In March 2004, the United Nations’ International Court of Justice at the Hague (ICJ), which settles legal disputes between UN member states, heard the Avena case, which involves more than fifty Mexican nationals who are now on death row in the United States. In this case, Mexico brought suit, alleging...

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.

A popular topic in public health research today is that inequality, and in particular income inequality, is one of the most powerful determinants of health and the most important limitation on the quality of life in modern societies.

While a few studies have provided evidence that the greater the disparity...

In this volume, leading experts explore routes to a new and better institutional design for global antitrust in the national and international contexts.

The health policy debate in the 2008 presidential campaign year needs to move beyond the well-rehearsed pattern of the past, which focused primarily on how to expand insurance coverage to more Americans and find (or hide) the amount of money needed to pay for more health care services. Expanding the...

Testimony submitted by Randall Lutter and Elizabeth Irwin before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in September 2002.

Testimony before the Food and Drug Administration on September 13, 2002, on how the FDA can assure that its controls over commercial speech conforms to Supreme Court decisions.