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June 25. Jane
Norton's attack on Ken Buck regarding Buck's sympathy for a
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Podcasts & Video
Video:
Colorado Inside Out.
August 13, 2010. Analysis of Colorado primary results.
Kopel Senate briefing on Kagan and
McDonald. U.S. Senate Second Amendment Task Force. June 21, 2010. Link
to the 22 minute video, and links to presentations by Stephen Halbrook
and Hans Von Spakovsky.
YouTube.
McDonald explained. Kopel on
"Devil's Advocate with Jon Caldara." Colorado Public Television, channel
12, Denver. July 9, 2010. YouTube:
part 1,
part 2,
part 3.
Half-hour.
Kopel
oral testimony on Kagan nomination. Starts at 41:09.
YouTube of Kopel only,
including Q&A with Senators Sessions and Hatch.
Audio only. MP3
download.
Colorado Inside-Out "time machine" episode
about
1935.
Audio:
Caplis & Silverman Show. Westword publisher Patty Calhoun, Craig
Silverman, and Kopel discuss their Emmy win, and Colorado politics.
Aug. 6, 2010.
Part 1 (starts a half-hour into the program),
Part 2.
The Individual Health Care Mandate and Enumerated Powers. August
5, 2010. Southeastern Association of Law Schools annual meeting,
Federalist Society panel on the constitutionality of the centralized
health control law. Participants were Randy Barnett
(Georgetown), Jack Balkin (Yale), Gillian Metzger (Columbia), and
Kopel. The moderator was Bradley A. Smith (Capital). The recording
is 93 minutes, although the event itself ran a little longer. While
the focus was on the two state suits (Virginia, and the 20-state
coalition), we also discussed some of the additional issues raised
by the five other suits, such as due process rights to medical
privacy and decision-making.
Двойственная реакция американцев на освобождение Романа Поланскоaо.
Polanski is free.
13.07.2010.
MP3
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Incorporating the Second Amendment. Cato Institute Daily
Podcast. June 22, 2010.
Podcast and
Multimedia archive
Books
Aiming for Liberty: The Past, Present, And Future of Freedom and
Self-Defense. Now available on
Amazon.com and
Barnes & Noble.
"Restoring the Right to Bear Arms" in the
Cato Handbook for Policymakers
(2008, 7th ed.). With Robert A. Levy.
The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed!
(Bloomfield Press, 2008). With Alan Korwin
More books.
Organizations
Research Director of the
Independence Institute.
Adjunct Professor of Advanced Constitutional Law, Denver University,
Sturm College of Law.
Associate Policy Analyst,
Cato Institute.
Peer Reviewer,
Trends in Organized Crime,
Criminal Justice
Policy Review.
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(Heartland Institute)
Contributing Editor,
Liberty magazine.
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Gun Week
Contributing Legal Editor, The
Firearms & Outdoor Trade.
Adjunct Professor of Law, New York
University, 1998-99. Course
syllabus.
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Colorado Union of Taxpayers.
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MaryLinks.
Background
(Ratings
explanation.)
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.
NRA-certified instructor for Pistol and for
Personal Protection. NRA-qualified Distinguished Expert rating for
Handgun.
Memberships:
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(Life member), American
Association for Chinese Studies, American
Civil Liberties Union, American
Society of International Law,
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International Criminal Law Network,
International Sociological Association,
Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society,
Mariological Society of
America, associate member.
National Council of Editorial Writers,
National Rifle Association
(Benefactor member),
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Columnists, Triple Nine Society.
World Society of
Victimology, Zionist Organization of America.
Citations of Kopel in legal
opinions and law review articles.
Some popular older articles:
Severus Snape:
The Unlikely Hero of Harry Potter book 7.
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1959 "time
machine" episode of Colorado Inside-Out won the
2010
award (for 2009 programs) for best Interview/Discussion
Program/Special from the Heartland Chapter of the National Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences.
In the Courts & in the News
***Kopel's
amicus brief for the
International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (as well as the
Independence Institute, CORE, and other law enforcement organizations and
scholars) was cited three times in the Supreme Court's opinions in McDonald v. Chicago.
The brief is cited once by Justice Alito's plurality opinion (footnote 2) and
twice by Justice Stevens' dissent. (The link takes you to the abstract page.
From there, click, the "Download" button, then click the location from which you
would like to download.)
McDonald media appearances:
McDonald explained. Kopel on
"Devil's Advocate with Jon Caldara." Colorado Public Television, channel
12, Denver. July 9, 2010. YouTube:
part 1,
part 2,
part 3.
Half-hour.
Wins of Change.
Special digital edition of America's 1st Freedom, July 2010. Long article
by Kopel explaining the Supreme Court opinions in McDonald.
NRA News,
Kopel & Jim Geraghty. Kopel and National Review writer Jim Geraghty discuss the
claim that McDonald violated state's rights. Plus possible future results
of McDonald. June 30 show. One hour.
NRA News,
June 28, 2010. Last segment of the show. 28 minutes.
Podcast on
McDonald. iVoices.org. June 28, 2010.
MP3.
Kopel on Denver’s Caplis & Silverman radio show,
KHOW. 1st hour of the show, June 28, 2010.
Show archive.
Kagan confirmation:
***Kopel
oral testimony on Kagan nomination. Starts at 41:09.
YouTube of Kopel only,
including Q&A with Senators Sessions and Hatch.
Audio only. MP3
download.
Written
testimony on Elena Kagan nomination. Co-authored with Stephen Halbrook.
Sotomayor targets guns now. Justice's dissent contradicts confirmation
testimony. Washington Times, June 29, 2010.
Kopel on NRA's
The Daily News, with Ginny Simone.
July 1, 2010. Starting at 1:52. 14 minutes.
Latest short articles
As the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty Process Begins, U.N.’s “Programme of Action” on
Small Arms Shows Its Dangers. Heritage Foundation WebMemo #2969, July
20, 2010. With Theodore Bromund.
The Mark of “C”. While Anti-Gunners in
Congress Hail Him as the New Zorro, President Calderón Takes a Swipe at American
Gun Rights. America's 1st Freedom. August 2010.
Federalist 46.
"The Influence of the State and Federal Governments Compared," by James Madison.
Kopel examines how well Madison's expectations turned out in practice, and
Madison's praise for the American "advantage of being armed." Constituting
America, June 30, 2010.
Will Gun Shows Become Extinct?
Anti-gun billionaires Michael Bloomberg and George Soros aim to take a
huge bite out of the Second Amendment. America's 1st Freedom.
July 2010.
Trimming Citizens.
Efforts to restrict the free speech rights which had been protected
in the Citizens United case. America's 1st
Freedom, June 2010.
Dave Kopel: Aiming for Liberty.
Article about Kopel and his new book. America's 1st
Freedom, June 2010.
President Calderón’s Visit Should Not Lead to Support for the OAS’s
Firearms Convention. Heritage Foundation WebMemo. May 19,
2010. With Theodore Bromund & Ray Walser.
Bloomberg's aggressive
stance against guns. Denver Post, April 24, 2010. The Bloomberg "gun
show" bill is mostly about issues other than background checks at gun shows.
Latest Monographs & Journal articles
The OAS Firearms Convention Is Incompatible with American Liberties.
Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, May 19, 2010. With Theodore
Bromund & Ray Walser.
How Many Global Deaths from
Arms? Reasons to Question the 740,000 Factoid being used to Promote
the Arms Trade Treaty. 5 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty
(forthcoming, 2010). With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen.
Mexico's Federal Laws on Firearms and Explosives.
University of Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-12. April 2010.
State court standards of
review for the right to arms. 50
Santa Clara Law Review (2010). With Clayton Cramer.
The Right to Arms in the
Living Constitution. 2010 Cardozo Law Review de Novo
99.
The Keystone of the
Second Amendment: Quakers, the Pennsylvania Constitution,
and the Flawed Scholarship of Nathan Kozuskanich. 19
Widener Law Journal (2010, forthcoming). With Clayton Cramer.
Credentials are No
Substitute for Accuracy: Nathan Kozuskanich, Stephen
Halbrook and the Role of the Historian. 19 Widener Law Journal
(2010, forthcoming). With Clayton Cramer.
The Arms Trade Treaty: Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, and the Prospects for Arms Embargoes on Human Rights
Violators. 114 Penn State Law Review 891 (2010). With Paul
Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen. At the end of this document: En français,
une version de 8 pages de ce document est disponible en français. En
español, el extracto está disponible en español.
Pretend "Gun-free" School Zones: A
Deadly Legal Fiction. 42 Connecticut Law Review 515 (2009).
PDF. Cited in
Students for
Concealed Carry on Campus v. Regents of University of Colorado
(Colo. App. 2010).
Connecting Laypeople with the Law through Blogs. Denver
University Law Review DUProcess, Oct. 19, 2009. Part of the
symposium
Legal Scholarship in the Internet Age.
The Second Amendment in the Tenth Circuit: Three Decades of (Mostly)
Harmless Error.
86 Denver University Law Review
901 (2009). In the annual Tenth Circuit Survey.
PDF.
Unraveling Judicial Restraint: Guns, Abortion, and the Faux
Conservatism of J. Harvie Wilkinson, III. 25 Journal of
Law & Politics 1 (University of Virginia) (2009).
Critique of 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Wilkinson's Virginia
Law Review article asserting the D.C. v. Heller is a 21st century
version of Roe v. Wade. With Nelson Lund.
Poisoned Milk and the Poisoning of
Democracy: Some Cautions about China Trade and Taiwan Sovereignty.
Paper presented at the symposium “Taiwan’s New Approach:
Opportunities and Challenges for President Ma Ying-jeou’s
Government.” International House, University of Chicago, October 24,
2008. PDF.
The Natural Right of
Self-defense: Heller's Lesson for the World. Symposium issue on the Heller
case. 59 Syracuse
Law Review 235 (2008).
Pacifist-Aggressives
vs. the Second Amendment: An Analysis of Modern Philosophies of
Compulsory Non-violence. 3 Charleston Law Review 1 (2008).
Christian Pacifism Before Constantine. Working paper. June
12, 2008. Much recent scholarship on early Christianity has
emphasized the diversity of early Christian thought. This Paper
presents evidence of diversity on early Christian belief and
practice on the issue of pacifism. Notably, the diversity is found
within orthodox Christianity itself. The claims of some modern
writers that pre-Constantinian orthodox Christians were virtually
unanimously pacifist are not correct. In fact, some but not all of
the early Patristic writers were pacifists. A significant number of
Christians, including saints, served in the Roman army. The Paper
discusses the following writers: Justin Martyr, Marcion, Irenaeus,
Athenagoras, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Hippolytus, Julius
Africanus, Origen, Cyprian, Arnobius, and Lactantius, and also
examines other sources of information about the early church.
"Is
There a Relationship between Guns and Freedom? Comparative Results
from 59 Nations." 13 Texas Review of Law & Politics
1
(2008). With Carl E. Moody & Howard Nemerov. There are
59 nations for which data about per capita gun ownership are
available. This Working Paper examines the relationship between gun
density and several measures of freedom and prosperity: the Freedom
House ratings of political rights and civil liberty, the
Transparency International Perceived Corruption Index, the World
Bank Purchasing Power Parity ratings, and the Heritage Foundation
Index of Economic Freedom. The data suggest that the relationships
between gun ownership rates and these other measures are complex.
The data show that (although exceptions can be found) the nations
with the highest rates of gun ownership tend to have greater
political and civil freedom, greater economic freedom and
prosperity, and much less corruption than other nations. The
relationship only exists in for high-ownership countries. Countries
with medium rates of gun density generally scored no better or worse
than countries with the lowest levels of gun rates.
New Book
Kopel's new book,
Aiming for Liberty: The Past, Present, And Future of Freedom and
Self-Defense, is now available for on
Amazon.com
and
Barnes & Noble.
Top rankings so far: #1 at Amazon in the
Gun Control category, and #1 in Civil Rights.
Aiming
for Liberty. Jim Pfaff interviews Kopel about Kopel's new
book. 24 minutes. Jan. 21, 2010.
TV show about the book.
Part 1.
Part 2.
Part 3.
Podcast
on the book. Oct. 16, 2009, 11 minutes.
Reviews:
Alphecca.
Bore Patch.
Snowflakes in Hell,
part 2.
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