Showing posts with label rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rights. Show all posts
Monday, April 14, 2025

“Schrödinger’s persons". The indeterminate legal status of embryos.

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 Courts are increasingly called on to decide who should get custody of frozen embryos. Their decisions will touch on both abortion and IVF. ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Child labor in soccer

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Many laws seek to protect children from being exploited in the labor market, and there is widespread repugnance when it appears that such ex...
Saturday, May 4, 2024

Free speech and universities

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 At Stanford, recent event are helping us remember that our speech policy is the First Amendment. That hasn't always been front of mind ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

The harmful human rights impact of unjustified criminalization of individuals and communities: ICJ statement

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 The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has published a set of legal principles  for a human rights-based approach to criminal laws p...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Open letters--democracy and academic freedom, in Iran and Turkey

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 Around this time of year I think of the various open letters I sign, from among many that I'm invited to sign.  (I try to avoid signing...
Friday, September 9, 2022

Do (some) kidney donors have a right to donate?

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 Here's an article that considers whether some potential kidney donors, who have more appetite for risk than some transplant teams, migh...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Data use agreements, and university research policies regarding restrictions on publication

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  Since the beginning of the year, I've been sent several Data Use Agreements from organizations interested in the possibility of sharin...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Assisted suicide, the debate continues in England and Switzerland

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Assisted suicide , a widely repugnant transaction, continues to be the subject of public discussion in England. The Telegraph reports a new ...