Albert Feuer, New York Retirement Plans for Public Employees Can Leave Surviving Spouses With Nothing – It's Past Time To Change That, 96 NYSBA J. (2024):Surviving spouses of retired New York public employees may learn soon after burying
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Establishing Law in Context: An Insider’s Perspective
Francis Snyder (Peking University), Establishing Law in Context: An Insider's Perspective (Peking U. Sch. of Transnat’l L. Rsch. Paper) (2024):The Law in Context Movement was a revolution in legal studies. This blog traces its origins and development from the 1990s…
Food as Culture: Framing, Legal Harmonization, and Transnational Law as a Regulatory Gateway
Lucas Lixinski (University of New South Wales), Food as Culture: Framing, Legal Harmonization, and Transnational Law as a Regulatory Gateway (UNSW L. Rsch. Paper No. 66) (2024):This chapter engages with the challenges of legal harmonization, which is the design and…
“Burn My Body with Water!”: Legality of Water Cremation in Malaysia
Haeme Hashim (HAEME Asia LLP), "Burn My Body with Water!": Legality of Water Cremation in Malaysia (2023):This article delves into the legality of aquamation, also known as water cremation, in Malaysia, while also examining potential amendments required in existing legal…
Patent Laws and the Public Health Puzzle: Comparing India’s Well-Thought-Out Patent Opposition Model with the U.S. and EU Model
Muhammad Zaheer Abbas (Queensland University of Technology), Patent Laws and the Public Health Puzzle: Comparing India’s Well-Thought-Out Patent Opposition Model with the U.S. and EU Model, 13 Indian J. Intell. Prop. L. (2023):Equitable access to essential medicines is a…
COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak and Violation of Human Rights
Raveesha Illangaranthne, COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak and Violation of Human Rights (2023):Human Rights are standards that identify and protect the dignity of all human beings.They emphasize how human beings survive in the society with others. Moreover, maintainence of healthy relationships…
Technology Specificity and Equitable Access to Pharmaceuticals
Ana Santos Rutschman (Villanova University), Technology Specificity and Equitable Access to Pharmaceuticals, Nw. J. Tech. and Intell. Prop. (forthcoming):Current models of production of pharmaceuticals, particularly those dependent on intellectual property (and adjacent) protections, often contribute to the highly asymmetrical…
Are Public Health Policies Associated with Corporate Innovation? Evidence from U.S. Nonsmoking Laws
Adam J. Olson (University of Cincinnati), Christopher G. Yust (Texas A&M University), Brant E. Christensen (Brigham Young University), Are Public Health Policies Associated with Corporate Innovation? Evidence from U.S. Nonsmoking Laws, 52 Rsch. Pol’y (2023):We use a natural experiment…
Do Rural Places Matter?
Stephen Clowney (University of Arkansas), Do Rural Places Matter?, Conn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024):Rural communities are at a crossroads. On one hand, small towns continue to receive robust support from the federal government. Congress sends billions of dollars in…
Legislative Gifts
Daniel Croxall (University of the Pacific), Legislative Gifts (2022):The United States has a strange relationship with alcohol. Alcohol is the only specific subject that can claim two constitutional amendments (the Eighteenth Amendment and the Twenty-first Amendment), and alcohol is one…