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You Get What You Pay For?: Rethinking U.S. Organ Procurement Policy In Light Of Foreign Models, J. Andrew Hughes

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The U.S. organ transplant system is in crisis due to the paucity of transplantable organs. Such a shortage exists because otherwise viable organs are too often buried along with the bodies in which they reside. Organs are wasted because the existing U.S. organ transplant system sets up barriers to organ donation--chiefly the legal presumption of unwillingness to donate ("voluntary donation') and the National Organ Transplant Act's ban on the transfer of organs for valuable consideration. This Note surveys the qualified successes of Austria, Belgium, Brazil, and France with their various "presumed consent" models of organ procurement. It also considers other …

Teen Prostitution In Japan: Regulation Of Telephone Clubs, Andrew D. Morrison

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The history of prostitution in Japan may be traced to the eighth century. Originally, prostitutes carried on their trade individually and independently. Around the thirteenth century, however, the nature of prostitution changed, as prostitutes formed small enterprises located in red-light districts. By the seventeenth century, red-light districts existed throughout Japan.

In 1900, the Japanese government, realizing the widespread proliferation of the prostitution industry, passed the Regulation for Control of Prostitutes. The law regulated prostitution nationwide by requiring prostitutes to register with local government authorities and to undergo regular health inspections. This system continued until the end of World War Two, …

Tobacco Proves Addictive: The European Community's Stalled Proposal To Ban Tobacco Advertising, Jennifer A. Lesny

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Note examines the recent initiative to ban tobacco advertising within the European Community. The Note first addresses the European Commission's proposed directive, exploring the Commission's stated justifications as well as the opposing member states' procedural and legal objections. This Note then analyzes the European Community debate by comparing it to the United States movement to ban tobacco advertising. The author concludes that, like its United States counterpart, the European proposal is ill-fated, and that failure to reach a consensus on controversial proposals such as the tobacco advertising ban seriously undermines completion of a true internal market envisioned in the …

Books Received, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

SYSTEMS OF CONTROL IN INTERNATIONAL ADJUDICATION AND ARBITRATION

By W. Michael Reisman

Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1992. Pp. 174.

LEGISLATIVE RESPONSES TO TOBACCO USE

By World Health Organization Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1991.Pp. 226.

IMPORT AND CUSTOMS LAW HANDBOOK

By Michael J. Horton

New York, New York: Quorom Books, 1992. Pp. 308. $55.00.

THE LAW AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD

Edited by P. Ebow Bondzi-Simpson

New York, New York: Praeger Publishers 1992. Pp. 200. $49.95.

Potentially Hazardous Merchandise: Domestic And International Mechanisms For Consumer Protection, Eric Shuman

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Health disorders engendered by hazardous, exported foods, pesticides, drugs, and other products recently have attracted worldwide attention. The exportation of products which have been banned or highly restricted in their country of origin or which become hazardous in the environment of the importing nation is a popular issue for opponents of a perceived monolithic transnational industrial complex, as well as for critics of certain United States corporations. A more widely shared opinion is that the United States has a moral obligation to limit foreseeable harm from the export of potentially hazardous merchandise or at least to supply product hazard information. …