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By Date Range: 2001-2025

Biodefense: A Legal Framework Rework – When Peacetime is the Only Time

Introduction — Why? The first revelation is the unique features of bioterrorism make it particularly unmanageable in our current legal framework. Federal authorities and experts have organized these as weapons of mass destruction, earning the collective acronym, WMD; yet radiological, nuclear, and chemical threats differ significantly from bio- logical threats. Radiological, nuclear, and chemical threats  Read More »

Author:
Texas Tech University
Publish Date:
2002

Biodefense: Who’s In Charge?

Introduction — This article seeks to describe the current organizational structure, the role of the federal agencies in the context of biodefense and the federalism relationship with the states. The President’s proposal for a Department of Homeland Security is also examined in the context of the legal implications for biodefense, and the shift in federalism  Read More »

Environmental Law and Public Health Law – In a Time of Plague

Introduction — The environment and public health goals hold a common value of healthy populations. The threat of bioterrorism requires a partnership of both, building upon the long history of the link between public health and the environment. This existing relationship is key to an effective system of biodefense for the nation, because the use  Read More »

Author:
Texas Tech University
Publish Date:
2004

Law and Science drive technology in the war against bioterrorism

Abstract — The U.S. approach to defense against bioterrorism is being done largely within existing legal frameworks and in response to new laws that address this challenge—rather than technology driving the development of law. While the biotechnology revolution has resulted in a wide range of biodefense applications, these can only be applied within existing constitutional  Read More »

Author:
Texas Tech University
Publish Date:
2004

Fostering the Biosecurity Norm: Biosecurity Education for the Next Generation of Life Scientists

Landau Network-Centro Volta (LNCV), Como, Italy & Bradford Disarmament Research Centre (BDRC), University of Bradford, November 2008. By G. Manchini & J. Revill This report is the result of an investigation which aimed to investigate the extent to which biosecurity education is included in academic curricula in life sciences higher education in Europe, but also  Read More »

Author:
Landau Network-Centro Volta & University of Bradford
Publish Date:
November 2008