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| berkeley asbestos legal question: Asbestos-related Occupational Diseases United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Compensation, Health, and Safety, 1979 |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Learning from Disaster Sheila Jasanoff, 2016-11-11 Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The 1984 lethal gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, may be the most extensively studied industrial disaster in history. In a departure from earlier studies that have focused primarily on the causes of the catastrophe, Sheila Jasanoff and the contributors to this volume critically examine the consequences of the accident. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Guidance for Controlling Asbestos-Containing Materials in Buildings Dale Keyes, Bertram Price, Jean Chesson, 1998-05 Provides guidance on controlling asbestos-containing materials (ACM) found in buildings. Provides a current summary of data on exposure to airborne asbestos; gives survey procedures for determining if ACM is present in buildings; explains how to establish a special operations and maintenance program in a building found to contain asbestos; reviews technical issues confronted when assessing the potential for exposure to airborne asbestos, in particular indoor settings; suggests a structured process for selecting a particular course of action, and much more. Commonly referred to as the Blue Book. |
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| berkeley asbestos legal question: The Power to Protect Catherine Button, 2004-11 This book examines the intersection of WTO trade liberalisation rules and domestic health protection, a subject that is of considerable interest to those concerned that the WTO impinges on national regulatory autonomy. In analysing the tension between health protection and trade liberalisation, the book focuses on the way in which this tension is (or is not) resolved through the dispute resolution process. It offers a detailed analysis of the relevant WTO rules and case law, identifying particular concerns relating to the ability of WTO Members to take protective action in circumstances of scientific uncertainty and the role of social and cultural factors in the making of health-related regulations. The nature of scientific evidence and the extent to which the scientific process internalises uncertainty is further explored, drawing on documentation relating to the theory and conduct of scientific risk assessment. Despite the popularity of the precautionary principle in some quarters, it is suggested that it may not be advisable for the WTO to adopt that principle. Rather, further attention should be paid to the role that the standard of review might play in easing the tensions that arise when a sovereign state's health regulations are reviewed by the WTO. The origins of the WTO's 'objective assessment' standard of review are explained, but the standard itself is criticised. Options for developing the standard of review are considered, with a 'reasonable regulator' standard based on the Asbestos case proposed. The book takes a comparative approach, drawing on ECJ cases reviewing Member State and Community health measures as well as US judicial review and commerce clause cases. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: The Law of Green Buildings J. Cullen Howe, 2010 Examining the most important issues in achieving the goal of building more efficient and less damaging buildings, this book highlight the significant statutes and regulations as well as other legal issues that need to be considered when advising clients in the development, construction, financing, and leasing of a green building. Topics include federal incentive programs, financing, alternative energy, site selection, land use planning, green construction practices and materials, emerging legal issues, and the effects of climate change on planning and architectural design. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Bendectin and Birth Defects Michael D. Green, 2016-01-13 Benedictin was prescribed to more than thirty-five million American women from its introduction in 1956 until 1983, when it was withdrawn from the market. The drug's manufacturer, Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, a major U.S. pharmaceutical firm, joined a list of other companies whose product liabilities would result in precedent-setting litigation. Before it was over, the Benedictin litigation would involve 2,000 claimants over a fifteen-year period. Michael D. Green offers a comprehensive overview of the Benedictin case and highlights many of the key issues in mass toxic substances litigation, comparing individual and collective forms of litigation, and illustrating the misunderstandings between scientists and lawyers about the role of science in providing evidence for the legal system. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Dust-Up Jeb Barnes, 2011-07-08 In an era of polarization, narrow party majorities, and increasing use of supermajority requirements in the Senate, policy entrepreneurs must find ways to reach across the aisle and build bipartisan coalitions in Congress. One such coalition-building strategy is the “politics of efficiency,” or reform that is aimed at eliminating waste from existing policies and programs. After all, reducing inefficiency promises to reduce costs without cutting benefits, which should appeal to members of both political parties, especially given tight budgetary constraints in Washington. Dust-Up explores the most recent congressional efforts to reform asbestos litigation—a case in which the politics of efficiency played a central role and seemed likely to prevail. Yet, these efforts failed to produce a winning coalition, even though reform could have saved billions of dollars and provided quicker compensation to victims of asbestos-related diseases. Why? The answers, as Jeb Barnes deftly illustrates, defy conventional wisdom and force us to rethink the political effects of litigation and the dynamics of institutional change in our fragmented policymaking system. Set squarely at the intersection of law, politics, and public policy, Dust-Up provides the first in-depth analysis of the political obstacles to Congress in replacing a form of litigation that nearly everyone—Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, presidents, and experts—agrees is woefully inefficient and unfair to both victims and businesses. This concise and accessible case study includes a glossary of terms and study questions, making it a perfect fit for courses in law and public policy, congressional politics, and public health. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Your Rights in the Workplace Barbara Kate Repa, 1999 The most complete guide to workplace rights, Your Rights in the Workplace is the handbook employees can look to every time they have a question or complaint about hiring, wages and hours, family and medical leave, unemployment and disability insurance, workers' compensation, job health and safety, discrimination and much more. Includes the latest information on HIV/AIDS, privacy rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: The Politics of Asbestos Linda Waldman, 2012-08-21 Around the world, asbestos-related diseases are on the increase. Meanwhile, in many newly-industrialising and developing countries, asbestos use continues unabated. This book, based on anthropological fieldwork in the UK, India and South Africa, explores people's understandings of their illness, risk, compensation and regulation, contrasting these personal and community narratives with formal medical and legal understandings. Linda Waldman shows how the domination of medical and legal framings of risk and disease over those of workers, sufferers and activists can narrow the responses chosen by government. This provides important lessons for researchers, policy makers and regulators, demonstrating that opening up to alternative understandings can create more effective policy responses to move towards sustainability and social justice. Published in association with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: 100 Questions & Answers About Mesothelioma Harvey I. Pass, Mary Hesdorffer, Joseph W. Belluck, Sarah Lake, 2022-11-04 According to the American Cancer Society, roughly 3,000 new cases of mesothelioma is diagnosed in the United States each year. No one with this cancer needs to be alone in their fight against this disease. That's where this book and the information within can help. 100 Questions & Answers About Mesothelioma, Fourth Edition offers authoritative and practical answers to the most common questions asked by patients and their loved ones. What is malignant mesothelioma? What causes mesothelioma and how is it treated? Updated to include new immunotherapy treatments, 100 Questions & Answers About Mesothelioma, Fourth Edition is the only book to provide the doctor’s and patient’s views. This patient education resource gives readers authoritative, practical answers to questions about treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, legal options, and much more. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Art as an Interface of Law and Justice Frans-Willem Korsten, 2021-02-25 This book looks at the way in which the 'call for justice' is portrayed through art and presents a wide range of texts from film to theatre to essays and novels to interrogate the law. 'Calls for justice' may have their positive connotations, but throughout history most have caused annoyance. Art is very well suited to deal with such annoyance, or to provoke it. This study shows how art operates as an interface, here, between two spheres: the larger realm of justice and the more specific system of law. This interface has a double potential. It can make law and justice affirm or productively disturb one another. Approaching issues of injustice that are felt globally, eight chapters focus on original works of art not dealt with before, including Milo Rau's The Congo Tribunal, Elfriede Jelinek's Ulrike Maria Stuart, Valeria Luiselli's Tell Me How It Ends and Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives. They demonstrate how through art's interface, impasses are addressed, new laws are made imaginable, the span of systems of laws is explored, and the differences in what people consider to be just are brought to light. The book considers the improvement of law and justice to be a global struggle and, whilst the issues dealt with are culture-specific, it argues that the logics introduced are applicable everywhere. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Moral Responsibility and the Boundaries of Community Marion Smiley, 2009-09-15 The question of responsibility plays a critical role not only in our attempts to resolve social and political problems, but in our very conceptions of what those problems are. Who, for example, is to blame for apartheid in South Africa? Is the South African government responsible? What about multinational corporations that do business there? Will uncovering the true facts of the matter lead us to the right answer? In an argument both compelling and provocative, Marion Smiley demonstrates how attributions of blame—far from being based on an objective process of factual discovery—are instead judgments that we ourselves make on the basis of our own political and social points of view. She argues that our conception of responsibility is a singularly modern one that locates the source of blameworthiness in an individual's free will. After exploring the flaws inherent in this conception, she shows how our judgments of blame evolve out of our configuration of social roles, our conception of communal boundaries, and the distribution of power upon which both are based. The great strength of Smiley's study lies in the way in which it brings together both rigorous philosophical analysis and an appreciation of the dynamics of social and political practice. By developing a pragmatic conception of moral responsibility, this work illustrates both how moral philosophy can enhance our understanding of social and political practices and why reflection on these practices is necessary to the reconstruction of our moral concepts. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Toxic Substances Control Act of 1973 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on the Environment, 1973 |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Toxic Substances Control Act of 1973, Hearings Before the Environment Subcommittee ..., 93-1, February 23, 26, and March 21, 1973 United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce, 1973 |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Fire Resistance Characteristics of Asbestos Base Phenolic Impregnated Materials for Use in Aircraft Firewalls H. L. Hansberry, 1943 |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Equity and Equitable Principles in the World Trade Organization Anastasios Gourgourinis, 2015-07-24 This book analyses whether, and how, equity and equitable principles can be employed as juridical tools in the legal reasoning of judges and lawyers in World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes where there is interaction between norms derived from the multilateral trade regime and other international legal regimes. Bringing the literature on equity and equitable principles in international law up to date this book tackles several legal problems which have emerged in WTO dispute settlement practice as well as engaging with the concept of the fragmentation of international law. The book provides an original argument about the role and significance of equity and equitable principles in the debate over fragmentation by providing a coherent methodology for addressing conflicts and overlaps between WTO and non-WTO norms in the context of Dispute Settlement Body proceedings. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Climate Justice and Disaster Law Rosemary Lyster, 2015 This book provides a unique, comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of climate justice and disaster law. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Current Catalog National Library of Medicine (U.S.), 1993 First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: The Life of the Law Laura Nader, 2002-02-28 Nader traces the evolution of the plaintiff's role in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century and convincingly argues that the atrophy of the plaintiff's power during this period undermines democracy.. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Trade and Public Health Benn McGrady, 2011-03-31 Non-communicable diseases, associated with risk factors such as tobacco consumption, poor diet and alcohol use, represent a growing health burden around the world. The seriousness of non-communicable diseases is reflected in the adoption of international instruments such as the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health; and the WHO Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol. In line with these instruments, states are beginning to use measures such as taxes, restrictions on marketing, product regulation and labeling measures for public health purposes. This book examines the extent to which the law of the World Trade Organization restricts domestic implementation of these types of measures. The relationship between international health instruments and the WTO Agreement is examined, as are the WTO covered agreements themselves. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Ethics, Law, and Policy Jerome E. Bickenbach, 2012-01-03 This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores ethical, legal, and policy issues of people with disabilities, and is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which examines topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families. With a balance of history, theory, research, and application, specialists set out the findings and implications of research and practice for others whose current or future work involves the care and/or study of those with disabilities, as well as for the disabled themselves. The presentational style (concise and engaging) emphasizes accessibility. Taken individually, each volume sets out the fundamentals of the topic it addresses, accompanied by compiled data and statistics, recommended further readings, a guide to organizations and associations, and other annotated resources, thus providing the ideal introductory platform and gateway for further study. Taken together, the series represents both a survey of major disability issues and a guide to new directions and trends and contemporary resources in the field as a whole. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: The Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law Peter Muchlinski, Federico Ortino, Christoph Schreuer, 2008 The Oxford Handbook series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading international figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. The Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law aims to provide the first truly exhaustive account of the current state and future development of this important and topical field of international law. The Handbook is divided into three main parts. Part One deals with fundamental conceptual issues, Part Two deals with the main substantive areas of law, and Part Three deals with the major procedural issues arising out of the settlement of international investment disputes. The book has a policy-oriented introduction, setting the more technical chapters that follow in their policy environment within which contemporary norms for international foreign investment law are evolving. The Handbook concludes with a chapter written by the editors to highlight the major conclusions of the collection, to identify trends in the existing law, and to look forward to the future development of this field. |
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| berkeley asbestos legal question: Management of Health Risks from Environment and Food Hajime Sato, 2009-10-30 This book examines the policy and politics of two health risks, which have recently become prominent social issues in many countries. One is the issue of asbestos as an environmental risk to humans, and another is that of bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE), or mad cow disease as an animal disease, and of its variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) as a human food risk. Employing a set of analytical frameworks in political science, each case study explores how the issues emerged, agendas got set, alternatives were chosen, and policies were implemented. Through the analysis, it is examined how safety and public reassurance were pursued in the countries studied (Japan, the UK, France the USA, and Korea). Exploration of the successes and failures in their efforts discloses the key elements to successful health risk management. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Public Library Catalog Juliette Yaakov, 2004 - More than 8,000 books in the main volume. - More than 2,400 new titles in annual paperbound supplements. - More than 2,000 analytic entries for items in collections and anthologies. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Civil Litigation Reporter , 1986 |
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| berkeley asbestos legal question: ABA Journal , 1987-11-01 The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Real Property Law Reporter , 1991 |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Lawyers in Society Richard L. Abel, Philip Simon Coleman Lewis, 1989 Contains comparative and theoretical essays on the legal profession around the world. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory , 1992 |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: California Courts and Judges , 2000 |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Index to Legal Periodicals & Books , 2004 |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Current Publications in Legal and Related Fields , 1987 |
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| berkeley asbestos legal question: Asbestos and Health Cancer Information Clearinghouse, 1978 |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: Dispute System Design Lisa Blomgren Amsler, Janet Martinez, Stephanie E. Smith, 2020-06-02 Dispute System Design walks readers through the art of successfully designing a system for preventing, managing, and resolving conflicts and legally-framed disputes. Drawing on decades of expertise as instructors and consultants, the authors show how dispute systems design can be used within all types of organizations, including business firms, nonprofit organizations, and international and transnational bodies. This book has two parts: the first teaches readers the foundations of Dispute System Design (DSD), describing bedrock concepts, and case chapters exploring DSD across a range of experiences, including public and community justice, conflict within and beyond organizations, international and comparative systems, and multi-jurisdictional and complex systems. This book is intended for anyone who is interested in the theory or practice of DSD, who uses or wants to understand mediation, arbitration, court trial, or other dispute resolution processes, or who designs or improves existing processes and systems. |
| berkeley asbestos legal question: The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine Ronald E. Doel, Thomas Söderqvist, 2006-10-02 Bringing together authorities on the history, historiography and methodology of recent and contemporary science, this book reviews the problems facing historians of technology, contemporary science and medicine and explores new ways forward. |
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