Halloween Law is a spirited guide through law school study starting with that first scary year. Looking at the law through the lens of Halloween proves the old rule that truth is stranger than fiction. Halloween cases that conjure up issues in constitutional law, criminal law, tort law, property law and contract law introduce you to the first year curriculum. If you survive the first year, you can move on to several upper level courses for those who dare --- employment law, oil and gas law and lots of local government law creep into the Halloween Law experience. Halloween Law will leave you...

This book examines the emerging area of biosecurity law which includes international law, emergency public health law, laboratory biosafety and biosecurity regulations in the context of state, federal and international governance.

The Things That Keep Us Up At Night: Biohorror, Biothriller Movies, the Law and the Science by Victoria Sutton. This book celebrates the new subgenre of biohorror and biothriller movies which has grown rapidly in the last two decades, building on a classic past beginning with Nosferatu (1922) and The Seventh Seal (1957)moving through the Biotechnology Revolution to the movies that use engineered and natural attacks from Mother Nature. All of these movies bring an amazing view of human nature in a disaster, a pandemic and sometimes a collapse of society. This book examines 48 movies...

Emerging Technologies Law is a comprehensive analysis of issues confronting society and law in the rapidly developing context of emerging technologies. An area of study is developing around the unique issues facing the exponential growth in emerging technologies and our regulatory system of governance to address risks to society - when we should and should not regulate. In Volumes 1 and 2, this series examines substantive areas of law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, International Law, Criminal Law, Tort Law, Intellectual Property Law, Banking and Finance Law, Scientific Evidence Law,...