Georgetown University Law Center

About: Georgetown University Law Center is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Supreme court & Global health. The organization has 585 authors who have published 2488 publications receiving 36650 citations. The organization is also known as: Georgetown Law & GULC.

The Ebola Epidemic: A Public Health Emergency of International Concern

Abstract: On August 8, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan declared the West Africa Ebola crises a “public health emergency of international concern,” triggering powers under the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR).The most affected West African states have attempted classic public health measures with varied success, including quarantine and isolation, social distancing, risk communication, and travel restrictions. These have involved a trade off between population health and human rights; sometimes to the disadvantage of both. At the same time, the countries’ health systems and human resources are fragile, impeding an effective response.Beyond the public health and humanitarian implications, this crisis has raised controversial ethical issues concerning the withholding or providing early access to investigational therapies, the preference given to foreign aid workers, and the disproportionate impact of Ebola on domestic health care workers.The WHO director-general’s declaration of a public health emergency of international concern underscores the urgency of a coordinated international response and the imperative of raising the health systems capacity of low-income states. However, the current outbreak demonstrates how global governance has suffered from a lack of binding international commitment to sustainable capacity building and technical assistance in low-income states.

Cost inflation by page reductions: a discrete example of new price increases in legal serials

Abstract: Exposes a subtle method of price increase used by The West Group that has gone unnoticed by the American law librarian community, that of decreasing the number of pages in serial, reporter volumes. The author examined volumes from Federal Supplement, Federal Reporter and the seven regional reporters to determine the number of pages contained in these volumes prior to the West/Thomson merger and how that number has changed since the merger. After documenting the decline in page number per volume, the author proposes some actions law libraries can take to respond to the page decline and its attendant increase in the amount law libraries may pay each year for the same number of pages spread out over more volumes.

The Common Law as a Model of the Patient-Physician Relationship: A Response to Professor Brody

Abstract: If as he suggests at the outset, and as I suspect, the point of Professor Brody’s essay is to make the claim that neither the common law nor Judaic law provides us with a model which fully and adequately captures the morality of the patient-physician relationship, then, although he importantly misdescribes the common law model, he is doubtless right. But if, as his conclusion suggests, his point is the further one that the law ought somehow to be reformed so as to reflect accurately the morality of the patient-physician relationship, then his claim is both controversial and unestablished. Since I doubt that Brody really intends to put forth the latter view either as stated or in a form generalized to include other sorts of social relationship, I propose to concentrate my remarks on the set of issues which are entailed by the first claim and largely to ignore the important jurisprudential questions raised by the second.