Add to ORKGIn 1978, Dr. Elisabeth Landes and then-Professor, later-Judge Richard Posner, published The Economics of the Baby Shortage. The article openly discussed how economic analysis can address the allocation of babies available for adoption. The ideas expressed in the article were widely denounced as an inhumane commodification of children, something tolerable only in the twisted minds of academic authors. Despite the backlash, an odd thing happened in the more than four decades since Landes and Posner wrote on this topic: their ideas began to take hold. Today, almost all states in the United States permit, in some form, the contractual assignment of parental rights; that is, almost all states now permit the sale of babies. We suggest an ironic r...
In 2004, the Illinois legislature passed the Gestational Surrogacy Act, which provides that a child ...
Central to every legal system is the principle that certain items are offlimits to commercial exchan...
Adoption processes in the United States, once based on the altruistic child welfare model, have morp...
In 1978, Dr. Elisabeth Landes and then-Professor, later-Judge Richard Posner, published The Economic...
Among the more controversial ideas advanced by prominent United States Circuit Court Judge and law p...
Article published in the Michigan State University School of Law Student Scholarship Collection
Embryos are all over the news. According to the New York Times there are currently 400,000 frozen em...
The commodification of reproductive material evokes different responses. Some argue that the sale of...
Judge Posner addresses an important issue. More than 130,000 couples in this country want to adopt c...
This article suggests that the scope of enforceable section 1983 rights is broader than most courts ...
This Article argues that most surrogacy arrangements, as currently practiced, constitute the “sale o...
More than fifty years ago, state law on domestic infant adoption changed to uniformly prohibit the p...
Throughout the world, baby selling is formally prohibited. And throughout the world babies are bough...
This Article addresses the conflicts that arise due to the increased number of cryogenically frozen ...
Preliminary and incomplete – do not circulate Most countries seem to have experienced a shift in the...
In 2004, the Illinois legislature passed the Gestational Surrogacy Act, which provides that a child ...
Central to every legal system is the principle that certain items are offlimits to commercial exchan...
Adoption processes in the United States, once based on the altruistic child welfare model, have morp...
In 1978, Dr. Elisabeth Landes and then-Professor, later-Judge Richard Posner, published The Economic...
Among the more controversial ideas advanced by prominent United States Circuit Court Judge and law p...
Article published in the Michigan State University School of Law Student Scholarship Collection
Embryos are all over the news. According to the New York Times there are currently 400,000 frozen em...
The commodification of reproductive material evokes different responses. Some argue that the sale of...
Judge Posner addresses an important issue. More than 130,000 couples in this country want to adopt c...
This article suggests that the scope of enforceable section 1983 rights is broader than most courts ...
This Article argues that most surrogacy arrangements, as currently practiced, constitute the “sale o...
More than fifty years ago, state law on domestic infant adoption changed to uniformly prohibit the p...
Throughout the world, baby selling is formally prohibited. And throughout the world babies are bough...
This Article addresses the conflicts that arise due to the increased number of cryogenically frozen ...
Preliminary and incomplete – do not circulate Most countries seem to have experienced a shift in the...
In 2004, the Illinois legislature passed the Gestational Surrogacy Act, which provides that a child ...
Central to every legal system is the principle that certain items are offlimits to commercial exchan...
Adoption processes in the United States, once based on the altruistic child welfare model, have morp...