The Safety Appliance Act and the FELA: A Plea for Clarification

The aim of this thesis is to analyse and examine the debate on prenatal testing in Western countries, with a special focus on my own country, Sweden. In the near future it might be possible for a pregnant woman to profile the DNA of her foetus with a simple blood test early in pregnancy. This method of prenatal testing – Non Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis (NIPD) – could potentially detect the genetic causes of almost every disease. I will argue that prenatal testing should be offered by society to all pregnant women, not only to those at highest risk of giving birth to children with severe conditions. I will do that from a perspective of reproductive freedom. Furthermore, I will argue that offering prenatal testing for some conditions (such as Downs’s syndrome) and not for others, is conflicting with the autonomous choice of the pregnant woman

The Theory of Criminal Discovery and the Practice of Criminal Law

To crystallize in a few words the motif of a career as varied and comprehensive as that of Eddie Morgan would in any event be difficult, but it is doubly so for a life devoted, as his has been, to stuff as vital and dynamic as procedure and evidence. For me, his work most fundamentally is to be characterized as a quest for greater rationality in the adjudicative process. Whether one thinks of his analysis of the hearsay rule,\u27 or his rationale of the admissions exception to it, or his treatment of the dead man\u27s statute, or his study of the functions of judge and jury, or any other of the numerous facets of his work in the theory and practice of litigation, one senses the scholar\u27s ultimate struggles to reduce confusion and promote precision of thought. And one feels that these scholarly impulses have been undiminished--in fact, that they have been constantly freshened and vitalized--by their coexistence with the practicing lawyer\u27s mastery of litigation as an art. Perhaps Morgan\u27s uniqueness lies in the superimposition of the disciplined thought habits of the systematic theorist, upon the practitioner\u27s understanding. His scientific attention to the trees has not blinded him to the artist\u27s perception of the forest