David B. Kopel is Research Director of the Independence Institute, a think tank in Denver. He is also a Senior Fellow at the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center, and an Adjunct Scholar with the Cato Institute.
Kopel is author of over 125 scholarly articles and 20 books, including the law school textbook Firearms Law and the Second Amendment. His scholarship and legal briefs have been cited in seven U.S. Supreme Court cases, by Justices Alito, Breyer, Kagan, Stevens, and Thomas, and in over 130 cases in lower courts. Since 2003, he has been a columnist for the Volokh Conspiracy, a law scholar blog, currently hosted by Reason magazine.
Websites: davekopel.org, davekopel.tw (Chinese). Twitter: @davekopel
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