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Welcome to the World of Tomorrow: An Exploration of Cell-Based Meats and How the FDA and USDA May Protect Intellectual Property Rights
Get PDFLab-grown meats are ready to be sold in United States markets. However, the meat product needs approval from regulators such as the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”). The regulation approval process takes a significant amount of time. This approval period will cut into the lab-grown meat producers’ patent time, rendering a period of the patent ineffective.
This Comment analyzes the effect of, and possible changes to, our current laws on the emerging lab-grown meat market. To look at this problem, this Comment compares FDA and USDA regulations, analyzes the Hatch-Waxman Act, and looks at what individual states have done in response to lab-grown meats. The current federal plan is to establish a joint regulation of the industry by the FDA and the USDA through a memorandum of understanding. However, this Comment shows that the FDA is better suited to handle the regulatory side of the process because of its current experience in regulating other genetically modified organisms and experience with the Hatch-Waxman Act. This Comment also explores the idea that Hatch-Waxman may need to be modified by Congress to adequately incorporate patent extensions to lab-grown meat producers. By incorporating the ideas in this Comment, the federal government will be able to effectively and efficiently handle this emerging market from a regulatory perspective, and lab-grown meat patent holders will not be negatively impacted as they wait for approval from regulatory authorities
COVID-19 and Legal Implications for the Fashion Industry
No full textOn August 6, 2020, Catholic Law\u27s Office of Development and Alumni Relations and Professor Cara H. Drinan, Director of Faculty Research, hosted a virtual discussion of COVID-19 and Legal Implications for the Fashion Industry. Professor Susanna Fischer, Director of the International Human Rights Summer Law School Program in Rome, Italy, spoke with Catholic Law alumna Julie Zerbo \u2715, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Fashion Law (TFL)
Wirecard, Europe’s Enron? - Auditor Liability to Investors Corporate Fraud
No full textOn October 21, 2020, Catholic Law hosted its first in a 16 webinar series, Contemporary Challenges in American & Global Law. This inaugural program was held in conjunction with Catholic Law’s partners at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. The afternoon webinar, “Wirecard, Europe’s Enron? - Auditor Liability to Investors Corporate Fraud,” was moderated by Professor Emerita Leah Wortham. Wortham is director of the American Law Program and the LL.M. program in which Catholic University has cooperated with Jagiellonian University for many years. Panelists Dr. Marc Liebscher \u2706 (LL.M.), Partner at Dr. Späth & Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB, and Christopher D. Christian \u2798, Partner at Dechert and Catholic Law Board of Visitors member shared their expertise in discussing the recent Wirecard scandal
Comparative Negligence (6th ed.)
No full textComparative Negligence, Sixth Edition fully discusses a doctrine that has been a major force of change in tort law over the past 50 years. Since its initial publication in 1974, this text has become the leading reference covering the interaction of comparative negligence with every relevant tort doctrine.https://scholarship.law.edu/fac_books/1136/thumbnail.jp
Nonprofits in Crisis: Changes to Giving Rules and Politicization
No full textOn November 19, 2020, Catholic Law presented the third event in the Contemporary Challenges in American & Global Law webinar series. This program is held in conjunction with Catholic Law’s partners at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. The afternoon webinar, “Nonprofits in Crisis: Changes to Giving Rules and Politicization,” was moderated by Professor Emerita Leah Wortham. Wortham is director of the American Law Program and the LL.M. program in which Catholic University has cooperated with Jagiellonian University for many years. Catholic Law Professor Roger Colinvaux, Director of the Law and Public Policy Program (LPP), began the discussion from the American perspective, and comments were then made by Dr. Katarzyna Zdybska Przybysławska, President of Halina Niec Legal Aid Center in Kraków, Poland
COVID-19 and Caring for Elderly Communities
No full textOn July 21, 2020, Catholic Law continued its “COVID-19 and the Law series” with a virtual discussion on COVID-19 and Caring for Elderly Communities. Hosted by the Office of Development and Alumni Relations in conjunction with Professor Cara H. Drinan, Director of Faculty Research, this week’s discussion was set to be moderated by Professor Lucia Silecchia whose expertise includes elderly and disability law. Unfortunately, due to technology issues, Professor Silecchia was unable to join the event. Drinan, who is managing the virtual discussion series, was briefed on the issues, and she moderated the discussion with alumni guest speakers Lawrence A. Joel ’90, Partner at Joel and Joel, LLP, certified elder lawyer, and Will Cubbedge ’04, Attorney and Principal at the Law Offices of William A. Cubbedge
Church and State and Child Endangerment
Get PDFAs media in the United States revealed the number of minors sexually abused by clergy, the gravity of the offenses, and the inability to prosecute the offenders, a second offense was revealed. Gradually it was illustrated that bishops and their diocesan administrators knew of credible sexual crimes against children committed by clergy and they responded by protecting offenders, ignoring victims, and knowingly reassigning credibly accused clergy to other placements where they could endanger additional minors. In response to these developments the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops published policies to protect children, enacted norms to be followed in each diocese, made repeated statements that apologized for grave errors, and worked with victims and independent audits to review continuing efforts to comply with secular civil laws. Arguably clericalism formed the rationale that permitted child endangerment; addressing clericalism remains the issue in child protection and the current culture wars within the Roman Catholic Church. Roman Catholic officials in the Vatican incrementally addressed the sexual abuse of minors by clergy by issuing reporting requirements, redefining crimes of sexual abuse, and willingly removing offending clergy from ministry. Most recently, Pope Francis abolished secrecy of files pertaining to sexual offenses, established a mechanism for prosecuting bishops who endanger children and vulnerable adults, and indicating an intent to work more closely with secular authorities at the local level. Nonetheless, in spite of efforts to end secrecy, disestablish the state-within-a-state and fully cooperate with secular authorities, continuing instances of purposeful child endangerment are revealed in dioceses such as Buffalo, New York. In response, many states abolish their civil and criminal statutes of limitations, continue to publish state grand jury reports, initiate look back windows to permit civil suits against offenders, and operate abuse hot lines to invite further reporting of sexual abuse. Public attention has shifted from acts of sexual abuse of minors to confronting the apparatus by which children could knowingly continue to be endangered. This Article addresses the question of why persons responsible for administering the Roman Catholic Church in the United States would knowingly endanger children after receiving credible evidence of the possibility of sexual abuse by a cleric for whom they were responsible. Thus, this Article goes further than the crime of sexual abuse of minors, it addresses the actions of those who knowingly endangered additional children. While positing child endangerment upon the desire to protect the state-within-a-state that exists within the United States, this Article argues that the remedy lies in adherence to a spirit of openness sanctioned by Vatican II. While the Church struggles with this, the State will increasingly pursue accountability
Business Accountability for Human Rights: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textOn October 22, 2020, Catholic Law’s Compliance, Investigations & Corporate Responsibility (CICR) Program hosted its first in a series of webinars on Human Rights. The series strives to address issues that profoundly impact human lives both in the United States and around the globe. This inaugural program, Business Accountability for Human Rights: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic. offered an overview of human rights issues in global supply chains with a particular focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dean Stephen C. Payne welcomed participants and spoke briefly about the significance of corporate responsibility and legal compliance to the mission of our law school
A Virtual Discussion with Hester Peirce
No full textCatholic Law’s Securities Law Program (SLP) and Securities Law Students Association (SLSA) hosted a virtual discussion with Hester Peirce, a commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission. The program opened with a welcome from Visiting Professor Jeremy Kidd, acting director of the Securities Law Program and advisor to the Securities Law Students Association, who gave a brief introduction of Commissioner Peirce. He then turned things over to Eden Olson (3L), President of SLSA, who acted as the moderator for the evening’s event