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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…

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…