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  1. A Rightful Place for Public Health in American Law.Wendy E. Parmet & Anthony Robbins - 2002 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 30 (2):302-304.
    The practice of law has changed greatly since the days when judges based decisions on the maxim salus populi suprema lex, and Oliver Wendell Holmes disagreed, noting that “experience” has been the “life of the law.” In the intervening years, the profession has followed Holmes and the legal realists in recognizing that the law does not exist in a vacuum. It is a human endeavor, molded by experiences and filled with human consequences. Today, lawyers, jurists, and legal scholars everywhere on (...)
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  • Using Public Health Legal Counsel Effectively: Beliefs, Barriers and Opportunities for Training.Nancy Kaufman, Susan Allan & Jennifer Ibrahim - 2013 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 41 (s1):61-64.
    Laws, ordinances, regulations, and executive orders create the powers and duties of public health agencies and modify the complex community conditions that affect health. Appropriately trained legal counsel serving as legal advisors on the health officer's team facilitate clear understanding of the legal basis for public health interventions and access to legal tools for carrying them out.Legal counsel serve public health agencies via different organizational arrangements — e.g., internal staff counsel, external counsel from the state attorney general's office, state health (...)
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  • Public Health Literacy for Lawyers.Wendy E. Parmet & Anthony Robbins - 2003 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 31 (4):701-713.
    Public health professionals recognize the critical role the law plays in determining the success of public health measures. Even before September 11, 2001, public health experience with tobacco use, HIV, industrial pollution and other potent threats to the health of the public demonstrated that laws can assist or thwart public health efforts. The new focus on infectious threats and bioterrorism, starting with the anthrax attacks through the mail and continuing with SARS, has highlighted the important role of law.For lawyers to (...)
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