DENVER, CO, August 03, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to name David Benjamin Kopel a Lifetime Achiever. An accomplished listee, Prof. Kopel celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Admitted to practice law for the Supreme Court of the United States, State of Colorado, State of New York, and the federal Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits, Prof. Kopel first graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in History with highest honors and from the University of Michigan Law School with a JD, magna cum laude. Accepting his first position as an associate attorney for Sullivan and Cromwell in New York City in 1985, he soon became an assistant district attorney for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office before working as an Assistant Attorney General for the Colorado State Attorney General's Office in Denver.
The year after Prof. Kopel began working in Denver in 1988, he became an associate policy analyst for Cato Institute. By 1992, he became research director at Independence Institution in Golden and Denver, Co. where he remains today. A few years later, he also began teaching as an adjunct professor for New York University Law School from 1998 to 1999, ultimately accepting a position as an adjunct professor of constitutional law at the Denver University Sturm College of Law in 2009.
In addition to Prof. Kopel's career in law and higher education, he has served as a peer reviewer for the local law enforcement equipment grants program for the Department of Homeland Security, as editor-in-chief for the Journal on Firearms and Public Policy, and as a columnist for the Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, the National Review Online, and the Washington Post's Volokh Conspiracy weblog. Dr. Kopel has written over 100 scholarly articles dating back to 1991, including "The First Century of Right to Arms Litigation" in the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, "Reforming Mental Health Law to Protect Public Safety and Help the Severely Mentally Ill" in the Howard Law Journal, and "The Second Amendment in the Nineteenth Century" in the BYU Law Review. The latter article was cited by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals as a proper model of "originalist interpretive method as applied to the Second Amendment."
Other publications to which Dr. Kopel has contributed include the Harvard Journal on Legislation, Yale Law Journal Online, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He has also authored/co-authored 17 books, to include "The Morality of Self-Defense and Military Action: The Judeo-Christian Tradition", "Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights, and Policy", and "A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Affordable Care Act", and he has contributed chapters to more than two dozen books. Furthermore, Dr. Kopel has been published in encyclopedias and dictionaries, has contributed 40 monographs, and has had excerpts in over two dozen secondary school and college books. His scholarship has been cited in dozens of federal and state court opinions.
Recognized many times for his achievements, Prof. Kopel received numerous awards, some of which include a 2014 Global Leadership Award, a 2009 Scholar of the Year, a 1997 Bill of Rights Award, and a 1989 and 1995 James Madison Award, all through the Second Amendment Foundation. He was also named Journalist of the Year by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in 2002 and 2006, and was the recipient of a Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties in 1997. His 1992 book "The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies?" was named book of the year by the American Society of Criminology, Division of International Criminology.
A member of the Colorado State Advisory Committee, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Prof. Kopel is a registered democrat who is married with three children. He has been highlighted in nearly 50 editions of Who's Who, including Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Dr. David Benjamin Kopel has been featured on the Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievers website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
About Marquis Who's Who :
Since 1899, when A. N. Marquis printed the First Edition of Who's Who in America , Marquis Who's Who has chronicled the lives of the most accomplished individuals and innovators from every significant field of endeavor, including politics, business, medicine, law, education, art, religion and entertainment. Today, Who's Who in America remains an essential biographical source for thousands of researchers, journalists, librarians and executive search firms around the world. Marquis publications may be visited at the official Marquis Who's Who website at www.marquiswhoswho.com.
# # #