Introduction to Food Law and Policy in the United States and Canada

2016 ◽  
pp. 695-712
Author(s):  
Carly Dunster
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Food Law

Abortion and Reproductive Rights

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Maslow Cohen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Abortion Law ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 1960S

This article discusses critical debate about individual control over the beginnings of life that has sprawled across the fields of academic law, philosophy, politics, religion, the life sciences, and the self-christened field of bioethics from the 1960s up to the present. The subject has formed in and around a cascade of popular pressures; biomedical advances; legislative, judicial, and public policy initiatives; media attention; and the boiling politics in which, at least in the United States, the whole series of enterprises has been bathed. The present undertaking will train on the law. It covers contraception in the United States, abortion law and policy in the United States, and contraception and abortion in Europe and the United Kingdom.

HIV Law and Policy in the United States: A Tipping Point

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Skinner-Thompson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Healthcare Disparities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hiv Stigma ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Prevention Techniques ◽  
Ready Access ◽  
Criminalization Of Hiv

The fight to effectively treat and stop the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has made meaningful progress both in the United States and globally. But within the United States that progress has been uneven across various demographic groups and geographic areas, and has plateaued. While scientific advances have led to the development of medicine capable of both treating and preventing HIV, law and policy dictate who will have ready access to these medicines and other prevention techniques, and who will not. Law and policy also play a crucial role in determining whether HIV will be stigmatized, discouraging people from being tested and treated, or will be identified for what it is—a preventable and treatable disease. To make further progress against HIV, the United States must address healthcare disparities, end the criminalization of HIV, and devote additional resources toward combatting HIV stigma and discrimination.

Ex Gratia Payments and the Iranian Airline Tragedy

1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold G. Maier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
States Government

The question whether the United States Government should pay ex gratia compensation to the survivors of those killed in the accidental destruction of Iranian Airlines Flight No. 655 raises some important issues of law and policy. In the following comments, I have attempted to provide a brief overview of the issues involved. …

The Disciplines of International Law and Policy

1999 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
International Economic Law ◽  
Intellectual Disciplines ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Blind Spots

This article considers the idea that the professional and intellectual disciplines which have developed in the United States to advance insight into international affairs also have characteristic blind spots and biases which leave professionals and intellectuals working within them more sanguine about the status quo than they might otherwise be. I am particularly interested in blind spots and bias which emerge from interactions among the disciplines of public international law, international economic law, comparative law, and international relations. Although internationalists in the United states working in these disciplines have broadly divergent methodologies and political ideologies, they share a sensibility which narrows the range of concerns and the scope of political possibilities which seem plausible to professionals and intellectuals concerned with international law and policy.

Transgender Law and Policy in the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Gilreath
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender Nonconformity ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Significant Measure ◽  
Male To Female ◽  
Recent Policy

Transgender people have a complicated history in U.S. law and policy. Once thought of as a symptom of homosexuality, gender nonconformity has long been the subject of social disapprobation and legal sanction, including criminalization. Beginning in the 1950s, an emergent interest by the medical community in individuals suffering from “gender dysphoria” precipitated an identity politics primarily organized around a goal of access to competent medical care and treatment for transsexual individuals. In ways both significant and ironic, this medicalization both promoted a binary ideology of gender, most obvious in concepts like male-to-female or female-to-male transsexualism, and created space for more transformative concepts of gender fluidity and transgender identity to emerge. Long conceptualized as a kind of subsidiary of the gay and lesbian rights movement in the United States, a status that entailed considerable turmoil, the transgender movement, especially since the 1990s, has emerged as a vocal and relatively effective rights lobby in its own right. The advent of the Trump administration presents a pivotal moment that will likely test not only the durability of recent policy gains but also whether those gains can be expanded in any significant measure.

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