Browsing HLS Student Papers by Title
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Aiding AIDS: Hurdling the Obstacles to the Development of an Effective AIDS Vaccine
(2002)This paper explores the various impediments to the development of a safe and effective AIDS vaccine, and offers suggestions to help overcome these obstacles. I begin by discussing the FDA approval process and the current ... -
AIDS HOME TEST KITS
(1994)Given the emphasis on private, confidential and voluntary testing, the idea of an AIDS home test kit was inevitable. What could be more private, confidential and voluntary (and profitable) than buying a test kit at a drug ... -
Ain't Misbehavin'? An Analysis of Prescription Drug Promotions by Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and the Regulatory Response of the Food and Drug Administration
(2003)In evaluating the United States drug regulatory system in 1978, Richard J. Crout posed a choice between competing good values: "Do we want scientific rationality or personal freedom? And if we want the latter, are we willing ... -
Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System: Assessing the Use of Risk Assessments in Sentencing
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)Risk assessment tools are increasingly being incorporated into all aspects of the criminal justice system. This paper focuses on the use of these tools in the sentencing process, a relatively recent development which raises ... -
ALICE AND THE FRANKENFOODS: A WELL REGULATED WONDERLAND?
(2003)This paper uses fiction to illuminate anxieties associated with the substances that sustain, nourish and transform us, and to consider the impact of consumer perceptions on the regulatory balances that must be struck between ... -
ALTERNATE ROUTES OF REFORMIST ACTIVISM: MEDICAL MARIJUANA AS A CASE STUDY OF INITIATIVES WITHIN AND BEYOND STATUTORILY PRESCRIBED CHANNELS
(1996)This essay discusses the various legal and political initiatives undertaken by reformers seeking change in the laws on medical marijuana use. Part I reviews the provisions of the Controlled Substances Act, and marijuana's ... -
America and the BSE Scare: Near Misses, Future Lessons
(1997)Today, the potential consequences of BSE, although perhaps not as great as originally feared, still demand attention at the highest level of government. In this paper, my goals are twofold: to place the development of the ... -
American Exceptionalism and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising: Structural and Philosophical Impediments to Reform in Europe
(2002)Despite a recent EC Proposal to relax its prohibition on direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs in certain, limited contexts, the prospects for broader reform in Europe on this issue are extremely grim. ... -
Anabolic Steroids: A Look at Potential Drug Testing Legislation and its Constitutional Implications.
(2006)Anabolic steroid use among American athletes has been the subject of much debate in the last half-century. Despite evidence tending to show significant health risks associated with steroid use, there remains considerable ... -
And the Breast is History: Issues Surrounding FDA Regulation of Silicone Breast Implants
(1995)The breast implant crisis has raised serious issues for women. On one hand, it is difficult to argue against giving women the right to choose, especially when the choice involves their own bodies. Restricting freedom in ... -
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 ...