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Segmented Innovation In The Legalization Of Mitochondrial Transfer: Lessons From Australia And The United Kingdom, Myrisha S. Lewis
Segmented Innovation In The Legalization Of Mitochondrial Transfer: Lessons From Australia And The United Kingdom, Myrisha S. Lewis
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The U.S. is often characterized as a leader in innovation—a home of Nobel Prize‐winning scientists, innovators, and abundant research funding. Yet, in the area of assisted reproduction combined with genetic modification or substitution, what I call “reproductive genetic innovation,” that characterization begins to wane. This Article focuses on the regulation of mitochondrial transfer, a subset of reproductive genetic innovation. While human clinical trials related to mitochondrial transfer go forward in the U.K., the clinical use of the technique remains illegal in the U.S. due to a system of subterranean regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a now-recurring …
How Analogizing Socio-Legal Responses To Organ Transplantation Can Further The Legalization Of Reproductive Genetic Innovation, Myrisha S. Lewis
How Analogizing Socio-Legal Responses To Organ Transplantation Can Further The Legalization Of Reproductive Genetic Innovation, Myrisha S. Lewis
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The Nobel Foundation emphasized the significance of genetic innovation to society, science, and medicine by awarding the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to “the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.” This Article focuses on “reproductive genetic innovation,” a term that includes cytoplasmic transfer, mitochondrial transfer, and germline or heritable gene editing techniques that are all categorized as “experimental” in the United States. These techniques all use in vitro fertilization, a legal and widely available practice. Yet reproductive genetic innovation has resulted in controversy and numerous barriers including a recurring federal budget rider, threats of federal enforcement action, and the unavailability of federal funding. …
Is Germline Gene Editing Exceptional?, Myrisha S. Lewis
Is Germline Gene Editing Exceptional?, Myrisha S. Lewis
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Advances in gene editing have recently received significant scientific and media attention. Gene editing, especially CRISPR-Cas9, has revived multiple longstanding ethical debates, including debates related to parental autonomy, health disparities, disability perspectives, and racial and economic inequalities. Germline, or heritable, gene editing generates several newer, neglected bioethical debates, including those about the shared human germline and whether there is a "line" that humans should not cross.
This Article addresses several interrelated ethical and legal questions related to germline gene editing. Those questions address why, if at all, germline gene editing needs to be regulated and, if germline gene editing needs …
Keeping Ai Under Observation: Anticipated Impacts On Physicians' Standard Of Care, Iria Giuffrida, Taylor Treece
Keeping Ai Under Observation: Anticipated Impacts On Physicians' Standard Of Care, Iria Giuffrida, Taylor Treece
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As Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools become increasingly present across industries, concerns have started to emerge as to their impact on professional liability. Specifically, for the medical industry--in many ways an inherently "risky" business--hospitals and physicians have begun evaluating the impact of Al tools on their professional malpractice risk. This Essay seeks to address that question, zooming in on how AI may affect physicians' standard of care for medical malpractice claims.
Pay Now, Play Later?: Youth And Adolescent Collision Sports, Vivian E. Hamilton
Pay Now, Play Later?: Youth And Adolescent Collision Sports, Vivian E. Hamilton
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The routine and repeated head impacts experienced by athletes in a range of sports can inflict microscopic brain injuries that accumulate over time, even in the absence of concussion. Indeed, cumulative exposure to head impacts—not number of concussions—is the strongest predictor of sports-related degenerative brain disease in later life. The observable symptoms of disease appear years or decades after initial injury and resemble those of other mental-health conditions such as depression and dementia. The years-long interval between earlier, seemingly minor, head impacts and later brain disease has long obscured the connection between the two.
Risk of injury differs across demographics, …
American Democratic Deficit In Assisted Reproductive Technology Innovation, Myrisha S. Lewis
American Democratic Deficit In Assisted Reproductive Technology Innovation, Myrisha S. Lewis
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In many areas of innovation, the United States is a leader, but this characterization does not apply to the United States' position in assisted reproductive technology innovation and clinical use. This article uses a political science concept, the idea of the "democratic deficit" to examine the lack of American public discourse on innovations in ART. In doing so, the article focuses on America's missing public consultation in health care innovation. This missing discourse is significant, as political and ethical considerations may impact regulatory decisions. Thus, to the extent that these considerations are influencing the decisions of federal agency employees, namely …
Liberty Without Capacity: Why States Should Ban Adolescent Driving, Vivian E. Hamilton
Liberty Without Capacity: Why States Should Ban Adolescent Driving, Vivian E. Hamilton
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Mental Illness And Danger To Self, Cynthia V. Ward
Mental Illness And Danger To Self, Cynthia V. Ward
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Party Polarization And Judicial Review: Lessons From The Affordable Care Act, Neal Devins
Party Polarization And Judicial Review: Lessons From The Affordable Care Act, Neal Devins
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Congress paid nearly no attention to the Constitution when enacting the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010. Legislative hearings and committee reports ignored the Constitution altogether; legislative debates largely did the same. This Essay both highlights Congress’s indifference to the Constitution when enacting the ACA and examines the reasons behind this legislative failure. In particular, this Essay advances three explanations. First, Congress is generally uninterested in “public goods” like constitutional interpretation. Second, the polarization of Democrats and Republicans in Congress further depresses Congress’s interest in thinking about the Constitution; instead, the majority party seeks to limit opportunities for the minority …
Why Congress Did Not Think About The Constitution When Enacting The Affordable Care Act, Neal Devins
Why Congress Did Not Think About The Constitution When Enacting The Affordable Care Act, Neal Devins
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Securing Sovereign State Standing, Katherine Mims Crocker
Securing Sovereign State Standing, Katherine Mims Crocker
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How Planned Parenthood V. Casey (Pretty Much) Settled The Abortion Wars, Neal Devins
How Planned Parenthood V. Casey (Pretty Much) Settled The Abortion Wars, Neal Devins
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More than twenty-one years after Robert Bork's failed Supreme Court nomination and seventeen years after Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, the rhetoric of abortion politics remains unchanged. Pro-choice interests, for example, argue that states are poised to outlaw abortion and that Roe v. Wade is vulnerable to overruling. In this Essay, I will debunk those claims. First, I will explain how Casey's approval of limited abortion rights reflected an emerging national consensus in 1992. Second, I will explain why the Supreme Court is unlikely to risk political backlash by formally modifying Casey- either by restoring the trimester test …
What Is Urban Health Policy And What's Law Got To Do With It?, Larry I. Palmer
What Is Urban Health Policy And What's Law Got To Do With It?, Larry I. Palmer
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No abstract provided.
Preserving A Precious Resource: Rationalizing The Use Of Antibiotics, Eric Kades
Preserving A Precious Resource: Rationalizing The Use Of Antibiotics, Eric Kades
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No abstract provided.
Genetic Health And Eugenics Precedents: A Voice Of Caution, Larry I. Palmer
Genetic Health And Eugenics Precedents: A Voice Of Caution, Larry I. Palmer
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No abstract provided.
Disease Management And Liability In The Human Genome Era, Larry I. Palmer
Disease Management And Liability In The Human Genome Era, Larry I. Palmer
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No abstract provided.
The Integrity Of Death: Resolving Dilemmas In Medicine, Larry I. Palmer
The Integrity Of Death: Resolving Dilemmas In Medicine, Larry I. Palmer
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No abstract provided.
Informed Consent For Neonatal Circumcision: An Ethical And Legal Conundrum, J. Steven Svoboda, Robert S. Van Howe, James G. Dwyer
Informed Consent For Neonatal Circumcision: An Ethical And Legal Conundrum, J. Steven Svoboda, Robert S. Van Howe, James G. Dwyer
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No abstract provided.
Patient Safety, Risk Reduction, And The Law, Larry I. Palmer
Patient Safety, Risk Reduction, And The Law, Larry I. Palmer
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No abstract provided.
Institutional Analysis And Physicians' Rights After Vacco V. Quill, Larry I. Palmer
Institutional Analysis And Physicians' Rights After Vacco V. Quill, Larry I. Palmer
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No abstract provided.
Beginning The Endgame: The Search For An Injury Compensation System Alternative To Tort Liability For Tobacco-Related Harms, Paul A. Lebel
Beginning The Endgame: The Search For An Injury Compensation System Alternative To Tort Liability For Tobacco-Related Harms, Paul A. Lebel
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No abstract provided.
The Cosmetic/Drug Dilemma: Fda Regulation Of Alpha-Hydroxy Acids, Laura A. Heymann
The Cosmetic/Drug Dilemma: Fda Regulation Of Alpha-Hydroxy Acids, Laura A. Heymann
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No abstract provided.
The Children We Abandon: Religious Exemptions To Child Welfare And Education Law As Denials Of Equal Protection To Children Of Religious Objectors, James G. Dwyer
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The story of children who die because their parents, in observance of their own religious principles, withhold conventional medical treatment from them is a familiar one. In this Article, James G. Dwyer shows that the phenomenon of parents denying secular benefits to their children for religious reasons goes far beyond these few highly publicized cases, extending into the realm of education as well as medical care. Moreover, Dr. Dwyer shows that the federal and state governments endorse this practice by statutorily exempting 'religious objector' parents from otherwise generally applicable compulsory child care and education laws. He argues that courts addressing …
Comment On The L, Susan Grover
A Rejoinder, Larry I. Palmer
Legal Problems In Organ Transplants, Jerome F. Leavell
Legal Problems In Organ Transplants, Jerome F. Leavell
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No abstract provided.