by Lisa Heinzerling When an agency defends over three decades of inaction on an important problem by saying that acting would take too long, one hopes a judge reviewing the agency’s inaction will see through the pretense. This is exactly
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Ozone Madness
(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”)
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Philip Schrag on “Why Would Anyone Want to Be a Public Interest Lawyer?”
Ten reasons in his speech for the Delaney professorship, available here.
International Development Assistance for Health: Ten Priorities for the Obama Administration
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
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New articles by Don Langevoort and Paul Rothstein
John Mikhail: Moral Grammar and Intuitive Jurisprudence: A Formal Model of Unconscious Moral and Legal Knowledge
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
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What Paul Dean Did
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
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New Article on Biosecurity by Larry Gostin
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?
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Stephen Cohen on the tax consequences of clothing
In particular, Sarah Palin’s clothing for her Vice Presidential candidacy. His analysis appears in the Huffington Post.
New Articles Posted by West, Taylor and Gostin
Robin West’s University of Pennsylvania Journal Constitutional Law article, Unenumerated Duties, has been posted to BePress.Abstract:The article aims to make problematic the relative absence of questions about the affirmative duties of legislators to pass laws to achieve various welfarist
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