Showing papers by "Georgetown University Law Center published in 1983"

The Common Law as a Model of the Patient-Physician Relationship: A Response to Professor Brody

Abstract: If as he suggests at the outset, and as I suspect, the point of Professor Brody’s essay is to make the claim that neither the common law nor Judaic law provides us with a model which fully and adequately captures the morality of the patient-physician relationship, then, although he importantly misdescribes the common law model, he is doubtless right. But if, as his conclusion suggests, his point is the further one that the law ought somehow to be reformed so as to reflect accurately the morality of the patient-physician relationship, then his claim is both controversial and unestablished. Since I doubt that Brody really intends to put forth the latter view either as stated or in a form generalized to include other sorts of social relationship, I propose to concentrate my remarks on the set of issues which are entailed by the first claim and largely to ignore the important jurisprudential questions raised by the second.

International Legal and Institutional Implications of an Increase in Carbon Dioxide: A Proposed Research Strategy

Abstract: The problem of a build-up in carbon dioxide (CO2) needs to be viewed as a problem in developing the appropriate transition strategies for moving from a fossil fuel to a nonfossil fuel economy in the next fifty to one hundred years. We need to develop processes for managing carbon dioxide emissions which will delay the warming of the earth’s temperature from carbon dioxide sufficiently to give time to develop new technologies for storing and recycling the carbon dioxide and to adapt to any changes in climate. Central to this management strategy are scientific assessments as to how much carbon dioxide input will produce how much change in the global environment, when and where.