A constitutional right to a healthy environment.

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Realization of the Right to a Healthy Environment

In December 2019, some people in China were diagnosed with pneumonia which was found in the first studies to be related to the animal and food market in Wuhan, China. The newly identified virus which was named "Coronavirus 2019” spread all around the world, influencing different economic, political, and cultural fields. Since one of the most important sectors affected by the virus was the envir...

The right to a healthy environment: A prescription for Canada.

This invited commentary summarizes the need for stronger Canadian environmental laws and policies. The environmental burden of disease in Canada is substantial. In part this is due to environmental laws and policies that are significantly weaker and less effective than corresponding rules in other wealthy industrialized nations. One promising approach is recognition of the right to live in a he...

Is there a constitutional right to clone?

Recent scientific innovations, and proposed legislation, have raised questions about the nature of the constitutional right to reproductive freedom, and in particular about whether there is a constitutional “right to clone.” This essay urges that as a matter of substantive due process, rationality review is probably appropriate, and that restrictions on both reproductive and therapeutic cloning...

Marketing pharmaceuticals: a constitutional right to sell prescriber-identified data?

Constitutional law--mental health--a patient involuntarily civilly committed to a state mental hospital has a constitutional right to treatment.