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Rule Of Law With Chinese Characteristics: An Empirical Cultural Perspective On China, Hong Kong And Singapore, Jeffrey E. Thomas
Rule Of Law With Chinese Characteristics: An Empirical Cultural Perspective On China, Hong Kong And Singapore, Jeffrey E. Thomas
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This article uses empirical data to analyse the meaning of rule of law with Chinese characteristics. It compares rule of law data on China, Hong Kong and Singapore from the World Justice Project and finds patterns of more limited protection of individual rights and fewer limits on governmental powers. It then uses Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions to consider whether those patterns are related to common cultural characteristics. It finds low scores on the cultural value of individualism in those three jurisdictions are correlated with lower protection for individual rights, and that high scores on Hofstede’s Power Distribution Index are inversely …
Book Review: Lawless Capitalism: The Subprime Crisis And The Case For An Economic Rule Of Law, William K. Black
Book Review: Lawless Capitalism: The Subprime Crisis And The Case For An Economic Rule Of Law, William K. Black
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Introduction: Mental Health, Psychology, And The Law, Mary Kay Kisthardt
Introduction: Mental Health, Psychology, And The Law, Mary Kay Kisthardt
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The authors coordinated and edited a symposium law review issue on Mental Health, Psychology and the Law. The Introduction summarizes submissions that included a memoir from an author whose family members were consumers of mental health services, legal scholars and practitioners who use mental health evidence to defend clients facing the death penalty, and the duty of attorneys to tend to their own mental health care needs while dealing with these emotionally heavy issues.
Mayo, Myriad, And The Future Of Innovation In Molecular Diagnostics And Personalized Medicine, Christopher M. Holman
Mayo, Myriad, And The Future Of Innovation In Molecular Diagnostics And Personalized Medicine, Christopher M. Holman
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Contrary to popular perception, the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., finding certain patent claims reciting isolated genomic DNA molecules patent ineligible is likely to have a relatively minor impact on the patenting of diagnostics and personalized medicine. Method claims generally play a much more important role than isolated DNA claims in the patenting of innovations in this important technological sector, and the Court’s earlier decision in Mayo v. Prometheus Labs that held claims directed towards non-genetic methods of personalized medicine to be patent ineligible will likely prove significantly more problematic in this …