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More Guns, Less Crime

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Sep 29 2016
Thursday 12:00 a.m.    

More Guns, Less Crime

Speakers:
John Lott
Topics:
Civil Rights
Sponsors:
Roger Williams Student Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Oct 10 2013
Thursday 11:30 a.m.    

Partisan Politics and the Selection of Judges: A Toxic Mix

Irvine, California
Speakers:
John Lott
Sponsors:
Orange County Lawyer Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Oct 3 2013
Thursday 6:00 p.m.    

Reception with John Lott - Dumbing Down the Courts

Mineola, New York
Speakers:
John Lott
Sponsors:
Long Island Lawyer Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Sep 26 2013
Thursday 6:00 p.m.    

Address by John Lott - Dumbing Down the Courts

Morristown, New Jersey
Speakers:
John Lott
Sponsors:
New Jersey Lawyer Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Mar 19 2013
Tuesday 12:00 p.m.    

Gun Control: What Now?

Charlotte, North Carolina
Speakers:
John Lott
Topics:
Civil Rights
Sponsors:
Charlotte Lawyer Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Jan 30 2013
Wednesday 6:00 p.m.    

Obama's New Gun Control Regulations

Mineola, New York
Speakers:
John Lott
Topics:
Civil Rights
Sponsors:
Long Island Lawyer Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Oct 24 2012
Wednesday 12:30 p.m.    

More Guns, Less Crime: Do Assault Weapons Make Us Safer?

Speakers:
John Lott
Topics:
Civil Rights
Sponsors:
Rutgers - Camden Student Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Apr 17 2012
Tuesday 5:45 p.m.    

The Consequences of Heller and McDonald: What Happened to Crime Rates after SCOTUS Upheld Gun Rights

Speakers:
John Lott
Topics:
Civil Rights
Sponsors:
San Francisco Lawyer Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Apr 16 2012
Monday 3:00 p.m.    

Stand Your Ground and Self Defense

Speakers:
John Lott • Gregory O'Meara
Topics:
Criminal Law & Procedure • Civil Rights • Federalism & Separation of Powers
Sponsors:
Criminal Law & Procedure Practice Group
  • In-Person Event
Feb 4 2011
Friday 1:00 p.m.    

More Guns, Less Crime

Lansing, Michigan
Speakers:
Steven Dulan • Dennis A. Henigan • Joshua Horwitz • John Johnson • John Lott • James Manley
Topics:
Civil Rights
Sponsors:
Thomas M. Cooley - Lansing Student Chapter
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John Lott

John Lott

Author and FoxNews.com Contributor

Biography

John R. Lott, Jr. is an economist who has held research and/or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989.  He has published over 100 articles in academic journals.  He also is the author of six books including More Guns, Less Crime, Freedomnomics, The Bias Against Guns, and Are Predatory Commitments Credible?  He has just released another book entitled "Debacle: Obama's war on jobs and growth and what we can do now to regain our future."  Lott is a FoxNews.com contributor and a weekly columnist for them.  Opinion pieces by Prof. Lott have appeared in such places as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune. He has appeared on such television programs as the ABC and NBC National Evening News broadcasts,  Fox News, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and the "Today Show."  He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984.



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John Lott

John Lott

Author and FoxNews.com Contributor

Biography

John R. Lott, Jr. is an economist who has held research and/or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989.  He has published over 100 articles in academic journals.  He also is the author of six books including More Guns, Less Crime, Freedomnomics, The Bias Against Guns, and Are Predatory Commitments Credible?  He has just released another book entitled "Debacle: Obama's war on jobs and growth and what we can do now to regain our future."  Lott is a FoxNews.com contributor and a weekly columnist for them.  Opinion pieces by Prof. Lott have appeared in such places as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune. He has appeared on such television programs as the ABC and NBC National Evening News broadcasts,  Fox News, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and the "Today Show."  He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984.



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John Lott

John Lott

Author and FoxNews.com Contributor

Biography

John R. Lott, Jr. is an economist who has held research and/or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989.  He has published over 100 articles in academic journals.  He also is the author of six books including More Guns, Less Crime, Freedomnomics, The Bias Against Guns, and Are Predatory Commitments Credible?  He has just released another book entitled "Debacle: Obama's war on jobs and growth and what we can do now to regain our future."  Lott is a FoxNews.com contributor and a weekly columnist for them.  Opinion pieces by Prof. Lott have appeared in such places as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune. He has appeared on such television programs as the ABC and NBC National Evening News broadcasts,  Fox News, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and the "Today Show."  He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984.



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John Lott

John Lott

Author and FoxNews.com Contributor

Biography

John R. Lott, Jr. is an economist who has held research and/or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989.  He has published over 100 articles in academic journals.  He also is the author of six books including More Guns, Less Crime, Freedomnomics, The Bias Against Guns, and Are Predatory Commitments Credible?  He has just released another book entitled "Debacle: Obama's war on jobs and growth and what we can do now to regain our future."  Lott is a FoxNews.com contributor and a weekly columnist for them.  Opinion pieces by Prof. Lott have appeared in such places as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune. He has appeared on such television programs as the ABC and NBC National Evening News broadcasts,  Fox News, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and the "Today Show."  He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984.



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John Lott

John Lott

Author and FoxNews.com Contributor

Biography

John R. Lott, Jr. is an economist who has held research and/or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989.  He has published over 100 articles in academic journals.  He also is the author of six books including More Guns, Less Crime, Freedomnomics, The Bias Against Guns, and Are Predatory Commitments Credible?  He has just released another book entitled "Debacle: Obama's war on jobs and growth and what we can do now to regain our future."  Lott is a FoxNews.com contributor and a weekly columnist for them.  Opinion pieces by Prof. Lott have appeared in such places as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune. He has appeared on such television programs as the ABC and NBC National Evening News broadcasts,  Fox News, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and the "Today Show."  He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984.



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John Lott

John Lott

Author and FoxNews.com Contributor

Biography

John R. Lott, Jr. is an economist who has held research and/or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989.  He has published over 100 articles in academic journals.  He also is the author of six books including More Guns, Less Crime, Freedomnomics, The Bias Against Guns, and Are Predatory Commitments Credible?  He has just released another book entitled "Debacle: Obama's war on jobs and growth and what we can do now to regain our future."  Lott is a FoxNews.com contributor and a weekly columnist for them.  Opinion pieces by Prof. Lott have appeared in such places as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune. He has appeared on such television programs as the ABC and NBC National Evening News broadcasts,  Fox News, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and the "Today Show."  He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984.



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John Lott

John Lott

Author and FoxNews.com Contributor

Biography

John R. Lott, Jr. is an economist who has held research and/or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989.  He has published over 100 articles in academic journals.  He also is the author of six books including More Guns, Less Crime, Freedomnomics, The Bias Against Guns, and Are Predatory Commitments Credible?  He has just released another book entitled "Debacle: Obama's war on jobs and growth and what we can do now to regain our future."  Lott is a FoxNews.com contributor and a weekly columnist for them.  Opinion pieces by Prof. Lott have appeared in such places as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune. He has appeared on such television programs as the ABC and NBC National Evening News broadcasts,  Fox News, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and the "Today Show."  He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984.



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John Lott

John Lott

Author and FoxNews.com Contributor

Biography

John R. Lott, Jr. is an economist who has held research and/or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989.  He has published over 100 articles in academic journals.  He also is the author of six books including More Guns, Less Crime, Freedomnomics, The Bias Against Guns, and Are Predatory Commitments Credible?  He has just released another book entitled "Debacle: Obama's war on jobs and growth and what we can do now to regain our future."  Lott is a FoxNews.com contributor and a weekly columnist for them.  Opinion pieces by Prof. Lott have appeared in such places as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune. He has appeared on such television programs as the ABC and NBC National Evening News broadcasts,  Fox News, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and the "Today Show."  He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984.



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John Lott

John Lott

Author and FoxNews.com Contributor

Biography

John R. Lott, Jr. is an economist who has held research and/or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989.  He has published over 100 articles in academic journals.  He also is the author of six books including More Guns, Less Crime, Freedomnomics, The Bias Against Guns, and Are Predatory Commitments Credible?  He has just released another book entitled "Debacle: Obama's war on jobs and growth and what we can do now to regain our future."  Lott is a FoxNews.com contributor and a weekly columnist for them.  Opinion pieces by Prof. Lott have appeared in such places as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune. He has appeared on such television programs as the ABC and NBC National Evening News broadcasts,  Fox News, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and the "Today Show."  He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984.



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Gregory O'Meara

Gregory O'Meara

Associate Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School

Biography

Professor O'Meara re-joined the Marquette Law School faculty in the fall of 2002. He was a visiting faculty member from the fall of 1997 until the spring of 1999. In 1999 and 2005, Professor O'Meara was the recipient of the James D. Ghiardi Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence. During the interim between 1999 and 2002, Professor O'Meara completed his Master of Divinity degree from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Greg is also a member of the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus. Professor O'Meara's prior legal experience includes working as an Assistant District Attorney in Milwaukee County, serving as a staff attorney with the Legal Defense Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School, and teaching at Creighton University School of Law. In addition to criminal law, evidence, and the legal theory seminar, Greg also teaches legal ethics and criminal procedure.



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Steven Dulan

Thomas Cooley - Lansing Law

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Dennis A. Henigan

Dennis A. Henigan

Vice President, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence

Biography

Dennis HeniganDennis A. Henigan is the Vice President of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and Founder of its Legal Action Project. He is the author of Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths that Paralyze American Gun Policy (Potomac Books 2009). 

For twenty years, he has been a leading advocate for stronger gun laws, appearing dozens of times on national television and radio shows, including 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Nightline, Larry King Live and Dateline. He also has written and spoken extensively on liability and constitutional issues relating to gun laws and gun violence, including testifying before several Congressional Committees. 

Under his direction, Brady Center lawyers have recovered millions of dollars in damages for gun violence victims, as well as winning precedent-setting decisions on the liability of gun sellers. In 2004, he was named one of the top ten "Lawyers of the Year" by Lawyers' Weekly magazine. His work as a public interest lawyer has been profiled in The New Yorker. 

Henigan received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1973 and his law degree in 1977 from the University of Virginia School of Law. Prior to joining the Brady Center in 1989, he was a partner in the law firm of Foley & Lardner.

Henigan received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1973 and his law degree in 1977 from the University of Virginia School of Law.

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Joshua Horwitz

Executive Director, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

Biography
Joshua Horwitz, J.D., is Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.  He has spent nearly two decades working on gun violence prevention issues.  Mr. Horwitz developed the long-term strategy to close illegal firearms markets as a way to focus the gun control movement on the huge gaps in our nation's gun laws that easily allow criminals to obtain firearms.  This strategy includes implementation of policies such as closing the gun show loophole.  He has managed dozens of issue campaigns at the state and federal level-including, in 2005, the successful campaign to defend the power of the citizens of the District of Columbia to establish gun laws without the interference of Congress. He also represents victims and municipalities in their suits against the gun industry.  Mr. Horwitz has had the opportunity to testify before Congress and a number of state and local legislative bodies.

Mr. Horwitz is a graduate of the University of Michigan and received his law degree from the George Washington University.  He is currently a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is working on a book examining the relationship between guns and democracy which will be published by the University of Michigan Press in 2008.



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John Johnson

Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus

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John Lott

John Lott

Author and FoxNews.com Contributor

Biography

John R. Lott, Jr. is an economist who has held research and/or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989.  He has published over 100 articles in academic journals.  He also is the author of six books including More Guns, Less Crime, Freedomnomics, The Bias Against Guns, and Are Predatory Commitments Credible?  He has just released another book entitled "Debacle: Obama's war on jobs and growth and what we can do now to regain our future."  Lott is a FoxNews.com contributor and a weekly columnist for them.  Opinion pieces by Prof. Lott have appeared in such places as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune. He has appeared on such television programs as the ABC and NBC National Evening News broadcasts,  Fox News, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and the "Today Show."  He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984.



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James Manley

James Manley

Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation

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Jim Manley is an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, where he litigates in defense of free speech, economic liberty, and property rights. For more than a decade, he has been fighting to protect and expand freedom through strategic litigation and policymaking.

Before joining PLF, Jim litigated at the Goldwater Institute and Mountain States Legal Foundation. In his first case after graduating from law school, he sued his alma mater and won at the Colorado Supreme Court, guaranteeing the right of self-defense on college campuses. Since then, he has successfully challenged many unconstitutional laws—including striking down part of the Kentucky Constitution—saved a man from jail for the “crime” of repairing windshields, prevented a foster child from being ripped away from her pre-adoptive parents because of her race, and helped enact laws protecting free speech on college campuses. His cases defending free speech, the right to keep and bear arms, taxpayer rights, and property rights have set important precedents for liberty in state and federal courts across the country.

A native of Michigan, he graduated from Arizona State University, with a double major in Political Science and Journalism. He earned his J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School, where he was an Associate Editor of the Law Review and President of the Federalist Society. Before attending law school, he was a professional ski instructor in Telluride, Colorado. He is licensed to practice law in Arizona and Colorado.

Jim lives in Phoenix with his wife, Marlene, and their children, Milton and Cora. They have a cat named Martha Washington.

 

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