INTRODUCTION Defining Health Law for the Future: A Tribute to Charity Scott.

This special edition of celebrates the life of Charity Scott, Professor Emerita and Founding Director of the Center for Law, Health & Society at Georgia State University College of Law.

Longitudinal Policy Surveillance of Private Insurance Hearing Aid Mandates in the United States: 1997-2022.

To produce a database of private insurance hearing aid mandates in the United States and quantify the share of privately insured individuals covered by a mandate. We used health-related policy surveillance methods to create a database of private insurance hearing aid mandates through January 2023. We coded salient features of mandates and combined policy data with American Community Survey and Medicare Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component data to estimate the share of privately insured US residents covered by a mandate from 2008 to 2022.

EMAC volunteers: liability and workers' compensation.

The Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) provides a mechanism for states to assist each other during natural disasters and other emergencies. Congress ratified EMAC in 1996, and all 50 states and 3 territories have adopted it. EMAC allows a state affected by a disaster to request personnel and materiel from another state.