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Graying Of U.S. Bankruptcy: Fallout From Life In A Risk Society, Deborah Thorne, Pamela Foohey, Robert M. Lawless, Katherine Porter
Graying Of U.S. Bankruptcy: Fallout From Life In A Risk Society, Deborah Thorne, Pamela Foohey, Robert M. Lawless, Katherine Porter
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The social safety net for older Americans has been shrinking for the past couple decades. The risks associated with aging, reduced income, and increased healthcare costs, have been off-loaded onto older individuals. At the same time, older Americans are increasingly likely to file consumer bankruptcy, and their representation among those in bankruptcy has never been higher. Using data from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, we find more than a two-fold increase in the rate at which older Americans (age 65 and over) file for bankruptcy and an almost five-fold increase in the percentage of older persons in the U.S. bankruptcy system. …
Collateral Consequences And The Preventive State, Sandra G. Mayson
Collateral Consequences And The Preventive State, Sandra G. Mayson
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Approximately eight percent of adults in the United States have a felony conviction. The “collateral consequences” of criminal conviction (CCs) — legal disabilities imposed by legislatures on the basis of conviction, but not as part of the sentence — have relegated that group to permanent second class legal status. Despite the breadth and significance of this demotion, the Constitution has provided no check; courts have almost uniformly rejected constitutional challenges to CCs. Among scholars, practitioners and mainstream media, a consensus has emerged that the courts have erred by failing to recognize CCs as a form of additional punishment. Courts should …
Reflecting Risk: Chemical Disclosure And Hydraulic Fracturing, Sara Gosman
Reflecting Risk: Chemical Disclosure And Hydraulic Fracturing, Sara Gosman
Georgia Law Review
In the last three years, twenty-two states have responded to public concern about high-volume hydraulic fracturing by requiring disclosure of the chemicals injected into oil and gas wells. Central to these policies is a nationwide website known as "FracFocus,"which now contains data on almost 56,000 wells. No environmental issue in recent memory has spurred such a fast and uniform policy response by the states, a response that is more remarkable given the contested nature of hydraulic fracturing. Drawing on the fields of risk science and decision science, the Article examines the virtues and perils of chemical disclosure as a policy …
Preserving Human Potential As Freedom: A Framework For Regulating Epigenetic Harms, Fazal Khan
Preserving Human Potential As Freedom: A Framework For Regulating Epigenetic Harms, Fazal Khan
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Epigenetics is a rapidly evolving scientific field of inquiry examining how a wide range of environmental, social, and nutritional exposures can dramatically control how genes are expressed without changing the underlying DNA. Research has demonstrated that epigenetics plays a large role in human development and in disease causation. In a sense, epigenetics blurs the distinction between “nature” and “nurture” as experiences (nurture) become a part of intrinsic biology (nature). Remarkably, some epigenetic modifications are durable across generations, meaning that exposures from our grandparents’ generation might affect our health now, even if we have not experienced the same exposures. In the …