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Filling In The Gaps: Inaccurate Medical Records In Adoption, Leah Rothfeld

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

Elevated Blood Lead Levels As Eligibility Criteria For Early Intervention Programs, Meghan Sink

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

Anthropometry Considerations In The Design And Evaluation Of Flight Deck Displays And Controls: Literature Review, Robert Joslin

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

The regulatory requirements and guidance for showing compliance with the Federal Aviation Administration anthropometric considerations in aircraft design are widely dispersed in an array of source documents. Consequently, they are difficult for aircraft manufacturers/applicants to identify, interpret, and address thereby extending the time to certify new/modified aircraft and aircraft systems. This literature review is intended to provide a compendium of the anthropometry considerations in the design certification of displays and controls in aircraft flight decks. This document is not a compliance document and the references herein are frequently updated, hence should be verified by the reader.

Post-Conviction Release And Defacto Double Jeopardy: Making The Case For Felons As A Quasi-Suspect Class Due To The Collateral Consequences Of A Felony Conviction

Florida A & M University Law Review

Felons are a prime example of a sub-class of individuals that, once convicted in a court of law, are classified, punished, stigmatized, stripped of their rights as American citizens, and discriminated against. Could this be a form of De Facto double jeopardy? While felons are not literally subjected to a second trial within the judicial system for the same offense, felons face a pseudo trial with society, as its jury, upon re-entry into society, based on the continual discrimination for crimes they have already served time for. The enactment of discriminatory laws against felons dehumanizes the individual by discarding their …

Climate Change And The Right To Health: A Threat Multiplier, Alejandra Ureta Melcon

Upper Level Writing Requirement Research Papers

This comment argues that climate change threatens fundamental human rights recognized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Therefore, the United Nations should adopt the standards set forth in cases like Sacchi v. Argentina and Teitiota v. New Zealand to denote climate change as a threat to the right to health under Articles 11 and 12 of the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. Climate change is already having monumental impacts on access to food and access to clean water and sanitation, which this comment demonstrates by analyzing two country case studies: The Central African …

Implied Warranties V. Express Specifications Under The Uniform Commercial Code, David S. Coale, Michael P. Lynn

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reducing Administrative Burdens To Protect Taxpayer Rights, Leslie Book, T. Keith Fogg, Nina E. Olson

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Calculating “Income” For Domestic Support Obligations In The Wake Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Kimberly S. Krieg, Stephanie L. Tang

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Relational Understanding Of Human Rights: Human Dignity In Social Solidarity, David Hollenbach

Emory Law Journal

No abstract provided.

มาตรการทางกฎหมายในการคุ้มครองสิทธิของผู้บริโภคจากผลิตภัณฑ์อาหารที่มีโซเดียมสูง, ชนิสร เจียมเจือจันทร์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาแนวคิดพื้นฐานและความเป็นมาของการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภคในการได้รับข้อมูลข่าวสารและความปลอดภัย รวมถึงมาตรการในการคุ้มครองสิทธิของผู้บริโภคจากผลิตภัณฑ์อาหารที่มีโซเดียมสูงของประเทศไทย ทั้งตาม พระราชบัญญัติคุ้มครองผู้บริโภค พ.ศ. 2522 พระราชบัญญัติอาหาร พ.ศ. 2522 และประกาศกระทรวงสาธารณสุข เปรียบเทียบกับมาตรการของต่างประเทศ ได้แก่ ประเทศชิลี ประเทศสหราชอาณาจักร และประเทศสหรัฐอเมริกา เพื่อใช้เป็นแนวทางในการวิเคราะห์ปัญหาที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการคุ้มครองสิทธิของผู้บริโภคจากผลิตภัณฑ์อาหารที่มีโซเดียมสูงตามกฎหมายไทย และสามารถเสนอแนวทางแก้ไขปัญหาการคุ้มครองสิทธิของผู้บริโภคได้อย่างเหมาะสม ทั้งนี้จากการวิจัยพบว่า สิทธิที่จะได้รับข้อมูลข่าวสารและความปลอดภัยเป็นสิทธิขั้นพื้นฐานที่ผู้บริโภคควรจะได้รับจากการบริโภคผลิตภัณฑ์อาหาร และเป็นหนึ่งในสิทธิมนุษยชนที่ภาครัฐเข้ามามีบทบาทในการป้องกันอันตรายที่มีต่อความปลอดภัยและสุขภาพของผู้บริโภค ซึ่งจากการศึกษามาตรการฉลากโภชนาการและมาตรการปรับสูตรในภาคอุตสาหกรรมของประเทศไทยและต่างประเทศพบว่า มาตรการของประเทศไทยยังไม่เหมาะสมเท่าที่ควรที่จะคุ้มครองสิทธิของผู้บริโภคในการได้รับข้อมูลข่าวสารและความปลอดภัยจากผลิตภัณฑ์อาหารที่มีโซเดียมสูงได้อย่างครอบคลุม ทั้งมาตรการทางฉลากโภชนาการ ในเรื่องรูปแบบฉลากโภชนาการ ขอบเขตของผลิตภัณฑ์ที่ใช้บังคับ และมาตรการปรับสูตรในภาคอุตสาหกรรม ในเรื่องรูปแบบการใช้บังคับ รวมไปถึงมาตรการอื่นที่นำมาใช้ร่วมกับมาตรการปรับสูตรในภาคอุตสาหกรรม ผู้เขียนจึงเสนอให้แก้ไขเพิ่มเติมประกาศกระทรวงสาธารณสุขและออกมาตรการอื่นเพิ่มเติม เพื่อคุ้มครองสิทธิของผู้บริโภค ตลอดจนสิทธิผู้ป่วยได้อย่างครอบคลุม

Take It With A Grain (Or More) Of Salt: Why Industry-Backed Dietary Guidelines Fail Americans And How To Fix Them, Caroline Farrington

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The U.S. Dietary Guidelines lack oversight and accountability. The result: Guidelines that reflect food industry interests instead of modern science. This deleterious guidance goes on to govern federally-subsidized food assistance programs and to influence dietary choices throughout the private sector and private life. Ultimately, the Guidelines significantly contribute to the endemic chronic disease they seek to address.

The Guidelines Advisory Committee is notoriously rife with conflicts of interest, and thus most Guidelines scholarship has focused on reforming the Committee. But the 2015 and 2020 Guidelines show that these reforms are insufficient and agency-level change is necessary. In 2015, the Committee …

Decarceration Means Funding The Incarcerated, David Campbell

City University of New York Law Review

While there are varied assertions as to what “defunding the police” and “reinvesting in communities” mean, I propose that one step towards this goal would be to redistribute the funds from Corrections Offices and bureaucratic management to incarcerated workers to ensure they are paid a suitable wage. If an increase in inmate pay appears outrageous to some, it is only because it entails beginning to treat inmates as full-fledged human beings and, in doing so, upsets the power dynamic between the incarcerated and their keepers.

Fat Rights, Public Health Oppression And Prejudice, And The “Obesity Epidemic”, Nicholas D. Lawson

Touro Law Review

The pervasiveness, frequency, and intensity of fat shaming, bullying, and harassment experienced by fat people is well-documented, and three quarters of the American public support antidiscrimination protections for fat people. Yet fat people generally remain unprotected from discrimination under federal and state law in all but two jurisdictions. This Article traces these problems to the agendas of public health leaders, organizations (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization), and associated industries, which are fighting an “obesity epidemic.” It describes some of their fat-shaming strategies and persistent public-health-crisis framings, as well as sensationalized presentations of research …

A Look Into Voluntary Nongovernmental Organization (Ngo) Certifications On Labor Conditions In International Trade Law: Nike, A Case Study, Elvira Oviedo

South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business

No abstract provided.

Educators’ Perception Of Their Psychosocial Support Of Elementary Students In Gabon, Africa, Michel Ikamba

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Although educators internationally have often provided care to vulnerable students who struggle to meet the needs of nutrition, health, protection, and access to essential social services, no formal social systems exist in Gabon to aid educators who work with these students. In the absence of relevant local research and drawing on Dewey’s theory of progressive education as a conceptual model, this basic qualitative study asked about educators’ perceptions in limited resource elementary schools in Gabon of the social needs and strategies employed with students who demonstrated signs of disengagement and alienation. Qualitative data collection included semi-structured recorded interviews with 12 …

Eviscerating Patent Scope, Shahrokh Falati

Articles & Chapters

The scope of patent claims directed to inventions in the field of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology has been stumped by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s recent jurisprudence on 35 U.S.C. § 112. Specifically, the application of a heightened test for enablement of claims to a genus of compounds with functional limitations or a genus of therapeutic antibodies, coupled with an increasingly broader application of the written description doctrine, has resulted in considerable uncertainty in the biopharmaceutical industry. The Federal Circuit’s shift in interpreting 35 U.S.C. § 112 contravenes the statute and Supreme Court precedent by splitting the singular …

Supported Decision-Making: Potential And Challenges For Older Persons, Morgan K. Whitlatch, Rebekah Diller

Articles

In recent years, supported decision-making (SDM) has gained traction as a recognized alternative to guardianship for persons with disabilities in the United States. To date, SDM has not been as widely recognized as an alternative for older people, particularly those struggling with cognitive decline. This paper explores some of the obstacles that have prevented SDM from being used more broadly by older people, identifies ways of surmounting some of those obstacles, and makes recommendations for ways that SDM can be used in the aging context.

The Law, Economics, And Governance Of Generation Covid-19 Long-Haul, Julia Puaschunder, Martin Gelter

Faculty Scholarship

The SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus is an external shock to all societies with lasting impacts that have changed individual, political, and corporate decisions profoundly. Increasing evidence reveals that an estimated 10-50% of those previously infected with COVID-19 face a longer-term or long-term health impact and/or chronic debilitation that in many cases comes and goes in waves. This phenomenon has already been referred to as a pandemic within the pandemic. The broad-based and long-term impact of COVID Long Haulers have also holds the potential to change our world and modern society, lasting through the following three outlined speculative trends: (1) The coronavirus …

Advancing Positive Water Rights, Allyson E. Gold, Srinivas Parinandi, Allen Slater, Tyler Garrett

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Surprising Virtues Of Data Loyalty, Neil M. Richards, Woodrow Hartzog

Scholarship@WashULaw

Lawmakers in the United States and Europe are seriously considering imposing duties of data loyalty that implement ideas from privacy law scholarship, but critics claim such duties are unnecessary, unworkable, overly individualistic, and indeterminately vague. This paper takes those criticisms seriously, and its analysis of them reveals that duties of data loyalty have surprising virtues. Loyalty, it turns out, can support collective well-being by embracing privacy’s relational turn; it can be a powerful state of mind for reenergizing privacy reform; it prioritizes human values rather than potentially empty formalism; and it offers solutions that are flexible and clear rather than …

No New Tax Cuts? Examining The Rescue Plan's New State Tax Limits, Conor Clarke, Edward Fox

Scholarship@WashULaw

In this article, Clarke and Fox examine the American Rescue Plan Act’s restrictions on state tax cuts, arguing that the restrictions are a variation on more familiar maintenance-of-effort provisions. These provisions are common, and are designed to help ensure that federal grants supplement rather than supplant state spending by requiring the state to maintain its level of spending on a program. Clarke and Fox conclude that the Rescue Plan’s requirements create similar incentives, and argue that the similarity makes it more likely that the act’s tax provisions are consonant with the Constitution’s spending clause.

Building A Bridge Between Wash In Hcfs And The Right To Water Through The Lens Of Maternal And Child Health, London Edgar

Emory International Law Review Recent Developments

Despite being recognized as a human right over a decade ago, the right to water has yet to achieve universal recognition. And although the proportion of births taking place in HCFs as opposed to home delivery has increased globally from 52 percent in 2000 to 76 percent in 2018, an estimated three million infants still die each year in the first month of life. This Essay will begin by discussing the right to water and the barriers to its implementation when framed solely as a human rights obligation. The first section will specifically highlight sources that emphasize the right to …

Finding The Right Angle: Lessons From Mathematics For The Legal Writing Classroom, Maria Termini

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Surprising Virtues Of Data Loyalty, Woodrow Hartzog, Neil Richards

Emory Law Journal

Lawmakers in the United States and Europe are seriously considering imposing duties of data loyalty that implement ideas from privacy law scholarship, but critics claim such duties are unnecessary, unworkable, overly individualistic, and indeterminately vague. This paper takes those criticisms seriously, and its analysis of them reveals that duties of data loyalty have surprising virtues. Loyalty, it turns out, can support collective well-being by embracing privacy’s relational turn; it can be a powerful state of mind for reenergizing privacy reform; it prioritizes human values rather than potentially empty formalism; and it offers solutions that are flexible and clear rather than …

Principles Of Home Rule For The 21st Century, Nestor M. Davidson

Faculty Scholarship

This has been excerpted and adapted from the National League of Cities Principles of Home Rule for the 21st Century report. Read the full report at: https://www.nlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Home-Rule-Principles-Rep ortWEB-2-1.pdf.

The Question Is Not “Can Humans Talk?” Or “Can They Suffer?” But “Can They Reason?”, Clive Phillips

Animal Sentience

In their target article, Rowan et al (2022) make a welcome attempt to chart the development of Western progress over the past two hundred years toward formally recognizing that animals feel. They outline the heroic efforts of Compassion in World Farming to gain for animals the status of sentient beings rather than merely human property. A broader view exists, from human prehistory to the present day, in which animals have been (and still are) understood to be sentient by indigenous peoples as well as by some Eastern religions. Growing recognition in the West that animals feel represents a new age …

The Enduring Role Of Conflict In The Perpetuation Of Famine: Advancing 'The Right To Adequate Food' For Sustainable Peace, Robert M. Bane

Dissertations and Theses

The present thesis evaluates developments and trends in global conflict dynamics, global systems of governance, and global hunger. Together, the thesis investigates and upholds the notion that famine is a ‘man-made’ phenomenon and explains how famine persists in a world abundant with food. Through analysis and research the following is found: the occurrence of global conflict is accelerating alongside an increase in the severity of organized violence dynamics; global authoritarianism is expanding presenting a threat to global freedoms and liberal democracy; as these trends are occurring, world hunger is steadily on the rise reflecting a significant backsliding of progress achieved …

Wyoming’S Wild Horse Ranch: History And Description Of A Socio-Ecological Experiment, Alex Sas-Jaworsky, John Derek Scasta

Human–Wildlife Interactions

The growing population of free-roaming horses (Equus ferus caballus) on western public rangelands has necessitated that federal agencies, such as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service, develop novel approaches to curb growth including reproduction management. However, bureaucracy has hindered effective research and application of horse management on public lands and examples on private lands may present new solutions. Here we present the history and current population management strategy for the Wild Horse Ranch (WHR) located in southeastern Wyoming, USA, as an example of an ongoing private entity managing horses. Prior to 1985, this ~6,000-ha …

Improving New Market Tax Credit Accessibility To Address Food Vulnerability, Zahraa Nasser

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Local Power, Alexandra B. Klass, Rebecca Wilton

Vanderbilt Law Review

This Article is about “local power.” We use that term in two distinct but complementary ways. First, local power describes the authority of local governments to enact regulatory policies in the interests of their citizens. Second, local power describes the authority of local governments to exercise proprietary control over the sources and delivery of electric power to their citizens. This dual meaning of local power is particularly important today, as an increasing number of local governments are seriously considering “municipalizing”--taking control of local electric power systems-—at the same time that, outside the electric power sector, many states are constraining local …