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The World Health Organization (WHO) was born as a normative agency and has looked to global health law to structure collective action to realize global health with justice. Framed by its constitu...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2593

Prosecutors regard themselves as public servants who fight crime and increase community safety on behalf of their constituents. But prosecutors do not only seek to protect those they are supposed...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2592

Cultural property law fulfills many of the normative and jurisprudential goals of progressive property theory. Cultural property limits the normal prerogatives of owners in order to give legal su...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2591

In this interview, I provide my view on the state of Western feminism before and after the assault on Gaza. The interview includes discussion of the various strands of emergent feminisms in the W...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2590

2024 will be the most important moment for global health since the World Health Organization’s founding in 1948, but only if states give major reforms their full political and financial backing...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2589

Environmental law has long been shaped by both the particular nature of environmental harms and by the actors and institutions that cause such harms or can address them. This nation’s environme...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2588

When the Supreme Court speaks on a disputed statutory interpretation question, its words and edicts undoubtedly are the final judicial word, binding lower courts and the executive branch. Its maj...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2587

This Essay defends statutes creating public nuisance and consumer protection causes of action against firearms industry actors for their failure to take reasonable measures to control the flow of...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2585

This essay addresses the problematic convergence of two recent trends: (1) the expansion of jurisdictions requiring anti-bias training (ABT) as part of mandatory continuing legal education (CLE),...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2584

Judicial decisionmaking rests on a foundation of unwritten rules—those that govern the weight of authority. Such rules, including the cornerstone principle of stare decisis, are created informa...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2583

We study situations in which a single investment serves the dual role of increasing the expected value of a contract (a reliance investment) and reducing the expected harm of a post-performance a...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2582

ABRIDGED ABSTRACT: Perfume is a powerful art and technology, but its secrets are closely held by a privileged few - by some counts, there are more astronauts than there are perfumers. As critics ...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2581

Why is U.S. privacy law structured the way it is, with a series of sectoral laws rather than a cross-sectoral law or laws? Why does U.S. privacy law protect information shared in certain contexts...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2580

Leveraging Information Forcing in Good Faith, a chapter in Research Handbook on Law and Time, argues that the information-forcing-substance theory has a significant role to play both in how court...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2579

In 303 Creative v. Elenis, the Supreme Court ruled that a business had a right to refuse to design a wedding website for a same-sex couple. But properly understood, the decision’s parameters ar...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2578

According to research on the emotional well-being of lawyers, public defenders may be among the happiest. This comports with my own anecdotal experience as a teacher and mentor of law students an...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2577

The desire for trade propelled the growth of data privacy law across the world. Countries with strong privacy laws sought to ensure that their citizens’ privacy would not be compromised when th...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2576

This chapter examines the challenges, how they affect congressional oversight of intelligence, and Congress’s efforts to ensure accountability for United States (US) intelligence activities. Th...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2575

This scholar’s amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit argues that tort remedies play an important role in the contract ecosystem, including promoting efficiency in exchanges; that a party who has be...

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2574