By Casey Thomson [Ed. Note: Several of our bloggers are active on Twitter. In a new feature, we’ll be posting some highlights of their tweets each week so you can stay in the know – or think about following them directly!] Dan Vorhaus (@genomicslawyer) linked to Bloomberg’s article on the current underutilization of genetic tests…
By Michelle Meyer As most readers of this blog well know, health disparities of various kinds are rampant in the U.S. — in obesity, infant mortality and morbidity, cardiovascular health, and many other areas. In most cases, however, we seem to know more about the extent of health disparities than we do about what causes…
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 the comments, Step 1 is to be sure to get IRB approval. This post addresses what I’ll call, with a…
By Michelle Meyer In legal scholarship and education, innovation law and policy is virtually synonymous with intellectual property in general, and with patent law in particular. This is curious and, I think, misguided. We expend considerable effort designing optimal incentives for innovation. We expend similar effort ensuring that socially useful knowledge, once produced, is widely…
We’re excited to introduce and welcome Michelle N. Meyer to our blogging community. Michelle is doing some guest blogging right now at The Faculty Lounge, and will be cross-posting here. She’s also pretty active on Twitter – follow her @MichelleNMeyer.
