MEDIA ADVISORY

A two-day conference on Sept. 16-17 hosted by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center will bring together scholars to discuss "Gun Control: Old Problems, New Paradigms." The event, which is open to the public, will be held at Stanford Law School, Room 190, Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way.

Prominent legal scholars, social scientists and historians will present papers on the historical underpinnings of gun ownership, the current status of gun regulation, theories of Second Amendment arguments for and against government intervention, and contemporary American gun culture. The conference is cosponsored by Criminal Justice Center at Stanford Law School and the Second Amendment Research Center at the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy at Ohio State University.

Stanford Law Professor Robert Weisberg, director of the Criminal Justice Center, along with two of the nation's leading criminologists on the scholarship of gun regulation—Professors Franklin Zimring of the University of California-Berkeley and James Jacobs of New York University—will provide commentary during the conference.

Drafts of working papers can be obtained at http://www.secondamendmentcenter.org/digital_archive_searchresults.asp?SetID=11&;FieldID=1.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULEFriday, Sept. 16Gun Control and Gun Rights in Early AmericaGun Regulation and Gun Rights in the Era of the 14th AmendmentSaturday, Sept. 17The Current State of Second Amendment TheoryGun Violence and Gun Regulation: The Current State of Public PolicyGun Regulation and the Problem of Constitutional ScrutinyContemporary Gun Culture and the Future of Regulation

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