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Biodiversity as a multidimensional construct: a review, framework and case study of herbivory's impact on plant biodiversity
(The Royal Society, 2016)Biodiversity is inherently multidimensional, encompassing taxonomic, functional, phylogenetic, genetic, landscape and many other elements of variability of life on the Earth. However, this fundamental principle of ... -
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 ... -
Black America's Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist
(New Prospect, Inc., 2014)The economic meltdown that accompanied Obama to the White House (and probably played a major role in his initial election) devastated the earnings and assets of black Americans. Since his election, they have not recouped ... -
Black on Brown
(2004)The most important and illuminating early writing on Brown v. Bd. of Education is a nine-page essay by Charles Black. Black memorably shows that segregation was a crucial part of a racial caste system. At the same time, ... -
Blame Canada?: State Prescription Drug Importation Programs, the Federal Response, and Why Lawmakers Are Up in Arms
(2006)A growing war on drugs threatens to turn septuagenarians into scofflaws and state governors into full-fledged lawbreakers. As American citizens—especially the powerful elderly constituency†... -
The Blame Frame: Justifying (Racial) Injustice in America
(2006)This Article attempts to elucidate how our forebears, who were presumably as devoted to justice and liberty in their times as we are in ours, failed to condemn behaviors that are today widely viewed as patently oppressive, ... -
The Blind Expert: A Litigant-Driven Solution to Bias and Error
(2010)America spends hundreds of billions of dollars on its system of civil litigation, and expert witnesses appear in the vast majority of cases. Yet, litigants currently select and retain expert witnesses in ways that create ... -
Book Review
(Temple University School of Law, 2010) -
Book Review
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2008) -
Book Review
(Seoul National University College of Law, 2001)Jim West would have been immensely pleased with virtually all major aspects of Recent Transformations in Korean Law and Society save one; namely, the volume's dedication to him. The late Dr. West was an extraordinary, ... -
Book Review
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2007) -
Book Review
(The Academy of Political Science, 2007) -
Book Review
(Stanford Law School, 2003) -
Book Review
(1992) -
Book Review
(Nature Publishing Group, 2009) -
Book Review
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2008)The article reviews the book "Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine," by Roy Kreitner.