Prof. John Lott (Yale Law School, visiting)

        (203) 432-2366, john.lott@yale.edu

        Expert on gun topics related to:  Criminology.

        Chief Economist, United States Sentencing Commission, 1988-89.

        Books on firearms-related topics:

• More Guns, Less Crime (University of Chicago Press 1998), a widely reported study of the beneficial effects of concealed gun carrying by private citizens.

        Journal articles (author or lead co-author) on firearms-related topics:

• Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns, Journal of Legal Studies.
• The Concealed Handgun Debate, Journal of Legal Studies.
• Deterrence, Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws, and the Geographic Displacement of Crime, American Economic Review.
• Do Concealed Handgun Laws Save Lives?, American Journal of Public Health.
• Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement, working paper.

        Other works:

• Three books and over 90 articles on various topics in law, economics, public choice, public finance, and industrial organization.

Other academic specialties:  Criminal sentencing, economics, industrial organization, public choice, public finance.  

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