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NEW YORK, NY, October 8, 2003- Best-selling author Richard North
Patterson will headline a well-known list of experts in a debate
on gun control on Tuesday, October 14, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
in the Stiefel Reading Room at New York Law School, 57 Worth Street,
New York.
Sponsored by the Law School's Justice Action Center, the debate
will also feature NRA Board member and former Georgia Representative
Bob Barr; Skidmore College Professor Mary Zeiss Stange, author of
Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America; and Jon
Lowy, Senior Attorney of the Legal Action Project at the Brady Center
to Prevent Gun Violence. New York Law School Professor Nadine Strossen,
president of the ACLU, will moderate the panel. Patterson
will be signing copies of his new novel, Balance of Power, after
the program.
Patterson served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State
of Ohio; a trial attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission
in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco; and was the SEC's liaison
to the Watergate Special Prosecutor. In 1993, he retired from the
practice of law to devote himself to writing. He is a member of
the boards of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Common
Cause, the Family Violence Prevention Fund, and the National Partnership
for Women and Families.
Patterson's eleventh novel, Protect and Defend (2000), about
the controversial nomination of the first woman to be Chief Justice,
and her entanglement in an incendiary lawsuit regarding late-term
abortion and parental consent, became his seventh international
bestseller and received a Maggie Award from Planned Parenthood for
its treatment of issues regarding reproductive rights. It is now
being developed as a feature film.
Patterson's twelfth novel, Balance of Power, which will be released
on the day of the debate, confronts one of America's most emotional
and divisive issues-gun violence.
Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House
of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, serving as a senior member
of the Judiciary Committee. He occupies the 21st Century Liberties
Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union,
serves as Distinguished Fellow with Lt. Col. Oliver North's Freedom
Alliance, as a Board Member at the Patrick Henry Center, and is
the Honorary Chair for Citizens United.
Stange is the author of Woman the Hunter, the first cultural
history of the relationship of women and hunting, and has gained
national recognition as the primary scholar working on the subject
today. Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America,
a collaboration with psychologist Carol K. Oyster, deals with women's
various positive relationships with firearms (self-protection, hunting,
recreational and competitive shooting, careers like law enforcement
and the military).
The Legal Action Project at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
is a national public interest law program which provides pro bono
legal representation to victims of gun violence, including-cities,
counties, and other public entities-in lawsuits against the gun
industry and assists in the defense of reasonable gun laws when
they are attacked in the courts. Lowy litigates lawsuits against
gun manufacturers, dealers, and owners where guns have not been
made, sold, or stored responsibly. Among other cases, he is counsel
for victims of the Washington, D.C.-area sniper shootings; counsel
for several victims of the white supremacist shooter who terrorized
minorities in the Midwest in the July 4th weekend in 1999; he was
co-trial counsel for the plaintiffs in Dix v. Beretta (the first
case to be tried alleging that gun makers have a duty to childproof
guns); and is co-counsel in numerous other cases, including cases
brought by several cities, including Washington, D.C., New York,
St. Louis, San Franscisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Cincinnati,
in their pending suits against the gun industry.
Contact: Jim Hellegaard, Director of Communications, Office of
Public Affairs, 212.431.2191, jhellegaard@nyls.edu
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