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Gene Editing And The Rise Of Designer Babies, Tara R. Melillo
Gene Editing And The Rise Of Designer Babies, Tara R. Melillo
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Nearly as long as human beings have existed on this earth, many people have sought out the ideal of perfecting their population: infanticide in Sparta during the Hellenistic era; compulsory sterilization in the 1920s in the United States; and the unimaginable atrocities of the Holocaust in the 1940s in Europe. The goal of alleged perfection leaves many hesitant to repeat the mistakes of our past. Today, a new frontier of science has emerged, gene editing using CRISPR-Cas9, reigniting ethical debate as to how far humans should go in manipulating the population. While many proponents herald this technology as a potential …
Hunt Or Be Hunted, Jeremiah Cioffi
Hunt Or Be Hunted, Jeremiah Cioffi
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Bulgaria is the geographic and political center of the European migrant crisis, which has the Bulgarian citizenry uneasy about its security. Bulgaria's societal disdain for Middle Eastern migrants stems from hundreds of years of subjugation and non-Muslim Bulgarians' second-class citizenship under the Ottoman Empire. Roving bands of civilian migrant hunters have begun taking the law into their own hands by capturing migrants and turning them over to the Bulgarian authorities for deportation. This Note discusses the illegality of such migrant hunting under Bulgarian domestic law. It then discusses how the impunity enjoyed by migrant hunters is an abdication of Bulgarian …
The Human Rights Obligations Of State-Owned Enterprises: Emerging Conceptual Structures And Principles In National And International Law And Policy, Larry C. Backer
The Human Rights Obligations Of State-Owned Enterprises: Emerging Conceptual Structures And Principles In National And International Law And Policy, Larry C. Backer
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The distinction between the obligations of public and private entities, and their relation to law, is well known in classical political and legal theory. States have a duty that is undertaken through law; enterprises have a responsibility that is embedded in their governance. These fundamental divisions form part of the current international efforts to institutionalize human rights-related norms on and through states and enterprises, and most notably through the U.N. Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights. The problems of conforming to evolving norms becomes more difficult where states project their authority through commercial enterprises.