Immunity for immunizations: tort liability, biodefense, and Bioshield II.

The Tort Liability of the State in the Portuguese Administrative Courts

The Portuguese Constitution, in article 22, instituted the general principle of tort liability of the State and other public law entities. Consequently, ordinary legislation established the tort liability of the State into the Portuguese Legal Order, by means of Decree-Law 48051, of 1967. This decree, which was criticised extensively, was amended by virtue of Law 67/2007, of 31 December, establ...

Biodefense countermeasures: the impact of Title IV of the US Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act

The 2006 US Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act gave the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) new authority to fund the development and procurement of medical countermeasures against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. The legislation builds on the authority the HHS gained in 2004 under Project BioShield, which established a fund to procure medical cou...

Assessing the Insurance Role of Tort Liability after Calabresi

In his landmark 1961 article, Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of Torts, Judge Calabresi provides a theoretical framework for analyzing tort liability as a risk-spreading device that functions in a manner similar to insurance. In our article, we examine the insurance objective of tort liability from the standpoint of modern tort law. Since Calabresi’s foundational article, there h...

Larson v. Buschkamp: The Effect of Contribution on the Parent-Child Tort Immunity Doctrine and Its Implications for Strict Liability in Illinois

Taking the measure of countermeasures: leaders' views on the nation's capacity to develop biodefense countermeasures.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY was to gather and analyze the views of leaders from academia, government, and industry regarding the capacity of the U.S. to develop biodefense countermeasures and to elicit their recommendations on steps that would improve the nation’s capacities to succeed in these efforts. The anthrax attacks of 2001 hinted at the kind of illness and civil disruption a few letters l...