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Dave Kopel website. PDA-enabled home page.

Kopel cited by Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. United States v. McCane, No. 08-6235 (July 28, 2009). Concurring opinion by Judge Tymkovich.

Sotomayor Testimony

Kopel's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, regarding the Second Amendment record of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Written testimony in PDF (much longer than the oral testimony). Video of Kopel's testimony to the Committee, July 16, 2009, C-Span.

Latest short articles and commentary

OSHEESH! How President Obama’s latest anti-gun appointee—proposed OSHA Director David Michaels—could place sweeping restrictions on your Right to Keep and Bear Arms. America's 1st Freedom. November 2009.

From Bad To Worse. Book reviews of Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths that Paralyze American Gun Policy by Dennis A. Henigan & Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea by Joshua Horwitz & Casey Anderson. America's 1st Freedom. October 2009.

Will the Supreme Court Set Speech Free? The Supreme Court, censorship of political speech, and the case of Citizens United v. FEC. America's 1st Freedom. America's 1st Freedom. September 2009.

The Guns of Sudan. Gun confiscation in South Sudan makes a bad situation for human rights even worse. The New Ledger. July 7, 2009. With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen.

Respecting States’ Wishes. Short essay on the new law allowing guns in National Parks. New York Times, "Room for Debate" on-line feature. May 22, 2009.

Political blogger poll

Kopel in the National Journal weekly poll of leading political bloggers. This week: Will Cap&Trade/Tax pass? Would unemployment at current levels hurt Dems in 2010? Dave says "probably" and "definitely" and explains why.

Podcasts & Video

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 Goes to the Supreme Court Again. Kopel explains McDonald v. Chicago to Jon Caldara. Oct. 5, 2009. 11:04.

The Second Amendment in the Supreme Court. Kopel speaks to the Global General Gathering of the Triple 9 Society, and explains the upcoming Supreme Court case on whether the Fourteenth Amendment makes the Second Amendment applicable to state and local governments. Sept. 6, 2009. 86 minutes, video. Watch. Download mp4.

New Challenge to McCain-Feingold. Kopel explains the Citizens United case, and the Supreme Court's oral argument, to Jon Caldara. Sept. 15, 2009. 11:16.

Weblog

Kopel's Corner weblog. Special PDA version. Latest entries: Sarah Palin and Maria from "The Sound of Music." Moses and Americanism. Heidegger and Hitler. Canadian Parliament votes to repeal long gun registration. Off-off-year elections were good for the 2d Amendment. Chris Christie and fat acceptance. Much more.

Latest World Languages

Unofficial English translation of Mexican Federal Laws on Firearms and Explosives.

30-летие захвата американских заложников в Иране. Iranian hostage crisis, 30 years later. 5.11.2009. MP3.

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Latest Monographs and Journal articles

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 Arms Trade Treaty: Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Prospects for Arms Embargoes on Human Rights Violators. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, July 8, 2009. Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law. Antigua Universidad del Pais Vasco, Oñati, Gipuzkoa, Spain. 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 (no. 1, 2009, forthcoming). PDF.

The Second Amendment in the Tenth Circuit: Three Decades of (Mostly) Harmless Error. 86 Denver University Law Review (no 3, 2009, forthcoming). Lead article 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 (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.

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