Kirk Hartley
Following Up on Winkler: “What Corporate Veil?”
An interesting new article follows up on Adam Winkler’s book; the article is online at this page of SSRN. Hat tip to Steve Hedley for...
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Kirk Hartley
Jun 3, 20191 min read
AI Reveals Hidden Genomic Drivers of Autism
New findings – from a highly credible source – provide yet another example of the power of AI to find previously unseen patterns that...
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Kirk Hartley
May 3, 20191 min read
“Washington’s Biggest Lobbyist, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Gets Shut Out”
Interesting article on the US Chamber of Commerce in the May 2, 2019 WSJ. In short, the President and the Chamber have divergent views...
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Kirk Hartley
Apr 29, 20191 min read
DeWayne Johnson Glyphosate Case – Monsanto’s Opening Brief and Motion for Judicial Notic
The appeal is underway for Monsanto from the verdict in the DeWayne Johnson case. Numerous stories spin the papers. For those who prefer...
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Kirk Hartley
Apr 23, 20191 min read
Headline News from Pro Publica: “Here’s How TurboTax Just Tricked You Into Paying to File Yo
Hmmm – it will be interesting to see if state AG’s and/or private class action lawyers successfully sue Turbo Tax for its bait and switch...
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Kirk Hartley
Apr 22, 20191 min read
Limited Effective Lives for Some Vaccines
Two flu shots per year may become the standard, along with increases in “boosters” for other vaccines. Why? Because increasing data shows...
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Kirk Hartley
Apr 3, 20191 min read
“Discoverability of Third Party Funding Documents in Arbitration”
A March 21, 2019 post by lawyers at Mintz provides some cogent insights into the topic of discovery of litigation funding agreements in...
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Kirk Hartley
Apr 2, 20192 min read
Big Data, Computational Toxicology and Systems Biology Extrapolations
The abstract pasted below was not an April fool’s joke. To the contrary, it illustrated the increasing efforts to combine in silico and...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 29, 20191 min read
Learn About All The Legal Rights of Persons During and After Cancer – May 11 – Chicago &
For persons facing cancer in the Chicago area, May 11, 2019 will bring a local opportunity to learn about the entire range of legal...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 28, 20191 min read
“Placebo”
“It’s a whole sentence packed into a word: the Latin translation of placebo is “I shall be pleasing.” See Visual...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 27, 20191 min read
New Torts and “New Data on Sextortion: 124 Additional Public Cases”
It’s an amazing world out there. For legal analysis and data on “sextortion” cases, see this March 19, 2019 post at Lawfare.
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 26, 20191 min read
Who Knew: Analysis of Underground DNA to Decide Where to Drill Oil Wells
Amazing to see some of the broad new uses for DNA. They include analysis of underground DNA to decide where to drill oil wells. Really;...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 25, 20192 min read
News from Europe: “Scotland: Mesothelioma reasonably foreseeable despite no direct evidence o
There’s never enough time to fully track asbestos developments in Europe. However, a December 2018 article from Clyde & Co, caught my eye...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 22, 20191 min read
New Litigation Opportunities and Risks as The Value of P Values Is Debated: “Moving to a Worl
For yesterday’s editorial from the American Statistical Association, and more, go to “Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05.” For the paper...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 20, 20191 min read
Exposomics and the Immune System: “Effects of PFAs during pregnancy: New research underway in
Today, more and more studies involve gathering real world data as exposures occur, and then monitoring the health conditions of the...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 19, 20194 min read
Cancer Research, a Holy Grail, and The Most Powerful Supercomputer in the World Is Coming to the Chi
Hopefully this incredible machine will help researchers against cancer fulfill Jeff Huber’s call to “find a better way” to take on...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 17, 20191 min read
Who Knew: There is a Clinical Robotics Law Journal
The times they are a changing. The other day, I stumbled across the Clinical Robotics Law Journal, after being intrigued by a February...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 11, 20191 min read
From Canada and Japan: Yet Another Mass Tort Bankruptcy, and Possible Fraudulent Conveyance: Big Tob
A tobacco company is the latest entity to use bankruptcy to try to limit its obligations for a mass tort. This instance, however, is...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 8, 20192 min read
Burgeoning AI Issues: Schwarcz, Daniel B. and Prince, Anya, “Proxy Discrimination in the Age
So many issues lie ahead for litigation involving AI. With that in mind, here’s the abstract from a new paper by the indefatigible Dan...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 7, 20191 min read
“Wrongful Life in the Age of CRISPR-CAS: Developing a Legal Fiction for Wrongful Gamete Manip
From a March 7, 2019 post at the Torts Prof blog, two interesting new SSRN abstracts on tort issues arising due to the rapid increasingly...
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