Babies in limbo: law outpaced by fertility advances.

PROPERTY LAW—Once a Road, Always a Road?: How the Wyoming Supreme Court is Leaving Rural Landowners in Limbo: King v. Board of County Commissioners of Fremont, 244 P.3d 473 (Wyo. 2010)

Welcome to the wild west: protecting access to cross border fertility care in the United States.

As has been the case with other types of medical tourism, the phenomenon of cross border fertility care ("CBFC") has sparked concern about the lack of global or even national harmonization in the regulation of the fertility industry. The diversity of laws around the globe leads would-be parents to forum shop for a welcoming place to make babies. Focusing specifically on the phenomenon of travel...

LIMBO: Scalable Clustering of Categorical Data

Clustering is a problem of great practical importance in numerous applications. The problem of clustering becomes more challenging when the data is categorical, that is, when there is no inherent distance measure between data values. We introduce LIMBO, a scalable hierarchical categorical clustering algorithm that builds on the Information Bottleneck (IB) framework for quantifying the relevant ...

Access to Fertility Treatments for Homosexual and Unmarried Persons, through Iranian Law and Islamic Perspective

Background A family traditionally consisted of a married man, his wife, and their children. The new reproductive technologies including use of the third party as egg, sperm and embryo donation and also surrogacy have changed the traditional meanings of lineage, ancestry and family. The increasing number of lesbians and gays in addition to single women requesting fertility treatment from IVF cen...

LIMBO: A Scalable Algorithm to Cluster Categorical Data

Clustering is a problem of great practical importance in numerous applications. The problem of clustering becomes more challenging when the data is categorical, that is, when there is no inherent distance measure between data values. In this work, we introduce LIMBO, a scalable hierarchical categorical clustering algorithm that builds on the Information Bottleneck (IB) framework for quantifying...