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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 ... -
A Legislative History of the Medicaid Drug Rebate Law: The Drug Industry and the Crusade of Senator David Pryor
(2004)The Medicaid Prescription Drug Rebate Program was enacted in 1990, granting the Medicaid program “most-favored customer†status and requiring drug manufacturers sell their drugs to Medicaid ... -
Let Them Eat Cake? A Historical Analysis of FDA's Decision to Approve Aspartame
(1997)That sugar occupies a cherished role in the human diet hardly needs mention. After all, nearly 2,500 tastebuds located at the tip of the human tongue are dedicated to the pursuit of sweetness. The first recorded mention ... -
Levelling the Playing Field: the FDA's Regulation of Nicotine Dependence Products
(1999)There is a great need for the increased development and use of nicotine dependence products (NDPs) in this country. A creative regulatory approach, such as the FDA brought to tobacco regulation, could do an enormous amount ... -
The Liability of Drug Analysis from the Story of Intravenous Iodine-Contained Contrast Medium
(1999)The development of the liability of drugs is a complicated and sophisticated process, like the development of drugs. Intravenous iodine-contained contrast medium, a diagnostic drug with excellent effectiveness and unavoidable ... -
The Life of the Abortion Pill in the United States
(2000)During the last eleven years, the efforts of those fighting to make mifepristone available in the United States have been thwarted by those fighting just as valiantly to keep it out. The struggle between the two groups is ... -
Lifting the Fog: The Problem of Antipsychotic Drug Use in Nursing Facilities
(2011)With the rapid increase in the elder population nationwide, the problem of excessive dependence on risky antipsychotic drug treatment for dementia-related behavioral problems in nursing facilities must be addressed. At ... -
Litigating the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984
(2000)The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, also known as the Hatch-Waxman Act in honor of its sponsors Senator Orrin Hatch and Representative Henry Waxman, was enacted in an attempt to reconcile ... -
Loco for Four Loko: Regulating Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages
(2011)Young people across the nation have been going loco for Four Loko, a caffeinated alcoholic beverage (CAB) that some college students have dubbed “blackout in a can.” Just a few months ago, the Food and Drug Administration ... -
A Look at The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984
(2002)The DPC-PTR Act was a piece of legislation that was fought over bitterly by the generic and research-based industries, and passed only when a tenuous balance was reached through last-minute negotiations. "One indication ... -
Making Sense of Commercial Speech: A Theoretical Framework and A Case Study in Food and Drug Law
(2005)This Note creates a theoretical framework for understanding commercial speech as a form of hybrid expression. It describes how commercial speech shares some features with expressive conduct and other characteristics with ... -
The Mammography Quality Standards Act: Misread Mammograms, Malpractice, and The Politics of Regulation
(2003)Recent studies and reports suggest that the MQSA has not been successful at improving physician interpretation of mammograms. This paper argues that in order to assess the impact of the MQSA accurately, one must look beyond ...