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Interlocking Directorates in the European Union: An Argument For Their Restriction
(2016)The EU Commission has recently undertaken a review of the EU Merger Regulation. In this process it has published a White Paper that proposes to extend the Regulation to cover situations in which firms acquire minority ... -
Internet Hoaxes: Public Regulation and Private Remedies
(2000)This paper begins with a brief overview of the psychology of rumor and a discussion of the impact of Internet technology on the dissemination of rumors. Part II examines the three consumer rumors presented above as case ... -
Internet Pharmacies: Regulatory Problems and Potential Solutions
(2002)This paper will analyze the growing problem “rogue†Internet pharmacies—Internet pharmacies that conduct illegal or unsafe prescribing and dispensing practices that endanger ... -
Intrinsa: An Inquiry into Female Sexual Dysfunction and Testosterone
(2006)In December 2004, the Food & Drug Administration rejected Intrinsa, a testosterone transdermal system for the treatment of hypoactive sexual desire disorder in surgically menopausal women. Intrinsa, as well as the FDA's ... -
Is Rulemaking Old Medicine at the FDA?
(1997)The first three parts of this paper describe the major burdens placed on agency rulemaking by each branch of the government over the past thirty years, with specific focus on the burdens that presently affect FDA rulemaking. ... -
"Is the Copy Better than the Original? The Regulation of Orphan Drugs: a US-EU Comparative Perspective"
(2004)The US Orphan Drug Act of 1983 pioneered the regulation of this type of medicines, and its success encouraged other countries to enact similar legislation. Among these new orphan drug laws is the one that was drafted in ... -
Is the FDA Sexist? Sex and the Drug Approval Process
(2003)This paper examines the role of sex in the drug approval process. Medical literature has explored in great depth the many ways in which men and women differ, sometimes dramatically, often in ways that are seemingly unrelated ... -
Jeremy Rifkin: An Examination of the Efforts of an Anti-Biotechnology Activist
(1999)This paper attempts retrospectively to examine the impact of the efforts of Jeremy Rifkin on the rules and regulation, and ultimately the mission, of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pertaining to biotechnology. ... -
THE JEWISH DIETARY LAWS AND THEIR FOUNDATION
(1994)While food and drug law has made its greatest contributions to the health and welfare of society over the past two centuries, it is indisputable that the history of this body of law is much older than two hundred years.1 ... -
A Joint American Tradition: Hot Dogs, FDA & USDA
(2006)This paper discusses the relationship between three staples of American culture: the hot dog, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The reader is first introduced ... -
Justice Kennedy and the Unfolding Doctrine of Corporate Religious Sincerity
(2015)This article explores how Justice Kennedy’s Hobby Lobby concurrence synthesizes competing narratives about religious liberty and points toward a doctrinal test of corporate religious sincerity that is legally and politically ... -
Keeping Kosher in the U.S.A.
(2002)This paper, though relatively lengthy, gives what is really a brief overview of the Jewish dietary laws, otherwise known as the laws of kashrus or the laws of kashruth. The complexity and religious nature of these laws ... -
LABELING OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD IN THE UNITED STATES: THE ROADS NOT TAKEN
(2002)In this paper we will explore the choices made by the FDA when adopting its policies regarding the labeling of genetically modified foods. We will try to point out some of the alternative roads policymakers could have taken ... -
The Lanham Act and the FD&C Act: Shaping the Law of False Advertising into a Tool for Drug Manufacturers to Self-Regulate Their Industry and Protect Consumers
(2001)While Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act has the potential to become an extremely useful tool to ensure competitive fairness and consumer safety in the pharmaceutical industry, recent cases show that numerous obstacles prevent ... -
The LARS: A Proposed Approach for FDA Evaluation of Home Testing Products
(1996)This paper critiques the manner in which the Food and Drug Administration uses its discretionary authority to regulate the sale of home testing products. Part I provides the legal framework for FDA approval of home testing ... -
The Latest Development in the Transatlantic Big Stink over Cheeses and other Geographical Indications
(2006)This paper looks into recent developments in the EU regulation of geographical indications: the repeal of Regulation 2081/92 on geographical indications and the passage of Regulation 510/2006, following the WTO Panel Report ... -
The Law of the Lab: Using Zerit to Inform Technology Transfer
(2002)The author takes a comprehensive look at the government’s policy of technology transfer, the process by which government-funded inventions are transferred to the private sector for commercialization. ... -
The Laws on Religious Liberty and the Rise of American Power
(2013)This dissertation is a constitutional history of the previously unexamined American origins of our contemporary international legal regime on religious freedom. The absence of the United States and the role it played in ... -
Learning from Prozac: A Case Study on Reforming the FDA Drug Approval Process
(1997)The law, focused as it is on making final determinations and settling issues one way or another, continually lags behind science, which concentrates on an evolving understanding of various phenomena through constant ... -
A Legal Education for the Administrative State: Dean James M. Landis in the History of American Legal Education
(2013)Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, C. C. Langdell’s traditional model of legal education – a closed system of abstract concepts, judicial decisions and private law – faced substantial challenge from the rise of the ...