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Are You My Parent? Are You My Child? The Role Of Genetics And Race In Defining Relationships After Reproductive Technological Mistakes, 5 Depaul J. Health Care L. 15 (2002), Raizel Liebler Jan 2002

Are You My Parent? Are You My Child? The Role Of Genetics And Race In Defining Relationships After Reproductive Technological Mistakes, 5 Depaul J. Health Care L. 15 (2002), Raizel Liebler

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

Imagine that you are a married woman who wants to have a genetically related child with your husband. Your doctor tells you that you are infertile, and therefore you and your husband go to XYZ fertility clinic to receive in vitro treatment. You have your eggs harvested, your husband supplies sperm, and ten embryos are created. Five embryos are implanted in your uterus and five are frozen and kept by the fertility clinic for your later use. You successfully conceive and give birth to twins. You notice that the children you give birth to are of a different race than …


Controversy In The Deaf Community, Molly Mack Jan 2002

Controversy In The Deaf Community, Molly Mack

Public Interest Law Reporter

No abstract provided.


The Benefits Of Voluntary Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization: Myth Or Reality?, Donald H. Stone Oct 1999

The Benefits Of Voluntary Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization: Myth Or Reality?, Donald H. Stone

All Faculty Scholarship

Throughout the United States, mentally ill persons are confined against their will in psychiatric hospitals as a result of being accused of dangerous behavior. Some are committed involuntarily by a judge after an administrative hearing during which they are afforded legal representation, a right to be present, and important due process protections, including the right to cross-examine witnesses and present one's own witnesses. However, a significant number of individuals, initially confined in psychiatric institutions for allegedly posing a danger to life or safety, never see an impartial judge, lawyer, or even a family member. These mentally ill individuals are not …


Is Hiv "Extraordinary"?, Jordan B. Hansell Feb 1998

Is Hiv "Extraordinary"?, Jordan B. Hansell

Michigan Law Review

The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (the "Act") attempts to reduce inconsistencies in the sentences of defendants convicted of comparable crimes. The Act created a Sentencing Commission (the "Commission") and authorized it to promulgate a set of sentencing guidelines to steer judicial decisionmaking. To fulfill this mandate, the Commission drafted the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (the "Guidelines"), which Congress enacted in 1987. Although Congress wanted to eliminate sentencing disparities, it also wanted to allow some degree of individualized sentencing. To achieve the correct balance, the Commission created three categories of characteristics: those a court must consider in sentencing each defendant; those …


Due Process Jan 1995

Due Process

Touro Law Review

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Doctors, Aids, And Confidentiality In The 1990s, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 331 (1994), Sheila Taub Jan 1995

Doctors, Aids, And Confidentiality In The 1990s, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 331 (1994), Sheila Taub

UIC Law Review

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If I Tell You, Will You Treat Me, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 363 (1994), Mauro A. Montoya Jr. Jan 1995

If I Tell You, Will You Treat Me, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 363 (1994), Mauro A. Montoya Jr.

UIC Law Review

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The Aids Epidemic And Health Care Reform, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 279 (1994), William A. Bradford Jr., Michelle A. Zavos Jan 1995

The Aids Epidemic And Health Care Reform, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 279 (1994), William A. Bradford Jr., Michelle A. Zavos

UIC Law Review

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The Americans With Disabilities Act And Refusals To Provide Medical Care To Persons With Hiv/Aids, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 347 (1994), Jack P. Desario, James D. Slack Jan 1995

The Americans With Disabilities Act And Refusals To Provide Medical Care To Persons With Hiv/Aids, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 347 (1994), Jack P. Desario, James D. Slack

UIC Law Review

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Aids And Funeral Homes: Common Legal Issues Facing Funeral Directors, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 411 (1994), Mark E. Wojcik Jan 1995

Aids And Funeral Homes: Common Legal Issues Facing Funeral Directors, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 411 (1994), Mark E. Wojcik

UIC Law Review

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Withholding And Withdrawing Life Support From Adults At Common Law, Joan M. Gilmour Jul 1993

Withholding And Withdrawing Life Support From Adults At Common Law, Joan M. Gilmour

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article examines the circumstances in which life support can legally be withheld or withdrawn from adults. It analyzes the situation of patients who are both capable and incapable of making decisions, taking into account recent jurisprudence in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Where competence is not an issue, both law and modern medicine espouse a strong normative commitment to patient self-determination. However, when no clear indication of the patient's treatment preference can be ascertained because of decisional incapacity, then the question of terminating life support is much more difficult. The author describes and analyzes the two …


Treatment Of The Mentally Disabled: Rethinking The Community-First Idea, Christopher Slobogin Apr 1990

Treatment Of The Mentally Disabled: Rethinking The Community-First Idea, Christopher Slobogin

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

In the past several decades the treatment, habilitation and education of the mentally disabled has been heavily influenced by what could be called the "community-first" movement. This movement which encompasses such developments as deinstitutionalization, the least restrictive alternative doctrine, normalization, mainstreaming,and outpatient commitment-is based on the idea that, in caring for the mentally disabled, we should favor placement in the community rather than in institutions segregated from mainstream populations. The community-first idea is not unanimously supported. But Congress, many courts, and countless advocacy groups composed of lawyers, mental health professionals and laypeople have rallied behind the community first standard as …


Does Competency Matter After Charters?, Michael L. Perlin, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1989

Does Competency Matter After Charters?, Michael L. Perlin, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

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University Of Richmond Law Review Jan 1988

University Of Richmond Law Review

University of Richmond Law Review

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Can Mental Health Professionals Predict Judicial Decisionmaking? Constitutional And Tort Liability Aspects Of The Right Of The Institutionalized Mentally Disabled To Refuse Treatment: On The Cutting Edge, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1986

Can Mental Health Professionals Predict Judicial Decisionmaking? Constitutional And Tort Liability Aspects Of The Right Of The Institutionalized Mentally Disabled To Refuse Treatment: On The Cutting Edge, Michael L. Perlin

Touro Law Review

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Voluntary Euthanasia, Arval A. Morris Apr 1970

Voluntary Euthanasia, Arval A. Morris

Washington Law Review

To avoid the possibility of confusion, it is necessary to distinguish voluntary euthanasia from other similar, but not necessarily related situations. By voluntary euthanasia I refer to one specific situation, and to no other. Any definition of the principle of voluntary euthanasia must lay emphasis on the word "voluntary" as it specifically applies to the right of an adult person who is in command of his faculties to have his life ended by a physician, pursuant to his own intelligent request, under specific conditions prescribed by law, and by painless means. Thus, voluntary euthanasia involves at least two willing persons—a …


Medico-Legal Aspects Of The Nervous System As A Functioning Unit Of The Body, F. Keith Bradford, Hubert W. Smith Jun 1953

Medico-Legal Aspects Of The Nervous System As A Functioning Unit Of The Body, F. Keith Bradford, Hubert W. Smith

Vanderbilt Law Review

We have had the pleasure of working together in recent years on Law-Science problems. During that time we have become increasingly convinced that it is necessary for trial lawyer and scientist alike to think of the human being in terms of the nine main organ systems,'reserving a tenth category for the field of personality as the latter represents a synthesis of component structures and functions into variable reaction and behavior patterns. An injury or disability may involve impairment or destruction of an an atomic member or of physiological function; it may involve effects on personality, or psychic values, alone, without …