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\"\"Michael Ulrich<\/a>, assistant professor of health law, ethics & human rights, was selected to present his research on gun violence and public health law at the 2019 Health Law Scholars Workshop<\/a>, sponsored by the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and the Saint Louis University Law School Center for Health Law Studies. Ulrich and three other scholars presented their research at the workshop from September 12-14 at the Saint Louis University School of Law in St. Louis, Mo.<\/p>\n

Held annually, the Health Law Scholars Workshop encourages health law and bioethics scholarship and fosters professional development among emerging scholars. During a two-hour session last month, Ulrich received in-depth critiques and advice on his work-in-progress from scholars and peer reviewers in health law and bioethics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really great experience to have your ideas challenged,\u201d says Ulrich. \u201cThey want you to succeed but they also want to make sure that the things you\u2019re putting out there are sound. It makes you question some of your assumptions\u2014or even recognize the assumptions that you didn\u2019t realize were assumptions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ulrich\u2019s paper, titled \u201cPublic Carry, Public Health,\u201d applies the public health law framework he developed to a specific Second Amendment question\u2014the right to carry firearms in public. He argues that legal analysis needs to balance an individual\u2019s right to carry a firearm for protection with the state\u2019s authority to limit individual rights to help reduce risk and protect public health and safety.<\/p>\n

Similar to how policymakers treat vaccination rates as an issue of public health and safety, Ulrich says it could be worthwhile to view the issue of gun violence as a disease threatening the health of communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we had this contagious disease that was spreading, and more and more people were dying, people would be upset if the government didn\u2019t step in to do something,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Ulrich hopes that by framing gun violence as a public health problem and bolstering the public health law framework, he can change how the legal field analyzes these laws and informs how policymakers think about laws that implicate Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

\u2014Madeline Bishop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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