Down with Antipaternalism!
As the holidays approach, I have a chance to catch up on reading. The Sept-Oct issue of the Hastings Center Report had a paper by Larry Gostin on Michael Bloomberg’s health policy career in New York,...
View ArticleNew PHLR (and George) Papers
Laura Brennan, Ross Brownson and Tracey Orleans have come out with an important paper reviewing the evidence on policy and environmental strategies for reducing childhood obesity. Twenty-four...
View ArticleEvidence in Policy Innovation
In the last few decades, there has been a broad effort to strengthen the use of evidence-based law as a tool for the promotion of population health. There are two major fronts in the campaign, each...
View ArticleCourts as Ebola Educators
By Scott Burris News in this afternoon is that a Maine state judge has lifted the quarantine order on nurse Kaci Hickox, saying that she “currently does not show symptoms of Ebola and is therefore not...
View ArticleWhy Do Refugees Risk the Deadly Boat Crossing to Europe? It’s the Law
By Scott Burris This morning I heard an NPR story that began, “Why do so many refugees from the Middle East risk the dangerous Mediterranean crossing in rickety boats?” The answer, in the story, was...
View ArticleHuman Rights Advocacy under Attack
One of the world’s most important human rights law firms is now under attack from a government whose leader has, to put it mildly, a mixed record on human rights. The firm is the Lawyer’s Collective,...
View ArticleFantastic New Resource on Regulation
Peter Drahos and a roster of the minds that have made RegNet at the Australian National University the hub of regulatory research and theory have put (it seems) all they know into a new, FREE ebook,...
View ArticleMaking a Moral Case for Regulation
Valerie Braithwaite’s chapter in the ANU’s Press’s new Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications provides a general introduction to looking at regulation through a social lens. If regulation is...
View ArticleHealth Law Rankings — Another Perspective
Glenn and Mark recently published a list of most-cited health law scholars, using the methods generally used for these studies in legal academia. Like any academic who steadfastly denigrates the...
View ArticleSentinel Policy Surveillance: A New Front in Legal Epidemiology?
Paul Erwin, Associate Editor of the American Journal of Public Health, recently wrote about the establishment of a Sentinel Practitioner Surveillance System for Policy Change Impact, or what might be...
View ArticleZombie Ideas: Safe Injection Department
Recently, people in Vermont have been talking about launching a Safe Injection Facility (SIF) to address drug harms arising with the opioid epidemic. With more deaths than ever, trying new approaches...
View ArticleHealth Law Scholar Citation Rankings: A Better Picture This Year
By Scott Burris Glenn and Mark have done their bit for benchmarking our field with another round of health law professor rankings. It is a largely thankless task, so thank you professors. Last year, I...
View ArticleSecurity and Health: Police as Key Players in Public Health
For more than a decade, a variety of scholars and practitioners in public health, policing and the broader domain of security have been stoking a conversation about the links between their disciplines...
View ArticleYet Another Look at Health Law Citations
By Scott Burris Brian Leiter has published his list of ten most-cited health law professors, and there’s a slightly expanded version on this blog thanks to Mark Hall and Glenn Cohen. They both use the...
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Transdisciplinary Integration: The Only Way Forward for Public Health
By Scott Burris As we look toward National Public Health Week amid two long years of a pandemic, reflection for us at the Center for Public Health Law Research has focused on how we move forward in a...
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