Vol. 37, No. 1, Fall 1996

 

Editor's Page: There Ought to be a Law

David H. Kaye

v

ARTICLES

 

 

The Genetic Privacy Act: A Proposal for
National Legislation 

Patricia (Winnie) Roche, Leonard H. Glantz, and George J. Annas

1

Insurers' Use of Genetic Information

Mark A. Hall

13

Assessing the Believability of Expert
Witnesses: Science in the Jury Box

Daniel W. Shuman,
Anthony Champagne, and
Elizabeth Whitaker

23

NOTES

 

 

The Census Adjustment Cases: The Hunt
for the Wily Trout

James Pack

35

Hopkins v. Dow Corning Corp.: Silicone
and Science

Donald A. Lawson

53

Recent Legislation on Genetics and
Insurance

Helen R. Davis and
Janice V. Mitrius

69

BOOK REVIEWS

 

 

Bendectin and Birth Defects: The
Challenges of Mass Toxic Substances
Litigation
by Michael D. Green

Betsy J. Grey

83

Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical
Evidence and the Law in the Breast
Implant Case by Marcia Angell

Donald A. Lawson

95

LITERATURE REVIEW

 

101


Vol. 37, No. 2, Winter 1997

CORRESPONDENCE

 

111

DEVELOPMENTS

 

 

Expert Advice on Silicone Implants: Hall v.
Baxter Healthcare, Inc.

Joseph Sanders and
D.H. Kaye

113

ARTICLES

 

 

Antitrust and Patent Licensing: Cycles of
Enforcement and Current Policy

Steven P. Reynolds

129

The Constitutionality of the "Other Serious
Deviation from Accepted Practices" Clause

Karen A. Goldman and
Montgomery K. Fisher

149

Replacing Our Current System of Organ
Procurement with a Futures Market: Will
Organ Supply Be Maximized?

Andrew J. Love

167

NOTE

 

 

On the Wrong Track: A Response to the
Manifesto and a Critique of Sui Generis
Software Protection

Brett A. Carlson

187

REVIEW ESSAY

 

 

Regulating Toxic Substances: A Philosophy
of Science and the Law
by Carl F. Cranor

Michael D. Green

205

LITERATURE REVIEW

 

225


Vol. 37, No. 3, Spring 1997

CORRESPONDENCE

 

 

REFLECTIONS

 

 

Prosecution of Obscenity on Computer
Networks

Michael A.S. Guth

235

DEVELOPMENTS

 

 

Patent Infringement Immunity for Medical
Practitioners and Related Health Care Entities

Timothy J. Lithgow

251

PTSD in Civil Litigation: Recent Scientific
and Legal Developments

Richard L. Newman and Rachel Yehuda

257

TECHNICAL NOTE

 

 

Compensation, Damages, and Functional
Form in Tort Liability Research

Elizabeth Graddy

269

NOTES

 

 

Expert Testimony in Design Defect Cases

William J. Brown, Jr.

285

A Domain by Any Other Name: The Federal
Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 Applied to
Internet Domain Names

Daniel R. Pote

301

REVIEW ESSAYS: DNA for the Defense

 

317

Exonerated by Science

Norah Rudin and
Keith Inman

319

False Exclusions?

John Juhala

325

Forensic Science at Trial

Franco Taroni and Colin Aitken

327

BROWSING
Short reviews of the following books:

 

339

And the Blood Cried Out: A Prosecutor's
Spellbinding Account of the Power of DNA

by Harlan Levy

 

 

Proceedings from the Seventh International
Symposium on Human Identification

 

 

Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science:
Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to
Establish Innocence after Trial
by Edward
Connors et al.

 

 

From Data to Public Policy: Affirmative
Action, Sexual Harassment, Domestic
Violence, and Social Welfare
, edited by
Rita J. Simon

LITERATURE REVIEW

 

347


Vol. 37, No. 4, Summer 1997

ARTICLE

Can an Operating System Vendor Have a
Duty to Aid Its Competitors?

Bryce J. Jones II and James R. Turner

355

SYMPOSIUM: THE EVALUATION OF
FORENSIC DNA EVIDENCE

 

 

DNA, NAS, NRC, DAB, RLFP, PCR, and More:
An Introduction to the Symposium on the
1996 NRC Report on Forensic DNA Evidence

D.H. Kaye

395

Accepting Lower Standards: The National
Research Council's Second Report on
Forensic DNA Evidence

William C. Thompson

405

Why DNA Likelihood Ratios Should Account
for Error (Even When a National Research
Council Report Says They Should Not)

Jonathan J. Koehler

425

After the DNA Wars: Skirmishing with
NRC II
 

Richard O. Lempert

439

Errors and Misunderstandings in the
Second NRC Report

David Balding

469

The Forensic DNA Endgame

N.E. Morton

477

NOTE

 

 

The Admissibility of PCR-based DNA
Evidence
: State v.Lyons

Karla K. Hotis

495

BROWSING
Short reviews of the following books:

 

507

Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge
and the Federal Courts
by Kenneth R.
Foster and Peter W. Huber

 

 

Reproductive Technology: A Research
Guide to the Legal Status of the Human
Embryo
by Timothy Coppo

 

 

Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the
Politics of Knowledge
by Steven Epstein

 

 

Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's
Mental Illness Crisis by E. Fuller Torrey

 

 

Exploring Public Policy Issues in Genetics,
edited by Mark S. Frankel

 

 

Index

 

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