August 12, 2005

In the mail: Timothy Lytton of Albany Law School (who was a generous host when I debated Carl Bogus there a year or two back) has edited a new volume entitled Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts. Looks promising, with a blurb from James B. Jacobs, for example: "Highly readable, comprehensive, well-balanced. It contains everything you need to know, and on all sides, about the wave of lawsuits against U.S. gun manufacturers." While Prof. Lytton is much more favorably disposed toward gun litigation than I am, the contributors are drawn from a wide range of viewpoints, and contributors include Peter Schuck of Yale Law, Stephen Sugarman of Boalt Hall (Berkeley), civil liberties lawyer Don Kates, and Brannon Denning of Cumberland/Samford.