Browsing HLS Student Papers by Title
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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 ... -
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†... -
Borrowing Trouble: Should the FDA Regulate Human Cloning?
(2000)Less than a year after scientist Ian Wilmut announced the birth of Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, entrepreneur and physicist Richard Seed stated on National Public Radio that he intended to establish a for-profit ... -
Botanical Drugs: The Next New New Thing?
(2002)While herbal medicines hold great promises for treating diseases, they also have serious limitation in their current forms. Currently the regulatory scheme for herbal medicines in the United States is inadequate and it ... -
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: The Past Present and Future of Mad Cow Disease in the United States
(1998)In an attempt to provide an introductory, yet thorough, discussion of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and its ramifications in the United States, this paper shall: discuss the history of and explain the disease known as ... -
BREAKTRHOUGH BIOTECHNOLOGIES: CAN THE FDA KEEP UP WITH THE SPEED OF SCIENCE?
(2004)Biotechnology advances have the potential to dramatically change the practice of medicine. Currently research is underway to find cures for diseases that were before untreatable, and many biotechnology products are already ... -
A Brief History of Tea: The Rise and Fall of the Tea Importation Act
(2000)The goal of this paper is to provide a general history of the Tea Importation Act of 1897. It focuses on the Act's legislative scheme, the Act's antecedents and amendments, and its legislative history. Special attention ... -
A Brief History of the International Regulation of Wine Production
(2002)Regulations regarding wine production have a profound effect on the character of the wine produced. Such regulations can be found on the local, national, and international levels, but each level must be considered with the ... -
BST FREE: The Debate Over Whether to Allow Voluntary Labeling of Products as "BST Free" Not Derived from Dairy Cows Given the Milk Production Hormone BST
(1994)The debate over whether to label milk and other dairy products as coming from cows injected with the milk production hormone bovine somatotropin (BST or rBGH--recombinant bovine growth hormone) pits consumers, like Darlene ... -
Bundled Systems and Better Law: Against the Leflar Method of Resolving Conflicts of Law
(2015)Suppose Jones is a New Hampshire fireworks dealer. Smith comes up from Massachusetts, buys a cache, and brings it home. One night Smith sets off a Roman Candle in his backyard, but mishandles it and badly injures himself. ...