Anti-Anxiety Law: Winnicott and the Legal Fiction of Paternity

The General Rules of Contracts and the Rules of Anti-avoidance and Anti-evasion Paying Taxes (Tax Fraud)

Taxation issues are among the factors which balance between private rights and public interests. But the legal system of contracts also works for the welfare of the people and society. The general rules of contracts and the principles of private law have found their essential functions during the years.  Applying the above rules aimed at preserving public order along with the private rights of ...

Mass culture of coercive psychiatric confinement

In Movies on Trial [1], I examine ways in which popular legal culture (especially television, fiction, and film) helps shape American attitudes toward different aspects of legal process and legal system. Among the topics I consider are criminal law, tort law, international law, constitutional law, and comparative law. I am now writing a second book on this subject, Movies on Appeal, and I will ...

Shadows of doubt: the uneasy incorporation of identification science into legal determination of paternity in Brazil.

The arrival of DNA paternity testing in the 1980s was met with great enthusiasm in the Brazilian courts. Yet, over the past two decades, Brazilian legal doctrine and jurisprudence have increasingly rejected DNA proof as the sine qua non for paternity cases. Instead, DNA paternity testing has generated mountains of litigation, as biological proof has been challenged by the argument that paternit...

Tell me a story: using short fiction in teaching law and bioethics.

"First, do no harm"--the fiction of legal parental consent to genital-normalizing surgery on intersexed infants.