Life News (Law and Public Policy)

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Saint Leo University Polling Institute surveyed a national sample of 1015 adults on topics currently facing the Supreme Court.

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A 1995 Connecticut law requiring a permit or license – contingent on passing a background check – in order to purchase a handgun was associated with a 40 percent reduction in the state’s firearm-related homicide rate, new research suggests.

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A new report by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF), in collaboration with the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative, found that one in four of the city’s residents live in so-called food deserts with limited access to healthy foods.

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Expert can discuss school safety and how a new technology, the COPsync911 threat notification system, that connects a school or other facility under threat directly to the closest patrol officers and local dispatch during an episode of violence—ensuring law enforcement is on the scene faster than 911—and potentially mitigating the liability faced by schools in states like Colorado, which have passed legislation to allow lawsuits against schools when shootings or other violence occurs.

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On Sunday, June 7, 2015, ASHP, the national association representing pharmacists who serve as patient care providers in acute and ambulatory settings, approved a policy opposing pharmacists’ participation in capital punishment. It affirms that pharmacists’, as healthcare providers who are dedicated to achieving optimal health outcomes and preserving life, should not participate in capital punishment.

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If you want people to choose healthier foods, emphasize the positive, says a new Cornell University study.

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Wes Anson, accomplished author, international intellectual property (IP) valuation and licensing expert and chair of CONSOR, an intellectual asset consulting firm, will be the keynote speaker for Georgia State University College of Law’s 11th annual IP Hot Topics Luncheon at noon, Wednesday, June 10, at the Georgia State Student Center, 44 Courtland St. SE.

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In his recent book, The Twilight of Human Rights Laws (Oxford University Press), Posner takes to task international human rights treaties. The Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law contends they have failed to accomplish their objectives because they are “too ambitious, even utopian and too ambiguous,” and there is little evidence that these laws have improved people’s well-being.

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As water scarcity and quality issues grow in California and around the world, a new book co-edited by UCR water economist Ariel Dinar and water experts in Spain and Argentina examines the experience of 15 countries where conservation has been achieved through water-pricing incentive systems.

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3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is the process of turning a 2D digital image into a 3D object through printing successive layers of materials until an entire item is created. Initial images are created in design software programmes before being realised through 3D printing. The advent of consumer 3D printing has the potential to revolutionise its use as a technology, but also opens up a whole host of intellectual property (IP) debates.