Publications and Productions

Don B. Kates
Position:	Of Counsel
Direct Line:	(562) 216-4444
Email:	DKates@michellawyers.com

Books
Gary Kleck & Don B. Kates, Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control ( Prometheus Bks. 2001).
Don B. Kates & Gary Kleck, The Great American Gun Debate: Essays on Firearms & Violence (Pacific Research, 1997)
Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment (Second Amend. Found. 1984).
Firearms & Violence: Issues of Regulation (Don B. Kates ed., Ballinger Publg. Co. 1984).
Firearms & Violence: Issues of Regulation (Don B. Kates ed., Ballinger Publg. Co. 1983).
John Kaplan, Don B. Kates,  & Raymond Kellser, Law-Abiding Criminals: Making Gun Ownership a Victimless Crime (1983).
The Second Amendment, Second to None: An Analysis of the Legal Theory and Historical Origins of the SEcond Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Second Amend. Found. 1982).
Why Handgun Bans Can’t Work (Second Amend. Found. 1982).
Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out (N. River Press 1979).

Editorials
Gun Rights for Felons?, N.Y. Post, July 22, 2008.
Good Citizens and Guns, Alexandria Daily Town Talk (La.), April 17, 2008.
Good Citizens and Guns, Mountain Mail (Colo.), April 17, 2008.
Good Citizens and Guns, Crookstown Daily Times (Minn.), April 17, 2008.
How to Empower Northern Illinois University, Savannah Morning News, Mar. 9, 2008.
In Election Season, Mum’s the Word about Gun Control, Contra Costa Times (Cal.), Jan. 19, 2008.
In Election Season, Mum’s the Word about Gun Control, America’s 1^stFreedom, Jan. 19, 2008.
Shouldn’t People Who Favor Gun Control Favor War in Iraq?, Hist. News Network, Sept. 16, 2002.
Do Guns Cause Crime?, Hist. News Network, July 22, 2002.
Gun Control Versus Gun Prohibition (Editorial), ABA Journal 68, no. 9., Sept. 1982.

Articles
The Right to Arms: The Criminology of Guns, 2010 Cardozo L. Rev. De Novo 86 (2010).
The Second Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms After D.C. v. Heller: A Modern Historiography of the Second Amendment, 56 UCLA L. Rev. 1211 (2009).
Genocide, Murder, & the Fundamental Human Right to Defend One’s Life, 2 J.L. Econ. & Pol’y 309 (2007).
Gary A. Mauser & Don B. Kates, Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?: A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence, 30 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 649 (2007).
Don B. Kates & C.D. Michel, Local Gun Bans in California: A Futile Exercise, 41 U.S.F. L. Rev. 333 (2007).
Genocide. Self-Defense & the Right to Arms, 29 Hamline L. Rev. 502 (2006).
The Hopelessness of Trying to Disarm the Kind of People who Murder, Bridges: Interdisc. J. Theology Phil. Hist. & Sci., Fall/Winter 2005, at  313-336.
The Limited Importance of Gun Control from a Criminological Perspective, in Suing the Firearms Industry: A Legal Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control & Mass Torts, 62 (Timothy D. Lytton ed., U. Mich. Press 2005).
Genocide, Murder & the Human Right [Under International Law] to Defend One’s Life, (2003) (unpublished background paper cited in Small Arms Survey 2004).
Democide & Disarmament, SAIS Rev. Int’l. Aff., Winter/Spring 2003, at 305-09.
Don B. Kates & Daniel D. Polsby, Long Term Non-Relationship of Firearm Availability to Homicide in the United States, 4 Homicide Studies. 185 (2000).
Daniel D. Polsby & Don B. Kates, American Homicide Exceptionalism, 69 U. Colo. L. Rev. 969 (1998).
Daniel D. Polsby & Don B. Kates, Of Holocausts & Gun Control, 75 Wash. U. L. Q. 1237 (1997).
Randy E. Barnett & Don B. Kates, Under Fire: The New Consensus on the Second Amendment, 45 Emory L. J., 1139(1996).
Don B. Kates, Henry E. Schaffer, John K. Lattimer, George B. Murray & Edwin H. Cassem, Guns and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence or Pandemic of Propaganda?, 61 Tenn. L. Rev. 62, no. 3. 513 (1994).
Glenn Harlan Reynolds & Don B. Kates, The Second Amendment & States’ Rights: A Thought Experiment, 36 WM. & Mary L. Rev. 1737 (1995).
Don B. Kates & Daniel D. Polsby Of Genocide & Disarmament, 86 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 247 (1995) (reviewing Jay Simkin et al., Lethal Laws (1994)).
Gun Control: Separating Reality from Symbolism, 20 J. Contemp. L. 353 (1995).
Bigotry, Symbolism & Ideology in the Battle over Gun Control, 1992 Pub. Int. L. Rev. 31.
The Second Amendment & the Ideology of Self-Protection, 9 Const. Comment. 87 (1992).
The Value of Civilian Handgun Possession as a Deterrent to Crime or a Defense against Crime, 18 Am. J. Crim. L. 113 (1991).
Firearms and Violence: Old Premises, Current Evidence, in Violence in America, vol. 1, 197 (Ted Robert Gurr ed., Sage Publications 1989).
The Second Amendment: A Dialogue, 49 Law & Contemp. Probs. 143 (1986).
Thomas Orsagh & Don B. Kates, Review of Firearms and Violence: Issues of Public Policy, 52 S. Econ. J. 889 (1986).
Can We Deny Citizens Both Guns and Protection?, Wall St. J., Aug. 17, 1983, at 22.
Handgun Prohibition & the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment,82 Mich. L. Rev. 204 (1983).
Gun Control Versus Gun Prohibition, 68 A.B.A. J. 1052 (1982).
Don B. Kates & Nancy Jean Engberg, Deadly Force Self Defense Against Rape, 15 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 873 (1982).
Gun Laws vs. Crime, in The Reference Shelf: THe Issue of Gun Control (Thomas Graper ed., H.W. Wilson 1981).
On the Futility of Prohibiting Guns, in The Referenec Shelf: The Issue of Gun Control (Thomas Draper ed., H.W. Wilson 1981).
Some Remarks on the Prohibition of Handguns, 23 St. Louis U. L.J. 11 (1979).
Reflections on the Relevancy of Gun Control, 13 Crim. L. Bull. 119 (1977).
Rejoinder (to Robert F. Drinan, Gun Control : The Good Outweighs the Evil). C.L. Rev., Aug. – Sept. 1976, at 53.
Why a Civil Libertarian Opposes Gun Control, C.L. Rev., June-July 1976, at 24.
Gary A. Greenfield & Don B. Kates, Mexican Americans, Racial Discrimination & the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 63 Cal. L. Rev. 662 (1975).
Don B. Kates & William T. Barker, Mootness in Judicial Proceedings: Toward a Coherent Theory, 62 Cal. L. Rev. 1385 (1974).
Don B. Kates & J. Anthony Kouba, Liability of Public Entities Under Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act, 45 U.S.C. L. Rev. 131 (1972).
Immunity of State Judges Under the Federal Civil Rights Acts, 65 Northwestern L. Rev. 615 (1970).
Abolition: Deportation, Integration: Attitudes Toward Slavery in the Early Republic, 53 J. Negro Hsitory 33 (1968).

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