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  • Read more: Call for Applications: Summer Ethics Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics
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    Call for Applications: Summer Ethics Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics

    The Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) uses a unique historical lens to engage law students in an intensive course of study focused on contemporary legal ethics.  FASPE Fellows are granted an all-expenses paid 12-day trip to Germany and Poland to learn about the roles played by legal practitioners — lawyers…

  • Read more: The Evolution of Public Health Law Research
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    The Evolution of Public Health Law Research

    By: Scott Burris, JD Law has been used to protect and promote public health from the early days of European colonization of North America. Quarantine statutes and orders are reported from the mid-17th century. The 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, where our office is based, inspired the federal government’s first public health statute, authorizing…