Charges set a 'terrifying precedent'

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story

Richard Preston's timing could not have been better. In August 1994, only a few weeks before his new book appeared in bookstores, alarming national newspaper headlines informed the public of a scientist becoming infected with the exotic Sabia arenavirus after a laboratory centrifuge accident at the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit. Following the scientist's relatively rapid recovery under ribavirin...

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Precedent in the Making

Delivery past due: global precedent set under Canada's Access to Medicines Regime.

Four years to the month after Parliament passed a law to enable the supply of lower-cost generic medicines to developing countries in need, the first exports are finally about to happen. In this article, Richard Elliott provides an overview of recent developments under Canada's Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), and identifies key reforms needed to streamline the regime so that it can more easi...

Informative Precedent and Intrajudicial Communication

We develop an informational model of judicial decision-making in which deference to precedent is useful to policy-oriented appellate judges because it improves the accuracy with which they can communicate legal rules to trial judges. Our simple model yields new implications and hypotheses regarding conditions under which judges will maintain or break with precedent, the constraining effect that...