The First Amendment and Political Risk

Fear, Risk and the First Amendment: Unraveling the Chilling Effect

The Political Morality of the Eighth Amendment

Since the early twentieth century, the Supreme Court has interpreted the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment as a progressive mandate that draws its meaning from “the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.” In applying this standard, the Court looks to such objective considerations as legislative enactments, patterns of jury dec...

Filters and the First Amendment

Smoking and the First Amendment.

2351 provide solutions to all the complex problems of health worker migration, it offers needed guidance on possible policy and legislative approaches. There is growing evidence that its legal framework can work as a platform for cooperation to strengthen health workforce systems. Sixtynine countries have thus far designated a national authority responsible for the exchange of information on he...

Physicians and the First Amendment.

In the November elections, the citizens of three states resoundingly defeated initiatives aimed at curtailing reproductive rights. In Colorado, a proposed amendment to the state’s Constitution would have given the same legal rights to fertilized eggs as to living persons. This amendment, which was rejected by a wide margin, would have had broad ramifications for abortion rights, the use of cont...