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Unprotected Until Forty: The Limited Scope Of The Age Discrimination In Employment Act Of 1967, Bryan B. Woodruff Oct 1998

Unprotected Until Forty: The Limited Scope Of The Age Discrimination In Employment Act Of 1967, Bryan B. Woodruff

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


New Remedies For Elder Abuse And Neglect, Seymour Moskowitz Jan 1998

New Remedies For Elder Abuse And Neglect, Seymour Moskowitz

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Saving Granny From The Wolf: Elder Abuse And Neglect--The Legal Framework, Seymour Moskowitz Jan 1998

Saving Granny From The Wolf: Elder Abuse And Neglect--The Legal Framework, Seymour Moskowitz

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Re-Examining Elder Law Practices: Reflections On Ageism, Linda S. Whitton Jan 1998

Re-Examining Elder Law Practices: Reflections On Ageism, Linda S. Whitton

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Title Vii And Negative Job References: Employees Find Safe Harbor In Robinson V. Shell Oil Company, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 521 (1998), Matthew J. Cleveland Jan 1998

Title Vii And Negative Job References: Employees Find Safe Harbor In Robinson V. Shell Oil Company, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 521 (1998), Matthew J. Cleveland

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


To Notarize, Or Not To Notarize ... Is Not A Question Of Judging Competence Or Willingness Of Document Signers, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1013 (1998), Klint L. Bruno Jan 1998

To Notarize, Or Not To Notarize ... Is Not A Question Of Judging Competence Or Willingness Of Document Signers, 31 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1013 (1998), Klint L. Bruno

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Empowering And Protecting Patients: Lessons For Physician-Assisted Suicide From The African-American Experience, Leslie E. Wolf, Patricia A. King Jan 1998

Empowering And Protecting Patients: Lessons For Physician-Assisted Suicide From The African-American Experience, Leslie E. Wolf, Patricia A. King

Faculty Publications By Year

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Evaluating The Case For Social Security Reform: Elderly Poverty, Paternalism And Private Pensions, Maria O'Brien Jan 1998

Evaluating The Case For Social Security Reform: Elderly Poverty, Paternalism And Private Pensions, Maria O'Brien

Faculty Scholarship

This Article considers the many arguments currently being made in favor of Social Security pension reform and evaluates each of them in terms of the principal Congressional goal of the program-the elimination of elderly poverty-as well as more recent goals that have been articulated by subsequent commentators such as a reduction in government paternalism and the maximization of retirement income. The Article begins with a short history of the public pension program in the United States and considers at length the details of the various reform proposals that currently enjoy support. In addition it examines the enormously regressive tax structure …


Making Advance Directives Meaningful, Norman L. Cantor Dec 1997

Making Advance Directives Meaningful, Norman L. Cantor

Norman Cantor

This article presents a "values profile" to be used together with an advanced medical directive in order to provide precise guidance to surrogate decision makers.


Who Should Adopt Our Children?, Ruth-Arlene W. Howe, Randall Kennedy Dec 1997

Who Should Adopt Our Children?, Ruth-Arlene W. Howe, Randall Kennedy

Ruth-Arlene W. Howe

Is transracial adoption a form of "cultural genocide," as the National Association of Black Social Workers once claimed, or is it a healthy, hopeful solution for children trapped in a dysfunctional foster-care system? In this ESSENCE Dialogue, law professors Ruth-Arlene W. Howe of Boston College and Randall Kennedy of Harvard University grapple with an issue that affects thousands of our children's futures. Facilitated by Lise Funderburg.