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Shots Fired, Shots Refused: Scientific, Ethical & Legal Challenges Surrounding The U.S. Military's Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate, Shawn Mckelvy, L. William Uhl, Armand Balboni Apr 2024

Shots Fired, Shots Refused: Scientific, Ethical & Legal Challenges Surrounding The U.S. Military's Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate, Shawn Mckelvy, L. William Uhl, Armand Balboni

St. Mary's Law Journal

The COVID-19 pandemic provided uncertain and challenging circumstances under which to lead a nation and the military that protects it. Those in charge and in command faced unique challenges—scientific, ethical, and legal—at our various levels of government to both keep people safe while keeping government and society functioning. While there were many successes to celebrate, there are also many criticisms for how this “whole-of-government approach” may have degraded some of our most cherished liberties along the way. The authors focus on the U.S. military’s vaccine mandate and propose military leaders may have failed to fully consider the evolving science, weigh …


American Star Chamber: Online Misinformation, Government Intervention, And The Intellectual Matrix Of The First Amendment, Emily E. Burton Jan 2024

American Star Chamber: Online Misinformation, Government Intervention, And The Intellectual Matrix Of The First Amendment, Emily E. Burton

Catholic University Journal of Law and Technology

Just as monarchs and clerical authorities struggled to respond to seditious and heretical writings enabled by the invention of the printing press, twenty-first century governments are experiencing a similar information revolution as a result of the digital age and a rising tide of what the United States has labeled online misinformation. Like the printing press, the Internet has enabled the spread of information at an exponentially lower cost and an exponentially higher speed as it extends the ability to publish thoughts and opinions to an increasingly diverse array of individuals. Although this was largely celebrated during the first two decades …


Science, Technology, Society, And Law, Paolo Davide Farah, Justo Corti Varela Jan 2023

Science, Technology, Society, And Law, Paolo Davide Farah, Justo Corti Varela

Book Chapters

Traditionally, science and technology have been granted as sources of knowledge and objective truth. However, much more recently, they are also seen as human activities, conducted in a social environment. This new approach focuses on the intersections between science, technology and society, and particularly their regulation by the law. Concerns on how to best regulate the interaction come up in modern societies, and when either their use or their impacts are global, international law and international organizations become involved. The impact of the fourfold relation is so high that science and technology are seen as one of the reasons for …


Urgensi Pengaturan Rapat Umum Pemegang Saham Secara Elektronik Di Tengah Pandemi Covid-19, Hafit Rusli Dec 2022

Urgensi Pengaturan Rapat Umum Pemegang Saham Secara Elektronik Di Tengah Pandemi Covid-19, Hafit Rusli

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

This research analyze arrangement regarding implementation of electronic RUPS to respond enactment of Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar (PSBB) in Indonesia during COVID-19 pandemic. This is a juridical normative research that will be focused on library research that examine legal principles, systematic system of law, and legal synchronization by analyzing the urgency to issue rules and regulation related to implementation of electronic RUPS. Unless to the public company, there is no technical regulation which specifies implementation of electronic RUPS. Terms and conditions of electionic RUPS in the Law No.40 Year 2007 regarding Limited Liability Law could rises misunderstanding to the stakeholders …


July 31, 2021: Give Trump The Presidential Medal Of Freedom, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2021

July 31, 2021: Give Trump The Presidential Medal Of Freedom, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Give Trump the Presidential Medal of Freedom“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


July 4, 2021: Better Than July 4, 2020, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2021

July 4, 2021: Better Than July 4, 2020, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Better Than July 4, 2020“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


February 9, 2021: God And The Pandemic, Bruce Ledewitz Feb 2021

February 9, 2021: God And The Pandemic, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “God and the Pandemic“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


October 3, 2020: It Is Fitting That President Trump Contracted The Virus, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2020

October 3, 2020: It Is Fitting That President Trump Contracted The Virus, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “It Is Fitting that President Trump Contracted the Virus“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


May 23, 2020: Every Once In A While…, Bruce Ledewitz May 2020

May 23, 2020: Every Once In A While…, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Every Once in a while...“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


May 11, 2020: Why Can’T We Be Reasonable? Because There Is No Such Thing As Reason, Bruce Ledewitz May 2020

May 11, 2020: Why Can’T We Be Reasonable? Because There Is No Such Thing As Reason, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Why Can’t We Be Reasonable? Because There Is No Such Thing As Reason“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


May 10, 2020: Panic About The Future, Bruce Ledewitz May 2020

May 10, 2020: Panic About The Future, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ Panic About the Future“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


May 5, 2020: The National Day Of Prayer For The Coronavirus, Bruce Ledewitz May 2020

May 5, 2020: The National Day Of Prayer For The Coronavirus, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The National Day of Prayer for the Coronavirus“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


April 25, 2020: The Disenchantment Of The Virus, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2020

April 25, 2020: The Disenchantment Of The Virus, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “The Disenchantment of the Virus“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


April 8, 2020: What Is The Meaning Of The Virus, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 2020

April 8, 2020: What Is The Meaning Of The Virus, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What is the Meaning of the Virus“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


March 29, 2020: Thinking Of The Virus And The Earth In A Different Way, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 2020

March 29, 2020: Thinking Of The Virus And The Earth In A Different Way, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Thinking of the Virus and the Earth in a Different Way“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


March 17, 2020: Still No Community Transmission, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 2020

March 17, 2020: Still No Community Transmission, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “ Still No Community Transmission“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.