By Scott Burris Graduated Drivers’ License Laws have apparently been a major success in reducing crashes among novice drivers. (A couple of studies have suggested the laws might just be postponing crashes, but so far…
The Edmond J. Safra Lab at Harvard University lets us know that it is once again seeking to admit talented scholars and practitioners, at any stage of their career, who will uncover and explain institutional…
By Jennifer S. Bard I’m sure many of us are talking about the contaminated steroid injections which have spread a fungal form of meningitis Exserohilum rostratum across the country. The CDC, which as is usually…
Last week, as the New York Times reported, a fight over documenting informed consent to a particular Jewish circumcision ritual is brewing. To quote from the article: The city Board of Health passed a regulation…
By Nicole Huberfeld Earlier this week, Jonathan Adler wrote in the National Review Online that challenges to the individual mandate were just beginning. And today, Oklahoma’s September challenge to the ACA is making headlines. As…
by Suzanne M. Rivera Federal regulations and ethical principles require that Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) consider the anticipated risks of a proposed human research study in light of any potential benefits (for subjects or others)…
By Leslie P. Francis In a year of a presidential election, initiatives are likely to get lost in the shuffle unless they have implications for the race at the top–as did the state efforts to…
By Nicole Huberfeld You may be thinking “DOMA? Hello, this is HEALTH LAW.” Please stick with me for a moment. The Supreme Court appears to be collecting petitions for certiorari regarding the Defense of Marriage…
By Pablo de Lora Forget Lance Armstrong for a second and think about “biomedical moral enhancement”, a proposal recently defended by Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu in Unfit for the Future. The Need for Moral…
By Michelle Meyer A while back, over at PrawfsBlawg, Martin Pritikin had a useful post collecting advice for legal academics looking to break into increasingly popular empirical legal studies (ELS). As Jeremy Blumenthal notes in…
