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Rapid expansion of technology in medicine over the last few decades has both enhanced our lives and complicated our laws. For example, thanks to advances in science and medicine, couples who were previously unable to reproduce are now able to do so with the help of donors, medical personnel, and a host of other middlemen facilitating the process. The growth of medical technology has also lead to the advent of using human eggs for medical research. However, despite competing for eggs from a small pool of willing donors, there is a disparity in the law between the treatment of human egg donation for reproduction purposes and human egg donation for research purposes (stem-cell research and human cloning). Similarly, egg donors for reproductive purposes may earn a substantial profit for their "donations," but donors for research generally are not compensated. This disparity is the result of legislation reflecting refusal by the public to make allowance for payment for eggs used for research because human embryos are often manipulated and destroyed by the research process. The public disapproval of human cloning and stem cell research has resulted in ill advised state and national legislation which provides bad actors the ability to treat both donors and recipients of donor eggs unethically. Recent research has revealed serious medical risks involved in harvesting human eggs. These risks have lead the medical community to question whether donors are truly able to give informed consent to donation. Nevertheless, few states have enacted legislation to protect egg donors, and there are no systematic regulations in place to ensure that donors and recipients are truly aware of the risks involved in egg harvesting procedures. Compounding these concerns, clinics often outsource recruitment of donors to independent egg brokers who are not subject to ethical guidelines, thereby enabling clinics using the brokers to avoid regulations without being tainted by unethical activity. This article argues that comprehensive legislation is needed in the United States to protect women from exploitation in the procurement of human eggs used for research and reproductive purposes. The article begins by discussing Assisted Reproductive Technology in general, and then presents a summary of the current inadequacy of legislation regarding eggs used for research and reproductive purposes in all fifty states. Next, the article examines possible legislative solutions to the problem and offers recommendations. The article concludes that comprehensive legislation is the only way to address abuse resulting from the exploitation of the current lack of legislation that has made performing risky procedures on women who are unaware of the long-term risks into a lucrative business.

When it comes to race and racial issues these are strange times for all Americans. More than forty years after Brown v. Board of Education put an end to segregation of the races by law, current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and racial hate speech reveal persistent uncertainty about the place and meaning of race in American culture and the role of law in guaranteeing racial equality. Moreover, all sides in those debates claim to be the true heirs to Brown, even as they disagree vehemently about its meaning. Race, Law and Culture takes the continuing controversy about race

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"This book contributes new theoretical insight and in-depth empirical analysis about the relationship between transnational legality, state change and the globalisation of markets. Transnational economic legal power to influence and reorganise national systems of governance evidences the constitutional dimensions of global capitalism: the power to institute new rules and limits for national states. This form of new constitutionalism does not undermine the state but transforms it by eroding national capacities and implanting global alternatives. While leading scholars in the field have emphasised the much-needed value of case studies, there are no studies available which consider the cumulative impact of multiple axes of transnational legal ordering on the national state or its constitution. This monograph addresses this empirical gap, whilst expanding the theoretical scope of the field. Mongolia's recent transformation as a mineral-exporting country provides a rare opportunity to witness economic and legal globalisation in process. Based on careful empirical analysis of national law and policy-making, the book traces the way distinctive processes of transnational legal ordering have reorganised and reframed the governance of Mongolia's mining sector, specifically by redistributing state power in relation to the market, sub-national administrations and civil society. The book investigates the role of international financial institutions, multinational corporations and non-governmental organisations in normative transmission, as well as the critical role of national actors in embedding transnational investment norms within the domestic legal and policy environment. As the book demonstrates, however, the constitutional ramifications of transnational legal ordering extend beyond the mining regime itself into more fundamental questions of the trajectory of state transformation, institutionally and ideologically. The book will be of interest to scholars of international law, global governance and the political economy of development"--