Prof. David
Kopel (New York University School of Law, adjunct)
(303) 279-6536,
david@i2i.org (http://i2i.org/davepage.htm)
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology,
constitutional law, lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
Research Director, Independence Institute.
Co-teaches one of the few U.S. law school
classes on firearms regulation (http://www.i2i.org/gun.htm).
Technical Consultant for the International
Wound Ballistics Association.
Testified on firearms-related questions
four times at the invitation of Congressional subcommittees,
and dozens of times at the invitation of various state
legislatures.
Books on firearms-related topics:
- The Samurai,
the Mountie, and the Cowboy:
Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other
Democracies? (Prometheus Books 1992), named 1992
Book of the Year by the American Society of Criminology
Division of International Criminal Justice.
- Gun Control and Gun Rights: A Coursebook
(New York University Press, forthcoming 2001) (with Ron
Noble).
- Supreme Court Gun Cases (Bloomfield Press,
forthcoming 2000) (with Alan Korwin).
- No More Wacos: What's Wrong with Federal Law
Enforcement, and How to Fix It (Prometheus Books
1997) (with Paul Blackman), winner of the 1997 Thomas S.
Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of
Civil Liberties, presented by the Center for Independent
Thought.
- Editor and contributor, Guns: Who Should Have Them?
(Prometheus Books 1995).
Articles on firearms-related topics:
- The Second Amendment in the Nineteenth Century,
BYU Law Review.
- All the Way Down the Slippery Slope: Gun
Prohibition in England, and Some Lessons for America,
Hamline Law Review (with Joseph Olson).
- Tench Coxe and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in
the Early Republic, William & Mary Bill of
Rights Journal (with Stephen Halbrook).
- The Supreme Court's Thirty-five Other Second
Amendment Cases, St. Louis University Public Law
Review.
- Clueless: How Anti-gun Activists Misuse BATF
Tracing Data, Detroit College of Law at Michigan
State University Law Review.
- The Brady Bill Comes Due: The Supreme Court Saves
Federalism, George Mason Civil Rights and Civil
Liberties Law Journal.
- Communitarians,
Neorepublicans, and Guns: Assessing the
Case for Firearms Prohibition, Maryland Law Review
(with Chris Little).
- Guns, Germs, and Science: Public Health Approaches
to Gun Control, Journal of the Medical Association
of Georgia.
- The Ideology of Guns and Gun Control in the United
States, Quarterly Journal of Ideology.
- It Isn't about Duck Hunting: The British Origins of
the Right to Arms, Michigan Law Review.
- The
Sullivan Principles: Protecting the
Second Amendment from Abuse of Civil Law, Seton
Hall Legislative Journal (with Richard Gardiner).
- "Shall
Issue": The New Wave of Concealed
Handgun Laws, Tennessee Law Review (with Clayton
Cramer).
- A Tale of Three Cities: The Right to Bear Arms in
State Courts, Temple Law Review (with Clayton
Cramer and Scott Hattrup).
- Rational Basis Analysis of "Assault
Weapon" Prohibition, Journal of Contemporary
Law.
- Japanese
Gun Control, Asia-Pacific Law
Review.
- Peril
or Protection? The Risks and Benefits of
Handgun Prohibition, Saint Louis University Public
Law Review.
- "Sorry, Wrong Number": Why Media Polls on
Gun Control are often Unreliable, Political
Communication (with Gary Mauser).
- Canadian
Gun Control: Should America Look North
for a Solution to its Firearms Problem?, Temple
Journal of International and Comparative Law.
Other works:
- 14 book chapters on firearms regulation and other issues,
8 other law journal articles, 9 monographs, and many
op-eds and magazine articles.
- Television and radio experience:
Nightline, McNeil-Lehrer News Hour,
Crossfire, MSNBC News, History Channel, A & E
Network, Diane Rehm Show, CBC, CBS Radio,
hundreds of talk radio programs.
- Other academic specialties:
Computers and communication, criminal law enforcement,
environmental law, sentencing.
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