Genetics, Molecular Biology and the Law - Tapa dura

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the interface between the law and modern science as represented by genetics and molecular biology, albeit in a highly digestible and lucid style. Chapters are: `The Basics of Molecular Biology' (the genome, genetics, proteomics); `Criminal Law' (molecular transfer processes; theft of DNA; forensic mathematics; keynote cases); `Aspects of Civil Law' (paternity and maternity; retention of DNA and privacy; DNA in medical law; DNA, insurance and employment); `Intellectual Property' (patenting genes, expressed sequence tags and single nucleotide polymorphisms, keynote cases in U.K. and U.S.A.); `Food' (gene manipulation; aspects of tort; environmental risks); `International Law' (genetically modified organisms, CITES and CBD, warfare and molecular biology). Genetics, Molecular Biology and the Law provides practitioners and academics alike with a detailed analysis of how the law is responding to the latest advances in the increasingly complex fields of molecular biology and genetics.

John Candlish took degrees in science and law from the Universities of St Andrews, London and Singapore, and has held academic positions in Scotland, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Singapore. He is the author of several books, including Hawking Genes, Selling Spleens: the Human Body and the Laws of Property (UNIMAS Press, Kuching, 2006), and has contributed articles to several journals.