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A Turning Point in Public Health

Dec 20 2024
In this time of rapid evolution, we offer a thoroughly updated and revised fourth edition of our book, "Public Health Law and Ethics: Power, Duty, Restraint" — defining the fields of public health law and ethics for a new generation.
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A New, More Inclusive Approach to Socratic Teaching

Dec 19 2024
A pedagogy to frame Socratic classrooms in student-centered, skills-centered, client-centered, and community-centered ways.
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Q&A with Nicole Bedera, author of On the Wrong Side

Aug 05 2024
The debate over campus sexual violence is more heated than ever, but hardly anyone knows what actually happens inside Title IX offices. On the Wrong Side provides the first comprehensive account of the inner workings of the secretive Title IX system. Drawing on a yearlong study of survivors, perpetr
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A Critical Yet Hopeful Comic on Pregnancy Privacy

Jun 05 2024
By Meg Leta Jones and Amanda Levendowski, co-editors of Feminist CyberlawAfter the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, many feared that America was returning to a time before Roe v. Wade. They were wrong. As Feminist Cyberlaw contributor Cynthia Conti-Cook cau
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Inside a thought-provoking ethnography of a southern US District Attorney’s Office

May 23 2024
Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South. Illuminating the challenges accompanying the prosecution of criminal cases involving guns, the three coauthors—an anthropologist, a geographer, and a district attorney—present a deeply human portrait of
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Author Q&A with Justin Brooks

Jun 01 2023
"With issues like bad lawyering, bad science, and inadequate investigations, it’s easy to draw the line between the cause and effect of a wrongful conviction."
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