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Latest short articles and
commentary
Rights During War. In
1864, the U.S. Army court-martialed an Indiana civilian and sentenced
him to death. What does this case teach us about the Second Amendment
and the limits of presidential powers?
God's Carpenter.
Minorities targeted for ethnic cleansing. Leaders of persecuted
religious sects. Escaped slaves. Outlawed guns. Every age has something
to hide, and also brave individuals who risk everything to hide it.
Nicholas Owen was one of those brave men.
Lions vs. Tigers. The
precarious state of Sri Lanka.
The
Return of a Legislative Legend.
Debating "cop-killer"
ammunition.
Appearances
Colorado Inside-Out. Fridays at 8 pm.,
Sundays at 11 am. KBDI
channel 12, Denver.
Latest
Media Analysis articles
It's not
what's on TV, it's TV itself. Too
much television time creates children uninterested in self-restraint or
empathy.
Media goes all
fuzzy on protest. Lack of specifics,
perspective on figures used by Auraria students hurts coverage. Plus
Nelson Rockefeller's divorce, dubious statistics about "hate crimes" against
homosexuals, and attacks on George Bush's campaign advertisements.
Press ambushes CU football coach.
Denver media unapologetically
subject Barnett to raw character assassination.
Just for fun
My entries in
an industrial sign creation contest.
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New Books:
Supreme Court Gun
Cases:
Two Centuries of Rights Revealed. By David B. Kopel, Alan Korwin,
and Stephen P. Halbrook. The
Conservative Book Club says the book is "The most important legal
reference ever published on your right to keep and bear arms."
Foreword to Gun
Laws of Montana (2003).
New Media Analysis Article
It's not
what's on TV, it's TV itself. Too
much television time creates children uninterested in self-restraint or
empathy.
New Monographs
Ballistic Imaging: Not Ready
for Prime Time. National Center for Policy Analysis. Policy
backgrounder. With Sterling Burnett.
Court Victory!
In the case of
Newsom
v. Albermarle, a public school threatened to punish a student for
wearing a NRA shooting sports camp t-shirt. An Independence Institute
amicus brief
for the Fourth Circuit Court of appeals argued that shooting sports are
wholesome and promote good character, and that speech promoting shooting
sports cannot rationally be censored in a public school. On December 1,
the Fourth Circuit upheld the student's First Amendment rights, in a 3-0
decision.
New Issue Papers
Limited Preemption of Firearms Laws: A Good Step for Civil Rights.
Denver's
New Welfare Hotel: Why the Convention Center Hotel is a Mistake.
Hate Crime Laws: Dangerous
and Divisive.
New journal articles
"Global Deaths from Firearms: Searching for
Plausible Estimates." 8 Texas Review of Law and Politics 114 (2003).
With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen.
PDF.
The UN
Small Arms Conference, Johns Hopkins SAIS Review.
"Guns for
'Non-State Actors': Tools to Prevent Genocide," Brown Journal of World
Affairs. PDF
Archives
Newspaper and magazine
articles.
Books, law review articles, other scholarly
publications.
Weblog
from NRO's The
Corner.
New audio
National Public Radio, The Tavis Smiley
Show. Kopel interviewed for
4/9/03 program on the NAACP's lawsuit against the firearms
industry.
Organizations
Research
Director of the Independence Institute
Director
of the Center on the Digital Economy at the Heartland Institute
Associate
Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
Columnist,
National Review Online.
Columnist, Rocky Mountain
News/Denver
Post.
Contributing
Editor, Liberty magazine.
Editor-in-Chief,
Journal on Firearms & Public Policy.
Contributing
Editor, Gun Week, Gun News Digest.
Contributing Legal Editor, The Firearms & Outdoor Trade.
Adjunct
Professor of Law, New York University, 1998-99. Course syllabus.
Board of Advisors,
Porto Libro.
Board of Directors, Colorado Union of Taxpayers.
Website designer, MaryLinks.
Background
Former Assistant Attorney General,
State of Colorado. Hazardous and solid waste enforcement.
University of Michigan Law School,
J.D. magna cum laude. Contributing Editor, Michigan Law Review.
Brown University, B.A. in History
with Highest Honors. National Geographic Society Prize for best
History thesis.
State of Arizona, concealed handgun
license instructor. NRA-certified instructor for Pistol and for
Personal Protection. NRA-qualified Distinguished Expert rating for Handgun.
Memberships: Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences (Life member), American Civil Liberties Union, American Society
of Criminology, National Rifle Association (Benefactor member), National
Society of Newspaper Columnists, Outdoor Writers Association of America.
Recent Media Mentions
EDITORIAL:
Dodging a bullet. Supreme Court ducks opportunity to clarify gun
rights.
Las Vegas Review-Journal. Dec. 2, 2003.
The court refused to review a decision from a three-judge panel of the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which stated in Silveira v. Lockyer
that "the Second Amendment does not confer an individual right to own or
possess arms," and that it applies only to the federal government,
giving states a good deal of room to regulate gun ownership....
Litigator Don Kates, legal scholar David Kopel and other legal minds who
are sympathetic to the Second Amendment have suggested the court's
failure to act is not a bad thing for gun owners. Silveira is not a good
test case for gun rights, they say, because it attempts to toss out
decades of federal and state laws ... and the justices
are loath to take
such dramatic measures unless there's overwhelming popular support for
the cause.
Mr. Kates and Mr. Kopel argue that it'll take a series of small but
successful challenges to gun-control laws and regulations before the
Second Amendment is restored to its proper place in the Bill of Rights.
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Research Areas
Criminal Justice
Digital Economy
Environment
International
Media Analysis
Second Amendment
Terrorism
Waco
Latest
books
New Award!
Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and
the Law was named an "Editors
Choice," as one of the best new reference books of 2003 by
Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association.
Foreword to Gun
Laws of Montana (2003).
Supreme Court Gun
Cases:
Two Centuries of Rights Revealed. By David B. Kopel, Alan Korwin,
and Stephen P. Halbrook.
Chapter on burglary in
Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America. Bernard Harcourt, editor. (NYU
Press).
"Smash-up Policing: When Law Enforcement Goes Military"
in
Busted: Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords and Washington's War on Drugs
(Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books).
Gun Control and Gun Rights: A Reader and Guide (NYU Press).
College/graduate/law textbook, with balanced treatment of all subjects.
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