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THE POST-PANDEMIC ORDER: A BLUEPRINT FOR BALANCING HEALTH AND IP INTERESTS IN THE AGE OF COVID VARIANTS
No full textIn December 2021, the World Health Assembly (“WHA”) convened to develop a pandemic response treaty for future pandemics. Unfortunately, as presently envisioned, the resulting pandemic response framework will suffer from many of the same inadequacies that prevented existing frameworks from responding effectively to COVID-19. The threat of new pandemics emerging in the future—and new variants developing in the present—call for a more integrated, robust, comprehensive solution.
This Article lays a blueprint for that solution: a global multilateral Council empowered to (1) investigate developing pandemics; (2) incentivize pharmaceutical companies to rapidly-produce vaccines and share them through voluntary licenses or TRIPS compulsory licensing provisions; (3) facilitate the rapid creation of raw material pipelines to vaccine and treatment developers; and
(4) resolve related legal disputes to ensure a rapid and coordinated response to emerging diseases and variants
KEEP THE LOCAL CONTROL, FEDERALIZE TEACHER PREP: FINLAND\u27S MODEL MAKES THE CASE FOR A NATIONALIZED TEACHER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
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The Magic of Fintech? Insights for a Regulatory Agenda from Analyzing Student Loan Complaints Filed with the CFPB
No full textThis Article looks at consumer complaints about student loan lenders and servicers from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) consumer complaint database. Using a novel dataset drawn from 30,678 complaints filed against 212 student loan companies, we analyze consumers’ subjective views about whether traditional or fintech student loan lenders and servicers provide a better customer experience. Overall, we find that consumers initiate far fewer complaints against fintech lenders than traditional lenders. But we find that fintech lenders are 28 times more likely than traditional lenders to receive complaints for making confusing or misleading advertisements. Our data also show that complaints against fintech lenders or servicers have not risen in parallel with greater loan volume by those firms. By comparison, traditional lenders and servicers have received rising numbers of complaints. We consider various reasons for this difference, including whether this means fintech student loan companies are providing a better consumer experience
The Rise of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Their Effects, and How We Can Stop Their Growth
No full textDramatic changes in the agricultural industry over the last century have led to the rise of concentrated animal feeding operations– industrial facilities that raise a large number of animals in confined spaces. Animals raised in these facilities suffer from poor quality of life and abuse. For humans, these facilities have had adverse effects on the environment and public health, but they are also associated with high productivity and low food costs. This Comment analyzes the effects of concentrated animal feeding operations on animal well-being, the environment, and public health. This Comment also analyzes current federal legislation that helps combat the negative effects of concentrated animal feeding operations. It recommends more comprehensive federal legislation to recognize that the negative effects of concentrated animal feeding operations are interrelated and to protect animals from abuse
