Call for papers Ebola and the Law Biolaw section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Washington, D.C. Monday, January 5, 2015, 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. The 2014 west Africa...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2014/08/call-for-papers-ebola-and-law.html
Victoria Sutton of Texas Tech very kindly put her new book, Reel Bio-Horror: The Things That Keep Us Up at Night , on the Biolaw bookshelf. The book has its own website and a Facebook fan p...
The Practising Law Institute has very kindly provided Biolaw a copy of its EPA Compliance and Enforcement Answer Book for 2013. Edited by by Adam Sowatzka and Richard E. Glaze, Jr., this volume...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2013/10/plis-epa-compliance-and-enforcement.html
Recently received in the Jurisdynamics Network's mailbox: Jonathan Kahn , Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age (2011) (available at http://amzn.to...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2012/11/jonathan-kahn-race-in-bottle.html
Earlier this year, I was commissioned by the National Academies to write a report on synthetic biology, standards setting, and intellectual property, which I co-authored with Linda Kahl , and pr...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2012/10/synthesizing-law-for-synthetic-biology.html
Jim Chen, Bioprospect Theory , available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2164848 or http://bit.ly/BioprospectTheory . To be presented at the University of Akron School of Law 's sixth annual Intelle...
Yes, walruses are charismatic megafauna, and biodiversity conservation means so much more than that. But it sure is fun to watch a 250-pound walrus baby , Mitik, frolic in his first days at the N...
After public debates spanning half a human lifespan, Portland, Oregon, has finally elected to fluoridate its water . Portland's city council has voted unanimously to add fluoride beginning in 201...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2012/09/portland-finally-fluoridates.html
Mitt Romney, the presumptive 2012 Republican Party presidential candidate, recently invoked the scholarship of UCLA Professor Jared Diamond while visiting Israel. On July 29, 2012, in a speech...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2012/08/diamond-on-romney-on-diamond.html
Agriculture stands on the verge of another technological transformation. Just as genetically-modified crops and livestock have begun to achieve normality in the eyes of most, an even more radi...
In his 1993 book, The Language of the Genes: Biology, History and the Evolutionary Future , British biologist, John Stephen Jones, concisely conveys the linguistic function of DNA, as follows: ...
The article, Physiological Steps Doctrine , published in 2009 in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal (and available free on SSRN ), suggested that patents claiming aspects of human physiological ...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2012/03/on-prometheus-tempest-falls.html
Understanding the Consequences of Linking Market and Regulatory Incentives for Drug Development: Part 3 Editor's note: This is the third installment of a three-part series . In Parts 1 and 2, w...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2011/01/innovation-incentives-part-3-combining.html
Understanding the Consequences of Linking Market and Regulatory Incentives for Drug Development: Part 2 Editor's note: This is the second installment of a three-part series . In new work by our...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2011/12/innovation-incentives-part-2-patent.html
Understanding the Consequences of Linking Market and Regulatory Incentives for Drug Development: Part 1 This is a three-part series by guest blogger Ron A. Bouchard . Dr Ron A. Bouchard is an i...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2011/12/innovation-incentives-part-1-regulated.html
As one of the brothers in Lewis Carroll 's The Two Brothers laments, > Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the > money I have in the bank: It is j...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2011/12/secret-salmon-science.html
With the seven billionth living human being imminent, it is important to consider that numbers of people alone do not explain the environmental impact Homo sapiens have on the earth. Developed ...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2011/12/ipat-baby-seven-billion.html
. . . and other arguments in a spirited debate over the ethics of killing animals for food, fur, and/or leather.
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2011/09/we-eat-animals-because-they-taste-good.html
In 2004, the Consolidated Appropriations Act (Public Law Number 108-199, Section 199) was passed with the "Weldon Amendment" (named for its sponsor, former Republican Congressman Dr. Dave Wel...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2011/09/weldon-amendment-welded-onto-patent-act.html
The United Nations has declared 2011-2020 the Decade on Biodiversity and the Convention on Biological Diversity has adopted a Strategic Plan for this period. The plan suggests an emphasis on na...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2011/08/united-nations-has-declared-2011-2020.html
This American Life , a quirky and wonderful weekly radio program on National Public Radio , has featured stories on comedians, how to speak to kids, psychopaths, unconditional love, and mind gam...
The United States Supreme Court must be despairing of how many patent appeals are coming its way. After all, patent law is few people's cup of tea. As one old, though obscure, joke puts it...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2011/08/myriad-genes-to-patent.html
Toxoplasmosis is a fascinatingly tragic condition. A mouse infected by the protoctistan, Toxoplasma gondii , behaves strangely. Instead of scampering away at the first whiff of feline sce...
On its second opportunity, the United States Supreme Court has granted a writ of certiorari to hear an appeal of Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services and Mayo Clinic Roc...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2011/07/prometheus-rebound-to-supreme-court.html
Canada geese represent a serious urban menace. Their molting season presents local governments a short, annual window of opportunity to respond by culling geese en masse. After an outcry over t...
http://biolaw.blogspot.com/2011/06/these-geese-will-be-cooked.html