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Revisiting The War On Poverty: How Policy Can Better Shape The Income And Wages Of Families With Children, Joy Moses Mar 2015

Revisiting The War On Poverty: How Policy Can Better Shape The Income And Wages Of Families With Children, Joy Moses

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched a "War on Poverty" while delivering his first State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. His language conveyed ambitious plans to recreate American society:This budget, and this year's legislative program, are designed to help each and every American citizen fulfill his basic hopes-his hopes for a fair chance to make good; his hopes for fair play from the law; his hopes for a full-time job on full-time pay; his hopes for a decent home for his family in a decent community; his hopes for a good school for his children …


Schiavo's Right To Refuse Food And Water: Ascendancy Of The Artificial Natural Person, Joseph S. Bell Mar 2015

Schiavo's Right To Refuse Food And Water: Ascendancy Of The Artificial Natural Person, Joseph S. Bell

Liberty University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Why A Duck? California Pokes A Hole In The "Iron Curtain" Of Factory Farming, Sidney H. Storozum Mar 2015

Why A Duck? California Pokes A Hole In The "Iron Curtain" Of Factory Farming, Sidney H. Storozum

Liberty University Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Ceo And The Hydraulics Of Campaign Finance Deregulation, Sarah C. Haan Mar 2015

The Ceo And The Hydraulics Of Campaign Finance Deregulation, Sarah C. Haan

Northwestern University Law Review

Voters increasingly view their consumer activities, not their campaign contributions, as the most meaningful way to participate in politics. In 2014, after it became public that Mozilla’s CEO, Brendan Eich, had made a controversial political donation in a state ballot proposition, consumer pressure led to his resignation. Eich’s downfall and the politicization of retail markets means that business leaders are unlikely to respond to McCutcheon v. FEC by embracing transparency with their campaign donations, and also suggests that campaign finance deregulation is causing hydraulic effects that the Supreme Court has failed to anticipate. This Essay explores what “economic reprisal” means …


Restructuring The Modern Education System In The United States: A Look At The Value Of Compulsory Education Laws, Chelsea Lauren Chicosky Mar 2015

Restructuring The Modern Education System In The United States: A Look At The Value Of Compulsory Education Laws, Chelsea Lauren Chicosky

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Corporate-School Partnerships And Neoliberal Influences On Students As Future Participants In The Labor Market, Adriane Kayoko Peralta Mar 2015

Corporate-School Partnerships And Neoliberal Influences On Students As Future Participants In The Labor Market, Adriane Kayoko Peralta

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Longstanding Agency Interpretations, Anita S. Krishnakumar Mar 2015

Longstanding Agency Interpretations, Anita S. Krishnakumar

Fordham Law Review

    How much deference—or what kind—should courts give to longstanding agency interpretations of statutes? Surprisingly, courts and scholars lack a coherent answer to this question. Legal scholars long have assumed that longstanding agency statutory interpretations are treated with heightened deference on judicial review, and federal courts sometimes have made statements suggesting that this is the case. But in practice, federal court review of longstanding agency interpretations—at both the U.S. Supreme Court and courts of appeals—turns out to be surprisingly erratic. Reviewing courts sometimes note the longevity of an agency’s statutory interpretation as a plus factor in their deference analysis but at …


Experimental Execution, Seema K. Shah Mar 2015

Experimental Execution, Seema K. Shah

Washington Law Review

On July 23, 2014, an execution in Arizona lasted nearly two hours, with the inmate struggling to breathe and gasping over 600 times, according to a local reporter witnessing the execution. This was the third example of a botched execution in seven months. The Supreme Court last evaluated the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection in 2008, but did not provide a clear standard for evaluating risks. Since that time, the lethal injection landscape has transformed. States are using entirely new drugs and drug combinations, and sometimes obtain these drugs from questionable sources, making it hard to predict what will …


The Role Of Race, Poverty, Intellectual Disability, And Mental Illness In The Decline Of The Death Penalty, Stephen B. Bright Mar 2015

The Role Of Race, Poverty, Intellectual Disability, And Mental Illness In The Decline Of The Death Penalty, Stephen B. Bright

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Regulatory Flexibilities And Tensions In Public Health And Trade: An Asian Perspective, Locknie Hsu Mar 2015

Regulatory Flexibilities And Tensions In Public Health And Trade: An Asian Perspective, Locknie Hsu

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Regulatory issues relating to public health are a source of tensions in recent trade and investment negotiations, treaties and disputes. Issues arising from the intersection between public health regulation and trade and investment treaties have given Asian states pause for thought. They have led to a critical need to confront the scope and meaning of legal obligations vis-a-vis public health and regulatory objectives, and their implications for stakeholder interests. The intersection and resulting tensions have already led the WTO, WHO and WIPO to work together in an unprecedented manner to address some of the issues at the global level. The …


“First, Do No Harm”: Legal Guidelines For Health Programmes Affecting Adolescents Aged 10–17 Who Sell Sex Or Inject Drugs, Brendan M. Conner Feb 2015

“First, Do No Harm”: Legal Guidelines For Health Programmes Affecting Adolescents Aged 10–17 Who Sell Sex Or Inject Drugs, Brendan M. Conner

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Earned Income Tax Credit Portability: Respecting The Autonomy Of American Families, Mary Leto Pareja Feb 2015

Earned Income Tax Credit Portability: Respecting The Autonomy Of American Families, Mary Leto Pareja

Faculty Scholarship

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) was a key component of the welfare reform movement that began in the 1970s and expanded in the 1990s. Politicians and the public saw the EITC as a helping hand to working families -- a way to make work pay.' The EITC today is the single largest federal anti-poverty program in the United States. Although the EITC clearly is targeted at families with children, it is not optimally structured to improve child welfare. The current rules limit EITC eligibility to a taxpayer who lives with a child more than six months of the year, …


Buzzkill: How The Epa’S Inaction Is Killing America’S Bees, Kelsey Ott Feb 2015

Buzzkill: How The Epa’S Inaction Is Killing America’S Bees, Kelsey Ott

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.


Lessons From China’S Carbon Markets For U.S. Climate Change Policy, Susan Vermillion Feb 2015

Lessons From China’S Carbon Markets For U.S. Climate Change Policy, Susan Vermillion

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.


Economic Hazards Of Environmental Justice For Lower-Income Housing Tenants, Anu Paulose Feb 2015

Economic Hazards Of Environmental Justice For Lower-Income Housing Tenants, Anu Paulose

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.


Peace Corps' Enduring Charter, Loret M. Ruppe Feb 2015

Peace Corps' Enduring Charter, Loret M. Ruppe

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Food As A Key Resource For Security And Stability: Implications Of Changes In The Global Food System 1950-2000, Bryan L. Mcdonald Feb 2015

Food As A Key Resource For Security And Stability: Implications Of Changes In The Global Food System 1950-2000, Bryan L. Mcdonald

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

Food security remains an urgent problem affecting the national security and interests of states, as well as the human security of people and communities around the world. This article examines the changing landscape of food security threats and vulnerabilities by examining three sets of concerns that are converging to amplify, disrupt, and transform food relations: nutrition, food safety, and global environmental change. Ensuring food security will require utilization of a range of capabilities from the state, private, and non-state sectors to confront world food problems and build a sustainable and resilient world food network.


World Poverty And Food Insecurity, Carmen G. Gonzalez Feb 2015

World Poverty And Food Insecurity, Carmen G. Gonzalez

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

The article draws upon the insights of Yale philosopher Thomas Pogge to suggest a way that we might think about the structural inequities in the global economic order that produce food insecurity. The article argues that chronic undernourishment is not a function of food scarcity, bad weather, or simply bad luck. Rather, it is a function of international political and economic arrangements that systematically benefit the wealthy at the expense of the poor. The article concludes with several legal and policy reforms that the United States and the European Union can adopt to reduce the burdens that our societies place …


The Future Of Food Assistance: Opportunities And Challenges, Erin Lentz Feb 2015

The Future Of Food Assistance: Opportunities And Challenges, Erin Lentz

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

The past decade has seen a radical remaking of direct food security interventions and an expanded understanding of preventing undernutrition. Today, there are more food assistance choices; researchers have identified the first 1000 days as a critical window for life-long cognitive development and health outcomes; and our understanding of the value of more tailored, nutritionally-specific interventions has expanded. The opportunities resulting from these findings can generate more effective food assistance programs. However, benefits from these findings will only be achieved if policymakers and practitioners clarify and prioritize among objectives and seek ways to build greater programming flexibility into the current …


The World Trade Organization Agreement On Agriculture And World Food Security, David Blandford Feb 2015

The World Trade Organization Agreement On Agriculture And World Food Security, David Blandford

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

This article discusses the nature of food insecurity in poor countries, its causes, and how these can be addressed. Disciplines are imposed on domestic agricultural policies through World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements, in particular the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), resulting from the Uruguay Round negotiations that were completed in 1994. The AoA provides considerable flexibility for countries to pursue a range of economically efficient policies aimed at food security objectives. However, it limits the use of some policy measures, such as price supports and input subsidies, that can be costly and inefficient, and also has negative environmental consequences. There is …


U.S. Aid To Agriculture: Shifting Focus From Production To Sustainable Food Security, Marc J. Cohen Feb 2015

U.S. Aid To Agriculture: Shifting Focus From Production To Sustainable Food Security, Marc J. Cohen

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

Since the 1960s, agriculture has waxed and waned as a key theme of U.S. international development assistance. In the 1970s, the United States and other donors focused on “growing the pile of food” through the use of high-yielding cereal grain varieties, mineral fertilizer, and synthetic pesticides in developing countries—the Green Revolution. This led to huge productivity increases and lower food prices in Asia and Latin America. But donors paid less attention to questions of equity, environmental sustainability, and gender equality. Due to increased food availability at lower prices, the United States and other donors reduced their focus on aid to …


Global Hunger And The World Trade Organization: How The International Trade Rules Address Food Security, Terence P. Stewart, Stephanie Manaker Bell Feb 2015

Global Hunger And The World Trade Organization: How The International Trade Rules Address Food Security, Terence P. Stewart, Stephanie Manaker Bell

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

No abstract provided.


Health Policy Essentials: Common Health Care Acronyms, National Health Policy Forum Feb 2015

Health Policy Essentials: Common Health Care Acronyms, National Health Policy Forum

National Health Policy Forum

No abstract provided.


With The Emergence Of Public Benefit Corporations, Directors Of Traditional For-Profit Companies Should Tread Cautiously, But Welcome The Opportunity To Invest In Social Enterprise, Mckenzie Holden Granum Jan 2015

With The Emergence Of Public Benefit Corporations, Directors Of Traditional For-Profit Companies Should Tread Cautiously, But Welcome The Opportunity To Invest In Social Enterprise, Mckenzie Holden Granum

Seattle University Law Review

Social entrepreneurship has become the popular term used to describe business forms that aim to produce profits while also seeking to significantly advance one or more social or environmental goals. In response to an increase in social entrepreneurship across sectors—from progressive industries like organic farming to conservative industries such as insurance and banking—several states have adopted new corporate governance structures. Such legislation allows incorporating businesses to choose an off-the-shelf formation type that embeds a social mission into its legal structure. The bulk of the newly implemented statutory forms provide not only a new framework for social entrepreneurs to work within, …


The Real State Of The Union 2015, Lauren Carasik Jan 2015

The Real State Of The Union 2015, Lauren Carasik

Media Presence

No abstract provided.


The Rise Of Judicial Governance In The Supreme Court Of India, Manoj Mate Jan 2015

The Rise Of Judicial Governance In The Supreme Court Of India, Manoj Mate

Journal Articles

This article analyzes how the Supreme Court of India, through its activism and assertiveness, has emerged as arguably the most powerful court among democratic polities. Over the past four and a half decades, the Court dramatically expanded its role in the realm of rights and governance, asserting the power to invalidate constitutional amendments under the basic structure doctrine, control judicial appointments, and govern in the areas of environmental policy, monitoring and investigating government corruption, and promoting electoral transparency and accountability. In this article, I argue that the Court’s shift toward greater, yet selective, assertiveness in India’s governance can most adequately …


Neoliberalism In U.S. Family Law: Negative Liberty And Laissez-Faire Markets In The Minimal State, Anne L. Alstott Jan 2015

Neoliberalism In U.S. Family Law: Negative Liberty And Laissez-Faire Markets In The Minimal State, Anne L. Alstott

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Still Standing, New Branding: Corporate Crossroads Of Shaping A Modern Brand While Protecting Intellectual Property, Meghan L. Collins Jan 2015

Still Standing, New Branding: Corporate Crossroads Of Shaping A Modern Brand While Protecting Intellectual Property, Meghan L. Collins

Law Student Papers

No abstract provided.


Aftershocks: The Human Impact Of U.S. Deportations To Post-Earthquake Haiti, University Of Chicago Law School - Global Human Rights Clinic, University Of Miami Law School Immigration Clinic, University Of Miami Law School Human Rights Clinic Jan 2015

Aftershocks: The Human Impact Of U.S. Deportations To Post-Earthquake Haiti, University Of Chicago Law School - Global Human Rights Clinic, University Of Miami Law School Immigration Clinic, University Of Miami Law School Human Rights Clinic

Global Human Rights Clinic

Haiti still reels from the devastating effects of the January 12, 2010 earthquake that killed over 300,000 people, rendered one in seven Haitians homeless, and wreaked $9 billion of damage in a country whose 2009 GDP was only $7 billion. At least 85,000 people still live in internally displaced person camps (IDP camps) and many have moved back into shoddy structures that would not survive another earthquake. The cholera epidemic that struck Haiti in the wake of the earthquake has been characterized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as “the worst cholera outbreak in recent history,” killing …


The Culture Of Mass Incarceration: Why “Locking Them Up And Throwing Away The Key” Isn’T A Humane Or Workable Solution For Society, And How Prison Conditions And Diet Can Be Improved, Melanie Reid Jan 2015

The Culture Of Mass Incarceration: Why “Locking Them Up And Throwing Away The Key” Isn’T A Humane Or Workable Solution For Society, And How Prison Conditions And Diet Can Be Improved, Melanie Reid

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.