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to the States](https://www.cato.org/pubs/articles/ilya-shapiro-keeping-pandoras-box-sealed.pdf),” has officially come out in the *[Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy](https://articleworks.cadmus.com/geolaw/zs800110.html)*. (I previously blogged about this article [here](https://www.cato.org/2009/12/21/properly-extending-the-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms-to-the-states/), among other places, and [here](http://reason.com/blog/2010/02/19/does-justice-scalia-think-the)’s a recent reference on *Reason’s* blog.) The journal thought enough of our work to publish it on page 1 of issue 1 of this year’s volume. We’re also grateful to the journal editors for expediting the editing and publication process generally so that the article would come out in time for the *McDonald v. Chicago* argument. Indeed, that strategy is already paying off, with “Keeping Pandora’s Box Sealed” having been cited in the [petitioners’ reply brief](http://www.chicagoguncase.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/08-1521rb.pdf) — not to mention Cato’s [amicus brief](https://www.cato.org/pubs/legalbriefs/mcdonald_v_chicago.pdf). The Georgetown JLPP has been cited in Supreme Court opinions the past two terms, so we’re cautiously optimistic about our chance to continue this trend. In addition to reading [the article](https://www.cato.org/pubs/articles/ilya-shapiro-keeping-pandoras-box-sealed.pdf) (also available [on SSRN](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1503583)), you can also attend various presentations I’m giving in the next two weeks about *McDonald v. Chicago* and properly extending the right to keep and bear arms to the states: - Feb. 23 at lunch — University of New Mexico Law School (sponsored by the Federalist Society) — “*McDonald v. City of Chicago* and Properly Extending the Right to Keep and Bear Arms” - Feb. 25 at 1:30pm EST/10:30 PST — [ABA Continuing Legal Education Teleconference](http://www.abanet.org/cle/programs/t10bgc1.html) — “Beyond Gun Control: *McDonald v. City of Chicago* and Incorporation of Bill of Rights” (registration fee, 1.5 hours of CLE credit) - Mar. 1 at 4pm — Cato Institute Policy Forum — “[*McDonald v. Chicago*: Will the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Apply to the States?](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=6829)” - \[Mar. 2 at 10am — Supreme Court argument in *McDonald* - I will be giving a statement to the media scrum on the marble steps afterward\] - Mar. 2 at 3:30pm — Georgetown University Law School — Post-Argument Discussion of *McDonald* and “Keeping Pandora’s Box Sealed” (sponsored by the GJLPP and the Federalist Society) - Mar. 3 at 12pm — Cato Institute Hill Briefing in B‑340 Rayburn House Office Building — “[*McDonald v. Chicago*: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Future of Gun Rights](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=6903)” You can also [listen here](https://www.cato.org/mediahighlights/index.php?radio_id=757) to a half-hour podcast about “Keeping Pandora’s Box Sealed” that I recently recorded with the Independence Institute’s David Kopel (also a Cato associate policy analyst). ##### Related Tags [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics), [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).