{"product_id":"9780472021802","title":"Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts","description":"\"Mass tort litigation against the gun industry, with its practical weaknesses, successes, and goals, provides the framework for this collection of thoughtful essays by leading social scientists, lawyers, and academics. . . . These informed analyses reveal the complexities that make the debate so difficult to resolve. . . . Suing the Gun Industry masterfully reveals the many details contributing to the intractability of the gun debate.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eNew York Law Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Second Amendment advocate or gun-control fanatic, all Americans who care about freedom need to read \u003ci\u003eSuing the Gun Industry\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Bob Barr, Member of Congress, 1995-2003, and Twenty-First Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy, American Conservative Union\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e source for anyone interested in a balanced analysis of the lawsuits against the gun industry.\"\u003cbr\u003e -David Hemenway, Professor of Health Policy \u0026amp; Director, Harvard Injury Control Research Center Harvard School of Public Health Health Policy and Management Department, author of \u003ci\u003ePrivate Guns, Public Health\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Highly readable, comprehensive, well-balanced. It contains everything you need to know, and on all sides, about the wave of lawsuits against U.S. gun manufacturers.\"\u003cbr\u003e -James B. Jacobs, Warren E. Burger Professor of Law and author of \u003ci\u003eCan Gun Control Work?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"In \u003ci\u003eSuing the Gun Industry\u003c\/i\u003e, Timothy Lytton has assembled some of the leading scholars and advocates, both pro and con, to analyze this fascinating effort to circumvent the well-known political obstacles to more effective gun control. This fine book offers a briefing on both the substance and the legal process of this wave of lawsuits, together with a better understanding of the future prospects for this type of litigation vis-à -vis other industries.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Philip J. Cook, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An interesting collection, generally representing the center of the gun-control debate, with considerable variation in focus, objectivity, and political realism.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Paul Blackman, retired pro-gun criminologist and advocate\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Gun litigation deserves a closer look amid the lessons learned from decades of legal action against the makers of asbestos, Agent Orange, silicone breast implants, and tobacco products, among others.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSuing the Gun Industry\u003c\/i\u003e collects the diverse and often conflicting opinions of an outstanding cast of specialists in law, public health, public policy, and criminology and distills them into a complete picture of the intricacies of gun litigation and its repercussions for gun control.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Using multiple perspectives, \u003ci\u003eSuing the Gun Industry\u003c\/i\u003e scrutinizes legal action against the gun industry. Such a broad approach highlights the role of this litigation within two larger controversies: one over government efforts to reduce gun violence, and the other over the use of mass torts to regulate unpopular industries.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Readers will find \u003ci\u003eSuing the Gun Industry\u003c\/i\u003e a timely and accessible picture of these complex and controversial issues.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Contributors:\u003cbr\u003e Tom Baker\u003cbr\u003e Donald Braman\u003cbr\u003e Brannon P. Denning\u003cbr\u003e Tom Diaz\u003cbr\u003e Howard M. Erichson\u003cbr\u003e Thomas O. Farrish\u003cbr\u003e Shannon Frattaroli\u003cbr\u003e John Gastil\u003cbr\u003e Dan M. Kahan\u003cbr\u003e Don B. Kates\u003cbr\u003e Timothy D. Lytton\u003cbr\u003e Julie Samia Mair\u003cbr\u003e Richard A. Nagareda\u003cbr\u003e Peter H. Schuck\u003cbr\u003e Stephen D. Sugarman\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Teret\u003cbr\u003e Wendy Wagner\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105879015664,"sku":"9780472021802","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780472021802_p0.jpg?v=1763707881","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780472021802","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}