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Books on Risk Laws & Court Decisions |
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| 2006 |
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| Employment Law and Occupational
Health: A Practical Handbook |
| by Joan Lewis and Greta Thornbory; October
2006; ISBN 1405149728 |
| This is a practical guide to applying
occupational health law in everyday practice. It explores the main
employment issues in occupational health practice from pre-employment,
through health surveillance and occupational health services to termination
of employment. Each chapter addresses ethical and confidentiality issues and
includes case studies, procedural checklists, and example letters. |
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| Text, Cases And Materials on
Medical Law |
| by Marc Stauch, Kay Wheat, and John Tingle;
June 2006; ISBN 1859419348 |
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| 2004 |
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| Developing World and the
Environment: Making the Case for Effective Protection of the Global |
| by Rajendra
Ramlogan; November 2004; ISBN 0761828788 |
| In this study, the author calls for a
re-examination of the legal and institutional framework for protection of
the global environment within the context of the special needs of the
developing world. This unique third-world perspective on international
environmental law is suitable for college-level courses. |
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| Documents in International
Environmental Law |
| by Philippe Sands and Paolo Galizzi, Editors;
May 2004; ISBN 0521540305 |
| This volume comprises a representative
selection of international environmental treaties and documents essential
to anyone interested in international law within the field of
environmental protection. This edition represents an up-to-date collection
of the most important documents and makes the text and the key information
on the legal status of the various acts, including its parties where a
treaty is concerned, easily accessible to students, academics and
practitioners. |
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| Environmental Risk: The
International Library of Environmental Law and Policy |
| by John S. Applegate
(Editor); March 2004; ISBN 0754623351 |
| Risk in an environmental
sense can often be meaningless. An example would be the zero limit for
carcinogens. This means that only zero exposure guarantees safety from
these chemicals. These papers define, explore and discuss environmental
risk from a legal perspective. |
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| EU Food Law and Policy |
| by Debra Holland and Helen
Pope; June 2004; ISBN 9041121242 |
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| Food Law: Policy & Ethics |
| by Dominique Lauterburg;
December 2004; ISBN 1859418813 |
| This book deals with the
law and policy relating to food. It outlines and evaluates the European
and international context within which food is produced and sold. The
legal rules governing the safety. quality. Labeling and hygiene of food
are examined, as well as the law and policy relating to the chemical
safety of food (additives and contaminants) and risk assessment. The book
examines the ethical considerations surrounding genetically modified foods
and the use of antibiotics and growth promoting hormones. It also examines
the potential conflicts between free trade and fair trade in a global
market for food and the complex issue of global food security. The UK,
European and international bodies and institutions involved in the
creation of laws and policies relating to food are discussed, including
the UK Food Standards Agency and the European Food Safety Authority. |
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| Intellectual Property Rights in
Agricultural Biotechnology |
| by Frederic H. Erbisch and Karim M. Maredia;
February 2004; ISBN 0851997392 |
| Recent legal developments, such as the
patenting of genetically-engineered organisms, have resulted in the need
for scientists to be educated in the implications of intellectual property
rights. This book presents definitive information on intellectual property
law in a simplified form with a minimum of legal jargon. |
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| International Environmental Law
Reports: Volume 4, International Environmental Law in National Courts |
| by Alice Palmer, Cairo A. R. Robb, Daniel
Bethlehem, James Crawford, and Philippe Sands, Editors; December 2004;
ISBN 0521650372 |
| Volume 4 provides a complete set of the major
dispute settlement, or judicial, decisions on environment-related issues
under three international trade regimes: the General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO);
the Canada-USA Free Trade Agreement (precursor to the North America Free
Trade Agreement); and the European Community. It also provides extracts
from other cases dealing with issues relevant to future trade and
environment controversies. A convenient compendium for policy-makers in
government and NGOs, academic researchers and students |
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| IUCN Academy of Environmental
Law Research Studies: Volume 1, The Law of Energy for Sustainable
Development |
| by Adrian Bradbrook, Rosemary Lyster, Richard
Ottinger, and Wang Xi, Editors; December 2004; ISBN 0521845254 |
| In November 2003, the Commission on
Environmental Law (CEL) of IUCN (International Union for the Conservation
of Nature and Natural Resources) launched a new scholarly network of
environmental law faculties and professors: the IUCN Academy of
Environmental Law. The IUCN Academy, a consortium of specialized research
centers in university law faculties worldwide, constitutes a learned
society examining how law advances a just society that values and
conserves nature. As part of the Academy's mandate, a significant topic of
interregional research will be identified each year and the results
presented at an annual meeting and published for wide dissemination. The
timely and challenging research focus for 2003 was "The Law of Energy
for Sustainable Development." This volume comprises the contributions
of the 2003 conference. |
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| Law and Modern Biothechnology
(Legislative Study) |
| by Lyle Glowka and Lawrence Christy; April
2004; ISBN 9251049726 |
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| Wolf and Stanley on
Environmental Law |
| by Susan Wolf and Neil Stanley; February 2004;
ISBN 1859418325 |
| The book comprehensively details the current
state of environmental law in the UK and the EU. It provides a structured
approach to the legal and regulatory controls aimed at protecting the
environment. The relationship between planning and environmental controls
are dealt with in detail. It also examines the importance of judicial
review in the law and the role of environmental action groups. |
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| The Yearbook of European
Environmental Law |
| by Han Somsen, J. Scott, and L. Kramer; March
2004; ISBN 0199254621 |
| This book is a
joint venture between leading academics, practitioners, and community
officials. Academics and students will find a wealth of information in the
stimulating and clearly written articles. The well-structured and reliable
annual surveys are specifically designed to provide easy access to the
very latest developments in environmental law at both European and
national level. Separate parts of the Yearbook are devoted to important
policy documents and reviews of books. |
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| 2003 |
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| Risk Regulation at Risk:
Restoring a Pragmatic Approach |
| by Sidney A. Shapiro and
Robert L. Glicksman; January 2003; ISBN 0804745935 |
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| 2002 |
| The Law of International
Business Transactions |
| by Larry A. Dimatteo; June
2002, ISBN 0324040970 |
| The text is organized to
take the reader from inception through the successfully completed
transaction, covering all the relevant risks and topics along the way.
Importing and exporting, transport of goods, contractual obligations and
law, finance, countertrade, dispute resolution, intellectual property
licensing, and electronic commerce are all covered. |
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| 2001 |
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| Claims
Analysis : Law, Logic, and Risk |
| by Mark Andrews; August 2001; ISBN: 0738852198 (hardbound). |
| This book proposes that the law is successful at
resolving disputes because it has borrowed techniques from risk
analysis. Excerpts from the book are available at http://www.analysisclaims.com/.
An abstract
is also on line. |
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(also available in paperback) |
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| Liability and Quality Issues in
Health Care |
| by Barry R. Furrow, Thomas
L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy S. Jost, Robert L. Schwartz
(Editors); November 2001; ISBN 0314251669 |
| Aimed at the specific
content of an upper-level elective health law course, this law school
casebook blends recent case law, statutory developments, and problems to
maximize the flexibility of materials for teachers of health law. The
notes are rich in detail and citations, allowing the teacher to spend more
time on topics of particular interest. |
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| 2000 |
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| Patent
Fundamentals for Scientists and Engineers |
| by Thomas T. Gordon and Arthur S. Cookfair; Second Edition; March 15,
2000; ISBN: 1-56670-517-7. |
Provides a clear explanation of the patent system and patent principles. This new second edition enables nonspecialists
to make well-informed decisions affecting new and patentable products. |
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| 1999 |
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| Judging Science : Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts |
| by Kenneth R. Foster and Peter William Huber;
February 1999 (reprint edition); ISBN 0262561204. |
What is "scientific knowledge" and when is it reliable? These deceptively simple questions have been the source of endless controversy. In 1993 the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling on the use of scientific evidence in federal courts. Federal judges may admit expert scientific evidence only if it merits the label "scientific knowledge." The testimony must be scientifically "reliable" and "valid."
This book is organized around the criteria set out in the 1993 ruling. Following a general overview, the authors look at issues of fit--whether a plausible theory relates specific facts to the larger factual issues in contention; philosophical concepts such as the falsifiability of scientific claims; scientific error; reliability in science, particularly in fields such as epidemiology and toxicology; the meaning of "scientific validity"; peer review and the problem of boundary setting; and the risks of confusion and prejudice when presenting science to a jury.
The book's conclusion attempts to reconcile the law's need for workable rules of evidence with the views of scientific validity and reliability that emerge from science and other disciplines.
(This book was originally published in 1993; this reprint edition was
published in
About the Author: Kenneth R. Foster is Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Peter W. Huber is
Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. |
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| Legal
Alchemy : The Use and Misuse of Science in the Law |
| by by David L. Faigman; October 1999; ISBN
071673143 |
"In Legal Alchemy, David Faigman explores the ways the American legal system incorporates scientific knowledge into its decision making. He shows how science has been used in the courtroom, from the O. J. Simpson trial to the Dow Corning Silicone breast implant lawsuit to landmark cases such as Roe v. Wade. He reveals how Congress uses scientific information to help enact legislation about clean air, cloning, and government science projects like the space station and the superconducting super collider. As Faigman describes these and other important cases, he provides disturbing evidence that many judges, juries, and members of Congress simply don't understand the science behind their decisions. Finally, he offers suggestions on how the science and legal professions can overcome their
miscommunication and work together more effectively."--BOOK JACKET.
About the Author: David L. Faigman is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He writes extensively on topics concerning the law's use of science and is a co-author of the leading treatise Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony, which has been cited several times by the United States Supreme Court. He is regularly interviewed regarding issues of scientific evidence and constitutional law. |
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| Phantom
Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law |
| edited
by Kenneth R. Foster, David E. Bernstein, Peter William Huber; February
1999 (reprint edition); ISBN
0262561190 |
| Phantom risks are risks whose very existence is unproven and perhaps
unprovable, yet they raise real problems at the interface of science and
the law. Phantom Risk surveys a dozen scientific issues that have
led to public controversy and litigation--among them, miscarriage from the
use of video display terminals, birth defects in children whose mothers
used the drug Bendectin, and cancer from low-intensity magnetic fields and
from airborne asbestos. It presents the scientific evidence behind these
and other issues and summarizes the resulting litigation. Focusing on the
great disparity between the scientific evidence that is sufficient to
arouse public fears and that needed to establish a hazard or its absence,
these original contributions probe the problem of scientific ambiguity in
risk assessment, and the mayhem this creates in the courtroom. (This book
was originally published in 1993; this reprint edition was published in
February 1999.)
About the Author: Kenneth R. Foster is Associate Professor of
Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. David E. Bernstein is an
attorney at the law firm of Crowell & Moring. Peter W. Huber is Senior
Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. |
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| 1997 |
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| Science
at the Bar : Law, Science, and Technology in America |
| by Sheila Jasanoff; September 1997; ISBN 067479303X |
“Sheila Jasanoff reveals the gulf between objective science and adversarial law in the United States--and suggests
some bridge-building answers...[She] delves deeply into case law, and comes up with some absorbing and
accessible analyses of the judicial treatment of issues such as genetic engineering, chemical toxicity, and fetal
rights. Timely stuff.” -- NEW SCIENTIST
“[Jasanoff] provides a provocative and informative survey of the
multiplying areas of dispute in which science and technology have come to figure in the legal system. Her topics include product
liability, medical malpractice, the regulation of toxics, biotechnology and patents, reproductive rights and dispositions for the
dying...SCIENCE AT THE BAR is an important, ground-breaking book, a clearly written work that assists us in coming to grips with
the troublesome issues raised by our society’s experience in the complicated interplay of science and the law.”
-- Daniel J. Kevles, AMERICAN SCIENTIST |
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| 1995 |
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| Breaking
the Vicious Circle : Toward Effective Risk Regulation |
| by Stephen Breyer; April 1995 (paperback edition); ISBN 0674081153 |
| Part of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures. (The
hardback version of this book was published in 1993; the paperback version
was published in 1995.) |
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| 1994 |
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| The
Environmental Protection Agency : Asking the Wrong Questions: From Nixon
to Clinton |
| by Marc K. Landy, Marc J. Roberts, Stephen R. Thomas; May
1994; ISBN 0195086732 |
| Part of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures in 1992. |
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| 1993 |
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| Breaking
the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulations |
| by Stephen Breyer; June 1993 (hardback version); ISBN 0674081145 |
| Part of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures. (The
hardback version of this book was published in 1993; the paperback version
was published in 1995.) |
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