Genetics, Molecular Biology and the Law

Subjects:

Medical Law, Wildy, Simmonds and Hill

Contents:

Introduction

Abbreviations

A Note on Citations

Chapter 1 The Basics of Molecular Biology

Chapter 2 Criminal Law

Chapter 3 Aspects of Civil Law

Chapter 4 Intellectual Property

Chapter 5 Food

Chapter 6 International Law

Index

This timely book provides a comprehensive treatment of the interface between the law and modern science as represented by genetics and molecular biology, albeit in a highly digestible and lucid style. Chapters are:-

• The Basics of Molecular Biology (the genome, genetics, proteomics);
• Criminal Law (molecular transfer processes;
• theft of DNA; forensic mathematics; keynote cases);
• Aspects of Civil Law (paternity and maternity;
• retention of DNA and privacy;
• DNA in medical law; (DNA, insurance and employment)
• Intellectual Property (patenting genes, expressed sequence tags and single nucleotide polymorphisms, keynote cases in U.K. and U.S.A.);
• Food (gene manipulation; aspects of tort; environmental risks);
• International Law (genetically modified organisms, CITES and CBD, warfare and molecular biology).

Genetics, Molecular Biology and the Law provides practitioners and academics alike with a detailed analysis of how the law is responding to the latest advances in the increasingly complex fields of molecular biology and genetics.