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Luz Estella Nagle and Henry W. McGee, Protección del medio ambiente imponiendo una responsabilidad civil, in Responsibilidad civil de profesionales y empresarios (Grupo Bilbo, 2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Michael S. Finch, Fairness Doctrine, in The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Paul Finkelman ed., Routledge, 2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ellen S. Podgor, Did Overcriminalization Allow for the Prosecution of Martha Stewart, in Martha Stewart's Legal Troubles (Joan Macleod Hemingway ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ellen S. Podgor, Materiality as an Element of Obstruction, in Martha Stewart's Legal Troubles (Joan Macleod Hemingway ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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James W. Fox, Edwards v. California, in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Routledge Reference, 2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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James W. Fox, Privileges and Immunities, in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Routledge Reference, 2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Tim Kaye, Childhood Obesity, School Food and Education: The Role of the Law, in The Law as an Agent of Change in Education (Roderick Flynn ed., CAPSLE, 2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Child obesity is a growing cause for concern in both North America and the United Kingdom. Despite a number of initiatives to tackle the problem, rates of childhood obesity continue to rise on both sides of the Atlantic. Nowhere is the problem more acute than the UK, which is believed to have the fastest-growing rate of obesity in the developed world. In 2001, 23 per cent of British women and 21 per cent of British men were obese, compared to 8 per cent of women and 6 per cent of men in 1980. Childhood obesity has almost doubled since the mid 1980s. Indeed, between 1996 and 2001, the proportion of overweight children aged 6 to 15 years old increased by 7 per cent, whilst the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF), has warned that over 40 per cent of the UK population could be obese "within a generation". This paper examines the changes in English education law which have facilitated this increase in obesity rates, and considers too the changes which have recently been made or are currently under consideration in order to try to reverse the trend.
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Royal C. Gardner, Mitigation, in Wetlands Law and Policy: Understanding Section 404 (Kim Diana Connolly et al. eds., American Bar Association, 2005)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Paul Boudreaux, Think Less Like a Mountain, and More Like a Realist, in Strategies for Environmental Success in an Uncertain Judicial Climate (Michael A. Wolf ed., Environmental Law Institute, 2005)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Tim Kaye, Religion and Education in England and Wales, in Cultural and Educational Rights in the Enlarged Europe (Jan de Groof and Gracienne Lauwers eds., Enfield Publishing & Distribution Company, 2005)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Any modern democracy with an established religion faces a dilemma. On the one hand, the fact of establishment itself implies one true faith. On the other hand, discrimination (except for good reason in carefully defined circumstances) is unacceptable. An irony compounds this 'democratic dilemma': whatever may be the established religion, it does not necessarily follow that it is practised by the majority of the population. Indeed, it seems quite possible that more Brits currently find spiritual solace in various cults rather than traditional religions.
This paper explores the role of religion in both public and private education in England and Wales, from K-12 through to post-secondary education. It finds that the means by which the law continues to wrestle with the above conundrum is not necessarily well chosen. The pattern of legislation has been to lay down with one hand a blanket prohibition on religiously-based discrimination; but then, with the other, to provide for exceptions to this ostensible norm which actually mean that those of a particular religious persuasion often do receive preferential treatment.