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The Stoic Who Didn\u27t Know It: The University of Wyoming College of Law\u27s First Woman Graduate Hazel Bowman Kerper
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International Law
No full textpThis online chapter covers internationallaw principles and documents involving selfdefense and firearms control International law traditionally dealt with relations between nations but has expanded to cover interactions between states and individuals brbrppPart A covers the leading international legal conventions on the right of selfdefense or gun control the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the UN Programme of Action against the illicit trade in small arms the Firearms Protocol and International Tracing Instrument the Arms Trade Treaty and the UN\u27s International Standards on Arms Control ISACS Part A also covers the work of various UN bodies such as the Human Rights CouncilbrbrppPart B focuses on major regional firearms agreements These include CIFTA applying to the western hemisphere including the United States the European Firearms Directive and the Nairobi ProtocolbrbrppPart C steps back from current issues to examine the foundations of international law and the individual and collective rights of selfdefense This Part presents the writings of Suarez Grotius Pufendorf Vattel and other founders of international law From the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries these geniuses created what we today call ÔÇ£classical international lawÔÇØbrbrppPart D addresses the most important international law problem of the last century genocide To what extent if any does international law provide for forceful resistance to mass murder For forceful resistance to other violations of human rightsbrbrppLastly Part E presents arguments for whether and how international gun control should be implemented The Part also examines how ÔÇ£norms entrepreneursÔÇØ use international law in service of gun control or gun rights brphttps://scholarship.law.uwyo.edu/book_chapters/1004/thumbnail.jp
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Coverage and other Expanding Benefit Changes in the Workers\u27 Compensation Insurance Marketplace: Academic Legal Perspective
No full textThis paper discusses the increased use of causation presumptions in workers compensation cases involving firefighters and other first responders It also considers increasing workers compensation coverage of post traumatic stress disorder with respect to those same categories of workersThe paper discusses how workers compensation coverage of certain conditions tends to parallel the growth of potential tort liability observes that disease presumptions were a feature of early 20th century workers compensation statutes and so are not new and argues that recognition of workers compensation mentalmental claims has been consistent with zone of danger expansion of the negligent infliction of emotional distress cause of actio
