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What if I had been a law professor in 1935?

What if I had been a law professor in 1935?

While this is certainly a question that no-one is asking, there is an answer. The latest episode of Colorado Inside-Out, from Colorado Public Television channel 12 in Denver, is our…

Dave Kopel Analyzes McDonald Ruling (NRA Video)

Dave Kopel Analyzes McDonald Ruling (NRA Video)

Research Director at the Independence Institute Dave Kopel talks to Cam Edwards about the future of gun rights in America following the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Second Amendment…

Kopel’s oral testimony on Kagan nomination (Audio)

Kopel’s oral testimony on Kagan nomination (Audio)

On July 1, 2010, outside witness testimony concluded the four day confirmation hearing of Elena Kagan to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Here is the audio of…

Written testimony on Kagan nomination

Written testimony on Kagan nomination

Available here. Co-authored with Stephen Halbrook. The oral testimony will be late July 1 or early July 2. ************ David B. Kopel is Research Director of the Independence Institute, a public…

The Sotomayor switcheroo, and the Kagan nomination

The Sotomayor switcheroo, and the Kagan nomination

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, by joining the Breyer dissent in McDonald which called for Heller to be over-ruled, contradicted what she had told the Senate last summer. I supply the details…

Podcast on the McDonald decision

Podcast on the McDonald decision

Sixteen minutes, taped this afternoon, for iVoices.org. I also discussed the decision on Denver’s Caplis & Silverman radio show. Dennis Henigan, from the Brady Center, was the guest after me.…

The dangers of knife bans

The dangers of knife bans

Transocean’s ban on employee knife possession nearly killed several BP drilling rig survivors, by preventing them from cutting the rope that attached the life boat to the drilling rig. Details…

Dave Kopel on McDonald v. Chicago

Dave Kopel on McDonald v. Chicago

Dave Kopel is the Research Director of the Independence Institute, a public policy research organization in Golden, Colorado. Here are his comments after the Oral Arguments on McDonald v. Chicago.…