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A Turning Point in Public Health

In this time of rapid evolution, we offer a thoroughly updated and revised fourth edition of our book, "Public Health Law and Ethics: Power, Duty, Restraint" — defining the fields of public health law and ethics for a new generation.
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A New, More Inclusive Approach to Socratic Teaching

A pedagogy to frame Socratic classrooms in student-centered, skills-centered, client-centered, and community-centered ways.
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"Beyond the Binary" reveals early Muslim jurists' ideas of gender

Read an excerpt from "Beyond the Binary," an exploration of early Hanafi legal thought that reveals early Muslim jurists imagined a world built not on a binary distinction between male and female but on multiple intersecting hierarchies of gender, age, enslavement, lineage, class, and other social roles.
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On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy

by Susan Bibler Coutin (Author)
Aug 2025
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Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis

by Kathryn Henne (Author), Matt Ventresca (Author)
Aug 2025
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Feminist Cyberlaw

by Meg Leta Jones (Editor), Amanda Levendowski (Editor)
May 2024
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