James Lindgren (CV below)
Professor of Law, Northwestern University

The Chicago-Kent Law Review recently published a one-sided symposium on
the Second Amendment from those who oppose the individual rights view of
the right to bear arms.  Among the participants in Chicago-Kent's
symposium was the controversial Emory historian Michael Bellesiles,
author of Arming America, which just won Columbia's prestigious Bancroft
Prize for history.

Professor Lindgren (who himself favors gun control) will present data
showing massive errors in Bellesiles' central evidence--gun ownership in
probate records in early America.  According to Lindgren, Bellesiles
repeatedly counts women as men, counts guns as old or broken that are
not listed as such, and counts a hundred wills that are not there (and
never were because the decedents died intestate).  Lindgren will also
show that Bellesiles' national mean for gun ownership is mathematically
impossible, given Bellesiles' own regional means and known minimum
sample sizes.  In the very records Bellesiles cites, there are over 3
times as many guns as Bellesiles finds.

These are part of major errors that serious scholars in various fields
are beginning to reveal about Arming America.  This is an opportunity to
get an early look at hard facts about the most serious scandal in
decades involving a reputable historian.

CURRICULUM VITAE
 JAMES LINDGREN

Northwestern University School of Law
357 East Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 503-8374

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Northwestern University School of Law (Summer 1996-date)
Professor of Law: Teaching Wills & Trusts, Law and Social Science, Criminal Law, Legal Ethics.
Research interests include empiricism, law and society, criminal law, trusts and estates, legal theory, diversity, legal education, ancient law, law and economics, rhetoric, law reviews, and legal ethics. Chair of Faculty Appointments Committee.

University of Chicago Law School (Spring Quarter, 1996)
Lecturer: Co-taught course on Social Science and the Law.

Chicago-Kent College of Law (1990-96)
Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar and Professor of Law:  Taught Estates and Trusts, Trusts, Professional Responsibility, Criminal Law, Advanced Criminal Law,Federal Criminal Law. Co-founded the Legal Theory Workshop and the Faculty Roundtable. Co-Chair, Faculty Appointments Committee, 1991-92, 1992-93. Associate Dean for Faculty Development (1992-93): Helped introduce faculty research leaves, teaching load reductions, and an expansion of the workshop programs.

University of Texas School of Law (Spring Semester, 1995)
Visiting Professor of Law: Researched ancient law, the tort-crime distinction, hate speech, pornography, and law reviews. Taught Advanced Criminal Law and Wills and Estates. Co-founded Junior Faculty Roundtable.

University of Chicago Law School (Spring Quarter, 1992)
Visiting Scholar: Research and writing on the history of extortion and bribery, the history of race definition, and pornography.

Northwestern University School of Law (Winter, 1992)
Visiting Scholar: Research and writing on end-of-life decisions, will formalities, and law review publishing.

University of Connecticut School of Law (1982-90; on leave, 1985-87)
Professor of Law: Founded faculty workshop and speakers program. In three of the last four terms taught, received the highest scores on student course evaluations of any course larger than a seminar. Elected by faculty to Faculty Appointments and Promotion and Tenure Committees. Promoted and voted tenure early. Taught Estates and Trusts, Criminal Law, Legal Profession, Pensions, and Rhetoric. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (July 1988-July 1990): Instituted summer research grants, facilitated a new tenure procedure.

University of Virginia School of Law (1985-87)
Visiting Professor of Law: Taught Criminal Law, Advanced Criminal Law, Trusts and Estates, and Pensions. Researched the history of extortion.

American Bar Foundation, Chicago (1979-82)
Research Attorney: Directed projects on conflicts of interest, attorney disqualification, and blackmail. Book Review Editor, American Bar Foundation Research
Journal: Solicited and edited reviews. Expanded the review section.

University of Chicago, Center for Studies in Criminal Justice (1979-82)
Fellow: Researched blackmail, gun control, and police use of force.

Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, CT, Member of the Board (1989-90).

Law and Society Association, Member.

American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, Member (by invitation)

American Society for Legal History, Member.

American Law and Economics Association, Member.

AALS Section on Scholarship, Chair (1996) and co-founder.

National Organization for Women, Consultant on NOW v. Scheidler, the RICO abortion-clinic bombing case.

Previous legal employment: an associate in estate litigation and planning at Reuben & Proctor (1978-79) and Hopkins & Sutter (1977-78 and summer 1976).

EDUCATION:
University of Chicago Graduate School of Sociology
Ph.D. Student in Sociology (with concentrations in social statistics and in survey research and public opinion).

University of Chicago Law School, 1974-77, J.D., 1977 Associate Editor (1976-77) and member (1975-76), University of Chicago Law Review.
Morton-Murphy Prize.  Class of 1977 Service Award. Worked for ACLU. Founded Law School Films.

Yale College, 1970-74, B.A., 1974, political science
Cum laude. Aurelian Honor Society.  Allen Kitchell Scholar.
Yale Alumni of Illinois Scholarship.

LEGAL PUBLICATIONS:
The Most Prolific Law Professors and Faculties, 71 CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW 781 (1996) (symposium on Trends in Legal Scholarship).

Why the Ancients May Not Have Needed a System of Criminal Law, 76 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 29 (1996) (symposium on the Tort-Crime
Intersection).

Reforming the American Law Review, 47 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 1123 (1995) (symposium on Student-Edited Law Reviews).

Measuring the Value of Slaves and Free Persons in Ancient Law, 71 CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW 149 (1995) (symposium on Ancient Law, Economics,
and Society).

Foreword: Ancient Rights and Wrongs, 71 CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW 5 (1995) (symposium on Ancient Law, Economics, and Society).

Why Ancient Law?, 70 CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW 1465 (1995) (symposium on Ancient Law, Economics, and Society) (co-author).

An Author's Manifesto, 61 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 527 (1994).

Seeing Colors, 80 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 1059 (1993).

Death by Default, 56 LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 185 (1993) (Modern Equity symposium).

Defining Pornography, 141 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW 1153 (1993).

The Theory, History, and Practice of the Bribery-Extortion Distinction, 141 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW 1695 (1993).

Instead of a Preface, 141 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW 1565 (1993) (co-author).

Blackmail: An Afterword 141 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW 1975 (1993).

The Fall of Formalism, 55 ALBANY LAW REVIEW 1009 (1992) (Uniform Probate Code symposium).

Telling Fortunes: Challenging the Efficient Markets Hypothesis by Prediction, 1 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERDISCIPLINARY LAW JOURNAL 7
(1992).

Why I Comment, 24 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 195 (1992).

Fear of Writing, 78 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 1677 (1990).

Return to Sender, 78 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 1718 (1990).

Abolishing the Attestation Requirement for Wills, 68 NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW 301 (1990).

"Ol' Man River, . . . He Keeps on Rollin' Along": A Response to Donohue's Diverting the Coase an River, 78 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL 577 (1990).

Blackmail: On Waste, Morals, and Ronald Coase, 36 UCLA LAW REVIEW 597 (1989).

Kept in the Dark: Owens' View of Blackmail, 21 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 749 (1989).

Secret Rights: A Comment on Campbell's Theory of Blackmail, 21 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 407 (1989).

The Elusive Distinction Between Bribery and Extortion: From the Common Law to the Hobbs Act, 35 UCLA LAW REVIEW 815 (1988).

In Defense of Keeping Blackmail a Crime: Responding to Block and Gordon, 20 LOYOLA (LA) LAW REVIEW 35 (1986).

The Supreme Court's Extraordinary Power to Grant Certiorari Before Judgment in the Court of Appeals, 1986 SUPREME COURT REVIEW 259 (co-author).

Unraveling the Paradox of Blackmail, 84 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 670 (1984).

More Blackmail Ink: A Critique of Blackmail, Inc., Epstein's Theory of Blackmail, 16 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 909 (1984).

Blackmail and Extortion, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND JUSTICE (1983).

The Regulation of Guns, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND JUSTICE (1983) (co-author).

Style Matters: A Review Essay on Legal Writing, 92 YALE LAW JOURNAL 161 (1982).

Toward a New Standard of Attorney Disqualification, 1982 AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION RESEARCH JOURNAL 421.

Organizational and Other Constraints on the Use of Deadly Force by Police, 455 ANNALS OF THE AAPSS 110 (1981).

Book Review, Ethics in the Practice of Law, 1980 AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION RESEARCH JOURNAL 639.

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct _ A Symposium, 1980 AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION RESEARCH JOURNAL 921 (editor).

The Model Rules: A Foreword, 1980 AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION RESEARCH JOURNAL 923.

Private Foundations: Contingent Set-Asides of Income and Corpus, 58 TAXES 477 (1980).

Book Review, The Criminal Justice System, 94 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 477 (1980).

SELECTED PAPERS PRESENTED:
HOW GROUPS THINK,
Faculty Workshop, New York University School of Law (1998).

MEASURING DIVERSITY
Public Paper Presentation, Georgetown University (1997).

MEASURING THE DIVERSITY OF LAW FACULTIES,
Faculty Workshop, UCLA (1997).

MEASURING THE DIVERSITY OF LAW FACULTIES,
Public Paper Presentation, Stanford University (1997).

MEASURING DIVERSITY ON LAW FACULTIES,
Public Paper Presentation, University of Chicago Law School (1997).

WHITHER DIVERSITY?
Paper Presentation, National Association of Scholars, Washington, D.C. (1997).

50 WAYS TO PROMOTE SCHOLARSHIP,
Paper Presentation, AALS Section on Scholarship, Washington, D.C. (1997).

MEASURING DIVERSITY,
Public Paper Presentation, Harvard Law School (1996).

MEASURING DIVERSITY,
Public Paper Presentation, Boston University Law School (1996).

LAW FACULTY DIVERSITY: DO WE HAVE A PROBLEM?,
Public Paper Presentation, Yale Law School (1996).

MEASURING DIVERSITY,
Work-in-Progress Faculty Workshop, University of Chicago Law School (1996).

THE LAW REVIEW REFORM MOVEMENT,
Conference on Law Reviews, Northwestern University (1996).

MEASURING THE VALUE OF SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS IN ANCIENT LAW,
Demography Workshop, University of Chicago (1995).

WHY THE ANCIENTS MAY NOT HAVE NEEDED A CRIMINAL LAW,
Ancient Societies Workshop, University of Chicago (1995).

MEASURING THE VALUE OF SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS IN ANCIENT LAW,
Faculty Workshop, George Washington University School of Law (1995).

MEASURING THE VALUE OF SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS IN ANCIENT LAW,
Faculty Workshop, Northwestern University School of Law (1995).

DEFINING PORNOGRAPHY,
Faculty Workshop, University of Texas School of Law (1995).

MEASURING THE VALUE OF SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS IN ANCIENT LAW,
Conference on Ancient Law, University of California, Berkeley (1995).

WHY THE ANCIENTS MAY NOT HAVE NEEDED A CRIMINAL LAW,
Conference on the Tort-Crime Intersection, Boston University School of Law (1995).

REFORMING THE AMERICAN LAW REVIEW,
Conference on Student-Edited Law Reviews, Stanford University Law School (1995).

WILL REFORMS, Panel Presentation, Association of American Law Schools,
Estate Planning Section (1994).

STUDENT EDITING: USING EDUCATION TO MOVE BEYOND THE STRUGGLE,
Panel Presentation, Association of American Law Schools, Proposed Section on Scholarship (1994).

THE PARADOX OF BLACKMAIL,
Conference on Blackmail, University of Pennsylvania Law Review (1993).

DEATH BY DEFAULT,
Faculty Workshop, Northwestern University School of Law (1993).

DEATH BY DEFAULT,
Editorial Conference on Modern Equity, Duke University School of Law (1992).

THE UNEASY CASE FOR WILLS,
Faculty Workshop, George Washington University (1990).

TELLING FORTUNES: CHALLENGING THE EFFICIENT MARKETS HYPOTHESIS BY PREDICTION,
Faculty Workshop, Vanderbilt Law School (1990).

THE PARADOX OF BLACKMAIL,
Law and Economics Workshop, Harvard University School of Law (1988).

A UNIFIED FIELD THEORY OF PASSING PROPERTY AT DEATH,
Faculty Workshop, University of California, Berkeley (1986).

A UNIFIED FIELD THEORY OF PASSING PROPERTY AT DEATH,
Faculty Workshop, University of Virginia (1986).