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Combating Obesity With A Right To Nutrition, Paul Diller
Combating Obesity With A Right To Nutrition, Paul Diller
Paul Diller
Domestic and international law have, in different ways, recognized a human right to food since the twentieth century. The original reason for this recognition was the need to alleviate a particular type of food insecurity—“traditional” hunger, as manifested in conditions like malnutrition and underweight. The current public-health crisis of obesity, however, demands a reconsideration of this right. The food environment in the United States today is awash in high-calorie, low-nutrient food products that are often cheaper, on a relative basis, than more nutritious foods, leading to the overconsumption of the former by much of the American population. Merely ensuring a …
The Brief History Of "Voter-Owned Elections" In Portland, Oregon: If Public Financing Can't Make It There, Can It Make It Anywhere?, Paul A. Diller
The Brief History Of "Voter-Owned Elections" In Portland, Oregon: If Public Financing Can't Make It There, Can It Make It Anywhere?, Paul A. Diller
Paul Diller
From 2006 to 2010, Portland, Oregon, experimented with a publicly financed campaign system called "Voter-Owned Elections." In 2010, Portland's voters declined to renew the system. This article assesses Portland's experience with public financing and draws lessons therefrom that may inform efforts to promote public financing at the national, state, and local levels.
Local Health Agencies, The Bloomberg Soda Rule, And The Ghost Of Woodrow Wilson, Paul A. Diller
Local Health Agencies, The Bloomberg Soda Rule, And The Ghost Of Woodrow Wilson, Paul A. Diller
Paul Diller
Local health agencies are often leaders in public health regulation. Despite the significance of this phenomenon, scant scholarship has assessed the interesting doctrinal and normative questions that local agency rulemaking raises. This paper uses local health agency rulemaking, and the New York City portion-cap rule for sugar-sweetened beverages ("the Bloomberg soda rule"), in particular, as a prism through which to analyze local agency rulemaking. The article first explains why it is important -- both doctrinally and practically -- to determine whence local agency power flows. If agencies are created directly by state law, then their powers should be circumscribed by …
The Partly Fulfilled Promise Of Home Rule In Oregon, Paul Diller
The Partly Fulfilled Promise Of Home Rule In Oregon, Paul Diller
Paul Diller
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Intrastate Preemption, Paul Diller