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Ozone Madness

September 03, 2011 13:02

(The following post corrects two small factual errors in the original post.) by Lisa Heinzerling Today, President Obama announced that he had asked EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the final National Ambient Air Quality Standard (known as a "NAAQS") for ozone pollution, which she and her...

Philip Schrag on "Why Would Anyone Want to Be a Public Interest Lawyer?"

September 28, 2009 16:36

Ten reasons in his speech for the Delaney professorship, available here.

International Development Assistance for Health: Ten Priorities for the Obama Administration

December 11, 2008 23:14

President-Elect Obama has a strong commitment to, and policy on, international development assistance for health. However, during the election, he rarely discussed global health, and with the financial crisis he may turn his attention to pressing economic issues. America’s commitment to global...

New articles by Don Langevoort and Paul Rothstein

December 08, 2008 20:16

Don Langevoort and Paul Rothstein have just posted papers to SSRN and BePress.Don Langevoort's article, U.S. Securities Regulation and Global Competition, is forthcoming in the Virginia Law & Business Review and can be downloaded from BePress and SSRN.Abstract:This essay introduces and comments on...

John Mikhail: Moral Grammar and Intuitive Jurisprudence: A Formal Model of Unconscious Moral and Legal Knowledge

November 25, 2008 14:04

A new paper by John Mikhail, Moral Grammar and Intuitive Jurisprudence: A Formal Model of Unconscious Moral and Legal Knowledge, has been posted to SSRN. This paper will be published in The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Moral Cognition and Decision Making, Volume 50 (D. Medin, L. Skitka,...

What Paul Dean Did

November 09, 2008 23:59

On Wednesday, November 5, I delivered the following remarks at a faculty lunch devoted to reflecting on the passing this summer of Paul R. Dean, who served as dean of Georgetown Law from 1954 to 1969. Although we were honored to have four of Dean's children with us, the audience I principally had...

New Article on Biosecurity by Larry Gostin

October 29, 2008 21:24

Larry Gostin's piece, "Biosecurity Policy: Are We Safer Today?" and published in Emerging Issues, is now available at LexisNexis, BePress and SSRN. Abstract: Lawrence O. Gostin analyzes biosecurity policy since 9/11. He begins with the question: Are we safer now? Then comes a review of biosecurity...

Stephen Cohen on the tax consequences of clothing

October 27, 2008 02:10

In particular, Sarah Palin's clothing for her Vice Presidential candidacy. His analysis appears in the Huffington Post.

Restoring the Human Connection in Mortgage Lending

September 19, 2008 18:47

Emma Jordan has a Viewpoint piece in the American Banker today discussing the mortgage crisis. The full text of the article, Finding a Way Out of the Lending Crisis, is reprinted below: Wall Street financial wizards have conducted their businesses as though the complex financial products that...

Gostin: A Theory and Definition of Public Health Law

September 19, 2008 17:33

The revised and expanded second edition of Larry Gostin's book, Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, has just been released by the University of California Press. The first chapter of this book, "A Theory and Definition of Public Health Law", has been posted to SSRN and BePress. Abstract:The...