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Evolutionary Jurisprudence: Prospects And Limitations On The Use Of Modern Darwinism Throughout The Legal Process, Steven Kasten May 1990

Evolutionary Jurisprudence: Prospects And Limitations On The Use Of Modern Darwinism Throughout The Legal Process, Steven Kasten

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Evolutionary Jurisprudence: Prospects and Limitations on the Use of Modern Darwinism Throughout the Legal Process by John H. Beckstrom


Sociological Justice, Christopher M. Adams May 1990

Sociological Justice, Christopher M. Adams

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Sociological Justice by Donald Black


The First Amendment In An Age Of Paratroopers, David Skover, Ronald Collins Jan 1990

The First Amendment In An Age Of Paratroopers, David Skover, Ronald Collins

Faculty Articles

As the lead piece in a Colloquy entitled The First Amendment and the Paratroopers' Paradox, this article argues that today's free speech theory is largely grounded in 18th Century fears of government's tyrannical censorship. This theory is ill-equipped to deal with a distinct tyranny in 21st Century America, a tyranny playing upon the public's insatiable appetite for amusement. Those who venture to develop free speech principles to suit a new cultural environment are the First Amendment paratroopers of our time, the ones who realize that we cannot retain our old constitutional prerogatives in a transformed world. The Paratroopers' Paradox: To …


Patenting The Human Genome, Rebecca S. Eisenberg Jan 1990

Patenting The Human Genome, Rebecca S. Eisenberg

Articles

The increasing promise of federal funding for mapping and sequencing the human genome has brought with it renewed attention in the research science community to issues of intellectual property protection for products of biotechnology research. Echoing concerns raised a decade ago in the debate over commercialization of academic biomedical research, scientists have called for the free availability of all information generated through the Human Genome Project and have argued against allowing private intellectual property rights in such knowledge. Meanwhile, private parties have quietly been obtaining patents on bits and pieces of the human genome from the Patent and Trademark Office …


Back To Open Season On American Product Ingenuity: Bonito Boats, Inc. V. Thunder Craft, Inc., 24 J. Marshall L. Rev. 209 (1990), Alex Devience Jr. Jan 1990

Back To Open Season On American Product Ingenuity: Bonito Boats, Inc. V. Thunder Craft, Inc., 24 J. Marshall L. Rev. 209 (1990), Alex Devience Jr.

UIC Law Review

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