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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