Innovative Gun Violence Course Generates Novel Journal Issue
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Monday, January 25, 2021
Innovative Gun Violence Course Generates Novel Journal Issue
The United States leads the developed world in rates of gun violence, a true epidemic that affects everyone. The statistics can be alarming: annually, nearly 40,000 Americans die due to gun violence, an average of over 100 people per day. Another 73,000 people experience firearm injuries some life-altering in severity.
To examine the deleterious effects of this growing crisis, Yale Law School faculty and students convened collaborators from Yale University and across the country to publish a groundbreaking special issue of
) devoted to the gun violence epidemic. The issue, created through a partnership between two innovative Law School centers, the Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy and The Justice Collaboratory, features 26 articles by students, professors, scholars, physicians, advocates, and other experts who s