1.
Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996-2006
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4280
Number of pages: 94
Posted: 11 Jul 2007
Working Paper Series
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
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22,781
2.
Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 09 Apr 2011
Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013
Working Paper Series
Baylor University, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and University of Texas at Arlington - College of Business Administration - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 09 Apr 2011
Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013
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12,416
Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime
ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 11-042
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 15 Jul 2011
Downloads
777
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12,416
3.
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
Cato Institute Whitepaper Series
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 02 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 17 Mar 2010
Working Paper Series
Independent
There are 2 versions of this paper
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
Cato Institute Whitepaper Series
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 02 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 17 Mar 2010
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8,533
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
Posted: 29 Jan 2010
Last Revised: 07 Feb 2013
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8,533
4.
The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
Number of pages: 82
Posted: 06 Mar 2018
Last Revised: 30 Oct 2018
Working Paper Series
Texas A&M University - Department of Economics and University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
Number of pages: 82
Posted: 06 Mar 2018
Last Revised: 30 Oct 2018
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7,811
The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11489
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 02 May 2018
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202
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7,811
5.
Taxation Without Representation: The Illegal IRS Rule to Expand Tax Credits Under the PPACA
Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine, Forthcoming, Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-27
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 15 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 01 Jul 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Cato Institute
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6,492
6.
Worldwide Governance Indicators Project: Answering the Critics
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4149
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
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6,081
7.
Grocery Bag Bans and Foodborne Illness
U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-2
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 04 Jan 2013
Last Revised: 28 Jan 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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5,339
8.
The Second National Risk and Culture Study: Making Sense of - and Making Progress In - The American Culture War of Fact
GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 370, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 154, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 370, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-26
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 26 Sep 2007
Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School, Decision Research, Pennsylvania State University and University of Colorado - Department of Psychology
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4,851
9.
The United States as Global Sheriff: Using Unilateral Sanctions to Combat Human Trafficking
Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 27, No. 2, Winter 2006
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 03 Jun 2007
Accepted Paper Series
American University - Washington College of Law
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4,822
10.
Fixing the Communications Failure
Nature, Vol. 463, pp. 296-297, 2010
Number of pages: 4
Posted: 25 Jun 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School
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4,614
11.
The Weirdest People in the World?
RatSWD Working Paper No. 139
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 11 May 2010
Working Paper Series
University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia (UBC) and University of British Columbia (UBC)
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4,351
12.
The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information
New York University Law Review, Vol. 86, p. 1814, 2011, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1909366, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 584, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 584
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 15 Aug 2011
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and George Washington University Law School
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3,406
13.
Buy or Bite?
Economics of the Undead, edited by Glen Whitman & James Dow (2014), pp. 123-129
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 29 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 30 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Central Florida
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3,368
14.
Privacy's Other Path: Recovering the Law of Confidentiality
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 96, p. 123, 2007, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 249, Washington U. School of Law Working Paper No. 07-03-02
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 13 Mar 2007
Last Revised: 13 Mar 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and George Washington University Law School
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3,342
15.
Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution
IFN Working Paper No. 996, NYU Stern School of Business EC-12-07, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-08
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 14 May 2012
Last Revised: 30 Nov 2015
Working Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business and Stanford University
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3,231
16.
The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition
Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 8-40
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 10 May 2008
Last Revised: 19 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Emory University School of Law
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3,110
17.
Implications of WTO Law for Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products
PUBLIC HEALTH AND PLAIN PACKAGING OF CIGARETTES: LEGAL ISSUES, Andrew Mitchell, Tania Voon and Jonathan Liberman, eds., Edward Elgar, UK, 2012, U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 554
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 30 Jun 2011
Last Revised: 26 Aug 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Melbourne - Law School and University of Melbourne - Law School
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3,106
18.
Vaccine Risk Perceptions and Ad Hoc Risk Communication: An Empirical Assessment
CCP Risk Perception Studies Report No. 17, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper # 491
Number of pages: 82
Posted: 29 Jan 2014
Last Revised: 05 Feb 2015
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Law School
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2,990
19.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): A Short History of the World’s Biggest Promise
BWPI Working Paper No. 100
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 05 Feb 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Manchester - Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM)
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2,964
20.
Environmental Pollution: Its Effects on Life and Its Remedies
Researcher World: Journal of Arts, Science & Commerce, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 276-285, 2011
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 08 Jan 2012
Last Revised: 02 Apr 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences and IQRA University
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2,857
21.
The Health Impact of Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Laws
Risk Analysis, 2012
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 14 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 10 Jan 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Macquarie University - Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies
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2,782
22.
Shaken Baby Syndrome, Abusive Head Trauma, and Actual Innocence: Getting It Right
12 Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy 209, Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1195
Number of pages: 105
Posted: 30 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 29 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Wisconsin Law School, Stanford University - School of Medicine, University of Michigan Law School and University of Oxford - John Radcliffe Hospital
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2,712
23.
Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in the Rural South and Mississippi
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 07-04
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 07 Feb 2007
Working Paper Series
Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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2,516
24.
The Lethal Injection Quandary: How Medicine Has Dismantled the Death Penalty
Fordham Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 49-128, 2007, Fordham Legal Studies Research Paper No. 983732
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 01 May 2007
Last Revised: 27 Mar 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Fordham University School of Law
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2,482
25.
Critical Analysis of Domestic Violence Act, 2005
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 15 May 2011
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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2,462
26.
Toward a Human Rights Framework for Intellectual Property
U.C. Davis Law Review, Vol. 40, p. 971, 2007, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 06-03
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 21 Mar 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University School of Law
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2,194
27.
Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn't, and Why? An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition
Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 34, pp. 501-16, 2010, Cultural Cognition Project Working Paper No. 38, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-19, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 163
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 17 Jul 2008
Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School, University of Colorado - Department of Psychology, Decision Research and Pennsylvania State University
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2,178
28.
Why Evolutionary Biology is (so Far) Irrelevant to Law
U of Texas Law, Law & Econ Research Paper No. 81, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 89
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 23 Mar 2006
Last Revised: 13 Feb 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania
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2,109
29.
Stumble, Predict, Nudge: How Behavioral Economics Informs Law and Policy
Columbia Law Review, Vol. 108, 2009, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 09-006
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 21 Jan 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of San Diego School of Law and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
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2,094
30.
The Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility: Reflections on the United Nations Human Rights Norms for Corporations
Company and Securities Law Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 30-42, 2007, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 07/10
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 14 Feb 2007
Last Revised: 06 Feb 2015
Accepted Paper Series
The University of Sydney Law School, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and The University of Sydney
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2,034
31.
From SARS to Ebola: Legal and Ethical Considerations for Modern Quarantine
Indiana Health Law Review, vol.12, no.1, 2015 Forthcoming, University of Louisville School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 2015-03
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 16 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 16 Jun 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Louisville - Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law
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2,005
32.
Climate Change and International Human Rights Litigation: A Critical Appraisal
University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 329, University of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 148
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 28 Jan 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Law School
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1,998
33.
Household Food Security in the United States, 2004
USDA-ERS Economic Research Report No. 11
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 27 Jan 2006
Working Paper Series
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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1,980
34.
India's Tryst with Trips: The Patents (Amendment) Act 2005
Indian Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 1, 2005
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 15 Aug 2005
Accepted Paper Series
National Law School of India University
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1,964
35.
Genetically Modified Organisms and Justice: The International Environmental Justice Implications of Biotechnology
Georgetown International Environmental Law Review (GIELR), Vol. 19, p. 583, 2007
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 18 May 2007
Last Revised: 13 Nov 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Seattle University School of Law
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1,906
36.
The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health: Lighting a Dark Corner at the WTO
Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 5, p. 469, 2002
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 25 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Florida State University - College of Law
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1,886
37.
Cheap Donuts and Expensive Broccoli: The Effect of Relative Prices on Obesity
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 01 Apr 2007
Last Revised: 17 Dec 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School and George Mason University - Buchanan Center Political Economy
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1,858
38.
Trips-Plus Provisions in Ftas: Recent Trends
REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS AND THE WTO LEGAL SYSTEM, Lorand Bartels, Federico Ortino, eds., pp. 215-237, Oxford University Press, 2006
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 28 Nov 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Chinese University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law
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1,847
39.
Toward a Theory of a Right to Health: Capability and Incompletely Theorized Agreements
Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Vol. 18, pp. 273-326, 2006
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 28 Sep 2006
Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania
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1,830
40.
Over-Parenting
UC Davis Law Review; Vol. 44, No. 4, p. 1221, 2011
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 13 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 02 Jul 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Seton Hall University - School of Law and Striks School of Law, College of Management
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1,813
41.
Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1730
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 27 Sep 2005
Working Paper Series
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), IZA Institute of Labor Economics, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1730
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 27 Sep 2005
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1,785
Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5517
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 06 Jun 2006
Downloads
84
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1,785
42.
Diffusion Theory and Knowledge Dissemination, Utilization, and Integration in Public Health
Annual Review of Public Health, Vol. 30, p. 151, January 2009
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 06 Jan 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) - School of Medicine, San Francisco State University, Central Washington University and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Diffusion Theory and Knowledge Dissemination, Utilization, and Integration in Public Health
Annual Review of Public Health, Vol. 30, p. 151, January 2009
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 06 Jan 2012
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1,754
Diffusion Theory and Knowledge Dissemination, Utilization, and Integration in Public Health
Annual Review of Public Health, Vol. 30, April 2009
Posted: 10 Aug 2009
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1,754
43.
Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights and the Right to Health
Edward Elgar, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A PARADOX, W. Grosheide, ed., November 2009, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 24/2009
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 05 Jun 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Queen Mary University of London - School of Law
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1,750
44.
Do You Mind My Smoking? Plain Packaging of Cigarettes Under the TRIPS Agreement
John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2011
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 31 Jan 2011
Last Revised: 08 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
HEC Paris - Tax & Law and City University London - The City Law School
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1,747
45.
Knowledge Ecosystems: A Theoretical Lens for Organizations Confronting Hyperturbulent Environments
ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS OF TECHNOLOGY-BASED INNOVATION: DIVERSIFYING THE RESEARCH AGENDA, T. McMaster, D. Wastell, E. Ferneley, and J. DeGross, eds., Springer, June 2007
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 07 May 2007
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University
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1,691
46.
Affect, Values, and Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions: An Experimental Investigation
GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 261, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 155, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 261, 2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 07 Mar 2007
Last Revised: 17 Jul 2014
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Law School, Decision Research, George Washington University - Law School, Pennsylvania State University and University of Colorado - Department of Psychology
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1,685
47.
The Vulnerable Subject and the Responsive State
Emory Law Journal, Vol. 60, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 10-130
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 21 Oct 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Emory University School of Law
Downloads
1,659
48.
The Cognitively Illiberal State
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 60, 2007, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 133
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 20 Feb 2007
Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School
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1,655
49.
The Legitimacy of Plain Packaging Under International Intellectual Property Law: Why There is No Right to Use a Trademark Under Either the Paris Convention or the Trips Agreement
PUBLIC HEALTH AND PLAIN PACKAGING OF CIGARETTES: LEGAL ISSUES, A. Mitchell, T. Voon and J. Liberman, eds., Edward Elgar, 2012
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 22 Feb 2012
Last Revised: 10 Feb 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Monash University - Faculty of Law
Downloads
1,643
50.
Legal and Ethical Responsibilities Following Brain Death: The McMath and Muñoz Cases
JAMA Online, 2014
Number of pages: 3
Posted: 29 Jan 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University - Law Center - O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
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1,634
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