Social Law

By five months of life, babies can raise their heads when in a supine position on the floor. This common and expected progression in controlling th...

The United States is the world''s largest producer, consumer, and exporter of remanufactured goods. Remanufacturing is an industrial process that r...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains several provisions to encourage employer-sponsored health coverage, particularly among smal...

In the wake of the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression, Congress passed and the President signed into law sweeping reforms of th...

On March 2010, President Obama signed into law a comprehensive health care reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The...

This book brings together a number of important issues within the area of mental health and deafness. The book is aimed at mental health profession...

According to state reporting to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), there were at least 8 million active permits to carry concealed handgun...

During the 113th Congress, the Senate might consider providing its advice and consent to ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Perso...

Medicaid is a significant expenditure for the federal government and the states, with total federal outlays of $310 billion in fiscal year 2014. Th...

Gambling, once widely outlawed, is now a regulated, taxed activity that is legal in some form - bingo, card games, slot machines, state-run lotteri...

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, enacted in 1974, is a needs-based program that provides cash benefits designed to ensure a minimum ...

Teachers, Students and the Law is an indispensable pocket-sized resource that guides primary and secondary school teachers through the many complex...

This book provides a socio-legal analysis of the public participation of children in climate change matters, whilst developing a range of tools thr...

Expanded and updated, this is a new edition of an essential look at the history, structure, successes, and problems of the US health care system.Th...

Public health has never been more important, or more controversial. What states do, and fail to do, makes a significant difference to the lives we ...

After heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause of death in the United States is iatrogenic injury (avoidable injury or infection caused by...

Historically, critics of interracial, interfaith, and most recently same-sex marriage have invoked conscience and religious liberty to defend their...

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each...