Genetics in Law

Kirk T. Hartley

This Week - Planning Underway for Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence

Planning continues this week for the Fourth Edition of the federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The event is an open access...

Kirk T. Hartley

Criminal Law Against Genetic Discrimination Upheld by Supreme Court of Canada

The growing real world importance of genomics is illustrated by yet another ruling involving issues at an intersection between genomics...

Kirk T. Hartley

Individual Genetic Variability Matters Greatly for Some Diseases in Some People

The occasional importance of individual genetic variability in diseases continues to be highlighted by the wide range of outcomes in...

Kirk T. Hartley

723 Open Access Virus Genomes Provide Real Time Genomic Tracking of the Spread of COVID19

Nextstrain.org is a valuable web site that illustrates the power and speed of using real time open access virus genomes to track and...

Kirk T. Hartley

Expectations for More Genomic Testing in Medical Product Liability Cases

It's always good to see more lawyers focusing on the use of genomics. In that vein, note a new February 20, 2020 blog post with a...

Kirk Hartley

WSJ Notes More Specialized Legal Training Other Than Obtaining a JD

“Nationwide, 14% of law-school enrollees are pursuing non-J.D. programs, newly released numbers from the American Bar Association show,...

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