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Public Health And The Law: Responding To Terrorism And Other Public Health Emergencies In New York, Mark R. Shulman
Public Health And The Law: Responding To Terrorism And Other Public Health Emergencies In New York, Mark R. Shulman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
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"Tools For Success": The Trips Agreement And The Human Right To Essential Medicines, Melissa Mcclellan
"Tools For Success": The Trips Agreement And The Human Right To Essential Medicines, Melissa Mcclellan
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
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Law And Public Health: Beyond Emergency Preparedness, Wendy K. Mariner
Law And Public Health: Beyond Emergency Preparedness, Wendy K. Mariner
Faculty Scholarship
This Article examines three questions: What is public health? What is public health law? What roles can lawyers play in public health? It first describes the breadth of public health, highlighting six trends shaping its future: social determinants of health; synergy between medicine and public health; shifts in focus from external (e.g., environmental and social) to internal (behavioral) risks to health; federalization of public health law; globalization of health risks and responses; and bioterrorism. Because the domains of law that apply to public health are equally broad, the Article next offers a conceptual framework for identifying the types of laws …
Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic: Why The Incarceration Of Individuals With Serious Mental Illness Violates Public Health, Ethical, And Constitutional Principles And Therefore Cannot Be Made Right By Piecemeal Changes To The Insanity Defense, Jennifer Bard
Jennifer Bard
The author argues that the problem of adjudicating the mentally ill who commit crimes is too large a societal issue to be resolved by refining the insanity defense. Since this is a threat to the public's health, it is fair to describe the current situation as a public health crisis. First, by not providing adequate mental health resources we create conditions in which people with mental illness find themselves in situations where due to their illness they have the opportunity to commit criminal acts which are causally related to the impairment of their thought process. Second, when people with mental …
Informed Consent And Public Health: Are They Compatible When It Comes To Vaccines?, Wendy E. Parmet
Informed Consent And Public Health: Are They Compatible When It Comes To Vaccines?, Wendy E. Parmet
Journal of Health Care Law and Policy
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International Environmental Law, The Public's Health, And Domestic Environmental Governance In Developing Countries , William Onvizu
International Environmental Law, The Public's Health, And Domestic Environmental Governance In Developing Countries , William Onvizu
American University International Law Review
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Health As Foreign Policy: Between Principle And Power, David P. Fidler
Health As Foreign Policy: Between Principle And Power, David P. Fidler
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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From International Sanitary Conventions To Global Health Security: The New International Health Regulations, David P. Fidler
From International Sanitary Conventions To Global Health Security: The New International Health Regulations, David P. Fidler
Articles by Maurer Faculty
In May 2005, the World Health Organization adopted the new International Health Regulations (IHR), which constitute one of the most radical and far-reaching changes to international law on public health since the beginning of international health cooperation in the mid-nineteenth century. This article comprehensively analyses the new IHR by examining the history of international law on infectious disease control, the IHR revision process, the substantive changes contained in the new IHR and concerns regarding the future of the new IHR. The article demonstrates why the new IHR constitute a seminal event in the relationship between international law and public health …