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Can't We All Get Along? The Case For A Workable Patent Model, Srividhya Ragavan
Can't We All Get Along? The Case For A Workable Patent Model, Srividhya Ragavan
Faculty Scholarship
The global move towards a trade regime has been impeded by challenges of poverty and health crisis for the developing nations. Until now, the developed nations have touted the establishment of a trade regime as envisaged under TRIPS as the solution for the national challenges. This paper examines the effectiveness of TRIPS as a mechanism to move towards a trade regime. It argues that the patent policy in TRIPS cannot gear the world towards patent harmonization but can potentially adversely impact the developed nations and the post-world war trade structure. The impediments affecting the effectiveness of TRIPS as a harmonizing …
Increasing The Supply Of Organs In Transplantation Through Paired Organ Exchanges, Michael T. Morley
Increasing The Supply Of Organs In Transplantation Through Paired Organ Exchanges, Michael T. Morley
Scholarly Publications
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Sex, Marriage, Medicine, And Law: 'What Hope Of Harmony?', Thomas Wm. Mayo
Sex, Marriage, Medicine, And Law: 'What Hope Of Harmony?', Thomas Wm. Mayo
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
This essay offers a critique of the Kansas Supreme Court's decision in In re Estate of Gardiner, 42 P.3d 120 (Kan. 2002), and similar cases that hold that for purposes of the opposite-sex marriage rule, an individual's sex is determined at birth, is genetically fixed, and cannot be changed through surgery or hormone therapy. The result for transgendered individuals is a legal regime that is hostile to medical care that brings external sex characteristics into line with sexual identity. The result for society is a legal rule that is at odds with scientific opinion. Finally, the result for the opposite-sex …