 Before dinner, Daniel Polsby, Dean of George Mason University School of Law, talking with the Honorable Laurence H. Silberman, Senior Judge on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and author of Parker v. D.C., affirmed by the Supreme Court in Heller. |
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 From left, William Dailey, Chairman of the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund; Sandra Froman, NRA Director and President of the NRA from 2005 to 2007; and Judge Silberman. All are Harvard Law School graduates. |
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 Keith Milligan, at the Scholars Seminar as a student, talking with other seminar students at dinner. |
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 Professor Randy Barnett, law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, talking with his dinner companions, a 2-L from Yale and a 2-L from Harvard. Other law professors sharing dinner with the seminar students included Eugene Volokh (UCLA), Joyce Malcolm (GMUSL), Renee Lettow Lerner (GW), Craig Lerner (GMUSL), Michael O'Shea (Oklahoma City U.), and David Kopel (Denver U.) |
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 Professor Nicholas Johnson, from Fordham University School of Law, talking with CRDF Chairman William Dailey, a Harvard Law graduate. |
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 Professor Robert Cottrol, law professor at George Washington University and CRDF Trustee, talking with dinner companions. |
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 Dr. Stephen Halbrook (left) and Stephen Poss. In Heller, Dr. Halbrook wrote the amicus brief for 55 Members of the U.S. Senate, the President of the U.S. Senate, and 250 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives. In Heller, Mr. Poss wrote the amicus brief for the NRA and the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund. In McDonald, Poss and Halbrook joined forces to write the brief for the NRA as a party in the case. Mr. Poss is a Senior Partner with Goodwin Procter; all of his work on Heller and on McDonald was done pro bono. |
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 Don Kates (left) and CRDF Chairman William Dailey. |
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 Daniel Polsby, Dean of George Mason University School of Law, introducing the guest speaker. |
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 Guest speaker was the Honorable Laurence H. Silberman, Senior Judge on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and author of Parker v. D.C., which was affirmed by the Supreme Court in Heller. |
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 Judge Silberman opted to speak while seated, because of a minor leg injury that he had experienced during a recent hunting trip. |
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 Flowers for the Judge's wife! |
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 Sandra Froman presented the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund's 2011 Carter-Knight Freedom Award to Don B. Kates, Jr. |
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 Don B. Kates, Jr., accepting the plaque and award check from Sandra Froman. Don Kates is a criminologist, civil liberties lawyer, and author. His law degree is from Yale, and he taught at Saint Louis University School of Law. In 1983, Don Kates broke into the "big time" for the 2nd Amendment academics when he got an article published in Michigan Law Review: "Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment." With that law review, the gate opened for other pro-Second Amendment articles to be published in major law reviews. |
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 Judge Silberman with other Harvard Law School graduates after dinner. From left to right: Professor Craig Lerner (HLS 1994), Professor Randy Barnett (HLS 1977), former NRA President Sandra Froman (HLS 1974), Judge Silberman (HLS 1961), Professor Nicholas Johnson (HLS 1984), CRDF Chairman William H. Dailey (HLS 1963), Professor Michael O'Shea (HLS 2001). |
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The evening was hosted by the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund,
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