Law, Policy & Guns

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Written By Justice Collaboratory

Summary

Through a series of public events, a new course offering, cutting-edge scholarship, and a special issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, the Justice Collaboratory in conjunction with the Solomon Center for Health, Law & Policy is placing a special focus on addressing the epidemic of gun violence in America.

The faculty and staff of Justice Collaboratory along with the Solomon Center joined forces with Professor Ian Ayres to host an interdisciplinary seminar during the spring semester of 2020 called “Law, Policy & Guns.” Through collaborative research with physicians and faculty from across the university as well as gun policy experts and litigators from across the country, students co-authored original scholarship making concrete and timely interventions in the debate about gun violence. The articles resulting from the seminar were published in the 2020 winter supplement of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.

Approach

The series of public events and course approached gun violence from an interdisciplinary perspective and brought together national experts from different parts of the country. Among the questions that the course and some of the resulting scholarship address, are:

  • What exactly is America’s gun violence problem, and do the policy responses fit the real causes?

  • How are the criminal justice system and its stakeholders, responding to gun violence?

  • What is the role of healthcare professionals?

  • How are guns regulated at the state and federal levels and how have state and local governments responded to the gun violence problem?

  • How has ongoing litigation conceived of the nature of gun violence and the liberty interest in bearing arms and what kinds of research is the litigation generating?

Funding

Law, Policy, and Guns has been generously supported by the Oscar M. Ruebhausen fund at Yale Law School.

Publications

The articles published in The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics: Gun Violence in America: An Interdisciplinary Examination (2020) include:

Researchers

Ian Ayres, J.D., Ph.D.

William K. Townsend Professor and Deputy Dean at Yale Law School. He received his B.A. from Yale College (1981), his J.D. (1986) from Yale Law School, and his Ph.D. in Economics (1988) from MIT.

Abbe R. Gluck, J.D.

Professor of Law and the Founding Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School and Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. She received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University.

Katherine L. Kraschel, J.D.

Executive Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy as well as a Lecturer in Law, Clinical Lecturer in Law, and Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, and her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College.

Tracey L. Meares, J.D.

Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. She received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and her B.S. from the University of Illinois.

Caroline Nobo Sarnoff, M.S.

Executive Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School.

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