The
controversial new cocaine vaccine (TA-CD) has the potential to be an
extremely effective treatment tool for recovering addicts, but it also
presents opportunities for non-therapeutic uses, such as preventing
cocaine use in the first place. It is foreseeable that the cocaine
vaccine could become a condition of parole or probation, or receiving
welfare payments, or for employment in certain occupations. Universal
vaccination is also a possibility but less likely for political
reasons. This article investigates each of these areas of potential
use. ... [ read more]
The U.S. war on
drugs has been waged along class and race lines, both domestically and
internationally. Rather than finding long-term solutions to social
development issues in target communities, drug policy has exacerbated
problems of poverty and social marginalization. This paper examines how
the war on drugs has prejudicially targeted poor people of color in
U.S. cities, and impoverished Colombian farmers, who have been
disproportionately victimized by U.S. drug policies.... [ read more]
Ms. Johnson's
article discusses some potential solutions to address the problems of
corruption and abuse of power in police departments. Specifically, she
draws attention to the problems caused by retaliation against
whistleblower police officers which harms both police officers and
society as a whole.... [ read more]
Despite the
expansion of HUD programs over the past few decades, federal rental
assistance programs have not been able to keep pace with the nation's
demand for affordable housing. Moreover, the available data reveals
that HUD does not provide assistance to all of those who qualify.
Federal rental assistance programs have reached a crisis point as a
consequence of inadequate funding and a critical shortage in the number
of available housing units.... [ read more]
This article
examines the development of the international law of self-determination
and secession and its expected application in determining Kosova's
final status. Using precedent drawn from recognized sources of
international law, this article demonstrates that the customary
international law of self-determination and secession has finally
arrived at a stage where it can be applied in a non-colonial
context..... [ read more] This article
proposes an alternative to the two major research models that have been
posited: a lottery game designed specifically for the implementation of
a Basic Income experiment as a means for collecting research data. The
proposal calls for a self-funded lottery game in which the winners
receive Basic Income for life, similar to Win for Life lottery games. [ read more] In December of
2002, when Rutgers-Camden faculty member Sarah Ricks filed the attached
Amici Brief on behalf of the cities of Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Newark,
and Camden, the scope of the parental liberty interest protected by
substantive due process had split the federal circuits, with the
Seventh and Ninth agreeing that parents had a protected interest in
companionship with their adult children. .... [ read more] |
Libertarian Paternalism: The Cocaine Vaccine as a
Test Case for the Sunstein/Thaler Model