This issue's "Legal Briefing" column covers recent legal developments involving informed consent.1 We covered this topic in previous articles in The Journal of Clinical Ethics.2 But an updated discussion is warranted. First, informed consent remains a central and critically important issue in clinical ethics. Second, there have been numerous significant legal changes over the past year. We cate...

due to the change in attitudes, the traditional position the teachings (doctrines) of international jurists occupied in the early centuries following the birth of modern international law descended from primary source to secondary one, and seemingly, in the first half of the 21st century, the jurisprudence of international courts paid little attention to them. but with the emergence of internat...