TO BE RESCHEDULEDDr. John R. Lott, Jr.THE NEW PUSH FOR GUN REGULATIONS

From the U.N. interest in regulating U.S. gun ownership - to the new American sovereign gun law initiatives

When: POSTPONED - TO BE RESCHEDULED

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Dr. John Richard Lott Jr. is a leading expert on 2nd Amendment law and policy. His work to debunk the myths that surround gun ownership has changed the entire debate.

Dr. Lott is a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has previously held research positions at other academic institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Enterprise Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, and his areas of research include econometrics, law and economics, public choice theory, industrial organization, public finance, microeconomics, labor economics, and environmental regulation.

Dr. Lott's most recent books are: Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't and The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun Control is Wrong. He may be best known for his book - More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws.

2009 Annual Lawyer-Student Federalist Society Orange County Barbeque

WHEN: Saturday, May 2nd -- 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
WHAT: Pulled pork sandwiches, smoked turkey, salads -- wine and beer
WHO: Orange County attorneys - networking!! - Orange County law students - meet your colleagues!!
WHERE: Home of board member John Dodd - (directions provided to all RSVP responses)
COST: $10

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Prof. Robert Turner speaking onWhy the Vietnam War was Just and Necessary:What do Post-Vietnam Reforms Mean for the Coming Afghanistan Surge?

When: Thursday, April 9, 11:45am
Where: McCormick & Schmick's Restaurant, 2000 Main Street, Irvine (949) 756-0505
Cost: $30 for Buffet Lunch and one hour MCLE credit. See reservation and payment details below. The Federalist Society is a California State Bar approved provider of MCLE

Prof. Robert Turner co-founded the Center for National Security Law with Professor John Norton Moore in April 1981 and has served as its Associate Director since then except for two periods of government service in the 1980s and during 1994-95, when he occupied the Charles H. Stockton Chair of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. A veteran of two Army tours in Vietnam, he served as a Research Associate and Public Affairs Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace before spending five years in the mid-1970s as national security adviser to Senator Robert P. Griffin, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has also served in the Pentagon as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, in the White House as Counsel to the President's Intelligence Oversight Board, at the State Department as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, and as the first President of the congressionally established United States Institute of Peace.

A former three-term chairman of the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security (and for many years editor of the ABA National Security Law Report), Prof. Turner has taught undergraduate courses at Virginia on international law, U.S. foreign policy, the Vietnam War, and foreign policy and the law in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, in addition to co-teaching with Moore the law school seminars Advanced Topics in National Security Law I & II. The author or editor of more than a dozen books and monographs (including coeditor of the Center's National Security Law and National Security Law Documents) and numerous articles in law reviews and professional journals, Prof. Turner has also contributed articles to most of the major U.S. newspapers and has testified before more than a dozen different congressional committees on issues of international or constitutional law and related topics.

Prof. Turner is a member of the Committee on the Present Danger, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other professional organizations. Please click on Prof. Turner's photo for a complete biography and publications.

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