Recently received in the Jurisdynamics Network's mailbox: Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age (2011) (available at http://amzn.to/RaceBottle):

Earlier this year, I was commissioned by the National Academies to write a report on synthetic biology, standards setting, and intellectual property, which I co-authored with Linda Kahl, and presented at the National Academies in Washington,…

Jim Chen, Bioprospect Theory, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2164848 or http://bit.ly/BioprospectTheory. To be presented at the University of Akron School of Law's sixth annual Intellectual Property Scholars Forum.

As I mentioned in my last post, I've been doing some thinking about what it means to be non-state law and looking to different types of non-state law - such as international law or religious law - to consider some common dynamics that…

In the interest of sharing ideas, I wanted to say a word about workshops. Over the last several years I have co-run with Einer Elhauge a workshop in health policy, biotechnology, and bioethics, where leading scholars present works in…

The publication Lawyers of Color just published a special issue on diversity in the legal academy, apparently aimed at students. It identifies "50 Under 50", the most influential minority law professors under 50 years old, a very…