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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Recent submissions
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Open and Proprietary Biological Innovation in Human Genetic Enhancement
(Washington University School of Law, 2009)Open source has been championed by many scholars as a superior system for promoting innovation, not only in software but latterly in biology. Though software code and genes appear superficially similar in the sense that ... -
Patent Law, HIPPO, and the Biodiversity Crisis
(John Marshall Law School (Chicago), 2010)Planet earth is host to a dazzling variety of living organisms. This diversity of life, or – biodiversity, is vital to the survival and prosperity of humanity, supplying such vital amenities as food, clothing, shelter, ... -
Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Patents: One Experimental View of the Cathedral
(Yale Law School, 2011)In their seminal 1972 article, "Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral," Guido Calabresi and A. Douglas Melamed proposed an analytic framework for comparing entitlements protected ... -
Patents to the Rescue - Disasters and Patent Law
(DePaul University College of Law, 2007)The patent system can play a vital role in preparing for, mitigating, reacting to, and preventing disasters. In the far term, it ensures that society continually improves its technological capacity to deal with disasters. ... -
Gene Concepts, Gene Talk, and Gene Patents
(University of Minnesota Law School, 2010)Since the existence of a discrete unit of heredity was first proposed by Gregor Mendel, scientific concepts of the “gene” have undergone rapid evolution. Beyond obvious epistemic and operational importance to the scientific ... -
Metaphysics and Patenting Life
(University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, 2007)The patent systems of most countries have gradually extended patent protection to inventions involving, and even consisting of, living organisms. In fact, the World Trade Organization ("WTO") Agreement on Trade-Related ... -
Synthesizing Law for Synthetic Biology
(University of Minnesota Law School, 2010)In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech more than half a century ago, Edward L. Tatum suggested an ambitious new goal for biology: "not only to avoid structural and metabolic errors in the developing organism, but also to ... -
An Extinction Bar to Patentability
(Georgetown University Law Center, 2008)Biodiversity possesses significant economic value, not least as a source of natural biochemicals discovered through bioprospecting. However, human activities are currently destroying biodiversity at a rapid rate, along ... -
Physiological Steps Doctrine
(Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, 2008)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 ... -
Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts
(Columbia Law School, 2009)Patent systems are often justified by an assumption that innovation will be spurred by the prospect of patent protection, leading to the accrual of greater societal benefits than would be possible under non-patent systems. ... -
Cooking a Cuban Ajiaco: The Columbian Exchange in a Stewpot
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Paraguay and Mercosur: The lesser of two evils?
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Humboldtian Science, Creole Meteorology, and the Discovery of Human-Caused Climate Change in Northern South America
(University of Chicago Press, 2011)The belief that human land use is capable of causing large-scale climatic change lies at the root of modern conservation thought and policy. The origins and popularization of this belief were deeply politicized. Alexander ... -
Enclave Vision: Foreign Networks in Peru and the Internationalization of El Niño Research during the 1920s
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The Cloze Procedure and Intersentential Comprehension in College-Level German
(Walter de Gruyter, 1988)The intersentential sensitivity of the mechanical deletion cloze procedure was examined in this investigation. A total of 124 college-level students of German participated in the study. One group of subjects completed a ... -
From Kitchen to Classroom: Reflections of a Language Broker
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Haitian-English Dictionary
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Paleoecological and taphonomic implications of insect-damaged Pleistocene vertebrate remains from Rancho La Brea, southern California
(PLoS ONE Biology, 2013-07-03)The La Brea Tar Pits, the world’s richest and most important Late Pleistocene fossil locality, offers unsurpassed insights into southern California’s past environments. Recent studies at Rancho La Brea document that insects ... -
Responding to 9/11: Lurching Toward a Rule of Scofflaw
(The University of Kansas School of Law, 2005)Despite the lip service that the Bush-Cheney administration has paid to the notion of a rule of law - claiming, for example, that countries around the world should embrace and respect the rule of law in their internal ... -
The Legacy of Wolfish and Chapman: Some Thoughts About 'Big Prison Case' Litigation in the 1980s
(Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1999)In the past fifteen years, the conditions of American prisons have moved from the grist of movies to the attention of the courts. Judges throughout the nation have been asked to adjudicate the legality of issues as diverse ...