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29 Jun 2020, 9:05 pm
These reforms aimed to address shortcomings revealed during the SARS epidemic including: avoiding concealment of early information by government officials and others; ensuring prompt reporting of potentially serious events to higher levels of the government, including the public health bureaucracy; disseminating timely and accurate information to the public; and mobilizing the full range of state and societal resources to address public health emergencies. [read post]
29 Jun 2020, 7:01 pm
Here’s how the question was posed in the concurring opinion: “This all leads to the question of what happens when the victim testifies that she was not fearful during an alleged criminal episode, as occurred here. . . . in a criminal case, which has broader societal concerns and purposes, can the victim’s testimony that she lacked subjective fear be disregarded and replaced with an objective standard of whether a reasonable person would have been fearful, even… [read post]
28 Jun 2020, 11:05 am
But I think the most disturbing aspect of this episode, which perhaps indicates how deep our societal rot goes, has less to do with the rioters than with those in positions of authority. [read post]
28 Jun 2020, 5:21 am
This shift was reflected in the scale of capital being invested in ESG oriented investment funds alongside a generally greater societal awareness (and acceptance) of an urgency to step up efforts to address environmental issues and climate change. [read post]
27 Jun 2020, 1:53 pm
It is a form of reactionary expression among societal actors, especially elites, who--too late--come to realize that what they had, their way of life and the structures around which they policed the meaning of "right and wrong" has disappeared except in the empty rituals of its now hollowed out expression in the fading fora of old orders. [read post]
27 Jun 2020, 7:12 am
It’s a classic confession of counterrevolutionary error: 'I acknowledge how my original reasoning was flawed and that it existed as an example of white privilege and unjust allowances made within a system of societal white supremacy … Ending my portrayal of "Missy" is one step in a life-long process of uncovering the racism in my actions.'... [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 12:27 pm
Taxes should raise enough revenue to fund marijuana-related spending priorities and cover societal cost related to consumption. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 6:30 am
Charles BarzunIn the last Part of this series, I suggested that the essential nugget at the heart of “living constitutionalism” is the idea that part of what grounds the constitution’s authority for us is its capacity to adapt (i.e., to respond appropriately) to changing circumstances. [read post]
25 Jun 2020, 3:03 am
Rhonda Brauer shares her observations about our current crises and how SASB’s “financial materiality” disclosure framework could assist in bringing about societal change: As news occurs literally outside my window, I see accelerated demands for societal change that are impacting company, investor and other stakeholder expectations. [read post]
24 Jun 2020, 8:34 am
Politicians, scholars and jurists on both sides of the aisle have pointed to the elimination of qualified immunity as a means to ensure greater law enforcement accountability in the wake of George Floyd’s tragic death. [read post]
24 Jun 2020, 6:01 am
Reimagining police departments is only one part of that project because policing follows larger societal patterns in the way communities are seen and valued. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 5:50 am
In his study on family taxation, Bittker concluded that the ideal treatment of joint and single filers comes down to one’s assumptions about how the code should acknowledge the role of marriage and the family as a recognizable social, financial, and legal entity.[5] Avoiding the thornier questions of how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ought to evaluate marriage as a societal entity and parse income-earning members in a family,[6] if one accepts that married filers are simply… [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 4:20 am
The European Court of Justice, in its decision C-379/17 (Societ Immobiliare Al Bosco Srl) refrained from creating a specific Conflicts Rule for preliminary measures and ruled that the deadline falls within the scope of actual enforcement. [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 6:29 am
The aggressive policing that targeted George Floyd and Eric Garner occurred in a societal context that reveals how law enforcement, and the long history of criminalizing African-Americans in the U.S., are deeply implicated with socioeconomic status and (the absence of) property ownership. [read post]
21 Jun 2020, 9:02 pm
What is anti-gay or transgender bias if not an admonition that persons born male or female should conform to the gender presentation and sexual preference prescribed by societal expectations for members of their sex? [read post]
21 Jun 2020, 7:15 am
Experts say that the psychological and societal injuries of this time may themselves become shadow pandemics lasting beyond the arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine. [read post]
20 Jun 2020, 6:05 pm
An unconstitutional statute that could achieve positive societal results is nonetheless unconstitutional…. [read post]
20 Jun 2020, 1:11 pm
This represents a variant of the approach of Western liberal democratic political norms that is grounded as well on notions of progress through the elimination of "false consciousness" through substantial societal disciplinary mechanisms. [read post]
19 Jun 2020, 8:25 pm
[Both sides in the landmark employment discrimination decision agree that laws should generally be interpreted based on the "ordinary meaning" of their words. [read post]
19 Jun 2020, 6:08 pm
The moment of societal cohesion fostered by the Covid-19 pandemic disappeared under a surge of anger at the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. [read post]
