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Assisted Reproduction & Abortion
No full textSeema Mohapatra, M.D. Anderson Foundation Endowed Professor in Health Law and Professor of Law, SMU Deadman School of Law, discusses the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on assisted reproduction
Addressing Choice of Law Challenges in Multi-State Precision Medicine Research: Experts\u27 Assessment of Key Factors
No full textPrecision medicine research implicates numerous state laws that may affect participants\u27 rights and protections and are not preempted by federal law. The choice of which state\u27s laws apply, and under what circumstances, can have significant impact on research design and oversight. But neither of the traditional approaches to choice of law issues--contractual agreement or determination by a court after a dispute arises--fit the research context well. We hosted a series of workshops with choice of law experts and research law and ethics experts to identify factors that are most crucial to account for in a future choice of law precision medicine research framework. Our workshops focused on precision medicine ‘places\u27 and choice of law factors; there was consensus that ‘place where the harm occurred’ was relevant and best represented by where the participant resides and/or where the research/institution is located. Our experts identified factors that need to be accounted for in a future choice of law framework. They also identified potential approaches, including a federal law or model state law as ways of achieving more uniformity of protections and a comprehensive database of laws, which merit further consideration to provide IRBs and researchers the guidance they require
What’s in Your Glass? Whether Milk Labels Should be Based on Creation Process or End Product (Part III of III)
Get PDFPart III of this blog series proposes a three-part solution to the debate over labeling cultured milk that promotes consumer clarity, marketability, and judicial efficiency
The Cambridge Handbook of Disaster Law and Policy: Risk, Recovery, and Redevelopment
No full textThis century\u27s major disasters from Hurricane Katrina and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown to devastating Nepalese earthquakes and the recent crippling volcanic eruptions and tsunamis in Tonga have repeatedly taught that government institutions are ill-prepared for major disaster events, leaving the most vulnerable among us unprotected. These tragedies represent just the beginning of a new era of disaster – an era of floods, heatwaves, droughts, and pandemics fueled by climate change. Laws and government institutions have struggled to adapt to the scope of the challenge; old models of risk no longer apply. This Handbook provides timely guidance, taking stock of the field of disaster law and policy as it has developed since Hurricane Katrina. Experts from a wide range of academic and practical backgrounds address the root causes of disaster vulnerability and offer solutions to build more resilient communities to ensure that no one is left behind
Galaxy Next Generation, Inc., Order on Counterclaim Defendant Wade Walker\u27s Motion for Protective Order and to Quash Defendant/Counterclaim-Plaintiff Bradley Ehlert\u27s Requests and Subpoena for Production of Documents to Non-Parties
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SB 202: Revisions to Georgia\u27s Election and Voting Procedures
Get PDFThis Act primarily functions to revise elections and voting in three significant areas: voting access, ballot counting, and power and controls. With regard to voting access, the Act confines drop boxes to early voting sites, requires identification for absentee voting, changes the early voting hours, criminalizes the handing out of food and water to voters in line, moves up absentee ballot deadlines, bans voting buses, deems provisional ballots cast in the improper precinct void, restricts the mass mailing of absentee ballot request forms, removes limitations on voter eligibility challenges, and opens the potential for more voting sites when there are long lines. In terms of ballot counting, the Act provides for quicker election reporting times, requires that ballots appear on special paper, deems digital images of paper ballots as public records, and grants more access to poll watchers. Finally, regarding power and controls, the Act provides that state officials may replace county election boards, stipulates that a law enforcement hotline will be the point of contact for voter complaints, eliminates outside funding for elections, requires that runoff elections be held soon after general elections, and replaces free-for-all special elections with partisan races
Planning to a Larger Scale: Lessons from Trying to Save the World
Get PDFMost urban planning efforts are focused on city, district, and neighborhood scales, but many of our problems require a larger perspective and grander solutions. The Covid-19 pandemic and climate change head the list of global problems in need of action, but many others loom at different scales. In recent decades, the principles of planning have been applied to broader issues. This essay reflects on one of those problems—climate change and the associated energy transition, and the lessons that efforts aimed at its resolution may provide for planning at such scale