Syracuse Science and Technology Law Reporter
By Elliot Fruchtman
This book describes the current state of the pharmaceutical industry and discusses how current government regulations affect scientific innovation. Moreover, the author describes the advantages and disadvantages of various attempts to change the current system. In addition, the author analyzes the Vioxx litigation to illustrate his theory that government regulations restrain innovation and development of new drugs.
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By Catrina Sveum
This book provides an overview of how advances in technology are eroding individual privacy. It explores the tension between individual civil liberties and national security. In addition to describing new threats to privacy, the book focuses on the inability of the law to protect individual privacy in the face of rapidly advancing technology.
This book provides an overview of the legal and scientific concepts involving the appropriation of plants for biotechnological purposes. The book focuses on the tension between developing nations and industrialized nations as plant resources become the subjects of patents.
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By Robert Sanfilippo
Virtually Obscene is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of what the Internet is, describing its origin, structure, and various attempts to regulate it. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the current obscenity standards in the United States and discusses the problems therein, while providing the author’s proposals and alternatives to the current standard. Chapter 3 discusses the First Amendment, particularly the freedom of speech clause and the arguments surrounding it, as well as the author’s reasons why freedom of speech does not protect Internet obscenity. Chapters 4, 5, and 6, introduce and analyze the arguments of Internet obscenity and its harm to children, women and the moral environment, respectively. Chapter 7 concludes with a discussion of why Internet obscenity regulation is “a bad idea.”
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By Robert Sanfilippo
This book is divided into an introduction and three main parts. The Introduction discusses the popular search engine Yahoo!, and its battles with the French Government regarding Nazi memorabilia posted on its auction website. Part 1 discusses the origin of the Internet, what the Internet entails and the major players involved in the belief that it should transcend territorial law. Part 2 describes government efforts to control and regulate the Internet. Part 3 provides a balance between the benefits and disadvantages of government control of the Internet and what is in store for future regulation.
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By Elliot Fruchtman
This book details Kenneth Walton’s involvement in fraudulent art auctions on eBay during the late 1990’s, which eventually led to his felony conviction and disbarment from the legal profession. Occurring during the early years of eBay, Walton and his associates used various tactics including “shill bidding,” deceptive descriptions, and forged paintings to defraud countless eBay buyers. Walton’s downfall occurred when he aroused the suspicions of the news media, the art world and the FBI by attempting to auction a thrift shop painting with the forged signature of Richard Diebenkorn.
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