By Timo Minssen I am pleased to announce our recent paper entitled “The Impact of Broccoli II & Tomato II on European patents in conventional breeding, GMO’s and Synthetic Biology: The grand finale of a juicy patents tale?”, which is available on SSRN, and forthcoming in Biotechnology Law Report, Vol. 34, Number 3 (June 2015), pp. 1-18.…
By Arthur Caplan A new piece by contributor Art Caplan on NBC News: How bad is the obesity epidemic among kids in America? Bad enough that 69 percent of young adults in Minnesota cannot serve in the military due to obesity-related health problems, according to a recent report “Too Fat, Frail and Out-of-Breath to Fight,”…
The Food and Drug Law Journal is pleased to announce a forthcoming symposium—Constitutional Challenges to the Regulation of Food, Drugs, Medical Devices, Cosmetics, and Tobacco Products—to be held at the Georgetown University Law Center (GULC) on Friday, October 30, 2015, and co-sponsored by the Food and Drug Law Institute and GULC’s O’Neill Institute for National…
A “Natural” Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims, a lecture by Efthimios Parasidis Thursday, January 29, 2015, 12: 00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map] This event is free and open to the…
A “Natural” Experiment: Consumer Confusion and Food Claims, a lecture by Efthimios Parasidis Thursday, January 29, 2015, 12: 00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA [Map] This event is free and open to the…
By Emily Largent Generally speaking, law school goes more smoothly when the law student is caffeinated. Consider that Justice Elena Kagan was known at Harvard Law School as the “coffee dean” for instituting free coffee for students (and, as an aside, expects to be known as the “frozen yogurt justice” for bringing frozen yogurt to…
Check out a new op-ed by our friends, Jacob E. Gersen and Benjamin I. Sachs at Harvard Law School! CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — EVERY year, 5.5 million people are sickened by norovirus, a highly contagious gastrointestinal bug. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, norovirus is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States and…
By Lauren Taylor In addition to the closely-watched senate and gubernatorial candidates, 146 ballot questions were up for vote yesterday in 42 states across the nation. Below is a review of the some of the most pressing bioethics issues on the docket and the latest information on what passed according to Politico’s Ballot Tracker.
By Diana R. H. Winters [Cross-posted on HealthLawProfBlog.] There was an article a couple of weeks ago in the New York Times about “engineered foods,” and how “a handful of high-tech start-ups are out to revolutionize the food system by engineering ‘meat’ and ‘eggs’ from pulverized plant compounds or cultured snippets of animal tissue.” The author…
By David Orentlicher[Ed Note: Cross-posted at HealthLawProfBlog.] Reversing its previous deference to corporate speech interests, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit came down in favor of consumer protection in a July 29 decision. In American Meat Institute v. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, the court upheld a federal government regulation requiring meat companies to disclose…
