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82 Nw. U. L. Rev. 859 (1987-1988)
Aids Law for Citizens

handle is hein.journals/illlr82 and id is 887 raw text is: Copyright 1988 by Northwestern University, School of Law Printed in U.S.A. Northwestern University Law Review Vol. 82, No. 3 AIDS LAW FOR CITIZENS A REVIEW OF AIDS AND THE LAW: A GUIDE FOR THE PUBLIC. Edited by Harlon L. Dalton,* Scott Burris,** and the Yale AIDS Law Project. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1987. Pp. xvii, 382. $25.00 (cloth), $7.95 (paperback). Leonard S. Rubinowitz*** The AIDS epidemic has caused many people to stop doing business as usual. This book is a case in point. It was conceived by a group of Yale Law School students and faculty members as a way to do some- thing about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The group developed the conceptual framework, decided on the specific top- ics to cover, and solicited and edited chapters by legal, medical, and pub- lic health scholars and practitioners. AIDS and the Law reflects an extraordinary effort by more than two dozen editors working with a simi- lar number of authors over an eighteen month gestation period. In the Preface, Professor Dalton suggests terms for assessing this volume. He identifies as the project's overriding goal to sift through the law as it relates to AIDS and to communicate what we find to the people who most need to understand the law's sweep.' The implicit interre- lated objectives include: 1) use by an intended audience that is not pri- marily lawyers, but consists instead of educators, policy makers, legislators, and the vast array of other professionals who must struggle with the increasingly pervasive legal issues generated by the disease; 2) accessibility to readers untrained in law, without sacrificing precision or sophistication2; 3) scope sufficient to cover the broad range of important legal issues; 4) adaptability to the rapid changes in medical knowledge and the state of the law with respect to AIDS; and 5) sensitivity to the highly political nature of these issues, particularly the role of fear in soci- ety's response to AIDS. In spite of the tensions inherent in this ambi- * Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School ** Recent Graduate of Yale Law School *** Professor of Law, and Research Faculty, Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University 1 AIDS AND THE LAW: A GUIDE FOR THE PUBLIC xi (H. Dalton, S. Burris, & The Yale AIDS Law Project eds. 1987). 2 Id. at xi.

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