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Minority Over-Representation In The Criminal Justice System―The Impact On African American Women, Families And Their Communities And Important Emerging Interventions, Brenda V. Smith
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sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in partnership with Mental Health Systems, Inc.
Functional Parenting And Dysfunctional Abortion Policy: Reforming Parental Involvement Legislation, Maya Manian
Functional Parenting And Dysfunctional Abortion Policy: Reforming Parental Involvement Legislation, Maya Manian
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Abortion-related parental involvement mandates raise important family law issues about the scope of parents’ power over their children’s intimate decisions. While there has been extensive scholarly attention paid to the problems with parental involvement laws, relatively little has been said about strategies for reforming these laws. This article suggests using insights from family law relating to functional parenthood and third party caregiving as a basis for crafting more capacious methods of ensuring adult guidance for teenage girls facing an unplanned pregnancy. Recent developments in family law bolster the case for reforming parental involvement legislation to allow teenagers to consult with …
Rethinking The New Public Health, Lindsay Wiley
Rethinking The New Public Health, Lindsay Wiley
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This Article contributes to an emerging theoretical debate over the legitimate scope of public health law by linking it to a particular doctrinal debate in public nuisance law. State and local governments have been largely stymied in their efforts to use public nuisance litigation against harmful industries to vindicate collectively-held, common law rights to non-interference with public health and safety. The ways in which this litigation has failed are instructive for a broader movement in public health that is only just beginning to take shape. In response to evolving scientific understanding about the determinants of health, public health advocates are …
No Toy For You! The Healthy Food Incentives Ordinance: Paternalism Or Consumer Protection?, Alexis M. Etow
No Toy For You! The Healthy Food Incentives Ordinance: Paternalism Or Consumer Protection?, Alexis M. Etow
American University Law Review
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Interview With Oliver Lewis, Executive Director Of The Mental Disability Advocacy Center, Human Rights Brief
Interview With Oliver Lewis, Executive Director Of The Mental Disability Advocacy Center, Human Rights Brief
Human Rights Brief
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