The issue of climate change has at long last made its way into mainstream policy discussions in the United States. However, the focus both in the United States and internationally has been on reducing energy production and transportation emissions. This has led the media, policy makers and the...

Clinicians, ethicists and lawyers have long debated the parameters of triage in response to the inevitable disasters that sporadically overwhelm the health care system. Almost universally, they have advocated for open, transparent and consultative triage protocols, guidelines and legislation to...

Biotechnology has ushered in both profound and mundane innovations, and it has presented accompanying challenges for a variety of legal institutions, but the academic literature on this subject is littered with superficial and overly alarmist work. Among other things, this Article selects for an...

Yearly review of highlights of international biotechnology law and policy developments, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), biosafety, and GM foods and WTO trade regulation. Year in review: 2009. The worldwide proliferation of genetically modified (GM) crops and other applications of modern...

Yearly review of highlights of international biotechnology law and policy developments, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), biosafety, and GM foods and WTO trade regulation. The year 2006 was not a revolutionary year for the global regulation of agricultural biotechnology and biosafety....

Yearly review of highlights of international biotechnology law and policy developments, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), biosafety, and GM foods and WTO trade regulation. The year under review, 2005, was a period of mixed accomplishments in the global regulation of biotechnology and...

Yearly review of highlights of international biotechnology law and policy developments, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), biosafety, and GM foods and WTO trade regulation. Year in review: 2004. International regulation of biotechnology and biosafety is taking shape in the form of both...

Although few citizens outside of the livestock industry have heard about this veterinary drug, ractopamine is set to become not only the source of public concern but also the trigger of another endless transatlantic trade dispute. After years of scientific and political deadlock, the Codex...

Currently, there are no adequate mechanisms under international law to balance the competing tensions climate change presents to state sovereignty. On one hand, climate change threatens state sovereignty because the catastrophic loss of life and property of millions of people would deprive...

Pharmaceutical Companies are highly globalized. This widening of drug markets leads to an erosion of the national government's legislative powers. With trials and marketing of compounds and pharmaceuticals carried out in different countries, ensuring safety and effectiveness of drugs becomes...