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2020

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A Recent Renaissance In Privacy Law, Margot Kaminski Jan 2020

A Recent Renaissance In Privacy Law, Margot Kaminski

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Considering the recent increased attention to privacy law issues amid the typically slow pace of legal change.


Is Tort Law The Tool For Fixing Reproductive Wrongs?, Christopher Robertson Jan 2020

Is Tort Law The Tool For Fixing Reproductive Wrongs?, Christopher Robertson

Faculty Scholarship

In his 2019 book, Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law, Dov Fox offers a compelling argument for new torts allowing recovery for wrongful reproduction. These torts would include three sorts of cases, those where wrongdoing (whether negligent, reckless, or intentional) caused undesired reproduction; stymied desired reproduction; or confounded reproduction, causing birth of a child different than that intended by the parents. The likely defendants in these torts are gynecologists, urologists, sperm banks, and IVF clinics.