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Prof. Roger McGrath (California State University Northridge History Department) |
(818) 677-3566
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, history.
Books on these topics:
- Gunfighters, Highwaymen & Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier (University of California Press 1984).
Journal articles, book chapters, and magazine articles on these topics:
- Violence and
Lawlessness on the Western Frontier, in Violence in
- Death Before Dishonor, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture (an article on the use of guns in dueling in the old West).
- Treat Them to a Good Dose of Lead, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture (an article on crime control in the old West).
- The Myth of Violent Frontier, Harper's Magazine.
Works on other topics:
- More than 30 articles, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews.
Interviewed as an expert on the Old West, World War II, and the history of crime in the A & E and History Channel documentaries The Real West (25 episodes), Biography (6 episodes), and Tales of the Gun (3 episodes); and a dozen more documentaries on the Discovery Channel, TNT, and other networks, including Forgotten Wars, Crimes in Time, Outlaws, Outlaws and Lawmen, and The Story of the Gun.
Other television and radio experience: CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and others.
Other academic specialties:
The American West, the Irish in
Prof. William Vizzard (
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(916) 278-5069, vizzard@csus.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, law enforcement.
Agent, supervisor, and manager for 27 years with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; worked primarily on firearms and explosives laws.
Books on these topics:
- In the Crossfire: A Political History of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (Lynne Rienner 1997), the only scholarly history of the ATF.
- Shots in the Dark: Politics, Policy and Symbolism of Gun Control (Rowan & Littlefield, forthcoming 2000).
Journal articles and monographs on these topics:
- Final Report:
- Increased Automatic Weapons Use, The Police Chief (with Lyman Shaffer).
- The Police Officer and Federal Firearms Laws, The Police Chief.
- The Impact of Agenda Conflict on Policy Formulation and Implementation: The Case of Gun Control, Public Administration Review, reprinted in Guns in America: A Reader (Jan Dizard et al. eds., NYU Press, 1999).
- Reassessing Bittner's
Thesis: Understanding Coercion and the Police in Light of
- No More Wacos: A Book Review Essay, Police Quarterly.
- Re-examining Firearms Investigations, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.
- A Systematic Approach to Controlling Firearms Markets, Journal on Firearms and Public Policy, forthcoming.
Television and radio experience: National Public Radio and many local television and radio programs.
Other academic specialties: Criminal investigation, federal criminal justice policy and history, organizational theory, policing.
Prof. Eugene Volokh (
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(310) 206-3926, volokh@law.ucla.edu (http://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/volokh)
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, constitutional law, lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
Former clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Teaches one of the few
Testified on the Second Amendment by
invitation of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution,
Journal articles on firearms-related topics:
- The Commonplace Second Amendment, NYU Law Review (one of the top ten U.S. law journals).
- The Amazing Vanishing Second Amendment, NYU Law Review.
- The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes, Journal of Legal Education (with several co-authors).
Works on other topics:
- About 30 other law review articles on other topics.
- About 30 op-eds on various
topics in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the
Television and radio experience: Dozens of appearances on the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, various CNN programs, various CSPAN programs, NPR All Things Considered, NPR Morning Edition, and NPR Marketplace, plus very many appearances on local programs.
Other academic specialties: Affirmative action, church-state relations, copyright, cyberspace law, race discrimination, religious freedom, sexual harassment.
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Prof. David Kopel (
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(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
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:
- Supreme Court Gun Cases (Bloomfield Press 2003) (with Stephen Halbrook
and Alan Korwin).
- The Samurai, the
Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should
- 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
- 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,
- 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,
- Guns, Germs, and
Science: Public Health Approaches to Gun Control, Journal of the
Medical Association of
- The Ideology of Guns
and Gun Control in the
- It Isn't about Duck
Hunting: The British Origins of the Right to Arms,
- 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,
- A Tale of Three
Cities: The Right to Bear Arms in State Courts,
- 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,
- "Sorry, Wrong Number": Why Media Polls on Gun Control are often Unreliable, Political Communication (with Gary Mauser).
- Canadian Gun Control:
Should
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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Prof. James Wright (
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(407) 823-5083, jwright@mail.ucf.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology.
Testified on firearms and public
safety by invitation of the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the
Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime,
Books on firearms-related topics:
- In the Line of Fire:
Youth, Guns, and Violence in Urban
- Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms (Aldine de Gruyter 1986, 2nd ed. 1994) (with Peter Rossi).
- Under the Gun:
Weapons, Crime, and Violence in
Journal articles, book chapters, and monographs on firearms-related topics:
- The "Guns-Crime" Connection (with Teri Vail), forthcoming as chap. 21 in Criminology: A Contemporary Handbook (Joseph Sheley ed., Wadsworth Publishing Co.).
- High School Youth, Weapons and Violence: A National Survey, National Institute of Justice Research in Brief (with Joseph Sheley).
- Gang Organization, Gang Criminal Activity, and Individual Gang Members' Criminal Behavior, Social Science Quarterly (with Joseph Sheley, Joshua Zhang, and Charles Brody).
- Ten Essential
Observations on Guns in
- Weapon Related Victimization in Selected Inner-City High School Samples, National Criminal Justice Reference Service (with Joseph Sheley and Zina McGee).
- Women and Handguns: Evidence from National Surveys, 1973-1991, Social Science Research (with Joseph Sheley, Charles Brody, and Marjorie Williams).
- Motivations for Gun Possession and Carrying among Serious Juvenile Offenders, Behavioral Sciences and the Law (with Joseph Sheley).
- Gun Acquisition and Possession in Selected Juvenile Samples, National Institute of Justice Research in Brief (with Joseph Sheley).
- Kids, Guns and Killing Fields, Society (with Joseph Sheley and M. Dwayne Smith).
- Teenage Violence and the Urban Underclass, Peace Review (with Joseph Sheley).
- Gun Violence in and Around Inner-City Schools, American Journal of Diseases of Children (with Joseph Sheley and Zina McGee).
- Youth, Guns, and
Violence in Urban
- The Great American Gun War: Some Policy Implications of the Felon Study (with Peter Rossi), in The Gun Control Debate: You Decide (L. Nisbet ed., Prometheus Books 1991).
- Second Thoughts About Gun Control, Public Interest.
- The Armed Criminal in America, National Institute of Justice Research in Brief.
- Social Science Research and the Politics of Gun Control (with Peter Rossi), in Social Science and Social Policy (L. Shotland and M. Mark eds., Sage Publications 1985).
- The Ownership of Firearms for Reasons of Self-Defense, in Firearms and Violence: Issues of Public Policy (Don Kates ed., Ballinger Publishing 1984).
- Weapons, Crime and
Violence in
- Public Opinion and
Gun Control: A Comparison of Results from Two Recent National Surveys,
Annals of the
- Weapons, Crimes, and Violence (3 vols., with Peter Rossi, Kathleen Daly, Eleanor Weber Burdin, Huey Chen, and Joe Periera) (U.S. Government Printing Office 1981).
- Weapons Policies: A Survey of Police Department Practices concerning Weapons and Related Issues (with Eleanor Weber Burdin, Peter Rossi, and Kathleen Daly) (National Institute of Justice 1981).
- The Ownership of the
Means of Destruction: Weapons in the
Other works:
- Author of 16 books, 132 journal articles, book chapters, major essays, and published reports, 115 reviews, polemics, and short essays, 38 technical and consulting reports, and 155 presentations at professional meetings and symposia on a variety of other criminological and sociological topics.
Television and radio experience: NPR Talk of the Nation, ABC News, PBS documentary Frontline: Gunfight USA, and many other programs.
Other academic specialties: Drug and alcohol use, abuse, and treatment; homelessness; poverty and the urban underclass; social policy and evaluation research; survey research design and analysis; urban social policy.
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Prof. David B. Mustard (
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706-542-3624, mustard@terry.uga.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
Journal articles:
- Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns, Journal of Legal Studies (with John Lott).
- Racial, Ethnic and
Gender Disparities in Sentencing: Evidence from the
- Reexamining
Deterrence: The Importance of Omitted Variable Bias; Crime
Rates and Local Labor Market Opportunities in the
- The Impact of Casino Gambling on Crime Rates (with Earl Grinols).
- The Income Effect of Merit Based Financial Aid (with Christopher Cornwell and Quentin Mostoller).
Television and radio experience: CNN, many local television and radio programs.
Other academic specialties: Casino gambling, economics, labor, sentencing.
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Prof. Brannon Denning (
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(618) 453-8744, bdenning@siu.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, constitutional law, lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
Journal articles on firearms-related topics:
- Gun Shy: The Second Amendment As An "Underenforced Constitutional Norm", Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.
- Professional
Discourse, The Second Amendment and the "Talking Head
Constitutionalism" Counterrevolution, Southern
- It Takes a Militia: A Communitarian Case for Compulsory Arms Bearing, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal (with Glenn Harlan Reynolds).
- Palladium of
- Can the Simple Cite
Be Trusted? Lower Court Interpretations of
Other scholarly works:
- Bittker on the Regulation of Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Aspen Law & Business 1999) (treatise on constitutional law, coauthored with Boris Bittker).
- Six other journal articles (one co-written) on constitutional law generally.
Other academic specialties: Constitutional law generally, constitutional questions related to regulation of interstate and foreign commerce, the presidential appointment power, unenumerated rights.
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Prof. Randy Barnett (
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(617) 353-3099, rbarnett@bu.edu (http://www.bu.edu/rbarnett); if not in the office, please leave a voicemail message and contact secretary at (617) 353-2885 for information on how to contact directly.
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, constitutional law, lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
Former state criminal prosecutor in
Former legal affairs contributor to
WBEZ, an NPR affiliate in
Books on firearms-, crime-, and rights-related topics:
- The Structure of
- The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment (George Mason University Press 1989 & 1993).
- Assessing the Criminal: Restitution, Retribution and the Legal Process (Ballinger Publishing 1977).
Journal articles on firearms-related topics:
- Under Fire: The New Consensus on the Second Amendment, Emory Law Journal (with Don Kates).
- Guns, Militias and
Other works:
- Contracts: Cases and Doctrine, one of the leading textbooks on contract law.
- Over 20 journal articles on various legal topics.
Television and radio
experience: The CBS Evening News, the
Other academic specialties: Constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, evidence, jurisprudence.
Prof. Frederick Bieber (
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(617) 732-6507, frbieber@bics.bwh.harvard.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, public health, ballistics.
Teaches a graduate seminar at
Member:
- International Wound Ballistics Association.
- DNA Advisory Board, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- DNA Advisory Board, National District Attorneys Association.
Consultant, Office of the Chief
Medical Examiner, Commonwealth of
Author or coauthor of one book, seven book chapters, 8 reviews, 54 articles, and 45 abstracts on medical genetics and forensic genetics.
Has given presentations on use of genetics in law and law enforcement to:
- International Symposium on Forensic Science and Statistics, Federal Bureau of Investigation;
- American Prosecutors
Research Institute/
- Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner,
- Massachusetts District Attorneys Association;
- Texas District Attorneys Association;
- Law Enforcement Coordinating Committees, Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia/West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Association;
- Charlotte/Mecklenburg Police Academy;
- and other organizations.
Television and radio experience: Many Boston-area programs.
Other academic specialties: Forensic genetics, forensic science, medical genetics, pathology.
Prof. Joyce Malcolm (
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(781) 891-3484, jmalcolm@bentley.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Constitutional law, history of the right to keep and bear arms, history of the relationship between firearms and violence.
Testified on the Second Amendment by
invitation of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution,
Visiting Scholar, MIT Security Studies Program.
Books on firearms-related topics:
- To Keep and Bear Arms (Harvard University Press 1994), the leading scholarly work on the historical development of the right to keep and bear arms, mentioned favorably in Justice Antonin Scalia's recent Matter of Interpretation (Princeton University Press 1997).
- Arms, Violence and the Law: The English Example and Its Implications (Harvard University Press, forthcoming).
Journal articles and monographs:
- Legal Restrictions on
Self-Defence in
- Gun Control and the
Constitution: Sources and Explorations of the Second Amendment,
- The Creation of a "True, Ancient, and Indubitable" Right: The English Bill of Rights and the Right to Be Armed, Journal of British Studies.
- The Role of the Militia in the Development of the Englishman's Right to Be Armed: Clarifying the Legacy, Journal of Firearms and Public Policy.
- That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right, George Washington Law Review, reprinted in Controversies in Constitutional Law (Paul Finkelman ed., Garland Press 1993).
- The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms: The Common Law Tradition, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, reprinted in The Bill of Rights and American Legal History (Paul Murphy ed., Garland Press 1991); Controversies in Constitutional Law (Paul Finkelman ed., Garland Press 1993); and Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment (Robert Cottrol ed., Garland Press 1994).
- Disarmed: The Loss of
the Right to Bear Arms in Restoration England, Bunting Institute,
Other works:
- Another book and five other articles on 1600s English history, plus several popular articles.
Television and radio experience: NPR Talk of the Nation, History Channel documentary on women and firearms, and many local television and radio programs.
Other academic specialties: English legal history, history of crime.
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Prof. Joseph Olson (
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(651) 523-2142, fax (651) 523-2236, cellular (612) 865-7956, jolson@gw.hamline.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, constitutional law, lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
Journal articles on firearms-related topics:
- All the Way Down the
Slippery Slope: Gun Prohibition in
- In re 101 California Street and a Tale of Two Statutes: A Legal and Economic Analysis of Strict Liability for the Manufacture and Sale of Firearms Defined as "Assault Weapons", Stanford Law & Policy Review (with Bruce Kobayashi);
- Preventing a Reign of
Terror: Civil Liberties Implications of Terrorism Legislation,
Other works:
- A treatise on tax law and many law journal articles on other legal questions.
Television and radio
experience: Many appearances on KTCA-TV (PBS), KSTP-TV (ABC),
and WCCO-TV (CBS) in
Other academic specialties: Family businesses and corporate law, federal taxation (especially taxation of intellectual property), and contract law.
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Prof. Mary Zeiss Stange (
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(518) 580-5408 (
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Prof. James Jacobs (
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(212) 998-6213, jacobsj@turing.law.nyu.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, federal firearms laws.
Director, Center for Research in Crime & Justice.
Journal articles on firearms-related topics, author or lead co-author:
- Comprehensive Handgun Licensing & Registration: An Analysis and Critique of Brady II (Gun Control's Next and Last? Step), forthcoming in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology.
- Legal and Political Impediments to Lethal Violence Policy, University of Colorado Law Review.
- Keeping Guns Out of the "Wrong" Hands: The Brady Law and the Limits of Regulation, Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology.
- International Perspectives on Gun Control, New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law.
- The Regulation of Personal Chemical Weapons: Some Anomalies in American Weapons Law, Dayton Law Review.
- Exceptions to a General Prohibition on Handgun Possession: Do They Swallow up the Rule?, Law & Contemporary Problems.
Other works:
- Author or coauthor of seven books and many law journal articles on other topics, mostly related to criminal justice.
Other academic specialties: Criminal law, hate crimes, organized crime, political corruption, prisons.
Prof. Nicholas Johnson (Fordham University Law School) |
(212) 636-6983
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, constitutional law.
Testified on the Second Amendment by invitation of the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, April 5, 1995; testified on assault weapons by invitation of the Select Committee to Investigate the Use of Automatic and Semiautomatic Firearms of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Sept. 8, 1994.
Journal articles on firearms-related topics:
- Principles and Passions: The Intersection of Abortion and Gun Rights, Rutgers Law Review.
- Plenary Power and Constitutional Outcasts: Federal Power, Critical Race Theory and the Second, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments, Ohio State Law Journal.
- Shots Across No-Man's Land: A Response to HCI's Richard Aborn, Fordham Urban Law Journal.
- Beyond the Second Amendment: An Individual Right to Arms Viewed Through the Ninth Amendment, Rutgers Law Journal.
Other works:
- Several law journal articles on other legal topics.
Other academic specialties: Administrative law, constitutional law, critical race theory, environmental law.
Prof. Mary Zeiss Stange (Skidmore College, Departments of Religion and Women's Studies) |
(518) 580-5408 during academic year, (406) 775-8808 (Montana) the rest of the time, mstange@skidmore.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, feminism and firearms, hunting.
Books on firearms-related topics:
- Woman the Hunter (Beacon Press 1997/98), the first cultural history of the relationship of women and hunting.
- Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in America Today (forthcoming) (co-author with Carol Oyster).
Journal articles and encyclopedia entries on firearms-related topics:
- Arms and the Woman: A Feminist Reappraisal in Guns: Who Should Have Them? (David Kopel ed., Prometheus Books 1995), reprinted in Guns in America: A Reader (Jan Dizard et al. eds., NYU Press 1999).
- When Artemis Smiles, in The Sacred Art of Hunting (James Swan ed. Willow Creek Press, forthcoming 1999).
- In the Snow Queen's Palace, in A Hunter's Heart: Honest Essays on Blood Sport (David Petersen ed., Henry Holt 1996).
- Entry on Hunting in the International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports (Macmillan, forthcoming September 1999).
- Responses and Rejoinders: Understanding Waco, Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
- Review of Living in the Lap of the Goddess: The Feminist Spirituality Movement in America, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
- Review of Neither Man Nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals, The Women's Review of Books.
Other works:
- Popular pieces on women, hunting, the environment, and the West, for USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Outdoor Life, Outdoor America, Sports Afield, and Women's Self-Defense, among many others.
Prof. Stange and her work have been the subject of articles by Barbara Ehrenreich in Ms. Magazine, June/July 1999 (forthcoming), The Chronicle of Higher Education, and a widely syndicated AP story.
Television and radio experience: NPR Talk of the Nation and several other nationally syndicated NPR shows, Gil Gross Show on CBS Radio (nationally syndicated), and many regional radio programs and local television programs.
Other academic specialties: Environmentalism, feminism, feminist spirituality, popular culture studies, religion.
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Prof. Lance Stell (
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(704) 892-2908, lastell@davidson.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Constitutional law, ethics and self-defense.
Books on firearms-related topics:
- Gun Control: For and Against (Rowan & Littlefield, forthcoming 2000) (with Preston Covey).
Journal articles on firearms-related topics:
- Close Encounters of the Lethal Kind: The Use of Deadly Force in Self-Defense, Law and Contemporary Problems.
- Guns, Politics and Reason, Journal of American Culture.
- The Legitimation of Female Violence, in Law, Justice, and Violence (Temple University Press 1991).
- Dueling, in International Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Law (forthcoming 1999).
Other works:
- A Physician's Guide to the Legal and Ethical Aspects of Patient Care (1994) (with L.L. Brunetti).
- Over two dozen journal articles and book chapters, mostly on medical ethics but also on philosophy of law.
Television and radio experience: CNN, and many local radio and teleivion stations.
Other academic specialties: Legal philosophy, medical ethics, right to die.
Prof. William Van Alstyne (
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(919) 613-7048, wva@faculty.law.duke.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Constitutional law.
Board of Directors, ACLU, 1972-76.
President, American Association of University Professors, 1974-76.
Journal articles on firearms-related topics:
- The Second Amendment and the Personal Right to Arms, published in the Duke Law Journal (one of the top ten law journals in the country).
Other works:
- First Amendment: Cases and Materials, one of the most widely used textbooks on First Amendment law.
- Dozens of articles on other constitutional law topics.
Television and radio experience: Many appearances on Good Morning America, Fox Evening News, NPR All Things Considered, and many local programs.
Other academic specialties: Academic freedom, constitutional law generally, First Amendment.
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Prof. Glenn Harlan Reynolds (
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(423) 974-6744, reynolds@libra.law.utk.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, constitutional law, lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
Journal articles on firearms-related topics:
- A Critical Guide to
the Second Amendment,
- The Right to Keep
and Bear Arms Under the
- The Second Amendment and States’ Rights: A Thought Experiment, William & Mary Law Review (with Don Kates).
- It Takes a Militia: The Communitarian Case for Compulsory Arms-Bearing, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal (with Brannon Denning).
- Alcohol, Firearms,
and Constitutions,
- The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes (with several coauthors).
Other works:
- Outer Space: Problems of Law and Policy, a textbook on space law.
- The Appearance of Impropriety: How the Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Government, Business and Society (The Free Press, 1997) (with Peter W. Morgan).
- 18 law journal articles on other topics.
Television and radio experience: The Today Show, Larry King Live, McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, NPR Talk of the Nation, Diane Rehm Show, Court Tv, and many local programs.
Other academic specialties: Constitutional law, constitutional theory, law and science, space law.
Dr. Helen Smith (Southeastern Psychological Services) |
(423) 588-4126, drhelen@violentkids.com (http://www.violentkids.com/)
Expert on gun topics related to: Children and guns, criminology.
Books on children and violence:
- Darkness at the Edge of Town: Teen Killers in Suburbia (forthcoming).
Testified on school violence at the
invitation of the State of
Testified on the
Academic and popular articles on children and violence and related issues:
- Characteristics of Violent and Nonviolent Juveniles: A Comparison (forthcoming) (with Sandra Thomas).
- Psychologists and
Prescription Medication: What Role for School Psychologists?,
- Is School Violence the
Fault of Outcasts or their Tormentors?, News & Observer (Raleigh).
- Don't Treat Teens Like
Babies, Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
- Young Outcasts are
Starting to Release Their Rage, Anger,
- Deaf Ears Beget
Killer Kids,
- It's Not Evil
Spirits That Make Teens Kill,
- Murder: The Weapon Isn't the Question, Christian Science Monitor.
Articles on other subjects:
- Several professional articles and newspaper op-eds on psychological issues.
Television and radio experience: NPR, Jim Bohannon Show, and many local television and radio programs.
Other academic specialties: Child psychology generally, premenstrual syndrome.
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Prof. Sanford Levinson (
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(512) 232-1351, slevinson@mail.law.utexas.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Constitutional law.
Member, American Law Institute.
Journal articles on firearms-related topics:
- The Embarrassing
Second Amendment, Yale Law Journal (one of the top two
- Is the Second Amendment Finally Being Recognized as Part of the Constitution?, BYU Law Review.
- The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes, Journal of Legal Education (with several co-authors).
Other works:
- Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (Little Brown & Co. 3rd ed. 1992) (with Akhil Amar and Paul Brest), one of the leading constitutional law textbooks.
- Constitutional Faith (Princeton University Press 1988).
- Interpreting Law and Literature: A Hermeneutic Reader (Northwestern University Press 1988).
- Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment (Princeton University Press 1995).
- Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (Duke University Press 1998).
- Dozens of law journal articles on various constitutional topics.
Other academic specialties: Constitutional law, legal ethics.
Prof. Scot Powe (
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(512) 232-1345, spowe@mail.law.utexas.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Constitutional law.
Former clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
Teaches one of the few courses in U.S. law schools dealing with the Second Amendment.
Journal articles on firearms-related topics:
- Guns, Words, and Constitutional Interpretation, William & Mary Law Review.
- The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes, Journal of Legal Education (with several co-authors).
Other works:
- American Broadcasting and the First Amendment (University of California Press 1987).
- The Fourth Estate and the Constitution (University of California Press 1991).
- Regulating Broadcast Programming (MIT Press 1994) (with Thomas Krattenmaker).
- The Warren Court and American Politics (Harvard University Press forthcoming 2000).
- Many law journal articles on various constitutional topics.
Television and radio experience: 60 Minutes, NPR All Things Considered.
Other academic specialties: Broadcasting law, constitutional history, constitutional law, First Amendment law, sports law, the Supreme Court.
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Dr. Stephen Halbrook (Independent Institute) |
(703) 352-7276, shalbrook@stephenhalbrook.com (http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/)
Expert on gun topics related to: Constitutional law, international gun controls.
Won cases in the U.S. Supreme Court involving the Brady Act (Printz v. United States) and the National Firearms Act (United States v. Thompson/Center Arms Co.); has litigated firearms cases in federal and state courts for over twenty years.
Testified on firearms law issues at the invitation of several Congressional subcommittees.
Books on firearms-related topics:
- Supreme Court Gun Cases (Bloomfield Press 2003) (with David Kopel and
Alan Korwin).
- That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (University of New Mexico Press 1984).
- Firearms Law Deskbook: Federal and State Criminal Practice (West Group-Clark Boardman Callaghan 1995).
- A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees (Greenwood Press 1989).
- Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms (Praeger 1998).
- Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II (Sarpedon Publishers 1998).
Journal articles on firearms-related topics:
- Tench Coxe and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 1787-1823, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal (with David Kopel).
- Second-Class Citizenship and the Second Amendment in the District of Columbia, George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal.
- Congress Interprets the Second Amendment: Declarations by a Co-Equal Branch on the Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Tennessee Law Review.
- Personal Security, Personal Liberty, and "The Constitutional Right To Bear Arms": Visions Of The Framers Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal.
- NRA and Law Enforcement Opposition to the Brady Act: From Congress to the District Courts, St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary (with Richard Gardiner).
- Rationing Firearms Purchases and the Right to Keep Arms: Reflections on the Bills of Rights of Virginia, West Virginia, and the United States, West Virginia Law Review.
- The Right to Bear Arms in Texas: The Intent of the Framers of the Bills of Rights, Baylor Law Review.
- Encroachments of the Crown on the Liberty of the Subject: Pre-Revolutionary Origins of the Second Amendment, University of Dayton Law Review.
- Firearms, the Fourth Amendment, and Air Carrier Security, Journal of Air Law and Commerce.
Television and radio experience: Court TV, NPR, BBC, Phil Donahue.
Other academic specialties: Civil litigation, constitutional law, criminal defense.
Prof. Edward Leddy (Saint Leo University, Departments of Criminology and Sociology) |
(757) 464-9195, edleddy@exis.net
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, politics of gun control.
Founder and former editor, Journal on Firearms and Public Policy.
Former director, Center for the Study of Firearms and Public Policy.
Former New York parole officer (for 17 years).
Testified on the invitation of the Texas state legislature on concealed carry reform, 1990 and 1991.
Books:
- Magnum Force Lobby: The NRA Fights Gun Control (University Press 1987).
Journal articles and book chapters:
- Gun Control, in The Reader's Encyclopedia of American History (1991).
- Gun Owners Protect Themselves from Crime, in Gun Control: Current Controversies (Charles Cozic ed., Greenhaven Press 1992).
- Community Supervision That Works, in Criminal Justice? The Legal System vs. Individual Responsibility (Robert Bidinotto ed., Foundation for Economic Education 1994).
- Carrying of Guns for Personal Protection, in The Gun Culture and Its Enemies (William Tonso ed. 1990).
- Personal Protection Handgun Carry License Holders: Demographics, Experiences, and Motives, working paper.
Television and radio experience: Many local programs.
Other academic specialties: Arrest techniques, crime committed by parolees, parole reform, sentencing.
Prof. Nelson Lund (George Mason University Law School) |
(703) 993-8045, nlund@gmu.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Constitutional law, lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
Former law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Former Associate Counsel to President George Bush.
Former co-editor, Supreme Court Economic Review.
Journal articles on firearms-related topics:
- Outsider Views on Guns and the
Constitution, Constitutional
Commentary.
- The Past and Future of the Individual’s Right to Arms, Georgia Law Review.
- The Second
Amendment, Political
- The Ends of Second Amendment Jurisprudence: Firearms Disabilities
and Domestic Violence Restraining Orders,
Other works:
- Over a dozen law journal articles on various topics.
Television and radio experience: MSNBC News, BBC News, Court TV, and many other programs.
Other academic specialties: Constitutional law, economic analysis of legal institutions, employment discrimination, law and medical ethics, election law.
Prof. Daniel Polsby (
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(703) 993-8087, polsby@gmu.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, constitutional law, lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
Teaches one of the few courses in U.S. law schools dealing with the Second Amendment; also teaches a seminar called "Of Criminogenic Things," which focuses on whether and how criminal deviancy is (or is not) produced by exposure to television, video games, rock music, pornography, drugs, and guns.
Law journal articles and monographs on firearms-related topics:
- Firearms Costs,
Firearms Benefits and the Limits of Knowledge, Journal of Criminal
Law and Criminology.
- Reflection on Violence,
Guns, and the Defensive Use of Force, Journal of Law and Contemporary
Problems.
- Firearms and Crime,
Report to the Governor's Task Force on Crime (Independent Institute
1997).
- American Homicide
Exceptionalism,
- Of Holocausts and Gun
Control,
- Of Genocide and Disarmament, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (with Don Kates).
Other works:
- The False Promise of Gun Control, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1994 cover story. This article, which has been excerpted in twelve college-level "issues" readers currently in print, is one of the most widely anthologized essays on any subject in recent years.
- Many other scholarly and popular articles on gun issues and on crime and criminal law generally.
Television and radio experience: Dozens of appearances on NBC News, CNN, C-SPAN, CBS network radio news, and many other local and syndicated television and radio programs.
Other academic specialties: Constitutional law, criminal law, employment law, family law.
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Prof. Robert Cottrol (
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(202) 994-5023, bcottrol@main.nlc.gwu.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminal law, criminology, constitutional law, history.
Testified on the Second Amendment by invitation of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Sept. 25, 1998; testified on the Second Amendment by invitation of the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, April 5, 1995; testified on assault weapons by invitation of the Select Committee to Investigate the Use of Automatic and Semiautomatic Firearms of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Sept. 8, 1994.
Books on firearms-related issues:
- Editor, Gun Control and the Constitution (Garland Publishers 1993), selected by the History Book Club (1995).
Journal articles on firearms-related issues:
- The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration, Georgetown Law Journal (one of the top 15 law journals in the country) (with Ray Diamond).
- "Never Intended to be Applied to the White Population": Firearms Regulation and Racial Disparity -- The Redeemed South's Legacy to a National Jurisprudence?, Chicago-Kent Law Review (with Ray Diamond).
- Public Safety and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, in The Bill of Rights in Modern America: After 200 Years (David J. Bodenhamer and James W. Ely Jr. eds., Indiana University Press 1993) (with Ray Diamond).
- The Fifth Auxiliary
Right, Yale Law Journal (one of the top two
- Submission Is Not the
Answer: Lethal Violence, Microcultures of Criminal Violence and the Right
to Self-Defense,
- The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes, Journal of Legal Education (with several co-authors).
Other works:
- Three books and several dozen scholarly articles on law, legal history, political history, and social history.
Television and radio experience: A & E Investigative Reports on Guns, Violence and American Culture, NPR All Things Considered, Voice of America, BBC, America's Talking, and dozens of local television and radio programs.
Other academic specialties:
Affirmative action, Afro-American history, comparative race relations, criminal
law, death penalty,
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Don Kates (Pacific Research Institute) |
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(360) 666-2688
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, constitutional law, lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
Books on firearms-related topics:
- The Great American Gun Debate: Essays on Firearms and Violence (Pacific Research Institute 1997) (with Gary Kleck).
- Editor and co-author, Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out (North River Press 1979).
- Editor, Firearms and Violence: Issues of Public Policy (Don Kates ed., Ballinger Publishing 1984).
Journal articles and book chapters on firearms-related topics:
- Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment, Michigan Law Review (one of the top ten U.S. law journals).
- Entry on the Second Amendment in the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (Macmillan 1986).
- Gun Control: Separating Reality from Symbolism, Journal of Contemporary Law.
- The Second Amendment and the Ideology of Self-Protection, Constitutional Commentary.
- Bigotry, Symbolism and Ideology in the Battle Over Gun Control, Public Interest Law Journal.
- The Value of Civilian Arms Possession as Deterrent to Crime or Defense Against Crime, American Journal of Criminal Law.
- Minimalist Interpretation of the Second Amendment, in The Bill of Rights: Original Meaning and Current Understanding (E. Hickok ed., University of Virginia Press 1990).
- The Second Amendment and States’ Rights: A Thought Experiment, William & Mary Law Review (with Glenn Reynolds).
- Over a dozen other law journal articles on gun issues (several co-authored).
Other works:
- Many popular articles on firearms-related issues.
- Several law journal articles on other legal and historical topics.
Named America's outstanding poverty lawyer by National Legal Aid and Defender Association, 1970; attorney, California Rural Legal Assistance, 1966-73.
Television and radio experience: Extensive radio, some television.
Other academic specialties: Criminal law, civil rights law, poverty law.
Wisconsin |
Prof. Carol Oyster (University of Wisconsin Department of Psychology) |
(608) 785-6882, oyster@mail.uwlax.edu
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, feminism and firearms, sociology of gun ownership.
Books:
- Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in America Today (forthcoming) (co-author with Mary Zeiss Stange).
- Introduction to Research: A Guide for the Health Science Professional (J.B. Lippincott Co. 1982) (with L.A. Llorens).
- Groups: A User's Guide (McGraw Hill, forthcoming 1999).
Articles:
- Age and Sex Differences in the Pattern of Emotions in Childhood Anxiety and Depression, in Motivation, Emotion, and Personality (Elsevier Science Publishing 1985) (with C.E. Izard and S.H. Blumberg).
- The Extent of Sex Bias in Clinical Treatment Recommendations, Professional Psychology (1981) (with L.H. Cohen).
- Other academic articles on various topics.
Conference Presentations:
- Firearm-Related Attitudes and Behaviors of Female and Male Firearm Owners: Shattering the Stereotypes, American Society of Criminology.
- Women With Rifles and Guns, Oh My! Women and Armed Self-Defense, American Society of Criminology.
- Author-Meets-Critics Session on "Real Knockouts" by McCauhey, American Society of Criminology.
- Over a dozen conference presentations on various other topics, including women's studies, group dynamics, and other matters.
Other academic specialties: Group dynamics, social science research design, women and organizations.
Canada |
Prof. Gary Mauser (Simon Fraser University) |
(604) 291-3652 (office), mauser@sfu.ca
Expert on gun topics related to: Criminology, international gun controls.
Has testified on gun matters by invitation of the Senate of Canada and the House of Commons.
Journal articles and monographs on firearms-related issues:
- Armed Self Defense: The Canadian Case, Journal of Criminal Justice.
- An Evaluation of the 1977 Canadian Firearms Legislation, Evaluation Review (with Richard Holmes).
- Canadian Attitudes Toward Gun Control: The Real Story, The Mackenzie Institute (with H. Taylor Buckner).
- The Politics of Gun Control: Comparing Canadian and American Patterns, Government and Policy (with Michael Margolis).
- "Sorry, Wrong Number": Why Media Polls on Gun Control Are So Often Unreliable, Political Communication (with David Kopel).
- Gun Control Is Not Crime Control, Critical Issues Bulletin, The Fraser Institute.
- A Comparison of Canadian and American Attitudes Towards Firearms, Canadian Journal of Criminology.
- Canadians Do Use Firearms in Self-Protection, Canadian Journal of Criminology.
- Do Canadians Need Firearms for Self-Protection?, Canadian Journal of Criminology.
- Review of Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America, Criminal Law Forum.
Other works:
- Two books and more than twenty scholarly articles on criminology, political science, business, and psychology.
- Many op-eds and magazine articles on firearms-related topics.
Television and radio experience: Dozens of appearances on CBC, CTV, Global TV, and other national and local news shows.
Other academic specialties: Marketing and society, multivariate statistics, social and political marketing, survey research.