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Public Health Surveillance: Spying on America for Its Own Good?
Symposium date: Friday, April 12, 2019 in Carbondale, Illinois at SIU School of Law
Call for Papers: The Southern Illinois Law Journal invites proposals from faculty and professionals to present at the upcoming annual symposium, which will focus on public health surveillance. Accepted presenters will have the opportunity to participate on an interdisciplinary panel of scholars, and to have their papers published in a special symposium issue of the journal.
Deadline for Proposals: December 20, 2018
Submission Requirements: To submit a proposal, please include your CV and contact information, as well as an abstract (up to 600 words) of the proposed presentation with title and an indication of whether or not you plan to write an article for the symposium issue. Please send your proposal to Prof. Jennifer Brobst at jbrobst@siu.edu or you may also call (618) 453-8702 if you have any questions.
Selected presenters will be informed by the first week of January 2019. Reasonable travel costs of presenters will be covered by SIU. Articles would not be due until the summer of 2019 and should be between 10,000 and 20,000 words in Bluebook citation style.
Scope of Topic: Over the last century, the balance of interests in public health law has gradually shifted, as both the severity of risks and capacity to address those risks increase simultaneously. While public health law still focuses on the traditional police power interests of public health, safety, and welfare, the means of tackling public health challenges now includes more extensive governmental monitoring due to advances in technology, science, and medicine. Some question the detrimental impact on individual autonomy and privacy rights related to more intrusive public health surveillance, particularly at the federal level, as reliance on state and local law to protect the public health may not adequately address current concerns.
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