“Sponsored research” continues to be controversial. The topic will be squarely addressed next spring in a Friday March 20, 2009 session...

A continuing topic of this blog is exploration of the ways that advances in science will change tort litigation tactics and may change...

What to do with sponsored research – take it at face value, disregard it completely, or use it subject to considering whether to reduce...

Much of the strict liability theory taught in law school in 1980-1983, and still today, invoked a rationale of risk-spreading, and...

With election day in the US just 2 days away, this is a plea to all to get out and vote on Tuesday, if it’s not already done. This also...

A prior post here noted that Canadian scientists recently criticized the Canadian government for continuing to support global sales of...

The Canadian Medical Association has come out with an editorial, described here, that calls on Canada to join with other countries to...

A new en banc 5th Circuit opinion from a strongly divided court grants the extraordinary remedy of mandamus to overturn perceived forum...

For some time now, I’ve been writing about potential changes in product liability law due to rapid changes in communication and science....

For those interested in “mass tort” issues, well worth reading is today’s National Law Journal article regarding the recent wave of...

A significant topic for at least the next decade will be the interesection of criminal law, tort law and civil law (including the law on...

In Yakutsk, Russia, “the next asbestos” has been identified – it’s dust generated from artisans carving up the mammoth tusks that are...