Kopel
Research Director, Independence Institute • Adjunct Professor, Constitutional Law, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law
2020 Guest Speaker

David B. Kopel is Research Director of the Independence Institute, in Denver; an Adjunct Scholar with the Cato Institute, in Washington; and Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. 

He is also Vice-Chair of the Colorado State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and a trustee of the Brown University libraries, Anne S.K. Brown Military History Collection. 

Kopel is the author of 17 books and over 100 scholarly articles, on topics such as antitrust, constitutional law, counter-terrorism, environmental law, intellectual history, and police practices. His articles have been published in journals from Harvard, Yale, Penn, Brown, Michigan, NYU, Texas, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Virginia, and Georgetown, among others. 

His most recent books are the second edition of the law school textbook Firearms Law and the Second Amendment, and The Morality of Self-Defense and Military Action: The Judeo-Christian Tradition. 

Kopel was a member of the Supreme Court oral argument team in District of Columbia v. Heller. His research has been cited in dozens of state appellate court and U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinions. 

Since 2003, he has been a columnist for the Volokh Conspiracy, a law professor weblog, currently hosted by Reason magazine. From 2001 to 2009, he wrote a media analysis column for the Rocky Mountain News.