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Euthanasia
109 published works
Sentencing Law and Policy
Long-incarcerated mass murderer given right to end his life in Belgium
Main September 18, 2014Long-incarcerated mass murderer given right to end his life in BelgiumA helpful reader alerted me to this fascinating article from overseas headlined "Serial murderer and rapist, 50,…
Health Law Prof Blog
Published This Week
Sean T. Murphy, Redefining the Practice of Medicine: Euthanasia in Quebec, SSRN.Jennifer M. Jørgensen, Paula L. Hedley, Mickey Gjerris, Michael Christiansen, Ethical Issues Related to Screening for Preeclampsia, 28 Bioethics…
Animal Law Update
Saying good-bye to your pet
Recently, the Courier-Post published an article titled “to know it’s time to bid an ailing pet goodbye,” a topic all veterinarians are intimately familiar with. As the former owner of…
The Right Coast
Belgium set to extend right-to-die law to children – Yahoo News
BRUSSELS (AP) Belgium, one of the very few countries where euthanasia is legal, is expected to take the unprecedented step this week of abolishing age restrictions on who can ask…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Controversy Over Euthanasia in Belgium
In2002, Belgium legalized euthanasia for blindness, depression, anorexia nervosa,and for people who received a messed up sex change operation. Recently, there isa push to expand euthanasia for children. The proposed…
Health Law Prof Blog
Published This Week
Raphael Cohen-Almagor, First Do No Harm: Pressing Concerns Regarding Euthanasia in Belgium, 36 Int'l J. of L. & Psychiatry ___ (2013).Nicole Marie Piemonte, Laura Hermer, Avoiding a 'Death Panel' Redux,…
Health Law Prof Blog
Published Last Week
Sean T. Murphy, Redefining the Practice of Medicine - Winks and Nods and Euthanasia in Quebec: Part 3, SSRN.Arti R. Kai & Robert Cook-Deegan, Moving Beyond 'Isolated' Gene Patents, 341…
Sentencing Law and Policy
You be the sentencing judge: what is a fair and effective sentence of 86-year-old mercy killer?
Main March 29, 2013You be the sentencing judge: what is a fair and effective sentence of 86-year-old mercy killer? I thought that, while folks continue to vigorously debate how Colorado…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Ohio execution process under review as drug procurement issues create new looming problems
Main February 15, 2013Ohio execution process under review as drug procurement issues create new looming problemsI have been strongly disinclined to blog at all about any aspects of my on-going…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Ronald Dworkin Dies at 81
The New York Times: Ronald Dworkin, Legal Philosopher, Dies at 81, by Adam Liptak:Ronald Dworkin, a legal philosopher and public intellectual of bracingly liberal views who insisted that morality is…