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NoteVol. 94 · Iss. 3
Dying for Leave: How Societal Views on End-of-Life Care Pushed Ballard to Expand the Meaning of Care Under the Family and Medical Leave Act
The Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Ballard v. Chicago Park District shook employers and employment law attorneys to their core, forcing reevaluation of what…
Katherine Vaky -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
The Consent Myth: Improving Choice for Patients of The Future
Consent has enjoyed a prominent position in the American privacy system since at least 1970, though historically, consent emerged from traditional notions of tort…
Charlotte A. Tschider -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
The Privacy Risks of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing: A Case Study Of 23andMe And Ancestry
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) companies have proliferated and expanded in recent years. Using biospecimens directly submitted by consumers, these companies sequence and analyze the…
Samual A. Garner & Jiyeon Kim -
NoteVol. 96 · Iss. 3
Patent Infringement in Personalized Medicine: Limitations of the Existing Exemption Mechanisms
Mr. X suffers from recurrent glioblastoma, a type of deadly brain cancer. One of his physicians reads a study reporting a novel immunotherapy, which…
Jiyeon Kim -
ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 4
Going the Way of the Dodo: De-Extinction, Dualisms, and Reframing Conservation
De-extinction, a suite of selective breeding or biotechnological processes for reviving and releasing into the environment members or facsimiles of an extinct species, has…
Alejandro E. Camacho -
NoteVol. 91 · Iss. 6
Red Tape Tightrope: Regulating Financial Conflicts of Interest in FDA Advisory Committees
In 2001, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the oral contraceptive Yasmin for use. A similar contraceptive, Yaz, was approved in 2006. Both…
Colleen O Davis -
NoteVol. 97 · Iss. 1
Genital Exceptionalism Has No Place in the Law: Improving Transgender and Intersex Rights in the 21st Century
Sex exceptionalism—also referred to as sexuality or sexual exceptionalism—is a concept that has recently been developed and explored in feminist legal scholarship. Sex exceptionalism…
Lindsey M. Walker -
ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 5
Drugs, Patents, and Well-Being
The ultimate end of patent law should be to spur innovations that improve human welfare—innovations that make people better off. But firms will only invest resources…
Christopher Buccafuso & Jonathan Masur -
NoteVol. 98 · Iss. 2
Model Language for Supported Decision-Making Statutes
States often impose guardianship on people whose disabilities interfere with their decision-making ability, thereby entrusting another person with decision-making on their behalf. People with…
Rachel Mattingly Phillips -
ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 2
Choosing Wisely: Envisioning Perinatal Hospice Notification Laws that Inform and Empower
Perinatal hospice refers to a cluster of medical services that some individuals choose after the diagnosis of a life-limiting fetal condition. At its core,…
Ashley Flakus -
ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 1
Compassionate Homicide
Ample psychological studies demonstrate that emotions provide reasons for action and are powerful drivers of a host of behaviors, including criminal acts. Studies further…
Michal Buchhandler-Raphael -
CommentaryVol. 89 · Iss. 6
Sell’s Conundrums: The Right of Incompetent Defendants to Refuse Anti-Psychotic Medication
The Supreme Court’s 2003 decision in Sell v. United States declared that situations in which the state is authorized to forcibly medicate a criminal…
Christopher Slobogin