Via Graham Greenleaf: “AustLII will today launch the Australasian Colonial Legal History Library. This is the first version of the Library, containing over 220,000 searchable documents from before 1900, from the seven Australasian colonies (including New Zealand). It is being developed in conjunction with NZLII. Development of further databases is underway and will expand the Library’s contents considerably over the next year. A paper that AustLII presented at the Australian Historical Association Conference to explain the Library, ‘Digitising and Searching Australasian Colonial Legal History’, is now available for download at SSRN.”
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Daily Archives: July 24, 2012
Global Commission on HIV and the Law, Risks, Rights, & Health
Global Commission on HIV and the Law, Risks, Rights, & Health, July 2012 “The Global Commission on HIV and the Law is an independent body, established at the request of the Programme Coordinating Board of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and supported by a Secretariat based at the United Nations Development Programme… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Afghanistan Security, Federal Protective Service, DHS Management of Exchange Student Program
Afghanistan Security – Long-standing Challenges May Affect Progress and Sustainment of Afghan National Security Forces, GAO-12-951T, July 24, 2012 Federal Protective Service, Preliminary Results on Efforts to Assess Facility Risks and Oversee Contract Guards, GAO-12-943T, July 24, 2012 Student and Exchange Visitor Program, DHS Needs to Take Actions to Strengthen Monitoring of Schools, GAO-12-895T, July… Continue Reading
NASA – Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt
News release: “For several days this month, Greenland’s surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its 2-mile-thick center, experienced some degree of melting at its surface, according to… Continue Reading
Using Electronic Health Records to Improve Quality and Efficiency: The Experiences of Leading Hospitals
S. Silow-Carroll, J. N. Edwards, and D. Rodin, Using Electronic Health Records to Improve Quality and Efficiency: The Experiences of Leading Hospitals, The Commonwealth Fund, July 2012 “An examination of nine hospitals that recently implemented a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) system finds that clinical and administrative leaders built EHR adoption into their strategic plans… Continue Reading
DOJ Reports to Congress the State Secrets Privilige Report
Via FAS, 2011 DOJ Report released this week: State Secrets Privilege Report – “The Government has invoked the state secrets privilege sparingly and appropriately. At the time of the Task Force review, the privilege had been invoked in a very small number of cases out of the thousands of cases the Department was litigating…In each… Continue Reading
Climate Change and Existing Law: A Survey of Legal Issues Past, Present, and Future
CRS – Climate Change and Existing Law: A Survey of Legal Issues Past, Present, and Future, Robert Meltz, Legislative Attorney, July 2, 2012 “Efforts to mitigate climate change that is, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissionshave spawned a host of legal issues. The Supreme Court resolved a big one in 2007 the Clean Air… Continue Reading
CRS – Individual Mandate and Related Information Requirements under ACA
Individual Mandate and Related Information Requirements under ACA, Janemarie Mulvey, Specialist in Health Care Financing – Hinda Chaikind, Section Research Manager, July 2, 2012 “On June 28, 2012, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, finding that the individual mandate in § 5000A of the Internal… Continue Reading
RAND – How Consumer-Directed Plans Affect the Cost and Use of Health Care
RAND Health, Skin in the Game: How Consumer-Directed Plans Affect the Cost and Use of Health Care. Key findings: “Families that switched from a traditional health plan to a consumer-directed health plan spent an average of 21 percent less on health care in the first year after switching than similar families remaining in traditional plans.… Continue Reading
Report – Report on Federal Expenditures on Children Through 2011
Kids’ Share 2012 – Report on Federal Expenditures on Children Through 2011 – Julia Isaacs, Katherine Toran, Heather Hahn, Karina Fortuny, C. Eugene Steuerle. Urban Institute “…looks comprehensively at trends over the past 50 years in federal spending and tax expenditures on children. Key findings suggest that the size and composition of expenditures on children… Continue Reading
