Browsing HLS Student Papers by Title
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The ANDA Patent Certification Requirement and Thirty-Month Stay Provision: Is it Necessary?
(2001)Patent law and the Federal drug approval laws are both rather arcane and complex. The intersection of these two areas in the Hatch-Waxman Act is particularly complicated, and this perhaps explains the failure of the Act ... -
"Anslingerian" Politics: The History of Anti-Marijuana Sentiment in Federal law and How Harry Anslinger's Anti-Marijuana Politics Continue to Prevent the FDA and other Medical Experts from Studying Marijuana's Medical Utility
(1999)This paper is intended to demonstrate how the Federal Bureau of Narcotics’s propagation of negative images associating marijuana with the anti-social behavior of marginal socio-economic groups in the ... -
The Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program: History, Controversy and Legal Issues
(2000)This paper documents the issues that make the AVIP so controversial. It summarizes the current knowledge about the safety and efficacy of the anthrax vaccine, including the vaccine manufacturer’s history ... -
Anti-sense And Common-sense: Regulation of Food From Genetically Engineered Plants
(1994)Genetic engineering technology has recently generated techniques for making specific and precise alterations to the genetic composition of crops grown as food for humans and animals. These advances should facilitate the ... -
Antibiotic Resistance: Proposals to Deal with the New Wrinkles on an Old Problem
(2000)Resistance to antibiotics is hardly a new problem; ever since the advent of penicillin and other antibiotics more than 50 years ago defiant strains of bacteria have emerged. The harrowing aspect is that now almost every ... -
The Anticompetitive Impact of Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Need for Revisions to the Drug Price Competition and Patent Restoration Act of 1984
(2002)This paper will begin by briefly examining the theories behind antitrust law and intellectual property law. Then it will look at the provisions of the Hatch-Waxman Act and at how Congress tried to balance the incentives ... -
Artificial Heart Research: An Historical Perspective
(2001)This paper tracks the historical evolution of artificial heart technology, from its humble beginnings, to its relatively staggering current potential. While examining various milestones along this fascinating timeline, the ... -
An Artistic Eye: Food Advertisements and Obesity Seen through an Art Historical Critique of Representation
(2012)This paper seeks to demonstrate the powerful influence of food advertisements in the childhood obesity epidemic and thus call into question legal action that eschews placing responsibility on food manufacturers in favor ... -
Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs for Schizophrenia: Access, Reimbursement and the Struggle for Parity
(2002)This paper discusses the impact of schizophrenia on American society and advocates for health care reform to address the lack of access by the mentally ill to a class of innovative drugs, called “atypical ... -
Babies, Blemishes and FDA: A History of Accutane Regulation in the United States
(2002)This paper takes a journalistic approach, tracing the chronology of Accutane in the U.S. in order to fill in the gaps of the story that has inspired so much controversy. Accutane has repeatedly pushed the frontier of FDA ... -
Baby Steps Toward Better Pharmaceutical Care: Market Exclusivity Incentives to Research Pediatric Drug Uses Under the FDA Modernization and Accountability Act of 1997
(1998)Part I of this paper reviews the perceived need for greater pediatric drug information and previous attempts at improving pediatric pharmaceutical treatment. Part II summarizes SOSA itself in relation to current patent and ... -
Bargaining in the Shadow of the “Law?” – The Case of Same-Sex Divorce
(2013)Literature on same-sex marriage has focused on such questions as: How do state laws treat same-sex couples? What rights come with marriage equality? What rights should same-sex couples have? This student paper focuses on ... -
Better Fighting Through Chemistry? The Role of FDA Regulation in Crafting the Warrior of the Future
(2004)This paper examines how FDA might respond to attempts by the U.S. military to offer troops an experimental, performance-enhancing drug or medical device to improve alertness, prevent fatigue, and obviate the basic human ... -
Beyond Food or Drug: An Examination of Food and Drug Law Through a Study of Cannibalism
(2002)This paper attempts to explore some of the limitations within the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act's definition of "food" and "drug". Much of the preexisting scholarly debate has focused on hybrids between foods and drugs, ... -
Beyond Nigiri and Anisakiasis, The Tale of Sushi: History and Regulation
(2006)This paper is an exploration of the history of sushi consumption in the United States and how the ingredients of sushi are regulated. The paper delineates the course of sushi’s culinary history in Japan, ... -
Biopharmaceuticals: The Patent System and Incentives for Innovation
(2004)This paper discusses the requirements for patentability as applied to biotechnology and pharmaceutical inventions. Focusing on case law from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, as well as guidelines issued by the ... -
BIOPHARMING: UNIQUE CHALLENGES AND POLICY PROPOSALS
(2004)Biopharming is the genetic engineering of plants to produce novel pharmaceuticals and useful industrial compounds. It has the potential to provide revolutionary benefits, but it also raises a host of daunting challenges. ... -
BIOPROSPECTING AND THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
(2000)This paper attempts to assess the economic value of biodiversity to commercial bioprospectors and source countries, surveys the provisions of the CBD that deal directly with bioprospecting, examines the types of legal ... -
Biotechnology and the Labeling Dilemma
(2001)This paper will examine the arguments and motivations underlying the FDA stand against mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods and ingredients. Part I of the paper will describe FDA’s current ... -
Bioterrorism and the Food Drug Administration: H.R. 3448, Related Legislation, and the FDA’s Expanding Role in Preventing and Responding to Biological Attack
(2002)This paper examines the potential impact of recent and proposed bioterrorism legislation on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It concludes that at least one such piece of legislation, H.R. 3448, the â&eu ...