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Asymmetric Effects on Fatality Rates of Changes in Workers\u27 Compensation Laws
Get PDFWith irreversible investments in safety, changes in workers\u27 compensation laws should affect employer incentives asymmetrically: increases in workers\u27 compensation generosity should cause employers to invest more in safety, but comparable decreases might not cause them to disinvest in existing precautionary programs or equipment. Although maximum weekly benefits caps have been fairly stable, state laws have expanded or restricted workers\u27 compensation on multiple other dimensions. State laws may impose new requirements regarding burdens of proof, access to medical care, and the duration of benefits. This article estimates the effect of changes in these more comprehensive measures of workers\u27 compensation laws on workplace safety. Using confidential, restricted data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, the article finds that increases in workers\u27 compensation generosity lead to a significant decrease in fatality rates, while decreases in workers\u27 compensation generosity do not significantly increase fatality rates
The First Attempt to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression
Get PDFThe crime of aggression, also known as the supreme international crime, is the most controversial international crime. It is the only international crime that requires state participation, therefore making it a political crime. Moreover, illegal war often includes other international crimes, including terrorism, torture, genocide, and crimes against humanity, and it differs only in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole. Aggression was included in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998 without a definition. The Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court adopted a criminal definition of aggression at the ICC\u27s first review conference in 2010. It remains unclear when, and under which conditions, the Court will have jurisdiction to prosecute perpetrators of aggression. The controversy over prosecuting heads of states for aggression dates back to at least 1919 when the Allied and Associated Powers of the First World War established the first international war crimes commission to consider prosecuting Wilhelm the Second for committing the crime of aggression. Through the use of archives, this paper analyzes the debates within the 1919 war crimes commission when it considered the first attempt to prosecute the international crime of aggression
An Untapped “Arsenal of Power”: the Elections Clause, a Federal Election Administration Agency, and Federal Election Oversight
Get PDFEnvironmental Law. Disrupted.
Get PDFThe U.S. regulatory environment is changing rapidly, at the same time that visible and profound impacts of climate change are already being felt throughout the world, and enormous, potentially existential threats loom in the not-so-distant future. What does it mean to think about and practice environmental law in this setting? In this latest in a biannual series of postings and essays, the authors, members of the Environmental Law Collaborative (ELC), have taken on the question of whether environmental law as we currently know it is up to the job of addressing these threats; and, if not, what the path forward should be
FSU Law Focus - 11/08/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: 2019 Environmental Distinguished Lecture - David Spence, Complexity and the Energy Transition in the Age of Fracture; FSU Human Trafficking Exploitation Law Project Students Successfully Advocate for Florida School Requirement;Alum Profile: Robin Hassler Thompson (’84); Student Profile: 3L Erica Gloydhttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1037/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 08/21/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: American Bar Association (ABA) Law Student Division presented two of its five national awards to FSU; Faculty Profile: Elissa Philip Gentry; Alum Profile: Miguel J. Chamorro (’06); Student Profile: 3L Anastacia Pirrellohttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1085/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 10/11/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: 2019 Wellness Week; Professor Krieger Receives ABA CoLAP Award; Alum Profile: J. Michael Shea (’69); Student Profile: 3L Meaghan Maushttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1133/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 05/31/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: Remembering Sandy D\u27Alemberte; Ziegler Sought by Media for Expertise; Alum Profile: Abigail L. Vail (’06); Student Profile: 2019 Grad Katherine Williamshttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1145/thumbnail.jp