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Calling the Shots: Balancing Parental and Child Rights in the Age of Anti-Vax
Get PDFVaccinations have become a contentious issue in recent times. Although there has always been opposition to vaccines, the internet has made it possible for pseudoscience and false information to spread like never before. This has led to alarming declines in vaccine confidence and adherence rates globally. High-income countries have seen the sharpest drop in vaccine confidence rates. Factors such as the complacency effect and religious objections likely explain this decline. Most countries have attempted to raise vaccine confidence levels by enacting laws that make vaccinations for children compulsory, with strict penalties for parents who refuse to comply. In addition to vaccine mandates, the United States has the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program for those who suffered injuries after receiving compulsory vaccines. Many of these policies create great friction between the government and individual liberties and do not address the rights of children at all. For these reasons, parents and children alike need a comprehensive solution that satisfies both their needs. To achieve this, states should adopt the mature minor doctrine in the context of vaccines.· Schools should educate children about the safety and efficacy of vaccines to ensure that they are properly informed and increase their chances of being deemed a mature minor to bolster the effects of the mature minor doctrine. Additionally, parents whose children have been harmed by anti-vaxxers should be compensated for their suffering. This could be accomplished by fining anti-vaxxers for failure to vaccinate and using that money to create a national fund similar to the United States\u27 current vaccine compensation program
The Zoning Straitjacket: The Freezing of American Neighborhoods of Single-Family Houses
Get PDFMunicipal zoning practices profoundly shape urban life in the United States. In regions such as Silicon Valley, regulatory barriers to residential construction have helped raise house prices to roughly ten times the national median. These astronomic prices have prompted some households to move to places, such as Texas, where housing is far cheaper. I have been engaged in an empirical study of zoning practices in Silicon Valley, Greater New Haven, and Greater Austin. This Article presents one of my central findings, induced from those metropolitan areas and elsewhere: local zoning politics typically freezes land uses in an established neighborhood of detached houses. The consequences are profound. Single-family neighborhoods constitute a solid majority of urban land in the United States. Within these frozen neighborhoods, real estate markets cannot respond to changes in supply and demand conditions.
This Article marshals a variety of evidence to prove that the zoning straitjacket exists. It also discusses possible exceptions to it. The most plausible is proximity to a newly opened transit node, an event that may transform zoning outcomes, even in a neighborhood of houses. Building on the work of others, notably William Fischel, I explore the dynamics of local zoning politics. The goal is to develop an overarching theory that is consistent with the larger study’s three basic empirical findings: that suburbs in Greater Austin, Texas, are relatively pro-growth; that, even in Greater Austin, zoning policies freeze land uses in established neighborhoods of detached houses; and that the opening of a new transit node sometimes can loosen the zoning straitjacket
Hard-Nosed Advice from a Cranky Law Professor: How to Succeed in Law School
No full textHard-Nosed Advice from a Cranky Professor is a must-read for any new law school student who wants to be successful both in and out of the classroom. The book provides advice from the most valuable source: the law professor. It gives a no-nonsense, hard-nosed approach to advising students on what they must do to succeed. The advice is provided in a light-hearted and humorous manner, which makes the book a quick and easy read for any law student.
The book’s practical, hands-on approach to learning helps students master the most essential skills needed in law school, including briefing cases, outlining, taking exams, meeting professor expectations, and many more. The authors provide step-by-step instructions and concrete examples to help students navigate each skill. The book\u27s user-friendly style and wealth of examples are its greatest assets.
In this new, updated edition, the authors enhance each topic by simplifying the approach even further and providing additional hypotheticals to turn the abstract into the concrete. The second edition includes new examples of case briefing, outlining, exam writing, and bar essays, and also includes an entire chapter dedicated to the skill of legal writing. In this new chapter, the authors transform a complicated writing course into a simple, step-by-step guide that makes legal writing attainable for any law student. With detailed explanations, examples, tips, and insights, this book is a tool no first-year law student should do without.https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facbooks/1265/thumbnail.jp
Working with Non-law School Patrons
Get PDFAshley Ahlbrand\u27s contribution to the open access textbook, Introduction to Law Librarianship, is chapter 17, Working with Non-law School Patrons.
Working in an academic law library, the primary patrons are the law school’s faculty and students. However, these may not be the exclusive patronage of the law library. Particularly in the case of a public law school library, the law librarian is likely to serve patrons outside of the law school as well. These patrons come from a diversity of backgrounds, with a range of legal research needs. Working with non-law school patrons can present a number of challenges but also many opportunities for the law library. This chapter will discuss these challenges, offer possible solutions, and highlight unique opportunities when working with non-law school patrons.https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facbooks/1274/thumbnail.jp
Unsafe at any Campus: Don\u27t Let Colleges Become the Next Cruise Ships, Nursing Homes, and Food Processing Plants
Get PDFThe decision to educate our students via in-person or online learning environments while COVID-19 is unrestrained is a false choice, when the clear path to achieve our chief objective safely, the education of our students, can be done online. Our decision-making should be guided by the overriding principle that people matter more than money. We recognize that lost tuition revenue if students delay or defer education is an institutional concern, but we posit that many students and parents would prefer a safer online alternative to riskier in-person options, especially as we get closer to fall, and American death tolls rise. This Article argues the extra stress of trying to maintain safety from infection with a return to campus will make teaching and learning less effective. While high density classrooms promote virus transmission and potentially super-spreader events, we can take the lessons we learned during the spring and provide courses without the stressors of spreading the virus. We argue the socially responsible decision is to deliver compassionate, healthy, and first-rate online pedagogy, and we offer a vision of how to move forward into this brave new world
Stewart Huff, P.I.: Intellectual at Large
No full textProfessor Orenstein\u27s contribution to this volume is chapter 12 Stewart Huff, P.I.: Intellectual at Large, co-authored by Susan Seizer.https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facbooks/1281/thumbnail.jp
