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By Scott Burris We may be living in a golden age of group-think. A weekly reminder is poor Paul Krugman railing against the apparently universal belief in America and Europe that we’ve got to cut…
By Scott Burris Public Health Law Research funded Dr. Caleb Banta-Green to evaluate the implementation and initial effects of a Washington State “Good Samaritan 911” law meant to encourage people witnessing a drug overdose to call…
By Scott Burris I read the Times daily, and so naturally would like to be able to think it deserves to be regarded as a credible “newspaper of record.” Today the paper outdid itself to…
People arguing that our federal government spends “too much” sound more and more like cynics by Oscar Wilde’s famous definition: knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. I’m neither for big government…
According to officials, the worst of this year’s devastating flu season should be over in most parts of the country. But in early January, the flu had hit 47 of 50 states. According to the…
By Scott Burris I am going to take a slight detour from health law to talk about legal education. This week the Times was all over a story about the need to drastically reform law…
Typically, we would avoid such a shameless plug for our researchers — we’d be a little more subtle. But, we can’t help it this time. This book is the best $10 you’ll spend all year.…
By Scott Burris Start with the sad news of the week. Dave Purchase died, aged 73. Dave was the father of needle exchange in the US, which as far as anyone can say started with…
By Stephen Latham [cross-posted at his blog, A Blog on Bioethics] I’m freshly back from the annual meeting of the Public Health Law Research program, sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson. At most academic meetings, I prefer schmoozing in the…
This past week, PHLR hosted 150 researchers, lawyers, public health practitioners and others for our fourth annual meeting. With our theme for the conference in mind, “Driving Legal Innovation,” our attendees shared results of evaluations…
