scholarly journals Front Matter

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Fellmeth
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Library System ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
The University ◽  
Pittsburgh School

The Pittsburgh Journal of Environmental and Public Health Law (PJEPHL) is published annually by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh under the editorial control of students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 3900 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. PJEPHL can be contacted by email at [email protected]. PJEPHL is freely available to readers worldwide at http://pjephl.law.pitt.edu. PJEPHL is printed by Western Newspaper Publishing Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana. Copyright for each work contained in this issue is retained by the author and under a Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 

A Globalized Theory of Public Health Law

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Fidler
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Tobacco Consumption ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Health Laws

This symposium issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics indicates that interest in public health law in the United States is enjoying a renaissance. The focus of the articles reflects this renaissance, as they explore the state of public health law in various contexts within the United States. Additionally, all but one of the symposium authors plies his or her trade at a university, institution, or government agency in the United States. My task here is different: I focus on public health law within the context of international relations.Analyzing public health law with an international perspective proves no easy assignment. Examining the role of public health law in the proverbial global village takes the analysis out of the familiar territory of law operating within a single sovereign state. The analysis could take two forms. One could compare different national systems of public health law on specific issues. Such a comparative law approach would be interested in, for example, how the public health laws of the United States and South Africa differ in connection with regulating tobacco consumption.

scholarly journals Introduction to Public Health Law

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy E. Parmet ◽  
Markus Frischhut ◽  
Amandine Garde ◽  
Brigit Toebes
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
The United States ◽  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Health Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Individual Liberty ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Individual Patient Level

This chapter provides an overview of public health law. In contrast to healthcare law, public health law seeks to protect health at a broad population, as opposed to an individual patient, level. The field of public health emphasizes prevention and health promotion, as opposed to the treatment of disease. The chapter looks at three critical areas of public health law: communicable disease control, the control of noncommunicable diseases, and efforts to address the social determinants of health. While the United States and Europe face broadly similar questions, the answers given often differ. In part, this is because the European Union is for the most part a supranational organization, while the United States is a more integrated, albeit federal, nation state. In addition, important distinctions between the legal traditions and the value given to individual liberty versus the public good provide a focus of the comparison between the US and European approaches to public health.

Introducing Law Students to Public Health Law through a Bed Bug Scenario

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (S2) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Jennifer S. Bard
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Cimex Lectularius ◽  
Homeless Shelters ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Bed Bugs ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Bed Bug

Bedbugs are tiny, wingless insects which feed on mammal blood and leave behind painful, itchy sores. Although they can live in other settings, they are most commonly found in warm, dark places inhabited by humans, like beds. After being absent in the United States for over 60 years, thanks to powerful pesticides, bed bugs (Cimex lectularius), have returned in force and are present in every state and nearly every city. For reasons not entirely understood, bed bugs have developed resistance to traditional pesticides such as Permethrin and are therefore difficult to control. Although commonly believed to be associated with dirty housekeeping and associated with substandard housing, bed bugs are equally likely to be present in five-star hotels as they are in homeless shelters.

scholarly journals Forging a Balanced Presumption in Favor of Metadata Disclosure Under the Freedom of Information Act

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-57
Author(s):  
Ben Minegar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
District Court ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Freedom Of Information Act ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Executive Editor ◽  
Electronic Discovery ◽  
The University ◽  
Pittsburgh School

Law Clerk to Chief Judge Joy Flowers Conti, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania; J.D. magna cum laude 2015, University of Pittsburgh (Lead Executive Editor, University of Pittsburgh Law Review); B.A. 2009, University of North Florida. Thank you Professor Rhonda Wasserman for your advice and assistance on this paper and for an enlightening class on electronic discovery. Faculty for the University of Pittsburgh School of Law awarded this paper the William H. Eckert Prize.

Guidelines for Reviewing National Public Health Law

Medicne pravo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Andre den Exter ◽  
◽  
Alexey Goryainov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
National Public Health
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