Mark Anderson (University College London), Naomi Hawkins (University of Sheffield), Alison Slade (University of Leicester), Contracts and Intellectual Property Rights in Translational R&D – Furthering Safeguards in the Public Interest, 42 Nat. Biotechnol. (2024):Intellectual property (IP) rights play a
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A Human Right to Daily Access to Fresh Air Beyond Prisons in Australia?
Laura Grenfell (University of Adelaide), Anita Mackay (La Trobe University), Meribah Rose (La Trobe University), A Human Right to Daily Access to Fresh Air Beyond Prisons in Australia?, Australian J. of Hum. Rts. (2023):This article considers the international standard of…
When mRNA Technology Meets Patent Law: Innovation, Barriers, and the Public Health
Tolulope Anthony Adekola, When mRNA Technology Meets Patent Law: Innovation, Barriers, and the Public Health(2023):The success of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology during the COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a new era of vaccine and therapeutic development. In…
To Waive or Not to Waive: The Debate and Analysis of TRIPS Waiver
Shuwen Xu (Shandong University), To Waive or Not to Waive: The Debate and Analysis of TRIPS Waiver, 18 Asian J. of WTO & Int’l Health L. and Pol’y (2023):The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited the decades-long debate over intellectual property…
Inverse Integration and the Relational Deficit of Disability Rights Law
Yaron Covo (Yale University), Inverse Integration and the Relational Deficit of Disability Rights Law, 124 Colum. L. Rev. (2024): Integration has long been a central tenet of U.S. disability law. In both doctrine and scholarship, however, disability integration has been…
Professional Field-work: Constructing Global Health Law as an ‘Emerging Field’
Richard Clements (Harvard Law School), Professional Field-work: Constructing Global Health Law as an 'Emerging Field', 15 Forthcoming in Transnat’l Legal Theory (2024):Constructing international legal fields is the work of experts. Such experts struggle over a field’s substantive content, normative…
Achieving the Human Right to a Caring Society in an Aging America
Alan S. Gutterman, Achieving the Human Right to a Caring Society in an Aging America (2024):Caregiving includes activities undertaken by others to ensure that those with a significant ongoing loss of physical or mental capacity can maintain a level…
A Tale of the Tails: The Value of a Statistical Life at the Tails of the Age Distribution
Thomas J. Kniesner (Claremont Graduate University), W. Kip Viscusi (Vanderbilt University), A Tale of the Tails: The Value of a Statistical Life at the Tails of the Age Distribution (IZA Discussion Paper No. 16867) (2024):The considerable literature on the value…
What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines, Bill of Health
Ana Santos Rutschman (Villanova University), What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines, Bill of Health (2023):This piece surveys a proposal for the adoption of a multi-modal system for allocating vaccine doses during large…
Farmed Animal Welfare: Improvements and Developments (North America)
Delcianna Winders (Vermont Law School), Farmed Animal Welfare: Improvements and Developments (North America)(Handbook on Global Animal Law, Oxford University Press, Anne Peters, Kristen Stilt, & Saskia Stucki, eds.) (forthcoming 2024):Recent North American legal developments pertaining to farmed animal welfare…