UCLA faculty experts advisory: Aurora shootings
July 23, 2012
UCLA has faculty experts able to discuss with the media various aspects of the mass shootings by a lone gunman in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater.
GUN CONTROL
Adam Winkler, professor of law, is a constitutional law specialist whose scholarship has touched on a variety of issues, including the right to bear arms, voting rights, corporate free speech rights and judicial independence. He was cited in the opinions issued in McDonald v. City of Chicago, and his work was cited extensively in briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2008 Second Amendment case District of Columbia v. Heller.
Media contact:
Lauri Gavel | 310-206-2611 | gavel@law.ucla.edu
Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, is a nationally recognized expert on constitutional law, gun-control laws, the U.S. Supreme Court and other topics. He was cited in the opinions issued in McDonald v. City of Chicago.
Media contact:
Lauri Gavel | 310-206-2611 | gavel@law.ucla.edu
MENTAL HEALTH/TRAUMA
Melissa Brymer, director of terrorism and disaster programs at the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, focuses on the ways in which children deal with stress following disasters.
Media contact:
Mark Wheeler | 310-794-2265 | mwheeler@mednet.ucla.edu
Emanuel Maidenberg, a psychologist at the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, is an expert on the stress and anxiety caused by wildfires.
Media contact:
Mark Wheeler | 310-794-2265 | mwheeler@mednet.ucla.edu