This is the Twentieth Annual Survey of American Choice-of-Law Cases. It covers cases decided by American state or federal courts from January 1 to December 31, 2006, and reported during the same period. Of the 2,598 conflicts cases that met both of these parameters, the Survey focuses on the...

In vivo conversion is a process, often metabolic in nature, wherein one substance, usually a chemical compound, is altered significantly by physiological pathways in the body into one or more different substances. For example, when a patient ingests a therapeutic drug, that drug is often...

This chapter reviews the extent to which laws based on promotion of individual 'autonomy' (such as durable powers of attorney) conform with the lived lives and preferences of those for whom they are designed. It considers alternative conceptions of rights, including communitarian and social...

This article considers whether Australian law should permit health care professionals to disclose patients' genetic information to their reproductive partners without the patients' consent. The issue is addressed with reference to four genetic disorders (Huntington Disease, Familial Adenomatous...

The surprise in Massachusetts v. EPA was not that it was a close, hotly contested case. Rather, the surprise was the facility and ease with which the Court majority dispatched opposing arguments and redefined prior precedents. Not content to widen doctrines on the margins, Justice Stevens'...

Some kinds of corporate crime can be characterized as accidents, such as many types of environmental damage. These crimes are oflen expensive to deter because conviction costs are high and maximum fines are constrained by firms' ability to pay. The paper derives how enforcement costs can be...

At the creation of the European Community in 1957, little attention was paid to environmental concerns. It’s only in 1997, after decades of debate, that the ‘Integration Principle’ became formally engraved in European treaties. This principle, requiring all policies to take environmental...

La giurisprudenza della Corte costituzionale in tema di energia sta mettendo in evidenza, a partire dal 2004, un complesso di interessi che sono coinvolti dalle decisioni energetiche, talvolta prevalendo sull’interesse alla sicurezza dell’approvvigionamento energetico, talvolta recedendo...