A Symposium on International Environmental Law: Introduction and Context

Symposium Creativity and the Law Introduction: Creativity and the Law

Creativity is on the American mind. President Obama routinely suggests that creativity and ingenuity are the keys to America’s economic future.1 Bill Gates emphasizes the power of creativity to solve the world’s most pressing, and most difficult, problems.2 But the creativity story is, of late, usually bleakly told: indeed, a recent Newsweek cover story proclaimed a “Creativity Crisis.”3 Last N...

Symposium: Creativity and the Law: Introduction

International Symposium on the Health Effects of Gasoline: Introduction

The bioreductive cytotoxic agent SR 4233 (1,2,4-benzotriazine 3-amine 1,4-dioxide) has been shown to markedly potentiate the cell killing of mouse tumours when combined with fractionated radiation therapy. Differential metabolism under oxic compared to hypoxic conditions results in SR4233 exhibiting selective cytotoxicity to hypoxic cells. This is thought to result from the production of a cyto...

International environmental law and global public health.

The environment continues to be a source of ill-health for many people, particularly in developing countries. International environmental law offers a viable strategy for enhancing public health through the promotion of increased awareness of the linkages between health and environment, mobilization of technical and financial resources, strengthening of research and monitoring, enforcement of h...

Symposium: The Sacred Body in Law and Literature - Introduction