In May 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a public health crisis. Despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, research has demonstrated that historically, social isolation and loneliness have been long-term influencers of negative health consequences prior to the pandemic. Even in our post-pandemic world,
The United States is experiencing unprecedented levels of homelessness and food insecurity. In 2024, the number of unhoused persons on a single night reached the highest ever recorded, and in 2023, 13.5% of the population lived in food insecure households, including 7.2 million children. Both homelessness and food
In 2023, the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) was forced to remove its AI chatbot “Tessa” from its help hotline after observations of the chatbot providing harmful advice to callers about eating disorders. That same year, a Belgian man committed suicide after a prolonged, emotionally intimate conversation with an experimental
Part II of this Article deepens the expanded view of organizational law developed in Part I with a focus on its distributive features. Using the analytical framework of entity governance, resource governance, and use and purpose governance, Part II demonstrates how these dimensions of organizational law interact to constrain the
The Most Important Decision Atlanta Will Make in the 21st Century. Advocates and community voices weigh in on Atlanta’s Beltline rail debate, contrasting BRN and BAT’s positions, examining Mayor Dickens’s role, and highlighting neighborhood perspectives on the proposed project.
The second of four installments on Beltline rail, examining how Atlanta's mass transit projects are funded and the evolving financial aspects surrounding the Atlanta Beltline.
On September 6, 2024, the Georgia State University Law Review invited Walter Brown and Matthew Rao to discuss whether the Atlanta Beltline should implement light rail.
The first of four installments on Beltline rail, examining how the Beltline transit debate rhymes with other moments in Atlanta’s past and echoes into its future.
COVID-19 has caused an unprecedented health crisis in the United States and the world. The article calls for legal and institutional reform to better manage present and future pandemics.
