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 article examines the benefits of the class action for New Zealand consumers. It analyses the current operation of the New Zealand class action and recommends significant reform to expand the use of the class action and to give clear specific guidelines on its operation. The author defines a...

The Australian patent system provides protection for both standard and innovation patents. The case of Dura-Post (Aust) Pty Ltd v Delnorth Pty Ltd concerns three innovation patents owned by Delnorth for an invention for a ‘‘Roadside Post’’ for supporting signage or delineating paths,...

This paper first briefly introduces the reader to nanotechnology and the potential health risks it raises. It then reviews how nanotechnology is or may be used by the food industry so that challenges that must be addressed by food regulations can be better understood. The application of current...

In 2006, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) celebrated 100 years of providing opportunities for students to participate in intercollegiate athletics. During that time intercollegiate athletics underwent tremendous transformation. Beginning as student-run endeavors on Ivy League...

Patent protection for genetic enhancements would tend to spur genetic innovation, but would tend to limit access to those genetic enhancements through discriminatory mechanisms such as price and favoritism. The patent system would likely ensure high rates of genetic enhancement innovation,...

The aim of this chapter is to evaluate the importance of the environment in Central and Eastern Europe Countries (CEE) in the general context of current social, economic and political reforms since the early 1990s and, more precisely, to examine the extent to which these emerging democracies...

Dutch Abstract: Dit is een vervolgartikel op een eerdere bijdrage over Brexit in SEW in 2017. Sinds januari 2020 is de kogel dan eindelijk door de kerk en is de Brexit een feit. Het VK heeft nu, na meerdere malen uitstel van executie nodig te hebben gehad, de Europese Unie (EU) daadwerkelijk...

Under the Fair Housing Act, housing providers must provide reasonable accommodations to a tenant who requests them if the tenant (1) is disabled within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act and (2) their disability necessitates the requested accommodation. However, not all...

Distilled to its most basic sense, § 363(k) has always given secured creditor the right “credit bid,” or to use, up to the full amount of the debt owed to the secured creditor by the debtor, as currency in any sale of the collateral securing the debt owed to that claimant under § 363(b)...