John R. Lott Jr. is a resident scholar at AEI. Mr. Lott has held positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989. Mr. Lott has published over ninety articles in academic journals. He is the author of a new book, The Bias against Guns. Previously he has written More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws and more recently, a book on antitrust policy entitled Are Predatory Commitments Credible?: Who Should the Courts Believe?. Opinion pieces by Mr. Lott have appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Chicago Tribune.

Paul Waldman is associate director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches and conducts research on media and politics. His research on topics such as political advertising, campaign rhetoric, public opinion, citizen deliberation, and press coverage of campaigns has appeared in numerous edited volumes and scholarly journals. Mr. Waldman is coauthor of The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories That Shape the Political World (Oxford University Press, 2002) and op-editor of Electing the President 2000: The Insiders’ View (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

Carlisle E. Moody is professor of economics and chair of the Economics Department at the College of William and Mary. He teaches mathematical economics, econometrics, and time series analysis. Mr. Waldman has published extensively in the Economics of Crime and Criminal Justice Policy, including articles in the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Legal Studies, Criminology, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Homicide Studies.

Eugene Kontorovich is an assistant professor at the George Mason University Law School. He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review. Before entering law school, Mr. Kontorovich worked as a reporter and editorial writer at various New York newspapers. His commentary on legal matters has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and other major publications.