Author Responds to “Allowing the Unborn to Live While Respecting Women’s Free Will”
Dr. Block asked that I post his response to my comments on his law review article in “Allowing the Unborn to Live While Respecting Women’s Free Will.” Here is Dr. Block’s response in its entirety: I appreciate that you characterize us as “two prolife professors,” because that is EXACTLY how I, at least, see our […]
Latin American Conference on Reproductive Rights
The Second Latin American Conference on Reproductive Rights, which will take place on November 28th, 29th and 30th in Costa Rica, is a forum created for the Latin American legal community to gather for dialogue, debate and deliberate around issues and dilemmas that work to protect reproductive rights more effectively in the region. This second […]
Call for Abstracts on Health and Human Rights
The 2011 Queen’s University Health and Human Rights Conference has issued a call for abstracts of reseach to be presented during its poster session on September 30 – October 1st, 2011 at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. The conference is a student-led initiative with a mandate to build bridges between the humanities, sciences and social […]
Call for Papers for Australian Feminist Law Journal
Call for Papers, Australian Feminist Law Journal, General Issue. Submit by Sept 1, 2011. The call provides this description of the journal and paper requirements: The Journal seeks to focus upon scholarly research using critical feminist approaches to law and justice, broadly conceived. As a critical legal journal we publish research informed by critical theory, […]
Abortion and Crime Reduction in Europe
An interesting new article on the impact of abortion on crime rates has been posted on SSRN. The authors of Crime in Europe and the United States: Dissecting the ‘Reversal of Misfortunes’ describe their paper thus: Contrary to common perceptions, today both property and violent crimes (with the exception of homicides) are more widespread in […]
Allowing the Unborn to Live While Respecting Women’s Free Will
Compromising the Uncompromisable: A Private Property Rights Approach to Resolving the Abortion Controversy is a new posting on SSRN. This article, published in 2005 by two prolife professors, argues that medical technology allowing gestation outside the mother’s womb may eventually erode the right to abortion, if that right is understood to mean the right to […]
Prosecutors’ Role in Assisted Suicide
SSRN has posted a new article, Justins v. the Queen: Assisted Suicide, Juries and the Discretion to Prosecute examining an Australian case and arguing that prosecutors should very rarely charge defendants in cases of assisted suicide. The author notes that the British Crown Prosecution Service has developed guidelines for prosecutors regarding such charges. The guidelines […]
Concerns about Hospice Continue
Preparing Americans for Death Lets Hospices Neglect End of Life reports that ‘[m]ore than four in 10 Americans now meet their end in hospice care, drawn by its promise of palliation and pain alleviation instead of extreme measures in their waning days. Medicare’s hospice rolls doubled to 1.1 million patients from 2000 to 2009, the […]