Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (34)
- Labor and Employment Law (28)
- Constitutional Law (27)
- Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration (24)
- Public Policy (23)
-
- Business (17)
- Labor Relations (17)
- Legislation (17)
- Health Law and Policy (15)
- Human Rights Law (14)
- International Law (14)
- Civil Rights and Discrimination (11)
- Criminal Law (11)
- Environmental Law (9)
- Administrative Law (7)
- Legal Education (7)
- Military, War, and Peace (7)
- Courts (6)
- Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility (6)
- Legal Studies (5)
- National Security Law (5)
- Tax Law (5)
- Consumer Protection Law (4)
- Law and Gender (4)
- Legal Theory (4)
- Religion Law (4)
- Family Law (3)
- Law and Society (3)
- Legal History (3)
- Keyword
-
- Health Law and Policy (11)
- Workplace flexibility (10)
- Flexible work arrangements (9)
- Human Rights Law (9)
- International Law (6)
-
- Public health (6)
- Constitutional law (5)
- Executive power (5)
- Terrorism (5)
- Consumer protection (4)
- Environmental protection (4)
- Governance (4)
- Labor laws and legislation (4)
- Originalism (4)
- Constitutional interpretation (3)
- Data (3)
- Equality before the law (3)
- Judicial review (3)
- National security (3)
- Social justice (3)
- Statistics (3)
- Torture (3)
- 9-11 (2)
- ADA (2)
- Civil rights (2)
- Constitution (2)
- Constitutional theory (2)
- Deferred compensation (2)
- Department of Justice (2)
- Discrimination in employment (2)
- Publication
-
- Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works (68)
- Testimony Before Congress (14)
- O'Neill Institute Papers (11)
- U.S. Supreme Court Briefs (11)
- Memos and Fact Sheets (10)
-
- Conferences, Panels, and Events (9)
- Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group (3)
- Georgetown Law Student Series (2)
- Charts and Summaries of State, U.S., and Foreign Laws and Regulations (1)
- Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute Papers & Reports (1)
- HRI Papers & Reports (1)
- Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture (1)
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 30 of 132
Full-Text Articles in Law
A Sampling Of Workplace Flexibility Laws And Programs For Military Personnel, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center
A Sampling Of Workplace Flexibility Laws And Programs For Military Personnel, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center
Conferences, Panels, and Events
A variety of laws, policies, and programs govern the availability and utilization of workplace flexibility in the military as an employer for both service members and civilians. This document provides examples of those laws, policies, and programs, categorized by the type of flexibility governed.
An Overview Of Userra And The Fmla's Provisions For Military Families, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center
An Overview Of Userra And The Fmla's Provisions For Military Families, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center
Conferences, Panels, and Events
Two federal laws offer employment protections specifically to service members and their families. This is a summary of these laws, the USERRA and provisions of the FMLA.
President’S Emergency Plan For Aids Relief: Health Development At The Crossroads, Lawrence O. Gostin
President’S Emergency Plan For Aids Relief: Health Development At The Crossroads, Lawrence O. Gostin
O'Neill Institute Papers
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was the largest commitment by any nation to combat a single disease in human history, authorizing up to $15 billion over 5 years. On July 30, 2008, President Bush signed into law the historic reauthorization of PEPFAR, dramatically increasing the financial commitment by authorizing up to $48 billion over 5 years, including $5 billion for Malaria and $4 billion for Tuberculosis. PEPFAR’s global targets are inspiring: treat 3 million people; prevent 12 million new HIV infections, and care for 12 million people, including 5 million orphans and vulnerable children. But, PEPFAR has …
Male Circumcision As An Hiv Prevention Strategy In Sub-Saharan Africa: Socio-Legal Barriers, Lawrence O. Gostin
Male Circumcision As An Hiv Prevention Strategy In Sub-Saharan Africa: Socio-Legal Barriers, Lawrence O. Gostin
O'Neill Institute Papers
UNAIDS and WHO recommend safe, voluntary male circumcision as an additional, important strategy for the prevention of heterosexually-acquired HIV in men in areas with high HIV prevalence and low levels of male circumcision. Comprehensive male circumcision services should include HIV testing and counseling, partner reduction, and male and female condom use. Yet, male circumcision can have deep symbolic meaning that could pose barriers to implementation. In some parts of the world, it is a traditional practice with religious or cultural significance, in others it is a common hygiene intervention, and in yet others it is unfamiliar or foreign. Consequently, the …
A Larger War On Terror?, David Cole
A Larger War On Terror?, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
Helping Families Save Their Homes: The Role Of Bankruptcy Law: Hearing Before The S. Comm. On The Judiciary, 110th Cong., Nov. 19, 2008 (Statement Of Professor Adam Levitin, Geo. U. L. Center), Adam J. Levitin
Testimony Before Congress
No abstract provided.
Extended Time Off Overview, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center
Extended Time Off Overview, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center
Memos and Fact Sheets
Workplace Flexibility 2010 defines Extended Time Off (EXTO) as time taken off from work for a single reason that extends for more than five days but less than one year.
EXTO may be brief in nature (e.g., a few weeks), when taken, for example, for a vacation, to recover from minor surgery, or to comply with a public health quarantine request. EXTO may also be longer in nature (e.g., a month or more), when taken, for example, for maternity/paternity purposes, for elder care, for military duty, or for a sabbatical from work.
EXTO (either brief or prolonged) may be unpaid …
Brief Of Amici Curiae Members Of Congress In Support Of Respondents, Coeur Alaska, Inc. V. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Nos. 07-984 & 07-990 (U.S. Nov. 14, 2008), Kathryn A. Sabbeth, David C. Vladeck
Brief Of Amici Curiae Members Of Congress In Support Of Respondents, Coeur Alaska, Inc. V. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Nos. 07-984 & 07-990 (U.S. Nov. 14, 2008), Kathryn A. Sabbeth, David C. Vladeck
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
No abstract provided.
Fact Sheet On Extended Time Off (Exto), Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center, Urban Institute
Fact Sheet On Extended Time Off (Exto), Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center, Urban Institute
Memos and Fact Sheets
The Need for Extended Time Off (EXTO):
- New children: More women and mothers are working, and there is an increase in the number of couples with children in which both parents work.
- Health issues: According to a 2000 survey of employees regarding the Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA), among those who took FMLA leave, more than half, 52.4%, of workers used the leave to attend to their own health conditions. Thirteen percent reported taking leave to care for a parent and nearly 12% reported using leave to care for an ill child.
- The need for paid EXTO: Despite the …
Erisa Misrepresentation And Nondisclosure Claims: Securities Litigation Under The Guise Of Erisa?, Clovis Trevino Bravo
Erisa Misrepresentation And Nondisclosure Claims: Securities Litigation Under The Guise Of Erisa?, Clovis Trevino Bravo
Georgetown Law Student Series
In the wake of recent corporate scandals and dramatic market downturns, many employees whose retirement savings plans were heavily invested in the stock of their employer have seen their account balances substantially depleted. To recover for their losses, plan participants have filed lawsuits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) alleging that plan fiduciaries made misrepresentations or failed to disclose material information about the suitability of investing in the company stock. These suits are generally derivative or companion cases to securities class actions based on the same allegations of misrepresentations or nondisclosures. Even though there is a significant overlap …
Bills Introduced In The 110th Congress Regarding Flexible Work Arrangements, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center
Bills Introduced In The 110th Congress Regarding Flexible Work Arrangements, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center
Charts and Summaries of State, U.S., and Foreign Laws and Regulations
Flexible Work Arrangements (FWAs) alter the time and/or place that work is conducted on a regular basis -- in a manner that is as manageable and predictable as possible for both employees and employers. This document charts bills introduced in the 110th Congress regarding flexible work arrangements.
Brief For Respondents Riverkeeper, Inc., Entergy Corporation V. Environmental Protection Agency V. Riverkeeper, Nos. 07-588, 07-589 & 07-597 (U.S. Sept. 29, 2008), Richard J. Lazarus
Brief For Respondents Riverkeeper, Inc., Entergy Corporation V. Environmental Protection Agency V. Riverkeeper, Nos. 07-588, 07-589 & 07-597 (U.S. Sept. 29, 2008), Richard J. Lazarus
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
No abstract provided.
The Deregulatory State, Lawrence O. Gostin
The Deregulatory State, Lawrence O. Gostin
O'Neill Institute Papers
Public health can be achieved only through collective action, not through individual endeavor. Collective goods are essential conditions for health, but can be secured only through a well-regulated society. Yet, successive governments have eroded health and safety protections, with serious consequences. Think about the death of miners, lead in children’s toys, industrial solvents in toothpaste, salmonella in peanut butter, e-coli in spinach, and unsafe or ineffective pharmaceuticals such as COX-2 inhibitors or non-statin cholesterol medications.
Conservatives have waged a campaign against the administrative state that has created and reinforced deep-seated concerns about over-bearing government, particularly at the national level. The …
Global Health Law Governance, Lawrence O. Gostin
Global Health Law Governance, Lawrence O. Gostin
O'Neill Institute Papers
The field of public health law traditionally focuses on law at the national and sub-national level. National legal systems, however, are inadequate to deal with major threats to humans. Despite the inadequacies of national governance, there are fundamental questions that need resolution in the field of global health law: Why should governments care about the health of people far away? Are profound health disparities just and, if not, is there a corresponding obligation to redress the injustice? Can international law effectively bind governments, foundations, and corporations to act for the global good? This article, based on a lecture at Emory …
Global Health Law: A Definition And Grand Challenges, Lawrence O. Gostin, Allyn L. Taylor
Global Health Law: A Definition And Grand Challenges, Lawrence O. Gostin, Allyn L. Taylor
O'Neill Institute Papers
It has been only recently that scholars have engaged in a serious discussion of "public health law." This academic discourse examines the role of the state and civil society in health promotion and disease prevention within the country. There is an important emerging literature on the international dimensions of health, but no similar systematic definition and exposition of a field we call "global health law." In this article we aim to fill this gap by defining global health law and characterizing the grand challenges. Given the rapid and expanding globalization that is a defining feature of today's world, the need …
Global Health Law: Health In A Global Community, Lawrence O. Gostin
Global Health Law: Health In A Global Community, Lawrence O. Gostin
O'Neill Institute Papers
The examination of public health law traditionally focuses on constitutions, statutes, regulations, and common law at the national and sub-national level. However, the determinants of health (e.g., pathogens, air, food, water, even lifestyle choices) do not originate solely within national borders. Health threats inexorably spread to neighboring countries, regions, and even continents. Peoples’ lives are profoundly affected by commerce, politics, science, and technology from all over the world. Global integration and interdependence occur “as capital, traded goods, persons, concepts, images, ideas, and values diffuse across state boundaries.” It is for this reason that law and policy need to be transnational, …
A Theory And Definition Of Public Health Law, Lawrence O. Gostin
A Theory And Definition Of Public Health Law, Lawrence O. Gostin
O'Neill Institute Papers
The literature, both academic and judicial, on the intersection of law and health is pervasive. The subject of law and health is widely taught, practiced, and analyzed. The fields that characterize these branches of study are called health law, health care law, law and medicine, forensic medicine, and public health law. Do these names imply different disciplines, each with a coherent theory, structure, and method that sets it apart? Notably absent from the extant literature is a theory of the discipline of public health law, an exploration of its doctrinal boundaries, and an assessment of its analytical methodology.
Public health …
The International Migration And Recruitment Of Nurses: Human Rights And Global Justice, Lawrence O. Gostin
The International Migration And Recruitment Of Nurses: Human Rights And Global Justice, Lawrence O. Gostin
O'Neill Institute Papers
The international migration of health workers – physicians, nurses, midwives, and pharmacists – leaves the world’s poorest countries with severe human resource shortages, seriously jeopardizing the achievement of the U.N. health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Advocates for global health call active recruitment in low-income countries a crime. Despite the pronounced international concern, there is little research and few solutions. This commentary focuses on the international recruitment of internationally educated nurses (IENs) from the perspective of human rights and global justice. It explains the complex reasons for nurse shortages in rich and poor countries; the duties of source and host countries; …
Ensuring Effective Pain Treatment: A National And Global Perspective, Allyn L. Taylor, Lawrence O. Gostin, Katrina A. Pagonis
Ensuring Effective Pain Treatment: A National And Global Perspective, Allyn L. Taylor, Lawrence O. Gostin, Katrina A. Pagonis
O'Neill Institute Papers
Medical availability of effective pain medication is vitally important domestically and globally. Medical advances have substantially improved the technical capacity to control pain and diminish its consequences. Worldwide, millions of persons with chronic, acute, and terminal conditions have found relief from excruciating pain through medical intervention. However, richer countries have disproportionately benefited from improvements in access to and use of pain medication. The tragedy is that for most of the world's population, particularly persons in poorer countries, effective pain control is entirely unavailable.
Brief Of Amici Curiae Former Fda Commissioners Dr. Donald Kennedy And Dr. David A. Kessler In Support Of Respondent, Wyeth V. Levine, No. 06-1249 (U.S. Aug. 14, 2008), Kathryn A. Sabbeth, David C. Vladeck
Brief Of Amici Curiae Former Fda Commissioners Dr. Donald Kennedy And Dr. David A. Kessler In Support Of Respondent, Wyeth V. Levine, No. 06-1249 (U.S. Aug. 14, 2008), Kathryn A. Sabbeth, David C. Vladeck
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Community Values In Wind Energy Development: Exploring The Benefits And Applications Of Community Wind For Reducing Local Opposition To Wind Energy Systems, Amanda Vaccaro
Georgetown Law Student Series
Worldwide, wind energy generation is growing rapidly as a cleaner and less invasive alternative to traditional fossil-fuel energy sources. Yet, in the United States, the advancement of wind energy has been stunted by three factors: (1) the uncertainty of the federal Production Tax Credit; (2) the lack of transmission lines connecting wind projects to electricity grids; and (3) enduring local cultural and aesthetic objections to wind turbines. Frustrated with the imbalanced allocation of costs and benefits imposed by most wind energy projects, some individuals and municipalities have deployed zoning laws, nuisance claims, or environmentalist arguments to discourage wind energy development …
Implications Of The Supreme Court’S Boumediene Decision For Detainees At Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: Hearing Before The H. Comm. On Armed Services, 110th Cong., July 30, 2008 (Statement Of Neal Katyal, Prof. Of Law, Geo. U. L. Center), Neal K. Katyal
Testimony Before Congress
No abstract provided.
Petition For Rehearing, Kennedy V. Louisiana, No. 07-343 (U.S. July 21, 2008), Viet D. Dinh, Neal K. Katyal
Petition For Rehearing, Kennedy V. Louisiana, No. 07-343 (U.S. July 21, 2008), Viet D. Dinh, Neal K. Katyal
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
No abstract provided.
The Americans With Disabilities Act And The Ada Amendments Act Of 2008: Hearing Before The S. Comm. On Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, 110th Cong., July 15, 2008 (Statement Of Chai R. Feldblum, Geo. U. L. Center), Chai R. Feldblum
Testimony Before Congress
No abstract provided.
Proposed Legislation To Amend The Commodity Exchange Act: Hearing Before The H. Comm. On Agriculture, 110th Cong., July 11, 2008 (Statement Of Mark D. Young, Adjunct Prof. Of Law, Geo. U. L. Center), Mark D. Young
Testimony Before Congress
No abstract provided.
Lower-Wage Workers And Flexible Work Arrangements, Anna Danziger, Shelley Waters Boots
Lower-Wage Workers And Flexible Work Arrangements, Anna Danziger, Shelley Waters Boots
Memos and Fact Sheets
Workers at all levels within an organization have the need to manage their work and personal/family responsibilities. Much of the past research on workplace flexibility has focused on managerial or professional positions, and thus, higher-wage jobs and workers with higher incomes. But more recently, researchers have begun to investigate the particular challenges of workplace flexibility for workers who do not fit this mold -- specifically, workers who are hourly, receive a lowerwage, or who live in lower-income families. Regardless of how they are defined, workers at the lower end of the wage and income spectrum have some unique workplace flexibility …
Short Term Time Off: What We Know, Anna Danziger, Shelley Waters Boots
Short Term Time Off: What We Know, Anna Danziger, Shelley Waters Boots
Memos and Fact Sheets
Short Term Time Off (STO) refers to job-protected time away from the workplace to address anticipated or unexpected needs of limited duration. STO may be scheduled or unscheduled, depending on the underlying need. STO enables workers to address both the routine and emergency situations that occur in everyday life.
The need for STO may arise, for example, because a worker or worker’s child is sick or has a routine doctor’s appointment, because a worker has to wait for the plumber or apply for public benefits or go to court, or because a worker needs to attend a school conference or …
Brief Of Law Professors As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondents, Summers V. Earth Island Inst., No. 07-463 (U.S. June 27, 2008), Richard J. Lazarus, Amanda C. Leiter, David C. Vladeck
Brief Of Law Professors As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondents, Summers V. Earth Island Inst., No. 07-463 (U.S. June 27, 2008), Richard J. Lazarus, Amanda C. Leiter, David C. Vladeck
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
No abstract provided.
Brief Amicus Curiae Of The National Academy Of Arbitrators In Support Of Respondents, 14 Penn Plaza V. Pyett, No. 07-581 (U.S. June 27, 2008), James Oldham
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
No abstract provided.
Brief Of Amici Curiae Tobacco Control Legal Consortium Et Al. In Support Of Respondents, Altria Group, Inc. V. Good, No. 07-562 (U.S. June 17, 2008), Kathryn A. Sabbeth, David C. Vladeck
Brief Of Amici Curiae Tobacco Control Legal Consortium Et Al. In Support Of Respondents, Altria Group, Inc. V. Good, No. 07-562 (U.S. June 17, 2008), Kathryn A. Sabbeth, David C. Vladeck
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
No abstract provided.