This Conference will bring together the Nation’s leading experts on a wide range of fields related to guns, crime and punishment in contemporary American society. The fields include gun violence and gun-oriented policing, gun markets and availability, gun control legislation, civil litigation against gun manufacturers, Second Amendment controversies, and sentencing laws for gun offenders. The participants will be presenting new papers concerning on-going research projects. The conference will be a working conference at which the participants and attendees will workshop the conference papers. The goal of the conference is to cross-pollinate research and improve dialogue among these various fields of research.This Conference will bring together the Nation’s leading experts on a wide range of fields related to guns, crime and punishment in contemporary American society. The fields include gun violence and gun-oriented policing, gun markets and availability, gun control legislation, civil litigation against gun manufacturers, Second Amendment controversies, and sentencing laws for gun offenders. The participants will be presenting new papers concerning on-going research projects. The conference will be a working conference at which the participants and attendees will workshop the conference papers. The goal of the conference is to cross-pollinate research and improve dialogue among these various fields of research.

Friday, January 26, 2001

Friday, January 26, 2001

7:15 a.m.Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m.Welcome

Dean Toni M. Massaro

The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

8:15 a.m.Introduction & Overview

Bernard E. Harcourt

Associate Professor The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

9:00 a.m.PANEL #1: Guns in America: Historical,Sociological and Cultural Perspectives

Travis W. Hirschi,Chair

Professor Emeritus of SociologyThe University of Arizona

Franklin E. Zimring,Paper

Olin Professor of EnglishWesleyan University

Dan M. Kahan,Paper

Professor of Law Yale Law School

Calvin K. Morrill,Comment

Professor of Sociology, Psychology and Law The University of Arizona

10:45 a.m.Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. PANEL #2: Guns, Urban Violence and Gun-Oriented Policing

Stuart P. Green,Chair

Visiting Associate Professor of LawThe University of ArizonaJames E. Rogers College of Law

Jeffrey Fagan,Paper

Professor of Public Health and LawColumbia University

Jerome H. Skolnick,Paper

Claire Clements Dean’s Professor EmeritusUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeley School of Law

Bernard E. Harcourt,Paper

Associate ProfessorThe University of ArizonaJames E. Rogers College of Law

Michael R. Gottfredson, Comment

Vice ChancellorUniversity of California at Irvine

12:45 a.m. Lunch with Speaker: TBA

2:00 p.m.PANEL #3:Gun Markets, Gun Availability and Gun Research

Suzanne L. Dovi,Chair

Assistant Professor of Political ScienceThe University of Arizona

Phillip J. Cook,Paper

DirectorDuke UniversitySanford Institute of Public Policy

Mark H. Moore,Paper

Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice PolicyHarvard UniversityJohn F. Kennedy School of Government

Stephen J. Schulhofer,Comment

Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and CriminologyUniversity of Chicago Law School

3:45 p.m.Coffee Break

4:00 p.m.PANEL #4: Gun Control Legislation

Carol S. Steiker,Chair

Professor of Law and Associate DeanHarvard Law School

Fox Butterfield,Paper

New York Times

James B. Jacobs,Paper

Professor of LawNew York University School of Law

John Lott,Paper

FellowYale Law School

Janet Napolitano, Comment (invited)

Attorney General of Arizona

5:30 p.m.Reactions and Comments Panel: Part I

Comments from a panel of industry (gun manufacturer and dealer), public health, medical, law enforcement, and related experts.

6:30 p.m.Reception

Saturday, January 27, 2001Saturday, January 27, 2001

9:00 a.m.PANEL #5: The Second Amendment: Recent Controversies

Dean Toni M. Massaro,Chair

The University of ArizonaJames E. Rogers College of Law

Sanford Levinson,Paper

Garwood Centennial Regents ChairUniversity of Texas School of Law

Carl Bogus,Paper

Professor of Law Roger Williams University School of Law

Christopher Eisgruber,Paper

Professor of LawNew York University School of Law

Carol S. Steiker,Comment

Professor of Law and Associate DeanHarvard Law School

10:45 a.m.Coffee Break

Associate ProfessorThe University of ArizonaJames E. Rogers College of Law

David Kairys,Paper (invited)

Professor of LawTemple University School of Law

Mark Geistfeld,Paper

Professor of LawNew York University School of Law

David Kopel,Paper

Research DirectorIndependence Institute

Robert L. Rabin,Comment

A. Calder Mackay Professor of LawStanford Law School

12:30 p.m.Lunch ON YOUR OWN

1:30 p.m.Reactions and Comments Panel:Part II

2:30 p.m.Open Forum Roundtables on Current Gun Research

Conference participants and attendees interested in discussing their on-going research projects will be invited to present new research. Sign-up as part of registration materials.

3:30 p.m.Coffee Break

3:45 p.m.PANEL #7:Punishing Gun Offenders

Louise Marie Roth, Chair

Assistant Professor of SociologyThe University of Arizona

Sara Sun Beale,Paper

Professor of LawDuke University School of Law

Daniel C. Richman,Paper

Associate ProfessorFordham University School of Law

Jeffrey Fagan,Comment

Professor of Public Health and LawColumbia University

6:30 p.m.Closing Dinner with Keynote Speaker

Bryan A. Stevenson

Director of the Equal Justice InitiativeJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow

9:00 p.m.Concluding Remarks

Bernard E. Harcourt

Associate ProfessorThe University of ArizonaJames E. Rogers College of Law

If you have research that you would like to discuss at the Open Forum on Saturday, please indicate and attach abstract of the research.