Publication Type: Symposium Paper
Abstract: Because the attorney-client relationship is often the sole means by which a child may participate in the process of justice and earn credibility with others in the juvenile justice system, the attorney-client relationship warrants special care and attention. This paper considers ways in which therapeutic jurisprudence may inform and improve attorney-child relationships in juvenile court. Therapeutic jurisprudence recognizes considerable therapeutic value in attorney-client relationships that educate, empower, and validate the child. Therapeutically inspired attorney-client relationships not only yield immediate benefits of client-satisfaction and positive self-esteem, but may also promote effective long-term rehabilitation for children accused of crime.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: How political leadership is conceptualized is central to understanding how it manifests. Where mainstream concepts of leadership emphasize a clear division between the leader and his followers, Black leadership literature centers around the rise of charismatic leaders, and mainstream feminism works toward liberal inclusion, concepts of leadership are significantly different among Black women. Self-defined leadership among Black women is comprised of four key elements: 1) it is proactive in nature, 2) it is group-centered, 3) it requires a linkage between theory and practice and 4) it utilizes both traditional and non-traditional methods. This leadership model results in the manifestation of clear and distinct leadership styles among Black women leaders who either consciously or unconsciously draw from this tradition. This work lays out a theoretical framework for Black women’s self-defined leadership and discusses ways in which Black women’s concepts of leadership interact with other forms (White male-centered, Black male-centered and White female centered). Through a case study of Community Coalition – a Los Angeles community-based organization – this paper also demonstrates how the Black women’s self-defined leadership model has been implemented.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Policies addressing health information privacy are important due to the damaging effects of inappropriate disclosure, and also because they revive long-standing controversies, such as prevalence of individual rights over group interests, trust in various levels of government, and the degree of governmental involvement in protecting citizens’ rights and regulating businesses.

Both Canada and the United States offer a multi-level framework of privacy protections resulting from legal precedent (common law), state/provincial laws and regulations, and federal legislation. In Canada, the federal privacy law, PIPEDA, fully implemented in January 2004 is viewed as an unprecedented intrusion into traditional provincial domains, such as regulating physicians’ practices. In the United States, HIPAA’s final health privacy rule, with a 2003-2004 implementation deadline and also disputed in courts, is complicated by partial preemption mechanisms that make uncertain the applicability of state legislation.

This study brings together issues of health law and policy development. Using legislative summaries, interest group positions, media coverage data and public opinion polls, this study will discuss sources of health information privacy protection in Canada and the United States, and analyze the policy development processes, emphasizing the role of political institutions and national culture in defining the policy directions followed by the two nations.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper investigates institutional differences between the IMF and the World Bank as an important explanatory factor in their approaches to alleviating and understanding poverty as a human rights issue. The results indicate that IMF publications that discuss poverty alleviation will most likely involve macroeconomic issues that affect the poor such as high inflation and slower economic growth. World Bank publications on the other hand, are more likely to include developmental issues as they relate to poverty and input from stakeholders, including the poor themselves. The Bank has evolved to be able to address and understand poverty as a societal and human rights issue, while the Fund continues to focus on poverty, not as a human rights issue, but as a macroeconomic issue. This is due to the fact that while the IMF and the World Bank share a similar beginning and history, they focus on different aspects of poverty and development.

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