Month: September 2014

The history of generic drugs is far from generic

Guest post by Jeremy A. Greene I entered medical school during a strange interlude in the history of drug marketing. Perhaps you also remember those confusing months in 1997, after the FDA issued statements supporting widespread direct-to-consumer promotion of prescription drugs, but before the regulation of these ads had been fully worked out. Pharmaceutical brand…

The Art of the Sea with Val Kells

by Amy S. Mercer Marketing and Communications Manager, Gibbes Museum of Art Thank you to the Gibbes Museum of Art for allowing us to re-publish this recent post. Please note information at the close of this article about Val Kells' upcoming talk. Marine Science Illustrator Val Kells is an ‘obsessive compulsive’ fisherman. A photo of Kells on…

The Art of the Sea with Val Kells

by Amy S. Mercer Marketing and Communications Manager, Gibbes Museum of Art Thank you to the Gibbes Museum of Art for allowing us to re-publish this recent post. Please note information at the close of this article about Val Kells' upcoming talk. Marine Science Illustrator Val Kells is an ‘obsessive compulsive’ fisherman. A photo of Kells on…

A star-spangled path to writing a book

Guest post by Marc Ferris In 1996, while sitting in a graduate history seminar at Stony Brook University, I searched for a topic to write about. My professors indulged my inquiry into the culture clash between United States authorities and headhunting tribes in the Philippines after the Spanish–American War, but I wanted to combine my…

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, Your International Students…

Guest post by Michael A. Olivas If any of you are at all known to your campus or law school immigration/international student advisors, you may find yourself in regular contact with them and your general counsel. I am regularly in touch with these folks, in part because I teach higher education law, in part because I…

JHU Press events in September: Star-Spangled (and then some)

September is shaping up to be a banner month for JHU Press authors and staff—and decidedly star-spangled here in Baltimore. This month, the city hosts the Star-Spangled Spectacular to celebrate the bicentennial of the Battle of Baltimore and the moment when Francis Scott Key put pen to paper, and we’ll be waving the JHU Press flag…

Track-Two Diplomacy toward an Israel-Palestinian Solution, 1978-2014

Guest post by Yair Hirschfeld I am often asked, “Why can’t the Jews and Arabs get their act together and make peace?” There are many answers to this question. The basic fact is that these two peoples, who have both gone through traumatic existential threat experiences, have for the last thirty years made a great effort…

Track-Two Diplomacy toward an Israel-Palestinian Solution, 1978-2014

Guest post by Yair Hirschfeld I am often asked, “Why can’t the Jews and Arabs get their act together and make peace?” There are many answers to this question. The basic fact is that these two peoples, who have both gone through traumatic existential threat experiences, have for the last thirty years made a great effort…