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The Art Of Regulating Art, Naomi Cahn, Sonia M. Suter Jan 2022

The Art Of Regulating Art, Naomi Cahn, Sonia M. Suter

Chicago-Kent Law Review

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Embryonic Injuries: Can You Use If You Wouldn't Have Been Born, Or Born Different?, David Heyd Jan 2022

Embryonic Injuries: Can You Use If You Wouldn't Have Been Born, Or Born Different?, David Heyd

Chicago-Kent Law Review

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Savior Siblings, Protective Progeny, And Parental Determinism In The Age Of Crispr-Cas, Barbara Pfeffer-Billauer Jan 2022

Savior Siblings, Protective Progeny, And Parental Determinism In The Age Of Crispr-Cas, Barbara Pfeffer-Billauer

Chicago-Kent Law Review

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A Wrong Without A Remedy: Leaving Parents And Children With A Hollow Victory I Nlawsuits Against Unscrupulous Sperm Banks, Yaniv Heled, Timothy Lytton, Liza Vertinsky Jan 2022

A Wrong Without A Remedy: Leaving Parents And Children With A Hollow Victory I Nlawsuits Against Unscrupulous Sperm Banks, Yaniv Heled, Timothy Lytton, Liza Vertinsky

Chicago-Kent Law Review

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Genetically-Engineered Begots, Have-Nots, And Tinkered Tots: (High Scoring Polygenic Kids As A Heredity-Camelot)-An Introduction To The Legalities And Bio-Ethics Of Advanced Ivf And Genetic Testing, Barbara Pfeffier-Billaeuer Jan 2022

Genetically-Engineered Begots, Have-Nots, And Tinkered Tots: (High Scoring Polygenic Kids As A Heredity-Camelot)-An Introduction To The Legalities And Bio-Ethics Of Advanced Ivf And Genetic Testing, Barbara Pfeffier-Billaeuer

Chicago-Kent Law Review

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Does A Custodial Rights Understanding Of The Gdpr Justify Fraudulent Misrepresentation By Sperm Donors?, Dov Greenbaum Jan 2022

Does A Custodial Rights Understanding Of The Gdpr Justify Fraudulent Misrepresentation By Sperm Donors?, Dov Greenbaum

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.


Causation And Compensation For Intergenerational Harm, Dov Fox Jan 2022

Causation And Compensation For Intergenerational Harm, Dov Fox

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.


From Consent To Empowerment In Support Of Decision-Making In Embryonic Genetic Design, Pamela Laufer-Ukeles Jan 2022

From Consent To Empowerment In Support Of Decision-Making In Embryonic Genetic Design, Pamela Laufer-Ukeles

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.


The "Art" Of Future Life: Rethinking Personal Injury Law For The Negligent Deprivation Of A Patient's Right To Procreation In The Age Of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Erika N. Auger Feb 2019

The "Art" Of Future Life: Rethinking Personal Injury Law For The Negligent Deprivation Of A Patient's Right To Procreation In The Age Of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Erika N. Auger

Chicago-Kent Law Review

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Causation In Hepatitis B. Vaccination Litigation In France: Breaking Through Scientific Uncertainty?, Jean-Sebastien Borghetti May 2016

Causation In Hepatitis B. Vaccination Litigation In France: Breaking Through Scientific Uncertainty?, Jean-Sebastien Borghetti

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Vaccination against hepatitis B has been available since 1982 and is strongly recommended by most health professionals. In France, the hepatitis B vaccine is very widespread, but it has come under suspicion that it can cause demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Several epidemiological studies have been carried out to discover if there is indeed a connection between the hepatitis B vaccination and demyelinating diseases, but no such connection has been established so far. Many cases have nevertheless been brought before French courts, in which plaintiffs argue that they have developed a demyelinating disease due to the hepatitis B vaccination, …


3-D Bioprinting: Not Allowed Or Nota Allowed?, Robert Jacobson Jul 2015

3-D Bioprinting: Not Allowed Or Nota Allowed?, Robert Jacobson

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In 1984, Congress passed the National Organ Transplantation Act (NOTA) to improve the supply of vital human organs. A key provision of NOTA was the prohibition of acquiring, receiving, or otherwise transferring human organs. In effect, this provision bans the purchase of human organs. However, due to recent breakthroughs in 3-D bioprinting technology, scientists are on the verge of being able to create lab-grown organs suitable for transplantation. This Note will examine the applicability of NOTA to 3-D bioprinting technology and recommend amendments to NOTA that would clarify the legality of 3-D bioprinting.


Don't Call Me Crazy: A Survey Of America's Mental Health System, Justin L. Joffe Jul 2015

Don't Call Me Crazy: A Survey Of America's Mental Health System, Justin L. Joffe

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Unfortunately, the typical exposure to mental illness for most Americans comes via tragic mass shootings or highly publicized celebrity mental breakdowns. However, the vast majority of mentally ill individuals are not violent murderers or hyper-tweeting celebrities. Rather, they are the ordinary, everyday people that make up the tens of millions of American adults suffering from some form of mental illness. The American mental health system has a lamentable history. The initial policy of locking up mentally ill individuals in jails transitioned to a system of confinement in asylums that quickly became notorious for their poor living conditions and treatment. The …


Dna Storage Banks: The Importance Of Preserving Dna Evidence To Allow For Transparency And The Preservation Of Justice, Cristina Martin Jul 2015

Dna Storage Banks: The Importance Of Preserving Dna Evidence To Allow For Transparency And The Preservation Of Justice, Cristina Martin

Chicago-Kent Law Review

What is the duty to preserve information in today’s society? In order for humanity to evolve, change and flourish in the future, society needs to preserve its information from the past. In the criminal justice field, preservation of evidence has special significance. DNA evidence in particular has become a helpful aid for innocent defendants who have been improperly imprisoned. Over the past twenty years, the number of exonerations of imprisoned criminal defendants has increased dramatically. With the advancement of technology, old, previously untestable or improperly tested DNA evidence will need to be retested. However, most states do not have proper …


The Scramble To Promote Egg Donation Through A More Protective Regulatory Regime, Jacob Radecki Apr 2015

The Scramble To Promote Egg Donation Through A More Protective Regulatory Regime, Jacob Radecki

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Egg “donation” is a burgeoning industry in the United States. Fertility clinics capitalize on financially needy college students by advertising substantial financial benefits; particularly gifted women may receive thousands of dollars for selling their eggs. Rosy advertisements portray a well-paying procedure that also helps bring a child to a loving parent. Yet these descriptions mask significant potential harms. With respect to known problems, hormone regimens may cause ovarian hyper-stimulation syndrome, which in the most severe cases can lead to infertility. In terms of unknown risks, anecdotal evidence suggests that the long-term side effects of egg extraction may include cancer. The …


A Private Right Of Action For Informed Consent In Research, Valerie Gutmann Koch Jan 2015

A Private Right Of Action For Informed Consent In Research, Valerie Gutmann Koch

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


A Private Right Of Action For Informed Consent In Research, Valerie Gutmann Koch Jan 2015

A Private Right Of Action For Informed Consent In Research, Valerie Gutmann Koch

Valerie Gutmann Koch

No abstract provided.


A Policy In Flux: New York State’S Evolving Approach To Human Subjects Research Involving Individuals Who Lack Consent Capacity (Forthcoming), Valerie Gutmann Koch Oct 2014

A Policy In Flux: New York State’S Evolving Approach To Human Subjects Research Involving Individuals Who Lack Consent Capacity (Forthcoming), Valerie Gutmann Koch

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Employers As Risks, Amy B. Monahan Apr 2014

Employers As Risks, Amy B. Monahan

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In evaluating health and retirement security in the United States, much recent work has focused on shortcomings in individual decision making. For example, in explaining why 401(k) plans are suboptimal for achieving retirement security, a significant volume of literature has catalogued the mistakes individuals make when attempting to save for retirement through such plans. This article seeks to move the discussion of suboptimal decision making in a new direction, by focusing on the impact that employer decision making has on the ability of employees to achieve health and retirement security. The article argues that employer decision making regarding whether to …


“Of Vital Importance”: The New York State Task Force On Life And The Law’S Report And Recommendations For Research With Human Subjects Who Lack Consent Capacity (With Susie A. Han), Valerie Gutmann Koch Jan 2014

“Of Vital Importance”: The New York State Task Force On Life And The Law’S Report And Recommendations For Research With Human Subjects Who Lack Consent Capacity (With Susie A. Han), Valerie Gutmann Koch

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


A Policy In Flux: New York State’S Evolving Approach To Human Subjects Research Involving Individuals Who Lack Consent Capacity (Forthcoming), Valerie Gutmann Koch Jan 2014

A Policy In Flux: New York State’S Evolving Approach To Human Subjects Research Involving Individuals Who Lack Consent Capacity (Forthcoming), Valerie Gutmann Koch

Valerie Gutmann Koch

No abstract provided.


“Of Vital Importance”: The New York State Task Force On Life And The Law’S Report And Recommendations For Research With Human Subjects Who Lack Consent Capacity (With Susie A. Han), Valerie Gutmann Koch Jan 2014

“Of Vital Importance”: The New York State Task Force On Life And The Law’S Report And Recommendations For Research With Human Subjects Who Lack Consent Capacity (With Susie A. Han), Valerie Gutmann Koch

Valerie Gutmann Koch

No abstract provided.


Missing The Forest For The Trees: Why Supplemental Needs Trusts Should Be Exempt From Medicaid Determinations, Jeffrey R. Grimyser Jan 2014

Missing The Forest For The Trees: Why Supplemental Needs Trusts Should Be Exempt From Medicaid Determinations, Jeffrey R. Grimyser

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Supplemental needs trusts are trusts designed to assist individuals with disabilities by paying for services and items that Medicaid will not pay for. Federal law, however, is unclear as to whether using one of these trusts automatically disqualifies someone from receiving Medicaid, thereby causing the circuit courts to split on their interpretation. Some circuits have held that the Medicaid statute allows states to enact laws prohibiting the use of these trusts while receiving Medicaid benefits based on the federal law’s statutory language. While other circuits have ruled that individuals can simultaneously receive Medicaid benefits and use supplemental needs trusts given …


Why Broccoli? Limiting Principles And Popular Constitutionalism In The Health Care Case, Mark D. Rosen, Christopher W. Schmidt Jan 2013

Why Broccoli? Limiting Principles And Popular Constitutionalism In The Health Care Case, Mark D. Rosen, Christopher W. Schmidt

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Crucial to the Court’s disposition in the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a hypothetical mandate to purchase broccoli, which Congress never had considered and nobody thought would ever be enacted. For the five Justices who concluded the ACA exceeded Congress’s commerce power, a fatal flaw in the government’s case was its inability to offer an adequate explanation for why upholding that mandate would not entail also upholding a federal requirement that all citizens purchase broccoli. The minority insisted the broccoli mandate was distinguishable. This Article argues that the fact that all the Justices insisted on providing …


Unique Proposals For Limiting Legal Liability And Encouraging Adherence To Ventilator Allocation Guidelines In An Influenza Pandemic, Valerie Gutmann Koch Dec 2012

Unique Proposals For Limiting Legal Liability And Encouraging Adherence To Ventilator Allocation Guidelines In An Influenza Pandemic, Valerie Gutmann Koch

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Adultery By Doctor: Artificial Insemination, 1890–1945, Kara W. Swanson Apr 2012

Adultery By Doctor: Artificial Insemination, 1890–1945, Kara W. Swanson

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In 1945, American judges decided the first court cases involving assisted conception. The challenges posed by assisted reproductive technologies to law and society made national news then, and have continued to do so into the twenty-first century. This article considers the first technique of assisted conception, artificial insemination, from the late nineteenth century to 1945, the period in which doctors and their patients worked to transform it from a curiosity into an accepted medical technique, a transformation that also changed a largely clandestine medical practice into one of the most pressing medicolegal problems of the mid-twentieth century. Doctors and lawyers …


Incentivizing The Utilization Of Pharmacogenomics In Drug Development, Valerie Gutmann Koch Jan 2012

Incentivizing The Utilization Of Pharmacogenomics In Drug Development, Valerie Gutmann Koch

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Pharmacogenomics, the study and development of compounds according to how an individual’s genes affects the body’s response to drugs, holds enormous promise for increasing the safety and efficiency of drug development while decreasing adverse reactions and the trial-and-error nature of drug prescription. However, pharmacogenomics may not be the panacea for all development and prescription problems. This article explores some of the obstacles to pharmacogenomic advancement including industry reluctance to pursue research because of potentially prohibitive costs associated with developing products and legal liability concerns. The implications pharmacogenomics has for drug research and development as well as various areas of law …


Pgtandme: Social Networking-Based Genetic Testing And The Evolving Research Model, Valerie Gutmann Koch Jan 2012

Pgtandme: Social Networking-Based Genetic Testing And The Evolving Research Model, Valerie Gutmann Koch

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The opportunity to use extensive genetic data, personal information, and family medical history for research purposes may be naturally appealing to the personal genetic testing (PGT) industry, which is already coupling its direct-to-consumer (DTC) products with social networking technologies, as well as to potential industry or institutional partners. This article evaluates the transformation in research that the hybrid of PGT and social networking will bring about, and – highlighting the challenges associated with a new paradigm of “patient-driven” genomic research – focuses on the consequences of shifting the structure, locus, timing, and scope of research through genetic crowd-sourcing. This article …


Malpractice In Scandinavia, Vibe Ulfbeck, Mette Hartlev, Mårten Schultz Dec 2011

Malpractice In Scandinavia, Vibe Ulfbeck, Mette Hartlev, Mårten Schultz

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The article describes the special Scandinavian patient insurance system which secures compensation for patients in malpractice cases. For all practical purposes, the insurance based systems have replaced ordinary tort law rules in malpractice cases in Scandinavia. Thus, the basic feature of these systems is that proof of fault is not a requirement for obtaining compensation. Other criteria which are more favourable to the patient are applicable. The article concludes that in general the compensations systems have been successful in making it easier for the patients to obtain compensation. However, the systems also face challenges, some of which stem from the …


A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: The Development Of Medical Malpractice Litigation In Brazil, Eduardo Dantas Dec 2011

A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: The Development Of Medical Malpractice Litigation In Brazil, Eduardo Dantas

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This paper aims to demonstrate how medical malpractice litigation is developing in Brazil, and how the Brazilian legal system is dealing with the increase of demands against health care professionals. A brief overlook on the legal structure is provided, highlighting the most important issues being discussed today in Brazilian courts, regarding autonomy, consent, choice, the definition of moral damages, and the influence of the Consumer's Defense Code in litigation regarding health law.


Yangge Dance: The Rhythm Of Liability For Medical Malpractice In The People's Republic Of China, Zhu Wang, Ken Oliphant Dec 2011

Yangge Dance: The Rhythm Of Liability For Medical Malpractice In The People's Republic Of China, Zhu Wang, Ken Oliphant

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This paper summarises the development of liability for medical malpractice in the People's Republic of China, beginning with the establishment of a formal system of administrative liability in 1987, its refinement in 2002, and the broadly contemporaneous judicial recognition of a concurrent tortious liability under general civil law. All these developments may be said to have furthered the interests of patients. The incorporation of liability for medical malpractice into the Tort Liability Law of 2009, however, arguably marks a step backwards, subordinating the interests of patients in favor of the interests of the medical community, and further reforms in the …