Genetic exceptionalism and legislative pragmatism.

Against Genetic Exceptionalism: An Argument in Favor of the Viability of Preconception Genetic Torts

The Allure and Peril of Genetic Exceptionalism: Do We Need Special Genetics Legislation?

Phenotypes for Prediction: Gene Expression and Genetic Exceptionalism

In the wake of the post-genomics era, United States legislators enacted the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008 in an effort to combat looming threats of discrimination and to relinquish citizen‟s fears of genetic testing. GINA, like other questioned nondiscrimination laws before it, only protects genotypes. Multiple scholars have insisted these provisions are unjustified a...

Five Answers on Pragmatism

Prof. Haack answers a series of questions on pragmatism, beginning with the origins of this tradition in the work of Peirce and James, its evolution in the work of Dewey and Mead, and its influence beyond the United States in, for example, the Italian pragmatists and the radical British pragmatist F. C. S. Schiller. Classical pragmatism, she observes, is a rich and varied tradition from which t...

Of Patents and Path Dependency : a Comment on Burk and Lemley

This Article delves into issues surrounding the relationship between technology and the patent law. Responding to Dan Burk and Mark Lemley’s earlier article, Is Patent Law Technology-Specific?, the piece notes that the basic question posed by Burk and Lemley’s article is a relatively easy question given the several doctrines that explicitly link the subject matter context of an invention to the...