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Health And Safety, W. Kip Viscusi
Health And Safety, W. Kip Viscusi
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
My review of recent risk regulation policies necessarily starts with the new oversight group within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), because it has been the dominant force for improvement thus far. Unfortunately, OMB's efforts have not been matched by a similar commitment at the agency level.
Estelle V. Smith: The Constitutional Contours Of The Forensic Evaluation, Christopher Slobogin
Estelle V. Smith: The Constitutional Contours Of The Forensic Evaluation, Christopher Slobogin
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In Estelle v. Smith,' the United States Supreme Court recognized for the first time that an evaluation of a criminal defendant by a mental health professional may implicate both the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel. The issues raised in Estelle are significant not only for the legal profession but also for those in the mental health professions who perform "clinical" evaluations for the criminal courts. Estelle involved the case of Ernest Smith, who was sentenced to death by a Texas jury in 1974. Prior to trial, the judge ordered a psychiatrist, Dr. Grigson, …