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Symposium: Creativity and the Law: Introduction

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...

Law, science, and innovation: introduction to the symposium.

175 Law and lawyers play an ever more important role in the development and use of science. Often, the relations between law and science are the stuff of ordinary business, fitting scientific activity into an existing infrastructure of intellectual property, contract, products liability, and tort law. At other times lawmakers may use science to identify harms and take regulatory action, which t...

Introduction to the symposium.

Forty-five years ago a symposium on the ‘‘Lower Metazoa’’ was held in Pacific Grove, California. The resulting volume (Dougherty et al., 1963) sampled much of the then current study and thought about simple animals—sponges, cnidarians, ctenophores, flatworms, pseudocoelomates, and more. Extensive discussions of homology and phylogeny formed the basis for testing a variety of hypotheses concerni...

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